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Births

* 1984 Ezra Koenig Lead singer and guitarist of New York based indie rock band Vampire Weekend.
* 1966 Anandmurti Gurumaa New age spiritual guide.
* 1955 Barbara Kingsolver American fiction writer.
* 1955 David Wu Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives for Oregon, representing the state's First Congressional District, which includes a small section of western Multnomah County and all of Yamhill, Columbia, Clatsop and Washington Counties.
* 1947 Robert Kiyosaki American investor, businessman, self-help author and motivational speaker.
* 1943 Lord (Tony Banks) Stratford British politician and Labour member of first the House of Commons then the House of Lords.
* 1943 Tony (Lord Stratford) Banks British politician and Labour member of first the House of Commons then the House of Lords.
* 1941 Vivienne Westwood English fashion designer largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream.
* 1938 Kofi Annan Ghanaian diplomat and the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations.
* 1919 Ian Smith Farmer and politician who served as Prime Minister of Rhodesia from 1964 to 1979.
* 1911 Emil Cioran Romanian writer, noted for his somber works in the French language; known in French as Émile Cioran.
* 1909 John Fante American novelist, short-story and screenwriter of Italian descent.
* 1896 Yip Harburg Born Isidore Hochberg and known primarily as E Y Harburg or Yip Harburg, was an American lyricist who worked with many well-known composers.
* 1892 Mary Pickford Canadian-born film star and co-founder of United Artists, known as "America's Sweetheart" and "the girl with the curls.
* 1867 Arthur Streeton Australian landscape painter.
* 1859 Edmund Husserl Philosopher from Moravia, then part of the Austrian Empire, known as the father of phenomenology.
* 1847 Frederick Brotherton Meyer Contemporary and friend of D L Moody and A C Dixon, was a Baptist pastor and evangelist in England involved in ministry and inner city mission work on both sides of the Atlantic.
* 1796 Alfred Bunn English theatrical manager.
* 1732 David Rittenhouse Renowned American astronomer, inventor, clockmaker, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman, and public official.
* 1634 Joseph Alleine English Puritan Nonconformist pastor and author of many religious works.

Deaths

† 2013 Margaret Thatcher First female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979–1990).
† 2009 Colin Jordan Leading representative of postwar National Socialism in Britain.
† 2006 Valentine Telegdi Hungarian-born U S experimental physicist.
† 1997 Laura Nyro American singer, pianist and songwriter; born Laura Nigro.
† 1981 Omar Bradley One of the main U S Army field commanders in North Africa and Europe during the World War II and a General of the United States Army.
† 1980 Peter Farb American author, anthropologist, linguist, ecologist, naturalist and spokesman for conservation, and free lance writer for 30 years in the areas of the natural and human sciences.
† 1973 Pablo Picasso Spanish artist who lived and worked in Paris for many years.
† 1950 Vaslav Nijinsky Famous Russian ballet dancer.
† 1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt Swedish poet, posthumously awarded the 1931 Nobel Prize in Literature.
† 1908 Langdon Smith American journalist and poet, most famous today for his love poem "Evolution".
† 1835 Wilhelm von Humboldt Government functionary, diplomat, philosopher, founder of Humboldt Universität in Berlin, a friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, and elder brother of naturalist Alexander von Humboldt who is especially remembered as a linguist who made important contributions to the philosophy of language and to the theory and practice of education.
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