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2009 Norman Borlaug, humanitarian, agronomist, discoveries saved one billion lives worldwide, winner, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, recognizing contributions to world peace for methods to increase food supply, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, dies
2009 Hugh Leonard, writer, winner, Jacob's Award, for 'Wuthering Heights', wrote Sunday Independent column 'The Curmudgeon', dies at age 82 2002 Harold Russell, Oscar winner, The Best Years of Our Lives, dies at 88 2001 "Herbert A. Simon, Ph.D", economist, "Nobel Prize winner for economics, 1978", dies at 84 1998 Octavio Paz, writer, won Nobel prize winner for literature in 1990, dies at 84 1997 George Wald, biologist, Nobel Prize winner for discovering vitamin A in the retina 1997 At age 25, Jeff Gordon is youngest winner in Daytona 500 history 1996 Padres third baseman Ken Caminiti is 4th unanimous winner of NL MVP 1996 NFL/Heisman Trophy Winner Mike Rozier, is shot several times 1996 Crufts show at NEC Birmingham, (1995 winner, Joshua, an Irish setter) 1995 Robert Turner, winner of 1st All-American Soap Box Derby, dies at 72 1992 Stephen Albert, composer, Pulitzer Prize winner 1985, for symphony 'RiverRun', won Grammy Award 1995 for 'Cello Concerto', killed in an automobile accident in Cape Cod, Massachusetts 1992 New York Lotto pays $30 million to one winner (#s are 12-15-30-33-40-48) 1991 New York Lotto pays $33.3 million to one winner, with the numbers 18-21-32-33-35-38 1991 NL Cy Young winner Doug Drabek wins record $3 mil salary arbitration 1991 New York Lotto pays $90 million to nine winner (#s are 5-15-30-35-46-50) 1990 Oakland A's Bob Welch becomes 1st 25 game winner in 10 years 1990 Johnny Beagley, winner of two 1942 World Series games, dies 1990 New York Lotto pays $35 million to two winner (#s are 6-14-24-32-34-51) 1990 New York Lotto pays $35 million to one winner (18-25-26-32-42-44) 1989 Twins trade AL Cy Young Award winner Frank Viola to Mets 1989 New York Lotto pays $26.9 million to one winner (#s are 1-5-12-19-44-50) 1988 New York Lotto pays $45 million to twelve winner (#s are 1-8-13-18-28-48) 1987 Kansas City Royal pitcher Dennis Leonard (3X 20 game winner), retires 1986 Bo Jackson, Heisman Trophy winner, singns with Kansas City Royals 1986 Alva Myrdal, Swedish Nobel peace prize winner (1982), dies at 84 1986 New York Lotto pays $30.5 million to one winner (#s are 19-20-27-34-41-46) 1985 Dwight Gooden, youngest 20 game winner, wins Cy Young award 1985 New York Lotto pays $41 million to three winner (#s are 14-17-22-23-30-47) 1984 Swale, Kentucky Derby winner, collapses and dies 1984 Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st U.S. poet laureate 1983 Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race (1st non-U.S. winner) 1983 USFL New Jersey Generals sign Heisman winner Herschel Walker (3 years-$5 mil) 1973 Jim Palmer is named AL Cy Young winner 1973 Tom Seaver becomes 1st non-20-game winner to win Cy Young award 1972 Ben Affleck, born in Berkeley, California, actor, director, screenwriter, Academy-award winner for Good Will Hunting, 1987, founded production company LivePlanet with actor Matt Damon 1972 Courts awarded Kentucky Derby prize money to 2nd place winner because winner was given drugs before race 1972 Jack Nicklaus, passes Arnold Palmer as golf's all-time money winner 1971 Ralph J Bunche, United Nations delegate/Nobel Prize winner, dies at 67 in New York City 1971 Mariah Carey, born in Huntington, New York, singer, rhythm and blues, pop music genres, five-time Grammy award winner, sold over 62.5 million albums 1971 Barbara Failey-Herbert, South Africa, golfer, 1989 winner SA Champ 1970 Charlie Ward, NBA guard for the New York Knicks/Heisman Trophy winner 1993 1970 Harold Vanderbilt, America Cup winner (1930, 34, 37), dies at 85 1970 AL Cy Young winner Denny McLain suspended for bookmaking 1968 Marine James Anderson, Jr. is 1st black Medal of Honor winner 1966 Sandy Koufax becomes 1st 3-time Cy Young Award winner 1966 Larisa Neiland, born in Lvov, Ukraine, tennis star, 1996 Essen winner 1966 Zola Budd, born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, track and field long distance runner, trained and raced barefoot, politically controversial figure, two-time Women's 