1970 Birthday Tony Semple, NFL guard, Detroit Lions 1944 Death Aimee Semple McPherson, Canada/U.S. evangelist/faith healer, dies at 53 1926 Event Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished in Venice California She showed up a month later and said she had been kidnapped 1890 Birthday Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist, Pentecostal, radio preacher 1869 Event William Finley Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio, patents chewing gum