Births | ||
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| * 1981 | Tom Hurndall | British photographer, member of the International Solidarity Movement and an activist against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. |
| * 1979 | Simon Amstell | English comedian and television presenter. |
| * 1961 | Tom Carroll | Former Australian surfer. |
| * 1959 | Rahm Emanuel | American politician and the 55th and current Mayor of Chicago. |
| * 1956 | Leo Laporte | American technology broadcaster and author. |
| * 1953 | Mary Schmich | Columnist for the Chicago Tribune. |
| * 1949 | Stan Rogers | Canadian folk musician and songwriter. |
| * 1939 | George Gilder | American libertarian philosopher, futurologist and author. |
| * 1933 | James Rosenquist | Acclaimed American artist who is associated with the Pop art movement. |
| * 1932 | Jacques Chirac | French politician who was President of the French Republic between 1995 and 2007. |
| * 1927 | Vin Scully | American sports announcer. |
| * 1912 | John Templeton | American-born British stock investor, businessman, philanthropist and founder of the John Templeton Foundation and the Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities. |
| * 1898 | C. S. Lewis | Irish author, scholar of medieval literature, and Christian apologist. |
| * 1843 | Gertrude Jekyll | British garden designer, writer, and artist. |
| * 1835 | Empress Dowager Cixi | Of the Manchu Yehe Nara Clan, was a powerful and charismatic figure who became the de facto ruler of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in China for 47 years from 1861 to her death in 1908. |
| * 1832 | Louisa May Alcott | American novelist, best known for the novel Little Women (1868). |
| * 1823 | La Fayette Grover | Democratic politician and lawyer from the U S state of Oregon. |
| * 1811 | Wendell Phillips | Born in Boston, Massachusetts, was an American abolitionist, Native American advocate and orator. |
| * 1799 | Amos Bronson Alcott | American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer. |
| * 1627 | John Ray | English naturalist, sometimes referred to as the father of English natural history. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2010 | Maurice Wilkes | Pioneering British computer scientist and winner of the 1967 Turing Award. |
| † 2001 | George Harrison | British songwriter, musician and film producer best known as a member of The Beatles. |
| † 2001 | John Knowles | American novelist, best known for his novel A Separate Peace. |
| † 1993 | J. R. D. Tata | Pioneer aviator and important businessman of India. |
| † 1992 | Jean Dieudonne | French mathematician, notable for research in abstract algebra and functional analysis. |
| † 1986 | Cary Grant | Born Archibald Alexander Leach, was an English film actor. |
| † 1980 | Dorothy Day | American journalist turned social activist. |
| † 1872 | Horace Greeley | American editor of a leading newspaper, New York Tribune, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer and a politician. |
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