1938 Birthday Rex Reed, Ft. Worth, Texas, movie critic/actor, Myra Breckinridge 1925 Birthday Gore Vidal, born in West Point, New York, author, Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln 1864 Death Margaret E Breckinridge, U.S. nurse/daughter of Vice President John, dies 1861 Death John Breckinridge Grayson, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies 1861 Event Former Vice President John C. Breckinridge flees Kentucky 1821 Birthday John Cabell Breckinridge, D, 14th U.S. Vice President, 1857 - 1861, major-general, Confederate 1806 Birthday John Breckinridge Grayson, Brigadier General Confederate Army