Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1981 | Britney Spears | American pop singer, dancer, and occasional actress. |
| * 1974 | Rachel Marsden | Canadian political pundit living and working in New York City. |
| * 1970 | Sarah Silverman | Jewish-American actress, stand-up comedian, writer, singer and musician. |
| * 1967 | Craig Groeschel | American author, speaker, and the founding and senior pastor of LifeChurch. |
| * 1952 | Caroline Myss | American medical intuitive and mystic as well as the author of numerous books and audio tapes, including four New York Times Best Sellers: Anatomy of the Spirit (1996), Why People Don't Heal and How They Can (1998), Sacred Contracts (2002), Entering The Castle (2007) and Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond The Bounds Of Reason (2009). |
| * 1950 | Paul Watson | Founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. |
| * 1948 | T.C. Boyle | Also known as T C Boyle, is a U S novelist and short story writer. |
| * 1939 | Harry Reid | Senior United States Senator from Nevada and a member of the Democratic Party, for which he serves as Senate Majority Leader. |
| * 1936 | Peter Duesberg | Award-winning professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley. |
| * 1931 | Edwin Meese | Served as the seventy-fifth Attorney General of the United States (1985-1988). |
| * 1931 | Nigel Calder | British science writer. |
| * 1924 | Alexander Haig | General in the United States Army and later the Secretary of State from 1981 to 1982. |
| * 1923 | Maria Callas | Famous and controversial opera singer of the 20th century. |
| * 1905 | Osvaldo Pugliese | Argentine tango musician. |
| * 1905 | Osvaldo Pugliese | Argentine tango musician. |
| * 1891 | Otto Dix | German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of Weimar society and the brutality of war. |
| * 1885 | Susan Stebbing | English philosopher. |
| * 1860 | C. T. Studd | Also known as C T Studd, was an English cricketer and Christian missionary. |
| * 1738 | Richard Montgomery | Brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2011 | Christopher Logue | English writer, best known as a poet, though he was also a journalist, translator, lyricist, screenwriter, playwright and actor. |
| † 2007 | Elizabeth Hardwick | American essayist and novelist. |
| † 2002 | Ivan Illich | Austrian-born Christian anarchist, author, polymath, and polemicist. |
| † 1995 | Robertson Davies | Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist and professor. |
| † 1993 | Pablo Escobar | Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist. |
| † 1990 | Aaron Copland | American composer of concert and film music. |
| † 1985 | Philip Larkin | English poet. |
| † 1982 | Marty Feldman | English writer, comedian and BAFTA award winning actor, notable for his bulging eyes. |
| † 1980 | Romain Gary | Novelist, film director, WWII pilot and diplomat. |
| † 1969 | Kliment Voroshilov | Also known as Klim Voroshilov, was a Soviet military commander and politician. |
| † 1969 | Stephen Potter | English scholar, critic, broadcaster and humorist. |
| † 1944 | Filippo Tommaso Marinetti | Italian ideologue, poet, editor, and main founder of the futurist movement of the early 20th century. |
| † 1918 | Edmond Rostand | French poet and dramatist most famous for his fictional play Cyrano de Bergerac, based upon the life of Cyrano de Bergerac. |
| † 1892 | Jay Gould | American financier and railroad developer. |
| † 1859 | John (abolitionist) Brown | First white American abolitionist to advocate and practice insurrection as a means to the abolition of slavery. |
| † 1814 | Donatien de Sade | Better known as the Marquis de Sade, was a French writer of philosophy-laden and often violent pornography, as well as some strictly philosophical works. |
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