Births | ||
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| * 1970 | Matt Sanchez | American journalist. |
| * 1964 | Jo Walton | Welsh fantasy and science fiction writer and poet. |
| * 1959 | Billy Childish | Musician, artist and poet. |
| * 1951 | Jaco Pastorius | Jazz bassist and composer remembered for his style and technique on fretless bass. |
| * 1949 | Pablo Escobar | Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist. |
| * 1948 | N.T. Wright | New Testament scholar and former Bishop of Durham in the Church of England. |
| * 1945 | Bette Midler | American actress, comedienne and singer. |
| * 1943 | Nicholas Negroponte | Greek-American computer scientist best known as founder and director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab. |
| * 1942 | John Crowley | American author of fantasy, science fiction and mainstream fiction, most famous as the author of Little, Big (1981), which received the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. |
| * 1940 | Richard Pryor | American actor, writer, and comedian. |
| * 1935 | Woody Allen | American film director, writer, musician, actor and comedian. |
| * 1913 | Mary Martin | American actress and singer, who originated many roles over her career including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific and Maria in The Sound of Music, but became most famous in her role as Peter Pan. |
| * 1909 | Franz Bardon | Stage magician and student and teacher of Hermetics. |
| * 1907 | Eric Roll | Academic economist, public servant, and banker. |
| * 1895 | Henry Williamson | English writer. |
| * 1886 | Rex Stout | American author of detective fiction best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe. |
| * 1884 | Karl Schmidt-Rottluff | German expressionist painter and printmaker. |
| * 1798 | Albert Barnes | American theologian, who graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, in 1820, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1823. |
| * 1792 | Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky | Russian mathematician. |
| * 1083 | Anna Comnena | Byzantine princess and writer of the Alexiad, an account of the life and reign of her father, Emperor Alexius I. |
Deaths | ||
| † 1990 | Dr. Laurence J. Peter | American educator and management theorist, best known for having formulated the Peter Principle. |
| † 1987 | James Baldwin | African-American novelist, short story writer, playwright and essayist. |
| † 1973 | David Ben-Gurion | First Prime Minister of Israel. |
| † 1966 | Bai Chongxi | Hui, was born in was born in Guilin, Guangxi, China. |
| † 1964 | J. B. S. Haldane | British geneticist and evolutionary biologist. |
| † 1947 | G. H. Hardy | British mathematician. |
| † 1947 | Aleister Crowley | Born Edward Alexander Crowley, was a British occultist, mystic, poet, and social provocateur, famous for his development of the philosophical system called Thelema, and his concepts of magic, which he called Magick. |
| † 1922 | Arthur Wesley Dow | American painter, printmaker, photographer, and influential arts educator. |
| † 1521 | Leo X (Pope) | Born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, became Pope in 1513. |
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