Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1984 | Ezra Koenig | Lead singer and guitarist of New York based indie rock band Vampire Weekend. |
| * 1966 | Anandmurti Gurumaa | New age spiritual guide. |
| * 1955 | Barbara Kingsolver | American fiction writer. |
| * 1955 | David Wu | Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives for Oregon, representing the state's First Congressional District, which includes a small section of western Multnomah County and all of Yamhill, Columbia, Clatsop and Washington Counties. |
| * 1947 | Robert Kiyosaki | American investor, businessman, self-help author and motivational speaker. |
| * 1943 | Lord (Tony Banks) Stratford | British politician and Labour member of first the House of Commons then the House of Lords. |
| * 1943 | Tony (Lord Stratford) Banks | British politician and Labour member of first the House of Commons then the House of Lords. |
| * 1941 | Vivienne Westwood | English fashion designer largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream. |
| * 1938 | Kofi Annan | Ghanaian diplomat and the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations. |
| * 1919 | Ian Smith | Farmer and politician who served as Prime Minister of Rhodesia from 1964 to 1979. |
| * 1911 | Emil Cioran | Romanian writer, noted for his somber works in the French language; known in French as Émile Cioran. |
| * 1909 | John Fante | American novelist, short-story and screenwriter of Italian descent. |
| * 1896 | Yip Harburg | Born Isidore Hochberg and known primarily as E Y Harburg or Yip Harburg, was an American lyricist who worked with many well-known composers. |
| * 1892 | Mary Pickford | Canadian-born film star and co-founder of United Artists, known as "America's Sweetheart" and "the girl with the curls. |
| * 1867 | Arthur Streeton | Australian landscape painter. |
| * 1859 | Edmund Husserl | Philosopher from Moravia, then part of the Austrian Empire, known as the father of phenomenology. |
| * 1847 | 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. |
| * 1796 | Alfred Bunn | English theatrical manager. |
| * 1732 | David Rittenhouse | Renowned American astronomer, inventor, clockmaker, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman, and public official. |
| * 1634 | Joseph Alleine | English Puritan Nonconformist pastor and author of many religious works. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2013 | Margaret Thatcher | First female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979–1990). |
| † 2009 | Colin Jordan | Leading representative of postwar National Socialism in Britain. |
| † 2006 | Valentine Telegdi | Hungarian-born U S experimental physicist. |
| † 1997 | Laura Nyro | American singer, pianist and songwriter; born Laura Nigro. |
| † 1981 | Omar Bradley | One of the main U S Army field commanders in North Africa and Europe during the World War II and a General of the United States Army. |
| † 1980 | Peter Farb | American author, anthropologist, linguist, ecologist, naturalist and spokesman for conservation, and free lance writer for 30 years in the areas of the natural and human sciences. |
| † 1973 | Pablo Picasso | Spanish artist who lived and worked in Paris for many years. |
| † 1950 | Vaslav Nijinsky | Famous Russian ballet dancer. |
| † 1931 | Erik Axel Karlfeldt | Swedish poet, posthumously awarded the 1931 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| † 1908 | Langdon Smith | American journalist and poet, most famous today for his love poem "Evolution". |
| † 1835 | Wilhelm von Humboldt | Government functionary, diplomat, philosopher, founder of Humboldt Universität in Berlin, a friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, and elder brother of naturalist Alexander von Humboldt who is especially remembered as a linguist who made important contributions to the philosophy of language and to the theory and practice of education. |
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