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* 1979 | Travis Meeks | American musician, and is the lead singer and guitarist of Days of the New. |
* 1970 | Uma Thurman | Iconic American film actress, starring in popular films such as Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill. |
* 1960 | Robert J. Sawyer | Canadian science fiction writer, dubbed "the dean of Canadian science fiction" by the Ottawa Citizen in 1999. |
* 1958 | Michelle Pfeiffer | American actress. |
* 1957 | Daniel Day-Lewis | English actor with dual British and Irish citizenship. |
* 1956 | David C. Lane | Religious scholar and professor of sociology and sociology. |
* 1954 | Jerry Seinfeld | American actor, writer and comedian. |
* 1952 | David Icke | Controversial English writer, and conspiracy theorist. |
* 1943 | Ruth Deech | Barrister, academic, bioethicist and former Governor of the BBC. |
* 1943 | Ian Kershaw | British historian, now based at the University of Sheffield. |
* 1936 | Antonio Llido | Spanish Catholic priest and pedagogue who adopted socialist political ideals whilst a missionary in Chile. |
* 1936 | Zubin Mehta | Indian conductor of western classical music. |
* 1933 | Willie Nelson | American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. |
* 1929 | Maurice Strong | Canadian entrepreneur, environmentalist, and proponent of United Nations involvement in world affairs. |
* 1901 | Hirohito | Emperor Sh?wa of Japan. |
* 1879 | Thomas Beecham | British conductor. |
* 1875 | Rafael Sabatini | Italian/British author of romance and adventure novels. |
* 1863 | Constantine P. Cavafy | Greek poet who is often ranked among most important literary figures of the 20th century. |
* 1854 | Henri Poincare | Generally known as Henri Poincarι, was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of science. |
* 1848 | Raja Ravi Varma | Indian painter who achieved recognition for his depiction of scenes from the epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayana. |
Deaths | ||
2011 | Joanna Russ | American writer, academic and feminist. |
2008 | Albert Hofmann | Swiss scientist best known for first synthesizing Lysergic acid diethylamide. |
2006 | John Kenneth Galbraith | Canadian-American economist and author. |
1980 | Alfred Hitchcock | British film director and producer, closely associated with the suspense thriller genre. |
1951 | Ludwig Wittgenstein | Austrian-born philosopher who spent much of his life in England. |
1945 | Heinrich Muller | Head of the Gestapo, the political police of Nazi Germany, and played a leading role in the planning and execution of the Holocaust. |
1945 | Achille Starace | Prominent leader of Fascist Italy prior to and during World War II In 1931, his career reached its peak when he was made Secretary of the PNF. |
1933 | Constantine P. Cavafy | Greek poet who is often ranked among most important literary figures of the 20th century. |
1859 | Dionysius Lardner | Irish scientific writer who popularised science and technology, and edited the 133-volume Cabinet Cyclopedia. |
1707 | George Farquhar | Irish dramatist. |
1380 | Catherine of Siena | Dominican Tertiary of the Dominican Order. |
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