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Births

* 1981 Sienna Miller American-born, English actress and model.
* 1979 James Blake American professional tennis player.
* 1969 Linus Torvalds Computer programmer, best known as the creator of the Linux kernel.
* 1951 Ian Buruma British-Dutch writer and academic.
* 1949 Ma Anand Sheela Also known as Ambalal Patel Sheela, Sheela Silverman, later Sheela Birnstiel, is a former follower, secretary and spokeswoman for the Indian mystic and spiritual teacher Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, now commonly known as Osho.
* 1946 Tim Johnson Senior United States Senator from South Dakota, and a member of the Democratic Party.
* 1945 David Allen Productivity consultant.
* 1944 Kary Mullis American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist.
* 1934 Alasdair Gray Award-winning Scottish writer and artist.
* 1932 Roy Hattersley British Labour politician and journalist.
* 1932 Dhirubhai Ambani Indian business magnate and entrepreneur.
* 1931 Guy Debord French strategist and founding member of the groups Letterist International and Situationist International.
* 1922 Stan Lee American writer, editor, and memoirist, who — with several artist co-creators, especially Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko — introduced complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books.
* 1903 John von Neumann Hungarian-American-German-Jewish mathematician and computer scientist, generally regarded as one of the foremost mathematicians of the 20th century.
* 1902 Mortimer Adler American Aristotelian philosopher and author.
* 1890 Viktor Lutze SA officer who held the rank of Obergruppenfόhrer in Nazi Germany.
* 1882 Arthur Stanley Eddington Plumian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge.
* 1856 (Thomas) Woodrow Wilson 45th state Governor of New Jersey (1911–1913) and later the 28th President of the United States (1913–1921).

Deaths

† 2011 Helen Frankenthaler American post-painterly abstraction artist.
† 2010 Denis Dutton Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, and co-founder and co-editor of the Web publication Arts & Letters Daily.
† 2004 Susan Sontag American essayist, literary critic, cultural theorist, and political activist.
† 1993 William L. Shirer American journalist and historian and one of the most famous journalists in the world.
† 1986 John D. MacDonald Writing as John D MacDonald, was an American writer best known for his series of detective novels featuring protagonist Travis McGee.
† 1981 Bram van Velde Dutch painter known for an intensely colored abstract painting style.
† 1963 A. J. Liebling American journalist who was closely associated with The New Yorker from 1935 until his death.
† 1962 John Howard Dellinger Noted American telecommunication engineer who discovered how solar flares caused fadeouts of short-wave radios.
† 1950 Max Beckmann German painter, printmaker.
† 1945 Theodore Dreiser American naturalist author known for dealing with the gritty reality of life.
† 1935 Clarence Day American author and humorist.
† 1903 George Gissing British novelist.
† 1859 Thomas Babington Macaulay Nineteenth century British poet, historian and Whig politician.
† 1734 Robert Roy MacGregor Scottish folk hero and outlaw whose life and legend has inspired many romantic portrayals, in literature and film.
† 1663 Francesco Maria Grimaldi Italian mathematician and physicist who taught at the Jesuit college in Bologna.
† 1622 Francis de Sales Bishop of Geneva and a Roman Catholic saint.
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