A birthday meme

In honor of my birthday Saturday I thought this would be fun.

From Cara:
Do a Wikipedia search of your birthdate, minus the year; list three interesting events, three people who were born, and three people who died on that day.

Three (or four) Events:

1. 1755 - Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language published in London.
2. 1912 - The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks at about 2:20 a.m. after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic almost three hours earlier.
3. 1923 - Insulin first became generally available for use by diabetics.
4. 1947 - Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, breaking that sport's color line.

Three Births:

1. 1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist (d. 1519)
2. 1707 - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (d. 1783)
3. 1959 - Emma Thompson, English actress

Three Deaths:

1. 1865 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (b. 1809)
2. 1998 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (b. 1925)
3. 2001 - Joey Ramone, American musician and singer (The Ramones) (b. 1951)