5000 meters world record holder, two-time World Cross Country Championships winner 1964 Anton Geesink is 1st non-Japanese Olympic judo gold medal winner 1964 Miguel Indurain, Spanish bicyclist, Tour de France winner 1991-95 1964 Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, biggest NASCAR money winner, dies in crash 1963 Sandy Koufax is unanimous winner of Cy Young Award 1963 Oregon State's Terry Baker becomes 1st and only Heisman Trophy winner 1962 Jon Secada, born in Havana, Cuba, born Juan Francisco Secada, singer, songwriter for himself and for Gloria Estefan, Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, Grammy-Award winner 1961 Whitey Ford is voted Cy Young Award winner over Warren Spahn 1961 Sunny Deol, born in New Delhi, India, actor, action movie star, director, producer, winner, two National Film Awards, hit film 'Gadar: Ek Prem Katha' 1961 George S Kaufman, playwright/dir/pulitzer prize winner, dies at 72 1959 Armin Kogler, born in Austria, skier, 2-time winner of jumping World Cup 1958 Ivo Pogorelich, Belgrade Yugoslavia, pianist, 1978 Casagrande winner 1958 Alberto Salazar, marathoner, New York City Marathon Winner 1958 Jockey Eddie Arcaro rides his 4,000th winner 1958 Ice-T, born in Newark, New Jersey, Tracy Marrow, musician, pioneer of gangsta rap, songwriter, actor, Grammy Award winner, author 1957 James Connolly, 1st Olympic winner (1896) since Barasdates (369 CE), dies 1956 U.S.S.R. single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold medal in his excitement he jumps for joy, and loses his medal, it sinks 1955 John Campbell, harness racer, 3-time winner of Hambletonian 1954 7-time winner of Boston Marathon, 65-year-old Clarence Demar, runs his last race at Boston finishing 78th 1953 Boxing's NBA adopts 10-pt-must-scoring-system (10 pts to round winner) 1950 Nobel peace prize awarded to Ralph J Bunche (1st black winner) 1949 Geoff Capes, born in Holbeach, England, shot putter, two-time winner, World's Strongest Man title, two-time Commonwealth Games shot put champion 1948 Garrick Ohlsson, born in Bronxville, New York, pianist, International Busoni winner 1969 1947 Ursula Krechel, born in Trier, Germany, writer, poet, radio dramatist, winner, Joseph-Breitbach-Preis 2009, works include, 'Der Ubergriff' 1947 Dave Barry, born in Armonk, New York, humorist, author, Pulitzer-prize winner for Commentary 1988, wrote columns for the Miami Herald, books include 'Big Trouble', 'Dave Barry Turns 40', Dave Barry's Greatest Hits', 'Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys', style capitalizes on absurdities 1945 Eddy Merckx, Belgium, cyclist, 5 time winner of Tour de France 1945 Jacques Ickx, Belgium, Le Mans auto race, 6-time winner 1944 Tom Seaver, pitcher, New York Met, 300 game winner, Cy Young 1969, 1973, 1975 1943 Bert Jansch, born in Glasgow, Scotland, musician, folk artist, acoustic guitarist, singer, songwriter, member of the band Pentangle, winner, BBC Folk Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award 1943 Tison Street, born in Boston, Massachusetts, composer, violinist, contemporary classical music, winner, Guggenheim Fellowship 1943 Franz Hohler, born in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, writer, cabaret performer, winner, Kaseel Literary Prize for Grotesque Humor, 2002 1942 Isaac Hayes, born in Memphis, Tennessee, singer, songwriter, musician, producer, actor, Academy-Award winner 1941 Tadao Ando, born in Osaka, Japan, Japanese architect, employs critical regionalism style of architecture, 1969, established firm Tadao Ando Architects & Associates, winner, Pritzker Architecture Prize 1995 1941 Emanuel Nunes, born in Lisbon, Portugal, composer, winner of the UNESCO Composition Prize, 1999, won Premio Pessoa, 2000 1941 Stephen Albert, born in New York City, New York, composer, Pulitzer Prize winner 1985, for symphony 'RiverRun', won Grammy Award 1995 for 'Cello Concerto' 1939 Peter Revson, auto racer, 1971 Indianapolis pole winner 1938 Gaylord Perry, baseball player, 1972 AL Cy Young winner 1937 Bobby Allison, auto racer, 3 time winner of Daytona 500 1937 St. Louis Cardinals Triple Crown winner Joe Medwick is named NL MVP 1937 George Carlin, born in New York, American comedian, actor, author, Grammy Award winner 1936 Buddy Guy, born in Lettsworth, Louisiana, rock guitarist, singer, American