Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1986 | Rafael Nadal | Spanish professional tennis player, currently ranked No 3 in the world. |
| * 1976 | Paul Berry | Northern Ireland unionist politician. |
| * 1962 | Susannah Constantine | Fashion guru and television presenter, who became famous as the co-host of What Not to Wear in 2001, with Trinny Woodall. |
| * 1961 | Lawrence Lessig | American academic and political activist. |
| * 1960 | Steve Lyons | Former Major League Baseball player for the Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Atlanta Braves and Montreal Expos and former television sportscaster. |
| * 1945 | John Derbyshire | Writer who has contributed to various publications such as, until his 2012 firing, National Review. |
| * 1942 | Curtis Mayfield | American soul, R&B, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer. |
| * 1936 | Larry McMurtry | American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the old West or in contemporary Texas. |
| * 1931 | John Norman | American philosopher and science fiction writer. |
| * 1930 | Marion Zimmer Bradley | American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series, often with a feminist outlook. |
| * 1926 | Allen Ginsberg | American Beat poet born in Newark, New Jersey. |
| * 1924 | Karunanidhi | Indian politician and a former w:Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. |
| * 1910 | Bernard Hollowood | English writer, cartoonist, economist and editor of Punch. |
| * 1903 | Eric A. Havelock | Professor at the University of Toronto and was active in the academic milieu of the Canadian socialist movement during the 1930s. |
| * 1899 | Georg Von Bekesy | Hungarian biophysicist born in Budapest. |
| * 1865 | George V of the United Kingdom | King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India. |
| * 1812 | Norman (1812-1872) MacLeod | Scottish divine and miscellaneous writer, son of the Rev. |
| * 1808 | Jefferson Davis | American politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. |
| * 1804 | Richard Cobden | British manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with John Bright in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League. |
| * 1771 | Sydney Smith | English clergyman, critic, philosopher and wit. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2011 | Jack Kevorkian | Controversial Armenian American pathologist. |
| † 2002 | Lew Wasserman | American agent and Hollywood studio executive. |
| † 2001 | Anthony Quinn | Two-time Academy Award-winning Mexican/American actor, as well as a painter and writer. |
| † 1992 | Robert Morley | British actor who, often in supporting roles, was time and again cast as the archetypal English gentleman representing the Establishment. |
| † 1990 | Robert Noyce | Nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel in 1968. |
| † 1989 | Ruhollah Khomeini | Iranian Islamic cleric, the political and religious leader of the Islamic Revolution which overthrew the Shah of Iran. |
| † 1970 | Hjalmar Schacht | Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank under the Weimar Republic, and President of the Reichsbank under the Nazi regime between 1933 and 1939. |
| † 1967 | Arthur Ransome | British children's author. |
| † 1963 | Nazim Hikmet | Turkish poet and dramatist, who is widely regarded as the best-known Turkish poet in the West; his works have been translated into several languages. |
| † 1963 | John XXIII (Pope) | Elected as John XXIII, the 261st Pope of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City on October 28, 1958. |
| † 1946 | Mikhail Kalinin | Bolshevik revolutionary and the titular head of state of the Soviet Union from 1919 to 1946. |
| † 1924 | Franz Kafka | Bohemian-Jewish novelist, and was one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century. |
| † 1905 | James Hudson Taylor | Christian missionary to China in the Methodist tradition, and founder of the China Inland Mission (renamed as Overseas Missionary Fellowship, OMF International in 1964). |
| † 1882 | James (B.V.) Thomson | Scottish poet and essayist, best known for his The City of Dreadful Night. |
| † 1879 | Frances Ridley Havergal | English religious poet and hymn writer. |
| † 1875 | Georges Bizet | French composer of the romantic era most famous for his opera Carmen. |
| † 1861 | Stephen Douglas | As American politician, one of the principal founders of the Illinois Democrat Party, Illinois supreme court judge, and Illinois Senator. |
| † 1780 | Thomas Hutchinson | Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, 1771-1774; prominent Loyalist in the years before the American Revolutionary War. |
| † 1657 | William Harvey | English physician who is credited with first correctly describing, in exact detail, the properties of blood being pumped around the body by the heart. |
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