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Births

* 1976 Leslie Feist Canadian singer-songwriter who performs as a solo artist under the name Feist and as a member of Broken Social Scene.
* 1974 Robbie Williams British songwriter, singer and performer.
* 1962 Anibal Acevedo Vila Eighth Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
* 1961 Henry Rollins American rock musician, writer and spoken word performer.
* 1952 Lung Ying-tai Celebrated essayist and cultural critic, with a total of 17 published titles to her credit in Chinese.
* 1950 Peter Gabriel English musician who first came to fame as the lead vocalist of the progressive rock group Genesis.
* 1945 Simon Schama British historian and art critic.
* 1944 Jerry Springer Former Democratic mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, who now hosts a television program bearing his name, The Jerry Springer Show.
* 1916 John (actor) Reed English actor, dancer and singer, known for his nimble performances in the comic leads of the Savoy Operas, particularly with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
* 1915 Aung San Burmese revolutionary, soldier, and statesman who is widely considered to be responsible for Burmese independence, even though he was assassinated six months before it was achieved.
* 1910 William Shockley Physicist, and co-inventor of the transistor.
* 1903 Georges Simenon Belgian writer of crime novels, best known as the creator of Commissaire Maigret.
* 1892 Robert H. Jackson United States Attorney General (1940–1941) and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1941–1954).
* 1881 Eleanor Farjeon English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire.
* 1824 George Jessel British judge.
* 1766 Thomas Malthus English demographer and political economist best known for his pessimistic but highly influential views on population growth.
* 1743 Joseph Banks English naturalist and botanist.
* 1707 Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon French novelist.

Deaths

† 2010 John (actor) Reed English actor, dancer and singer, known for his nimble performances in the comic leads of the Savoy Operas, particularly with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
† 2002 Waylon Jennings American country music singer, songwriter, and musician.
† 1989 Hans Hellmut Kirst German novelist from Osterode, East Prussia.
† 1958 Georges Rouault French Catholic painter associated with Fauvism and Expressionism.
† 1954 Frederick Lewis Allen Editor of Harper's Magazine and also notable as an American historian of the first half of the 20th century.
† 1950 Rafael Sabatini Italian/British author of romance and adventure novels.
† 1927 Brooks Adams Better known simply as Brooks Adams, was an American historian and a critic of capitalism.
† 1893 Georgi Pulevski Writer and revolutionary, known for expressing publicly the idea of a separate Macedonian nation distinct from Serbs and Bulgarians, as well as a separate Macedonian language.
† 1883 Richard Wagner Influential German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his groundbreaking "music dramas", he led a life characterised, until his last decades, by political exile, turbulent love affairs, poverty and repeated flight from his creditors.
† 1859 Eliza Acton English poet and cook who produced one of the country's first cookbooks aimed at the domestic reader rather than the professional cook or chef, Modern Cookery for Private Families.
† 1818 George Rogers Clark American pioneer and military officer credited with winning the Northwest Territory during the American Revolution.
† 1789 William Adams Fellow and Master of Pembroke College, Oxford.
† 1787 Roger Joseph Boscovich Physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, and Jesuit.
† 1728 Cotton Mather A B 1678, A M 1681; honorary doctorate 1710, was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer.
† 1571 Benvenuto Cellini Florentine writer, goldsmith and sculptor.
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