Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1965 | Martin Lawrence | Comedian, musician, actor, and voice artist. |
| * 1962 | Ian MacKaye | American singer-songwriter. |
| * 1955 | DJ Kool Herc | Jamaican-American DJ who is credited with originating breakbeat DJing in hip-hop music which helped to develop rapping and b-boying. |
| * 1953 | Nick Minchin | Australian politician, and has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since July 1993, representing South Australia. |
| * 1952 | Yochanan Afek | Israeli chess player, composer, trainer and arbiter. |
| * 1947 | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Successful former high school, collegiate, and professional NBA basketball player. |
| * 1947 | Gerry Rafferty | Scottish singer-songwriter best known for his solo hits and the band Stealers Wheel. |
| * 1922 | Kingsley Amis | English novelist, poet, critic, teacher, and father of novelist Martin Amis. |
| * 1921 | Peter Ustinov | Born Peter Alexander von Ustinov, was an Academy Award-winning English-German actor, writer, dramatist and raconteur. |
| * 1918 | Spike Milligan | Known as Spike Milligan, was an Irish writer, artist, musician, humanitarian, comedian and poet. |
| * 1896 | Tristan Tzara | French-Romanian poet and essayist. |
| * 1889 | Charlie (Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin) Chaplin | Comedic actor and director, usually known by his stage name of Charlie Chaplin. |
| * 1881 | E. F. L. Wood | Known as The Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and as The Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was a British Conservative politician. |
| * 1871 | John Millington Synge | Irish dramatist, poet, prose writer, and collector of folklore. |
| * 1867 | Wilbur Wright | Generally credited with the design and construction of the first practical airplane. |
| * 1866 | Jose de Diego | Born in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, was a statesman, journalist, poet and advocate for Puerto Rico's independence from Spain. |
| * 1857 | Henry Smith Pritchett | U S astronomer and educator. |
| * 1844 | Anatole France | Born Jacques Anatole François Thibault, was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. |
| * 1838 | Ernest Solvay | Belgian chemist, industrialist and philanthropist. |
| * 1823 | Ferdinand Eisenstein | German mathematician. |
| * 1569 | John (poet) Davies | English poet and lawyer, who became attorney general in Ireland and formulated many of the legal principles that underpinned the British Empire. |
Deaths | ||
| † 1994 | Ralph Ellison | American scholar and writer, most famous for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. |
| † 1972 | Yasunari Kawabata | Japanese short story writer and novelist known for his spare, lyrical, and subtly-shaded prose. |
| † 1958 | Rosalind Franklin | English biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer who made important contributions to the understanding of the fine molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal and graphite. |
| † 1947 | Rudolf Hoss | SS-Obersturmbannführer and from May 4, 1940 to November 1943 was commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp. |
| † 1859 | Alexis de Tocqueville | French political thinker and historian, most famous for his work Democracy in America. |
| † 1689 | Aphra Behn | Prolific Restoration dramatist and writer of amatory fiction. |
| † 1687 | George Villiers | English dramatist, poet, politician, wit and rake. |
| † 1687 | George Villiers Buckingham | English dramatist, poet, politician, wit and rake. |
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