1805 Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough (February 18, 1805 â February 20, 1877) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. He held several sea commands during the Civil War, including that of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. He was also noted for contributions to nautical scientific research.
1817 Lewis Addison Armistead was a career United States Army officer who became a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. On July 3, 1863, as part of Pickett’s Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg, Armistead led his brigade to the farthest point reached by Confederate forces during the charge, a point now referred to as the high-water mark of the Confederacy. However, he and his men were overwhelmed, and he was wounded and captured by Union troops. He died in a field hospital two days later.
1829 Jean-Jacques-Alfred-Alexandre “Alfred” Mouton was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. Although trained at West Point, he soon resigned his commission to become a civil engineer and then a sugarcane grower, while also serving as a brigadier general in the Louisiana State Militia.
1839 Pascual Cervera y Topete, (born Feb. 18, 1839, Medina Sidonia, Spainâdied April 3, 1909, Puerto Real), Spanish admiral whose fleet was destroyed in battle off Cuba in the SpanishâAmerican War (1898). A graduate of a naval cadet school, he engaged in operations off Morocco and in the Sulu Islands and the Philippines.
1919 Jack Palance was an American actor of Ukrainian descent. Known for playing tough guys and villains, Palance was nominated for three Academy Awards, all for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, receiving nominations for his roles in Sudden Fear and Shane, and winning the Oscar almost 40 years later for his role in City Slickers. During WW2 he served in US Army Air Corps, 455th bomb group. Required facial reconstruction from terrible injuries received in 1943 when, as a student pilot, he had to bail out of a burning B-24 Liberator bomber during a training flight over Arizona.
1925 George Harris Kennedy Jr. was an American actor who appeared in more than 100 film and television productions. He would serve the Army for 16 years, eventually attaining the rank of Captain. True to his radio roots, he became a disc jockey on Armed Forces Radio, and helped establish the Army Information Office, which provided technical service to the film and television industries.
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