Births | ||
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| * 1984 | Mark Zuckerberg | American software developer and Internet entrepreneur. |
| * 1969 | Cate Blanchett | Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning Australian actress. |
| * 1965 | Eoin Colfer | Irish author and comedian, most famous as the creator of the Artemis Fowl series. |
| * 1956 | Hazel Blears | British politician and is the Labour Member of Parliament for Salford. |
| * 1952 | David Byrne | Musician, best known as a founding member and the principal songwriter of Talking Heads. |
| * 1950 | Jackie Speier | Former Democratic member of the California State Senate representing San Francisco and San Mateo Counties. |
| * 1944 | George Lucas | American film producer, screenwriter, director, and entrepreneur, most famous for the Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies. |
| * 1939 | Rolf Gindorf | German sexologist. |
| * 1933 | Sian Phillips | Welsh actress. |
| * 1908 | Nicholas Kurti | Hungarian-born physicist who lived in Oxford, UK, for most of his life. |
| * 1900 | Hal Borland | American author. |
| * 1897 | Ed Ricketts | American marine biologist, ecologist, and philosopher. |
| * 1771 | Robert Owen | Welsh socialist and social reformer, considered to be the father of the cooperative movement. |
| * 1755 | George Barrington | Irish pickpocket and later a policeman. |
| * 1752 | Timothy Dwight | American academic and educator, theologian and author, and Congregationalist minister. |
| * 1737 | George Macartney | British statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat. |
| * 1727 | Thomas Gainsborough | One of the most famous portrait and landscape painters of 18th century Britain. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2006 | Stanley Kunitz | American poet who served two years (1974–1976) as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, and served another year as United States Poet Laureate in 2000. |
| † 1998 | Frank Sinatra | American singer who is one of the most highly acclaimed male popular song vocalists of all time. |
| † 1987 | Rita Hayworth | American actress and dancer. |
| † 1965 | Frances Perkins | U S Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945. |
| † 1954 | Heinz Guderian | German WWII general and tank commander, theorist of tank combat and one of the founders of blitzkrieg strategy. |
| † 1940 | Emma Goldman | Russian-born American writer, feminist, anarchist, atheist and a close associate of Alexander Berkman. |
| † 1925 | H. Rider Haggard | Born in Bradenham, Norfolk, England, was a Victorian writer of adventure novels set in locations considered exotic by readers in his native England. |
| † 1906 | Carl Schurz | German revolutionist, American statesman and reformer, and Union Army general in the American Civil War. |
| † 1887 | Lysander Spooner | American individualist anarchist, entrepreneur, political philosopher, abolitionist, supporter of the labor movement, and legal theorist of the nineteenth century. |
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