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Births

* 1975 Jolene Blalock American actress, best known for her role in the science-fiction TV series Star Trek: Enterprise.
* 1974 Eva Mendes American actress.
* 1970 John Frusciante Guitarist of the Californian band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom he has featured on five studio recordings, two greatest hits packages and two live albums.
* 1959 Vazgen Sargsyan Prime Minister of Armenia for the Republican Party of Armenia from June 11, 1999 to October 27, 1999 until his assassination.
* 1958 Andy Gibb English-born Australian singer.
* 1955 Penn Jillette American illusionist, juggler and comedian known for his work with fellow illusionist Teller in the team known as Penn & Teller, with whom he hosts the television show Penn & Teller: Bullshit! airing on the Showtime network.
* 1948 Elaine Paige English singer and actress, primarily in musicals.
* 1927 Richard Arnold Epstein Also known under the pseudonym E P Stein, is a notable American game theorist.
* 1925 Jacques Verges French lawyer, nicknamed "the Devil's Advocate," who is most notable as a defender of individuals accused of terrorism and war crimes.
* 1908 Irving Fiske Born Irving Fishman in Brooklyn, New York, was a playwright, inventor, freelance writer, speaker, and the co-founder of Quarry Hill Creative Center.
* 1904 Karl Rahner German theologian, one of the most influential Roman Catholic theologians of the 20th century.
* 1898 Zhou Enlai Prominent Chinese Communist leader, was the first Premier of the People's Republic of China, from 1949 until his death.
* 1879 William Henry Beveridge British economist and social reformer.
* 1870 Rosa Luxemburg Marxist, revolutionary, and martyr.
* 1869 Michael von Faulhaber Roman Catholic Cardinal, who was Archbishop of Munich from 1917 to 1952.
* 1862 Siegbert Tarrasch Leading chess player.
* 1824 Lucy Larcom American poet whose idealistic poems caught the attention of John Greenleaf Whittier.
* 1817 Austen Henry Layard British traveler, archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, author and diplomatist, best known as the excavator of Nimrud.
* 1815 John Wentworth Editor of the Chicago Democrat, a two-term mayor of Chicago, Illinois, and a six-term member of the United States House of Representatives.
* 1794 Jacques Babinet French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer who is best known for his contributions to optics.

Deaths

† 2013 Hugo Chavez President of Venezuela from 2 February 1999 until his death.
† 2006 Richard Kuklinski Convicted murderer and notorious contract killer.
† 1999 Alfred Denning British barrister from Hampshire who became Master of the Rolls.
† 1995 Vivian Stanshall Born Victor Anthony Stanshall, was an English singer-songwriter, painter, musician, author, poet and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, for his surreal exploration of the British upper classes in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, and for narrating Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells.
† 1966 Anna Akhmatova Russian poet, known primarily by her pen name Anna Akhmatova [????? ?????????].
† 1963 Patsy Cline American country and pop music singer.
† 1953 Joseph Stalin First General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from late 1922 until his death on 5 March 1953.
† 1953 Herman J. Mankiewicz Hollywood screenwriter and raconteur.
† 1950 Edgar Lee Masters American poet, biographer and dramatist.
† 1944 Alun Lewis Welsh poet and short-story writer, often seen as one of Britain's finest Second World War poets.
† 1937 Mary Butts British modernist writer.
† 1893 Hippolyte Taine French critic and historian.
† 1878 Octavius Winslow Also known as "The Pilgrim's Companion", was one of the foremost evangelical preachers of the 19th Century in England and America.
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