December 9, 2022
You are slightly inclined towards pessimism and should strive to curb this tendency. You have keen intuitive powers and quite frequently save yourself and friends from disaster through it. You are kind, somewhat sensitive, versatile, discreet and eager to learn. You are loving and considerate in your home.
1579 Martin de Pores, the first African American canonized a saint in the Catholic Church was born in Lima, in the Viceroyalty of Peru.
1865 Charles Price Jones, Sr., hymnist and founder of the Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A., was born in Floyd County, GA.
1887 Tim Moore, actor (Kingfish Stevens on Amos ’n Andy) was born in Rock Island, IL.
1894 (Cleveland Leigh) Cleve Abbott, head coach at Tuskegee University, was born in Yankton, SD.
1898 (Frederick Wayman) Duke Slater, American Football League player, was born in Normal, IL.
1909 (Blind) Roosevelt Graves, blues guitarist and singer was born in Meridian, MS.
1919 Roy DeCarava, first African American photographer to win a Guggenheim Fellowship, was born in New York, NY.
1922 Joseph Clemens Howard, Sr., first African American to win an election as judge for the City of Baltimore, Maryland, was born in Des Moines, IA.
1922 Lawrence Edwards Roberts, pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen (father of Robin Roberts Good Morning America) was born in Vauxhall, NJ.
1922 (John Elroy Sanford) Redd Foxx, comedian and actor (Sanford and Son) was born in St. Louis, MO.
1923 (Henry Oliver) Ollie Jones, singer with The Ravens (Count Every Star) was born.
1930 Andrew Rube Foster, organizer of the first successful Negro League Baseball teams, dies in Kankakee, IL.
1932 (Anna Katherine Johnston) Anna Diggs Taylor, judge for the US District Court of Eastern Michigan, was born in Washington, DC.
1932 Jesse Hill, singer (Ooh Poo Pah Doo) was born in New Orleans, LA.
1932 Donald Toussaaint l’Ouverture Byrd, II trumpeter (Walking in Rhythm) was born in Detroit, MI.
1933 Milton Gray Campbell, first African American to win a gold medal in 1956 decathlon summer Olympic games, was born in Plainfield, NJ.
1934 Elijah Saunders, physician, surgeon and author, was born in Baltimore, MD.
1934 (Amos Wells Blakemore, Jr.) Junior Wells, blues vocalist (Are You Tough Enough) and harmonica player, was born in Memphis, TN.
1935 Beverly Hope Atkinson, actor (Cornbread, Earl and Me) was born in New York, NY.
1938 David D. ‘Deacon’ Jones, National Football League player, was born in Eatonville, FL.
1939 Patricia Stephens Due, civil rights activists who was one of the nation’s first jail-in, refusing to pay a fine for sitting in a Woolworth’s White only lunch counter, was born in Quincy, FL.
1941 Matthew Augustus Zimmerman, Jr., first African American Chief of Chaplains of the US Army, was born in Rock Hill, SC.
1941 Sammy Strain, singer with Little Anthony & the Imperials and The Ojays was born.
1944 Barbara Yvonne Veronica Burford, medical researcher and author (Patterns) was born in Jamaica.
1944 Robert Pernell Wade, National Football League player, was born in Baltimore, MD.
1944 Shirley Brickley, singer with The Orlons (South Street) was born in Philadelphia, PA.
1950 Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading, vocalist, guitarist and composer, was born in Basseterre, St. Kitts, West Indies.
1951 (Sylvester) Sy James, Jr., mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, was born in Kansas City, MO.
1952 Michael Dorn, actor and voice artist (Star Trek franchise) was born in Luling, TX.
1952 (Abraham L.) Abe Manley, sports executive and husband of the first woman inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, dies in Philadelphia, PA.
1955 David Dabydeen, broaacaster, novelist, poet and ambassador to United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization, was born in Berbice, Guyana.
1955 Otis Lee Birdsong, National Basketball Association player, was born in Winter Haven, FL.
1962 Richard L. Brooks, singer, director and actor (Law & Order) was born in Cleveland, OH.
1962 (Joseph Ellison) Joe McIntosh, National Football League player, was born in Lexington, NC.
1964 William Eddins, pianist and conductor (Edmonton Symphony Orchestra) was born in Buffalo, NY.
1965 Vecepia ‘Vee’ Towery Robinson, TV personality (Survivor: Marquesas) was born in Portland, OR.
1967 Ray Mitchell Agnew, Jr., National Football League player, was born in Winston-Salem, NC.
1970 Anthony Giacinto Tarasco, Major League Baseball player, was born in New York, NY.
1971 Ralph Johnson Bunche, Undersecretary General of the United Nations, dies in New York, NY.
1973 Stacey Yvonne Abrams, lawyer, novelist and member of the Georgia House of Representatives, was born in Madison, WI.
1973 Nicole Randall Johnson, actor (MADtv) was born in Los Angeles, CA.
1974 Sam (Lee-Arthur) Sword, National Football League player, was born in Saginaw, MI.
1976 Kevin Dwight Daniels, Jr., actor (Hollywood Homicide) was born in San Diego, CA.
1976 (Phillip) Phil Armour, National Football League player, was born in Geneva, IL.
1976 (Christopher Scott) Chris Booker, Major League Baseball player, was born in Monroeville, AL.
1976 (Lakesha) Kesha Rogers, political activist in the Lyndon LaRouche Youth Movement, was born in Houston, TX.
1977 (Devon Harris) Devo Springsteen, record producer and writer (So High) was born in Columbus, GA.
1980 (Frederick Deshaun) Fred Lewis, Major League Baseball player, was born in Hattiesburg, MS.
1981 (Jason Johnson) Camoflauge, rap artist (Keepin’ It Real) was born in Savannah, GA.
1981 (Earlington Carl Tilghman) Sonny Til, singer with The Orioles (What Are You Doing New Year‘s Eve) dies in Baltimore, MD.
1984 Leon Lastarza Lafayette Lorenzo Hall, National Football League player, was born in Vista, CA.
1986 (Damian Jamohi Black) Nissim Baruch Black, rap artist and producer, was born in Seattle, WA.
1987 Andre Ubong Akpan, Major League Soccer player was born in Grand Prairie, TX.
1987 (Jerome McKinley) Gerald Henderson, Jr., National Basketball Association player, was born in Caldwell, NJ.
1989 Eric Bledsoe, National Basketball Association player, was born in Birmingham, AL.
1991 (Rakim Hasheem Allen) PnB Rock, rap artist (Selfish) was born in Philadelphia, PA.
1992 Jeremy Cash, National Football League player, was born in Miami, FL.
1995 Kelly Paul Oubre, Jr., National Basketball Association player, was born in New Orleans, LA.
1995 (Miltona Mirkin Cade) Toni Cade Bambara, author and scriptwriter for the documentary (The Bombing of Osage Avenue) dies in Philadelphia, PA.
1998 (Archibald Lee Wright) Archie Moore, boxer (longest professional career in sports at his death) dies in San Diego, CA.
2010 James Moody, saxophonist (Moody’s Mood for Love) dies in San Diego, CA.
2011 Myra Taylor, jazz singer and actor (Scoring) dies in Kansas City, MO.