blues five-time Grammy-Award winner, inspired Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan 1936 1st NFL draft, Eagles select Heisman Trophy winner Jay Berwanger 1935 Michael Winner, producer/director, Big Sleep, Death Wish 1934 David Halberstam, born in New York City, journalist, author, Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote about the Vietnam War 1934 Carl Hubbell, NL MVP winner, gets $18,000 contract by the New York Giants 1934 Jacques Anquetil, France, Tour de France bicycle racer, 5-time winner 1933 Robert Goulet, born in Massachusetts, singer, actor, television, film, Canadian-American Grammy, Tony-Award winner 1932 John Updike, born in Reading, Pennsylvania, writer, novelist, art critic, literary critic, Pulitzer Prize winner 1931 Ike Turner, born in Mississippi, American musician, bandleader, record producer, talent scout, Grammy Award winner 1930 Doug Harvey, hockey star, 3 time James Norris winner 1929 New York to San Francisco foot race ends (2 months) winner is 60 year old Monteverde 1928 Joyce Brothers, New York City, pop psychiatrist, $64,000 question winner 1927 Lou Gehrig named AL MVP (Babe Ruth (former winner) not eligible) 1927 Waite Hoyt became only 20 game winner of 1927 Yankees 1927 Martin Walser, born in Wasserburg am Bodensee, Germany, writer, 1998 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade winner, known for 'Runaway Horse', famous for describing conflicts his anti-heroes have in stories and novels 1926 Hugh Leonard, born in Dublin, Ireland, writer, winner, Jacob's Award, for 'Wuthering Heights', wrote Sunday Independent column 'The Curmudgeon' 1925 Justin Kaplan, born in New York, New York, writer, editor, Pulitzer-prize winner and National Book Award-winner for biography on Mark Twain, edited Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition 1925 Oscar Peterson, born in Montreal, Canada, jazz pianist, composer, Grammy Award winner 1925 Joshua Lederberg, born in New Jersey, microbiologist, Nobel Prize winner, focused on genetics 1923 Jay Herbert, golfer, 1960 PGA winner 1922 Andre Asriel, born in Germany, composer, winner of 1951 National Prize for East Germany 1918 Ingmar Bergman, born in Sweden, director, writer, producer for stage, film and television, Academy Award winner 1917 Man O'War, racehorse, winner of 20 out of 21 races and $249,465 1917 Sidney Sheldon, born in Chicago, American writer, Academy-Award winner, crime fiction novelist 1916 Dorothy May Bundy-Cheney, winner of more than 141 U.S. tennis titles 1914 Norman Borlaug, born in Cresco, Iowa, humanitarian, agronomist, discoveries saved one billion lives worldwide, winner, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, recognizing contributions to world peace for methods to increase food supply, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom 1914 J Jay Berwanger, 1st Heisman Trophy winner, 1935 1914 Vatican puts Belgian Nobel winner Maeterlinck's works in their index 1913 David Hunt, British diplomat/quiz winner 1913 Willis Lamb, born in Los Angeles, physicist, Nobel Prize winner, discovery of how electrons behave in the hydrogen atom 1912 Studs Terkel, born in New York, author, historian, broadcaster, Pulitzer Prize winner 1911 Gian Carlo Menotti, born in Italy, composer, librettist, Pulitzer Prize winner 1910 Jimmy Demaret, winner of 44 golf tournaments, but not the Open 1904 Chuck Gardiner, UK, NHL goalie, Vezina winner 1904 Yankees 2 games out play 1st place Red Sox on final day doubleheader 41 game winner Chesbro loses 1st game and chance at pennant 1904 Gordon Richards, British jockey, winner of 4,870 races 1902 Septimus Winner, composer, dies at 75 1900 Robert "Lefty" Grove, baseball pitcher, 300 game winner 1895 America's 1st auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner avg 7 MPH 1882 New York City's 24 hour race begins, winner with most mileage in 24 hours 1877 U.S. Electoral College declares R. Hayes winner presidential election 1852 Edwin Markham, U.S., poet, 1st winner of American Academy of Poets Award 1937 1839 Joaquim M Machado de Assic, Brazil, writer, Epitaph of a small winner 1839 Rene F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, born in France, poet, 1st Nobel winner, 1901 1827 Septimus Winner, composer |
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