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| * 1974 | Penelope Cruz | Nicknamed simply Pe, is a Spanish actress named after a song by Joan Manuel Serrat. |
| * 1960 | Elena Kagan | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving since August 7, 2010. |
| * 1954 | Scyld Berry | Editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack and Sunday Telegraph Cricket correspondent. |
| * 1953 | Roberto Bolano | Chilean novelist, short story writer, and poet. |
| * 1950 | Jay Leno | Comedian, host of The Tonight Show. |
| * 1948 | Terry Pratchett | English fantasy author, most famous for his Discworld series. |
| * 1938 | Fred Dibnah | Born in Bolton, Lancashire, was an English steeplejack, engineer and eccentric who became a television personality, a cult figure and, latterly, a national institution. |
| * 1933 | Israel Shahak | Professor of Chemistry at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Holocaust Survivor, and an outspoken critic of the Israeli government and of Israeli society in general. |
| * 1933 | Petero Mataca | Roman Catholic Archbishop of Fiji. |
| * 1930 | James Baker | Worked in President Ronald Reagan's administration, first as Chief of Staff from 1981 to 1985, then as Secretary of the Treasury from 1985 to 1988. |
| * 1928 | Yves Klein | French artist and is considered an important figure in post-war European art. |
| * 1926 | Harper Lee | American novelist and author of the classic 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. |
| * 1924 | Kenneth Kaunda | Commonly known as KK, served as the first President of Zambia, from 1964 to 1991. |
| * 1916 | 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. |
| * 1908 | Oskar Schindler | Sudeten German industrialist credited with saving almost 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust, by having them work in his enamelware and ammunitions factories located in Poland and what is now the Czech Republic. |
| * 1906 | Kurt Godel | Logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics. |
| * 1900 | Heinrich Muller | Head of the Gestapo, the political police of Nazi Germany, and played a leading role in the planning and execution of the Holocaust. |
| * 1889 | Antonio de Oliveira Salazar | Served as the Prime Minister and dictator of Portugal from 1932 to 1968. |
| * 1874 | Karl Kraus | Austrian journalist, satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. |
| * 1831 | Peter Guthrie Tait | Scottish mathematical physicist, best known for the seminal energy physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory, which contributed to the eventual formation of topology as a mathematical discipline. |
| * 1758 | James Monroe | Fifth (1817–1825) President of the United States and the author of the Monroe Doctrine. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2007 | Arthur M. Schlesinger | American historian and social critic whose work has explored the liberalism of American political leaders including Franklin D Roosevelt, John F Kennedy, and Robert Kennedy, as well as the men who surrounded Andrew Jackson. |
| † 2003 | Richard Proenneke | Naturalist and survivalist who lived alone in the high mountains of Alaska at a place called Twin Lakes. |
| † 1999 | Arthur Leonard Schawlow | American physicist. |
| † 1992 | Francis (artist) Bacon | Anglo-Irish figurative painter, a collateral descendant of the Elizabethan philosopher Francis Bacon. |
| † 1973 | Jacques Maritain | French Catholic philosopher, and was one of the drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. |
| † 1964 | Alexandre Koyre | French philosopher of Russian origin who wrote on history and the philosophy of science. |
| † 1945 | Benito Mussolini | Italian politician, one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism. |
| † 1945 | Alessandro Pavolini | Italian politician, journalist, and essayist, notable for his involvement in the Fascist government during World War II The troubled events caused by the Allied invasion of Sicily and the ousting of Mussolini in Rome brought Nazi intervention and the proclamation of a new fascist puppet state, the northern Italian Social Republic. |
| † 1918 | Gavrilo Princip | Yugoslav nationalist, famous for assassinating Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife in 1914. |
| † 1903 | George Boardman | Baptist pastor and lecturer. |
| † 1903 | Josiah Willard Gibbs | American theoretical physicist, chemist and mathematician. |
| † 1862 | George Washington Bethune | Preacher-pastor in the Dutch Reformed Church. |
| † 1853 | Ludwig Tieck | German poet, translator, editor, novelist, critic. |
| † 1843 | Noah Webster | American lexicographer, textbook author, Bible translator and spelling reformer. |
| † 1695 | Henry Vaughan | Welsh Metaphysical poet and a doctor, the twin brother of the philosopher Thomas Vaughan. |
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