Births | ||
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| * 1986 | Lady Gaga | Primarily known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer-songwriter and performance artist. |
| * 1981 | Julia Stiles | American stage and screen actress. |
| * 1967 | Cheryl James | American rap / hip-hop artist known as "Salt" of the group Salt-n-Pepa. |
| * 1962 | David A. Ridenour | Vice President of The National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative, non-profit, educational foundation based in Washington, D C. |
| * 1942 | Daniel C. Dennett | Prominent American philosopher. |
| * 1942 | Neil Kinnock | British politician. |
| * 1941 | Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson | American residing in New Zealand, is an iconoclastic former psychoanalyst as well as the author of a number of books on a wide range of subjects. |
| * 1936 | Mario Vargas Llosa | Peruvian writer, writing in Spanish. |
| * 1930 | Jerome Isaac Friedman | American physicist, 1990 Physics Nobel Prize laureate for his work showing that protons had an internal structure, later known to be quarks. |
| * 1930 | Robert Ashley | Composer, primarily of opera. |
| * 1928 | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Polish-American political scientist and statesman. |
| * 1922 | Grace Hartigan | Abstract Expressionist painter. |
| * 1911 | J. L. Austin | English philosopher of language and speech theorist, remembered primarily as the developer of the theory of speech acts. |
| * 1909 | Nelson Algren | American writer. |
| * 1868 | Maxim Gorky | Known primarily by his pen name, Maxim Gorky [?????? ???????], was a Russian writer and political activist. |
| * 1815 | Arsene Houssaye | Born Ars?ne Housset, was a French novelist, poet and man of letters. |
| * 1592 | John Amos Comenius | Czech teacher, scientist, educator and writer. |
| * 1515 | Teresa of Avila (Teresa de Jesus) | Born Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, was a Spanish mystic philosopher and Catholic saint. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2013 | Richard Griffiths | Tony-award winning English actor who has appeared on stage, film and television. |
| † 2013 | George E. P. Box | British mathematician and Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin, and a pioneer in the areas of quality control, time series analysis, design of experiments and Bayesian inference. |
| † 2000 | Anthony Powell | One of the most respected English novelists of his time. |
| † 1985 | Marc Chagall | Russian-Jewish painter who was born in Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire. |
| † 1981 | Bernard Hollowood | English writer, cartoonist, economist and editor of Punch. |
| † 1977 | Eric Shipton | Himalayan explorer and climber. |
| † 1972 | Conway Zirkle | Professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, was a botanist. |
| † 1969 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | American soldier and politician. |
| † 1958 | W. C. Handy | African American blues composer, often known as "The Father of the Blues". |
| † 1957 | Christopher Morley | American journalist, novelist, poet, and playwright. |
| † 1944 | Stephen Leacock | Canadian writer and economist. |
| † 1941 | Virginia Woolf | Born Adeline Virginia Stephen, was a British writer who is considered to be one of the foremost modernist/feminist literary figures of the twentieth century. |
| † 1929 | Frederick Brotherton Meyer | Contemporary and friend of D L Moody and A C Dixon, was a Baptist pastor and evangelist in England involved in ministry and inner city mission work on both sides of the Atlantic. |
| † 1900 | Piet Joubert | Better known as Piet Joubert, was Commandant-General of the South African Republic from 1880 to 1900. |
| † 1886 | Richard Chenevix Trench | Irish poet, and the Anglican archbishop of Dublin. |
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