Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1963 | Garry Kasparov | Chess grandmaster and one of the strongest chess players in history. |
| * 1960 | Michel Faber | Australian writer of fiction. |
| * 1957 | Amy Goodman | American broadcast journalist and author. |
| * 1953 | Charles Foster Johnson | American Jazz guitarist who also runs the weblog Little Green Footballs. |
| * 1949 | Christopher Hitchens | English-American journalist and author of twelve books on politics, literature, and religion, including his anti-religion polemic, God Is Not Great. |
| * 1939 | Seamus Heaney | Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet, born and reared in Northern Ireland, and now living in Dublin. |
| * 1928 | Alan Clark | British Conservative politician, historian and diarist. |
| * 1922 | Julius Nyerere | Served as the first President of Tanzania and previously Tanganyika, from the country's founding in 1964 until his retirement in 1985. |
| * 1922 | John Braine | British novelist, sometimes classed with the so-called angry young men. |
| * 1909 | Stanislaw Ulam | Polish-American mathematician who participated in the Manhattan Project and proposed the Teller–Ulam design of thermonuclear weapons. |
| * 1909 | Eudora Welty | Born in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. |
| * 1906 | Samuel Beckett | Irish playwright, novelist, poet and winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| * 1904 | Christopher Vokes | Canadian soldier. |
| * 1892 | Arthur Travers Harris | British air marshal during World War II. |
| * 1875 | Ray Lyman Wilbur | Medical doctor, the third president of Stanford University, and the 31st United States Secretary of the Interior. |
| * 1743 | Thomas Jefferson | Author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1777), founder of the University of Virginia (1819), the third president of the United States (1801–1809), a political philosopher, editor of Jefferson's Bible (1819), and one of the most influential founders of the United States. |
| * 1729 | Thomas Percy | Bishop and magazine editor. |
| * 1648 | Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte (Madame Guyon) Guyon | Commonly known as Madame Guyon, was a French mystic and one of the key advocates of Quietism. |
| * 1570 | Guy Fawkes | English soldier and a member of a group of Roman Catholic conspirators who attempted to carry out the Gunpowder Plot to assassinate King James I of England and the members of both houses of the Parliament of England with a huge explosion, which was prevented by his arrest on 5 November 1605. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2008 | John Archibald Wheeler | Eminent American theoretical physicist. |
| † 2006 | Muriel Spark | Scottish novelist, short-story writer, biographer and literary critic. |
| † 1997 | David McCord | Poet and writer of verse for children. |
| † 1966 | Carlo Carra | Leading artist of the Italian Futurist movement. |
| † 1945 | Ernst Cassirer | German Jewish philosopher. |
| † 1906 | Richard Garnett | Scholar, librarian, biographer and poet. |
| † 1882 | Bruno Bauer | Known as a Young Hegelian, was a German Lutheran theologian, philosopher and historian. |
| † 1824 | Jane Taylor | English poet and novelist. |
| † 1794 | Nicolas Chamfort | Born Nicolas-Sébastien Roch, was a French writer. |
| † 1695 | Jean de La Fontaine | Most famous French fabulist and probably the most widely read French poet of the 17th century. |
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