1939 Birthday Clarence Williams III, New York City, actor, Mod Squad, 52 Pick Up, Purple Rain 1934 Birthday Mary Quant, Kent England, fashion designer, Chelsea Look, Mod Look 1934 Birthday Donald Spiers, controller, Aircraft MoD 1920 Death Tryggve Andersen, Norwegian writer (Mod Kvaeld), dies at 53 1896 Event 1st modern Olympic games open in Athens Greece, American, James Connolly, wins 1st Olympic gold medal in mod history 1750 Birthday Caroline Lucretia Herchel, Hanover, Germany, 1st mod woman astronomer 1743 Birthday Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, Paris, father of mod chemistry, Oxygen
