Births | ||
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| * 1958 | Tom Shadyac | American comedian, producer, director and writer. |
| * 1944 | Teri Garr | American actress and comedienne. |
| * 1943 | John Kerry | Politician, Massachusetts Senator, Democratic Party's nominee for President in 2004, son of Richard John Kerry and Rosemary Isabel Forbes, husband of Teresa Heinz Kerry. |
| * 1931 | Osho | Born Chandra Mohan Jain [?????? ???? ???], and also known as Acharya Rajneesh from the 1960s onwards, as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh during the 1970s and 1980s and as Osho from 1989, was an Indian mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher who inspired a controversial spiritual movement in India, the United States, the Netherlands, Germany, and many other countries. |
| * 1931 | Ronald Dworkin | American philosopher. |
| * 1918 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Russian novelist, dramatist and historian. |
| * 1908 | Elliott Carter | American composer of classical music. |
| * 1890 | Mark Tobey | One of the earliest American abstract expressionist painters; he was born in Centerville, Wisconsin. |
| * 1882 | Subramanya Bharathi | Tamil poet from Tamil Nadu, India, an independence activist and iconoclastic reformer. |
| * 1882 | Max Born | German physicist and mathematician who became a British citizen, who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. |
| * 1810 | Alfred de Musset | French dramatist, poet, and novelist. |
| * 1803 | Hector Berlioz | French composer, conductor and music critic, widely seen as the greatest representative in music of the French Romantic school. |
| * 1781 | David Brewster | Scottish scientist, inventor and writer. |
| * 1725 | George Mason | United States patriot, statesman and delegate from Virginia to the U S Constitutional Convention. |
| * 1475 | Leo X (Pope) | Born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, became Pope in 1513. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2005 | Richard Sandbrook | British environmentalist, a co-founder of Friends of the Earth, who served as a director of the International Institute for Environment and Development. |
| † 1998 | Lynn Strait | Lead singer and lyricist for the metal/ punk band, Snot, which broke up after his death in a car accident on December 11, 1998. |
| † 1984 | Krafft Arnold Ehricke | Rocket-propulsion engineer and advocate for space colonization. |
| † 1964 | Sam Cooke | Better known under the stage name Sam Cooke, was an American gospel, R&B, soul, and pop singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. |
| † 1945 | Charles Fabry | French physicist. |
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