2002 Event 74th Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Whoopi Goldberg hosts, A Beautiful Mind wins Best Picture, Denzell Washington and Hallie Berry win lead acting awards 1999 Event 71st Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Whoopi Goldberg hosts, Shakespeare in Love wins Best Picture, Roberto Benigni and Gwyneth Paltrow win lead acting awards 1993 Death Szymon Goldberg, Polish violinist and conductor, dies at 84 1990 Death Arthur Joseph Goldberg, American Statesman died at age 81 1986 Event 43th Golden Globes: Whoopi Goldberg, Color Purple win 1970 Death Rube Goldberg, U.S. cartoonist (Mike and Ike, Pulitzer 1948), dies at 87 1970 Birthday Adam Goldberg, American Actor 1969 Birthday Jonah Goldberg, American Celebrity 1966 Birthday Bill Goldberg, American Athlete 1963 Birthday Gina Goldberg, born in Turku, Finland, born Tina Verienius, model, actress, singer, Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month, May, 1981 1949 Birthday Whoopi Goldberg, Caryn Johnson, New York City, actress, Color Purple, Burglar 1948 Birthday Bruce Vilanch, born in New York City, New York, comedy writer, appeared regularly with Whoopi Goldberg on Hollywood Squares, appeared in Bosom Buddies, Law & Order, wrote for show Billy Crystal, Academy Awards host 1935 Birthday Bruno Canino, born in Naples, Italy, composer, pianist, chamber musician, accompanist, studied with Vincenzo Vitale, and in Milan with Bruno Bettinelli, music director of Biennale di Venezia, recordings include Bach Goldberg Variations 1917 Birthday Marshall Goldberg, NFL halfback, Chicago Cardinals 1909 Birthday Szymon Goldberg, Polish/US violinist and conductor, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra 1908 Birthday Arthur J. Goldberg, born in Illinois, United Nations ambassador and Supreme Court justice, 1962 - 1965 1883 Birthday Rube Goldberg, cartoonist, who made the easy outrageously difficult 1828 Death John Goldberg, Dutch patriot/statesman, dies at 64 1763 Birthday John Goldberg, Dutch patriot/statesman 1756 Death Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, composer, dies at 29 1756 Death Johann T Gottlieb Goldberg, German klavecinist/composer, dies at 29 1727 Birthday Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, composer