Births | ||
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| * 1990 | Keisha Castle-Hughes | New Zealand actress who became famous for her role in Whale Rider, for which she became the youngest female ever nominated for the Academy Awards' Oscar for Best Actress. |
| * 1976 | Peyton Manning | American football quarterback for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League. |
| * 1974 | Alyson Hannigan | American actress best known for playing Willow Rosenberg in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. |
| * 1956 | Steve Ballmer | Has been the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft since January 2000. |
| * 1949 | Nick Lowe | English singer-songwriter, musician and producer. |
| * 1947 | Alan Sugar | British businessman with a fortune estimated at about ?800m and ranked 85th in the 2010 Sunday Times Rich List. |
| * 1942 | Kalle Lasn | Founder of Adbusters magazine, CEO of the Adbusters Media Foundation, and author of the books Culture Jam and Design Anarchy. |
| * 1938 | David Irving | British writer specializing in the military history of World War II He is the author of 25 books, including The Destruction of Dresden (1963), Hitler's War (1977), Churchill's War (1987), and Goebbels — Mastermind of the Third Reich (1996). |
| * 1936 | David Suzuki | Vancouver-born Canadian geneticist who has attained prominence as a science broadcaster and an environmental activist. |
| * 1919 | Robert Heilbroner | American economist and historian of economic thought. |
| * 1917 | Krafft Arnold Ehricke | Rocket-propulsion engineer and advocate for space colonization. |
| * 1917 | Constantine Andreou | Greek artist. |
| * 1909 | Richard Wurmbrand | Romanian evangelical Christian minister, author, and educator who spent a total of fourteen years imprisoned in Romania, as well as the founder of Voice of the Martyrs. |
| * 1903 | Malcolm Muggeridge | British journalist, author, media personality, soldier, spy and Christian scholar. |
| * 1897 | Wilhelm Reich | Austrian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. |
| * 1892 | Marston Morse | American mathematician best known for his work on the calculus of variations. |
| * 1887 | Roscoe Arbuckle | American actor, comedian, director and screenwriter. |
| * 1884 | Peter Debye | Dutch physicist and physical chemist, and Nobel laureate. |
| * 1874 | Harry Houdini | Hungarian-born American stage magician, escapologist, stunt performer, actor, film producer and investigator of spiritualist claims; born Erik Weisz he used the name Ehrich Weiss until legally changing his name to "Harry Houdini" in 1913. |
| * 1834 | William Morris | English textile designer, artist, writer, socialist and Marxist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. |
| * 1820 | Fanny Crosby | Usually known as Fanny Crosby, was an American lyricist best known for her Protestant Christian hymns. |
| * 1754 | Joel Barlow | American poet and diplomat. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2001 | N.G.L. Hammond | British historian. |
| † 1990 | An Wang | Chinese-American computer engineer and inventor. |
| † 1976 | Bernard Montgomery | British military commander of World War II, victor of El Alamein. |
| † 1953 | Mary of Teck | Born Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes, was Queen consort of George V of the United Kingdom and grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. |
| † 1948 | Nikolai Berdyaev | Russian religious and political philosopher. |
| † 1946 | Alexander Alekhine | Russian-born naturalized French chess grandmaster (officially naturalized in 1927 only three days before the World Champion title), and the fourth World Chess Champion. |
| † 1909 | John Millington Synge | Irish dramatist, poet, prose writer, and collector of folklore. |
| † 1905 | Jules Verne | French writer best known as a pioneering author in science fiction. |
| † 1904 | Edwin Arnold | English poet and journalist. |
| † 1882 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | American poet and one of the five members of the group known as the Fireside Poets. |
| † 1877 | Walter Bagehot | British businessman, essayist and journalist who wrote about literature, government and economics. |
| † 1773 | Philip Stanhope | British statesman and man of letters. |
| † 1603 | Elizabeth I of England | Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. |
| † 1396 | Walter Hilton | Canon of an Augustinian priory in England and author of a number of religious works in Latin, of which the best known was The Ladder of Perfection, a spiritual guide. |
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