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Births

* 1982 Anne Hathaway American actress.
* 1969 Ian Bremmer Political scientist specializing in US foreign policy, states in transition and global political risk.
* 1969 Kathleen Hanna Musician, feminist, activist, and punk zine writer.
* 1965 Eddie Mair Scottish journalist and radio and television presenter, known for his sarcastic style.
* 1958 Megan Mullally American actress, comedienne, singer and dancer.
* 1945 Neil Young Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation.
* 1938 Benjamin Mkapa Former President of the United Republic of Tanzania (1995–2005).
* 1934 Charles Manson Convict who led the "Manson Family," a quasi-commune that arose in the U S state of California in the later 1960s.
* 1933 Jalal Talabani Current President of Iraq and a leading Kurdish politician.
* 1929 Michael Ende German writer of fantasy novels and children's books.
* 1915 Roland Barthes French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician.
* 1908 Harry Blackmun Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1970 to 1994.
* 1886 Ben Travers British playwright most famous for his farces.
* 1875 Bert Williams Pre-eminent Black entertainer of his era and one of the most popular comedians for all audiences of his time.
* 1867 Joseph McCabe Well-known atheist and author of numerous books.
* 1866 Sun Yat-sen Chinese revolutionary leader and statesman who is considered by many to be the "Father of Modern China".
* 1859 Nixon Waterman Newspaper writer, poet and Chautauqua lecturer, who rose to prominence in the 1890s.
* 1842 John Strutt English physicist who, with William Ramsay, discovered the element argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904.
* 1840 Auguste Rodin French sculptor, and the preeminent sculptor of the modern era.
* 1815 Elizabeth Cady Stanton Social activist and a leading figure of the early women's rights movement in the United States.
* 1770 Joseph Hopkinson Member of the U S House of Representatives and a United States federal judge from Pennsylvania.
* 1615 Richard Baxter English Puritan church leader, divine scholar and controversialist, called by Dean Stanley "the chief of English Protestant Schoolmen".

Deaths

† 2007 Ira Levin American novelist, playwright and songwriter.
† 1960 Lord Buckley Born Richard Myrle Buckley, was an American monologist and comedian.
† 1947 Baroness Emma Orczy Known as Baroness Emma Orczy, was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian noble origin.
† 1926 Joseph Gurney Cannon American politician from Illinois and leader of the Republican Party.
† 1916 Percival Lowell Amateur astronomer.
† 1886 Archibald Alexander Hodge American Presbyterian leader, was the principal of Princeton Seminary between 1878 and 1886.
† 1865 Elizabeth Gaskell British fiction-writer and biographer who witnessed and recorded the transformation of northern England by the Industrial Revolution.
† 1757 Colley Cibber English actor, playwright, Poet Laureate, first British actor-manager, and head Dunce of Alexander Pope's Dunciad.
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