Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1965 | Erik Naggum | Lisp programmer. |
| * 1963 | Audrey Niffenegger | American writer, artist and academic. |
| * 1959 | Boyko Borisov | Current prime minister of Bulgaria. |
| * 1955 | Alan Hansen | BBC television football pundit and former football player. |
| * 1953 | Tim Allen | Golden Globe-winning American comedian, actor, voice-over artist, and entertainer, known for his role in the sitcom Home Improvement. |
| * 1947 | Jerrold Nadler | Democratic United States Representative from New York. |
| * 1945 | Whitley Strieber | US writer best known for his non-fiction account of what he calls his "visitor experiences" and for his horror novels. |
| * 1944 | Ban Ki-moon | Current Secretary-General of the United Nations. |
| * 1937 | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Member of the United States House of Representatives but is not a full voting member. |
| * 1928 | John Forbes Nash | Mathematician and Game Theorist. |
| * 1893 | Dorothy L. Sayers | Renowned British author, translator, student of classical and modern languages, and Christian humanist. |
| * 1881 | Mary Antin | American author and immigration rights activist. |
| * 1877 | Joseph Stella | Italian-born American Futurist painter best known for his depictions of industrial America. |
| * 1875 | Miriam Ferguson | Became the first female Governor of Texas in 1924, and the second female state governor in the United States. |
| * 1865 | William Butler Yeats | Irish symbolist poet, dramatist and mystic. |
| * 1831 | James Clerk Maxwell | Scottish mathematical physicist. |
| * 1795 | Thomas Arnold | Schoolmaster and historian, head of Rugby School from 1828 to 1841. |
| * 1786 | Winfield Scott | United States Army general, and unsuccessful presidential candidate of the Whig Party in 1852. |
| * 1773 | Thomas (scientist) Young | English genius and polymath, admired by, among others, William Herschel and Albert Einstein. |
| * 1752 | Frances Burney | Also known as Fanny Burney and after marriage as Madame d'Arblay, was an English novelist, poet, diarist, and playwright. |
| * 1508 | Alessandro Piccolomini | Italian humanist and philosopher from Siena, who promoted the popularization in the vernacular of Latin and Greek scientific and philosophical treatises. |
Deaths | ||
| 2006 | Charles Haughey | Sixth Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland, serving from 1979 to 1981, March 1982 to December 1982 and from 1987 to 1992. |
| 2005 | David Diamond | American composer of classical music. |
| 1972 | Georg Von Bekesy | Hungarian biophysicist born in Budapest. |
| 1965 | Martin Buber | Jewish philosopher, theologian, story-teller, and teacher. |
| 1901 | Leopoldo Alas | Also known as Clarํn, was a Spanish realist novelist born in Zamora. |
| 1645 | Miyamoto Musashi | Famous Japanese swordsman, believed to have been one of the most skilled swordsmen in history. |
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