Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1963 | Jose Mourinho | Portuguese football manager. |
| * 1958 | Ellen DeGeneres | American stand-up comedienne, television hostess and actress. |
| * 1955 | Eddie Van Halen | Virtuoso guitarist and a founding member of the hard rock band Van Halen. |
| * 1955 | Bjorn Andresen | Swedish actor and musician. |
| * 1953 | Anders Fogh Rasmussen | Danish politician of the centre-right Liberal party, Venstre, and the 12th and current Secretary General of NATO. |
| * 1950 | Jack Youngblood | Former American football defensive end in the National Football League for the Los Angeles Rams. |
| * 1946 | Christopher Hampton | Academy Award-winning British playwright, screenwriter and film director. |
| * 1944 | Angela Davis | American Communist organizer and professor who was associated with the Black Panther Party and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. |
| * 1925 | Paul Newman | American actor and film director. |
| * 1921 | Akio Morita | Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony Corporation. |
| * 1918 | Nicolae Ceausescu | President the Socialist Republic of Romania from 1967 to 1989. |
| * 1918 | Philip Jose Farmer | American author, principally known for his science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories, especially those of his Riverworld series. |
| * 1907 | Eric Mervyn Lindsay | Irish astronomer. |
| * 1884 | Edward Sapir | American anthropologist and linguist, a leader in American structural linguistics, and a pioneer of concepts in linguistic relativity as a creator of what is now called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. |
| * 1884 | Roy Chapman Andrews | American explorer, adventurer and naturalist who became the director of the American Museum of Natural History, primarily known for leading a series of expeditions through the fragmented China of the early 20th century into the Gobi Desert and Mongolia. |
| * 1880 | Douglas MacArthur | American military leader. |
| * 1865 | Alfred Cochrane | Accomplished cricketer, and subsequently made his name as a writer on sporting subjects and of light verse. |
| * 1831 | Mary Mapes Dodge | American children's writer and editor, best known for her novel Hans Brinker. |
| * 1810 | David Seth Doggett | American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1866. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2010 | Geoffrey Burbidge | English astronomer. |
| † 2006 | Frank R. Wallace | American author, publisher, and mail-order magnate. |
| † 1990 | Lewis Mumford | American historian of technology and science, also noted for his study of cities. |
| † 1988 | Raymond Williams | Highly influential Welsh socialist academic, novelist and critic. |
| † 1985 | James (journalist) Cameron | British journalist, travel-writer and historian, whose work bears the impress of his socialist and pacifist convictions. |
| † 1983 | Bear Bryant | American college football coach who was named National Coach of the Year three-times; in 1961, 1971 and 1973. |
| † 1968 | Yvor Winters | American poet and literary critic. |
| † 1929 | Arthur Desmond | English revolutionary, poet, philosopher and author, most famous for being the likely author of the incendiary work Might is Right. |
| † 1849 | Thomas Lovell Beddoes | English poet and dramatist. |
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