Births | ||
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| * 1965 | Bjork Guomundsdottir | Icelandic singer and actress. |
| * 1964 | Liza Tarbuck | English actress and television presenter, daughter of Jimmy Tarbuck. |
| * 1962 | Steven Curtis Chapman | Contemporary Christian musician who has won five Grammy awards and more Gospel Music Association awards than any other artist in history. |
| * 1944 | Richard Durbin | Senior U S Senator from Illinois, a Democrat, and is now Democratic Whip, the second highest position in the party leadership in the Senate. |
| * 1935 | Fairuz | Lebanese singer. |
| * 1932 | Beryl Bainbridge | English novelist who had been shortlisted five times for the Booker Prize. |
| * 1914 | Henri Laborit | French physician, writer and philosopher. |
| * 1902 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | Polish-American writer of short stories and novels in Yiddish; he used his mother's name in devising his penname "Bashevis". |
| * 1889 | Hugh Kingsmill | English biographer, literary critic, fiction-writer and anthologist. |
| * 1886 | Harold Nicolson | English diplomat, author, diarist and politician. |
| * 1870 | Alexander Berkman | Prominent Russian-born anarchist, and a close associate of Emma Goldman. |
| * 1863 | Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch | Cornish writer, who published under the pen name of Q. |
| * 1854 | Pope Benedict XV | Born Giacomo della Chiesa, reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from September 3, 1914 to January 22, 1922. |
| * 1849 | Paul Ree | German author and philosopher who was a friend of Friedrich Nietzsche. |
| * 1787 | Bryan Procter | English poet, and father of Adelaide Anne Procter. |
| * 1768 | Friedrich Schleiermacher | German theologian and philosopher known for his attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional Protestant orthodoxy. |
| * 1694 | Voltaire | Famous using his pen name Voltaire, was a French writer, deist and philosopher. |
Deaths | ||
| † 1999 | Quentin Crisp | Born Denis Charles Pratt, was an English writer, artist's model, actor and raconteur who was known for his memorable and insightful witticisms. |
| † 1997 | Julian Jaynes | American psychologist, best known for his book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976). |
| † 1996 | Abdus Salam | Pakistani theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 for his work in electroweak theory which is the mathematical and conceptual synthesis of the electromagnetic and weak interactions, the latest stage reached until now on the path towards a unification theory describing the fundamental forces of nature. |
| † 1969 | Norman Lindsay | Australian artist, sculptor, writer, editorial cartoonist and scale modeler, as well as being a highly talented boxer. |
| † 1945 | Robert Benchley | American humorist, critic and actor. |
| † 1907 | Paula Modersohn-Becker | German painter, was one of the most important representatives of early Expressionism. |
| † 1886 | Charles Francis Adams | American lawyer, politician, diplomat and writer; the son of President John Quincy Adams and Louisa Catherine Johnson and the grandson of President John Adams and Abigail Adams. |
| † 1835 | James Hogg | Often known as The Ettrick Shepherd, was a self-educated Scottish poet, novelist, short-story writer and journalist. |
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