Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1982 | Anne Hathaway | American actress. |
| * 1969 | Ian Bremmer | Political scientist specializing in US foreign policy, states in transition and global political risk. |
| * 1969 | Kathleen Hanna | Musician, feminist, activist, and punk zine writer. |
| * 1965 | Eddie Mair | Scottish journalist and radio and television presenter, known for his sarcastic style. |
| * 1958 | Megan Mullally | American actress, comedienne, singer and dancer. |
| * 1945 | Neil Young | Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation. |
| * 1938 | Benjamin Mkapa | Former President of the United Republic of Tanzania (1995–2005). |
| * 1934 | Charles Manson | Convict who led the "Manson Family," a quasi-commune that arose in the U S state of California in the later 1960s. |
| * 1933 | Jalal Talabani | Current President of Iraq and a leading Kurdish politician. |
| * 1929 | Michael Ende | German writer of fantasy novels and children's books. |
| * 1915 | Roland Barthes | French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician. |
| * 1908 | Harry Blackmun | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1970 to 1994. |
| * 1886 | Ben Travers | British playwright most famous for his farces. |
| * 1875 | Bert Williams | Pre-eminent Black entertainer of his era and one of the most popular comedians for all audiences of his time. |
| * 1867 | Joseph McCabe | Well-known atheist and author of numerous books. |
| * 1866 | Sun Yat-sen | Chinese revolutionary leader and statesman who is considered by many to be the "Father of Modern China". |
| * 1859 | Nixon Waterman | Newspaper writer, poet and Chautauqua lecturer, who rose to prominence in the 1890s. |
| * 1842 | John Strutt | English physicist who, with William Ramsay, discovered the element argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904. |
| * 1840 | Auguste Rodin | French sculptor, and the preeminent sculptor of the modern era. |
| * 1815 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Social activist and a leading figure of the early women's rights movement in the United States. |
| * 1770 | Joseph Hopkinson | Member of the U S House of Representatives and a United States federal judge from Pennsylvania. |
| * 1615 | Richard Baxter | English Puritan church leader, divine scholar and controversialist, called by Dean Stanley "the chief of English Protestant Schoolmen". |
Deaths | ||
| † 2007 | Ira Levin | American novelist, playwright and songwriter. |
| † 1960 | Lord Buckley | Born Richard Myrle Buckley, was an American monologist and comedian. |
| † 1947 | Baroness Emma Orczy | Known as Baroness Emma Orczy, was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian noble origin. |
| † 1926 | Joseph Gurney Cannon | American politician from Illinois and leader of the Republican Party. |
| † 1916 | Percival Lowell | Amateur astronomer. |
| † 1886 | Archibald Alexander Hodge | American Presbyterian leader, was the principal of Princeton Seminary between 1878 and 1886. |
| † 1865 | Elizabeth Gaskell | British fiction-writer and biographer who witnessed and recorded the transformation of northern England by the Industrial Revolution. |
| † 1757 | Colley Cibber | English actor, playwright, Poet Laureate, first British actor-manager, and head Dunce of Alexander Pope's Dunciad. |
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