Births | ||
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| * 1983 | Carrie Underwood | Winner of the fourth season of American Idol. |
| * 1971 | Timbaland | American musical composer and R&B record producer and rapper whose style influenced both genres even helping to blur the distinction between R&B and hip-hop, as well as pop and dance music. |
| * 1966 | Christopher Titus | American comedian and actor who had a well-received yet short-lived show entitled Titus. |
| * 1966 | Edie Brickell | American singer-songwriter who became famous with the hit "What I Am" as the lead singer of the folk rock group Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, she is the wife of Paul Simon. |
| * 1964 | Neneh Cherry | Musician who blended hip hop with other influences to some mainstream success. |
| * 1958 | Sharon Stone | American actress, model and producer. |
| * 1957 | Osama bin Laden | Or simply known as bin Laden or Osama, was the founder and former leader of al-Qaeda, a militant Islamic organization that has been involved in terrorist attacks against civilian and military targets around the world, especially against Western countries. |
| * 1952 | Morgan Tsvangirai | Prime Minister of Zimbabwe. |
| * 1940 | Chuck Norris | American martial artist, action star, and Hollywood actor who is best known for playing Cordell "Cord" Walker on Walker, Texas Ranger, his training with Bruce Lee and for his iconically tough image. |
| * 1923 | Val Logsdon Fitch | American nuclear physicist who shared the 1980 Physics Nobel Prize with James Cronin for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons. |
| * 1907 | Hector McNeil | Scottish Labour politician, British Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and Secretary of State for Scotland from 1950 until 1951 in the government of Clement Attlee. |
| * 1892 | Arthur Honegger | French composer. |
| * 1847 | Kate Sheppard | Born Catherine Wilson Malcolm, was a social activist in New Zealand. |
| * 1772 | Friedrich Schlegel | German poet, critic and scholar. |
| * 1503 | Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I | Reigned as archiduke of Austria from 1521, king of Hungary, Bohemia and Croatia from 1526 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1556 till his death. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2010 | Corey Haim | Canadian actor, best known for a 1980s Hollywood career as a teen idol. |
| † 2007 | Richard Jeni | Known by his stage name Richard Jeni, was an American actor and comedian. |
| † 2005 | Dave Allen | Irish comedian. |
| † 1988 | Andy Gibb | English-born Australian singer. |
| † 1985 | Konstantin Chernenko | Leader of the Soviet Union from February 1984 until his death. |
| † 1966 | Frits Zernike | Dutch physicist and winner of the Nobel prize for physics in 1953 for his invention of the phase contrast microscope, an instrument that permits the study of internal cell structure without the need to stain and thus kill the cells. |
| † 1943 | Laurence Binyon | English poet. |
| † 1942 | William Henry Bragg | British physicist, chemist, mathematician and active sportsman who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son William Lawrence Bragg - the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics. |
| † 1940 | Mikhail Bulgakov | Russian-language novelist and playwright of the first half of the 20th century. |
| † 1937 | Yevgeny Zamyatin | Russian author, known mostly for his dystopian novel, We, which influenced and inspired later dystopian works such as Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. |
| † 1934 | F. Anstey | English novelist and journalist. |
| † 1934 | Herman Klein | British music critic, author, and vocal instructor. |
| † 1933 | Manfred Kyber | German writer, theater critic, playwright and poet. |
| † 1913 | Harriet Tubman | Also known as Moses, was an African-American abolitionist. |
| † 1898 | George Muller | Christian evangelist and coordinator of orphanages in Bristol, England who cared for and educated 10,024 orphans throughout his lifetime. |
| † 1872 | Giuseppe Mazzini | Nicknamed "Soul of Italy," was an Italian politician, journalist and activist for the unification of Italy. |
| † 1669 | John Denham | Poet, son of the Chief Baron of Exchequer in Ireland, was born in Dublin, and educated at Trinity College, Oxford and at Lincoln's Inn in London. |
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