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Births

* 1989 Alyson Michalka Often credited as Aly, is an American actress and singer.
* 1975 Rafael Marquez Professional boxer in the Bantamweight and jr Featherweight divisions.
* 1967 Doug Stanhope American stand-up comedian.
* 1967 Matthew Barney American artist.
* 1966 Tom Crean Head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team.
* 1965 Sarah Jessica Parker American actress.
* 1964 Todd Barry American comedian, actor, and voice actor.
* 1962 Marcia Cross American actress.
* 1958 Susie Bright Also known as Susie Sexpert, is a writer, speaker, teacher, audio show host, performer, all on the subject of sexuality.
* 1958 John Ensign United States Senator from Nevada.
* 1947 Elton John English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist.
* 1942 Robert J. Birgeneau Canadian physicist educator and university administrator.
* 1942 Aretha Franklin American singer, songwriter, and pianist.
* 1940 Anita Bryant American anti-gay activist and singer.
* 1938 Hoyt Axton American country music singer-songwriter, and a film and television actor.
* 1934 Gloria Steinem American feminist and author.
* 1930 John Keel Ufologist, parapsychologist, author, and journalist currently residing in New York, USA.
* 1918 Howard Cosell Born Howard William Cohen, was an American sports journalist on American television.
* 1914 Norman Borlaug American agricultural scientist, and humanitarian.
* 1906 A. J. P. Taylor British historian, journalist, broadcaster and scholar.
* 1887 Chuichi Nagumo Admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, overseeing the attack on Pearl Harbor.
* 1887 Robert Quillen American humorist.
* 1881 Bela Bartok Hungarian composer, pianist and collector of Eastern European and Middle Eastern folk music.
* 1873 Rudolf Rocker Anarcho-syndicalist anarchist, writer, historian and prominent social activist.
* 1862 George Sutherland English-born U S jurist and political figure.
* 1784 Francois-Joseph Fetis Belgian musicologist, composer, critic and teacher.
* 1347 Catherine of Siena Dominican Tertiary of the Dominican Order.

Deaths

† 2013 Anthony Lewis Prominent liberal intellectual, writing for The New York Times op-ed page and The New York Review of Books, among other publications.
† 2007 Andranik Margaryan Served as the Prime Minister of Armenia from May 12, 2000, when the President appointed him, until his death on March 25, 2007.
† 2006 Buck Owens American country music singer; usually known as "Buck Owens".
† 1995 James Samuel Coleman American sociologist.
† 1980 Roland Barthes French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician.
† 1919 Wilhelm Lehmbruck German sculptor.
† 1918 Claude Debussy French composer, prominent in the style commonly referred to as Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term.
† 1818 Henry III Lee Called Light Horse Harry, was a cavalry officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
† 1801 Novalis Author, philosopher and poet of early German Romanticism.
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