Births | ||
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| * 1988 | Rihanna | Young Bajan singer with musical influences from R&B, pop, reggae and dance. |
| * 1967 | Kurt Donald Cobain | Lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist of the American grunge band, Nirvana. |
| * 1963 | Charles Barkley | Former American basketball power forward. |
| * 1963 | Ian Brown | English musician, best known as the former lead singer of the alternative rock band The Stone Roses. |
| * 1954 | Anthony Stewart Head | British actor in theatre, television and films but most widely known for his role in the American television drama series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the role of Frank N Furter in the London revival of The Rocky Horror Show, and a series of coffee commercials in Britain and the US. |
| * 1951 | Gordon Brown | British politician who was elected to Parliament in 1983 and who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010. |
| * 1945 | George Smoot | American astrophysicist, cosmologist, Nobel laureate, and $1 million TV quiz show prize winner. |
| * 1944 | James C. Nelson | Justice on the Montana Supreme Court. |
| * 1942 | Phil Esposito | Retired professional hockey centre who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Chicago Black Hawks, Boston Bruins and New York Rangers. |
| * 1942 | Mitch McConnell | Republican United States Senator from Kentucky. |
| * 1927 | Sidney Poitier | Academy award-winning Bahamian-American actor, director, author and diplomat. |
| * 1926 | Richard Matheson | American author and screenwriter, typically of fantasy, horror, or science fiction. |
| * 1926 | Ken Olsen | Founder and president of Digital Equipment Corporation. |
| * 1918 | Ben Klassen | One-time Florida state legislator and racist polemicist, who published Nature's Eternal Religion in 1973, thus founding the Church of the Creator. |
| * 1911 | Margot Grahame | English actress. |
| * 1902 | Ansel Adams | American fine art photographer most famous for his wilderness landscapes. |
| * 1896 | Henri de Lubac | French Jesuit priest who became a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, and is considered to be one of the most influential theologians of the 20th century. |
| * 1888 | Georges Bernanos | French writer. |
| * 1887 | Vincent Massey | Canadian lawyer and diplomat who served as Governor General of Canada, the 18th since Canadian Confederation. |
| * 1844 | Ludwig Boltzmann | Austrian physicist famous for his founding contributions in the fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics. |
| * 1825 | William Allen Butler | American lawyer and writer of poetical satires. |
| * 1820 | Gustave Nadaud | French songwriter and chansonnier. |
| * 1726 | William Prescott | Commander in the American Revolutionary War. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2010 | Alexander Haig | General in the United States Army and later the Secretary of State from 1981 to 1982. |
| † 2005 | Hunter S. Thompson | American journalist and author famous for his flamboyant writing style, known as Gonzo Journalism, which blurred the distinctions between writer and subject, fiction and non-fiction. |
| † 2001 | Donella Meadows | Pioneering American environmental scientist, teacher and writer. |
| † 1995 | Robert Bolt | English playwright and screenwriter. |
| † 1993 | Ferruccio Lamborghini | Italian industrialist, an important manufacturer of agricultural equipment in the midst of Italy's post-war economic reform, and the founder of Automobili Lamborghini, a maker of high-end sports cars. |
| † 1982 | Derek Jackson | Noted spectroscopist. |
| † 1980 | Alice Roosevelt Longworth | Only daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, and his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee. |
| † 1972 | Walter Winchell | American newspaper and radio commentator, invented the gossip column at the New York Evening Graphic. |
| † 1966 | Chester W. Nimitz | US Navy officer who was Commander in Chief of Pacific Forces for the United States and Allied forces during World War II. |
| † 1948 | Bertha (a.k.a. Helen Diner) Diener | Also known by her American pseudonym Helen Diner, was an Austrian writer, travel journalist, feminist historian, and intellectual. |
| † 1948 | Helen Diner | Also known by her American pseudonym Helen Diner, was an Austrian writer, travel journalist, feminist historian, and intellectual. |
| † 1895 | Frederick Douglass | African American abolitionist, orator, author, editor, reformer, women's rights advocate, and statesman who was born a slave as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. |
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