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Births

* 1974 Alessandro Del Piero Italian football player.
* 1953 Bernard Membe Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation of Tanzania.
* 1946 Marina Warner English novelist, short-story writer, mythographer and cultural historian.
* 1941 Alan Kotok American computer scientist at Digital Equipment Corporation, the World Wide Web Consortium and MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
* 1937 Roger McGough English poet from Liverpool, and one of three poets in the best-selling anthology The Mersey Sound.
* 1934 Carl Sagan American astronomer and popular science writer.
* 1929 Imre Kertesz‎ Hungarian Jewish author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002.
* 1929 Jona Senilagakali Physician who was appointed the interim Prime Minister of Fiji during the 2006 coup.
* 1928 Anne Sexton Born Anne Gray Harvey, was an American poet and writer.
* 1918 Spiro Agnew Thirty-ninth Vice President of the United States, under President Richard Nixon; born Spiro Anagnostopoulos.
* 1913 Hedy Lamarr Austrian-born American actress.
* 1910 Carroll Quigley Noted American historian, polymath, and theorist of the evolution of civilizations, best known for his book Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (1966).
* 1904 Viktor Brack Organizer of the Euthanasia Programme, Operation T4, where the Nazi state systematically murdered German disabled people.
* 1888 Jean Monnet Regarded by many as a chief architect of European Unity.
* 1885 Hermann Weyl German mathematician.
* 1883 Charles Demuth Gay American Precisionist painter.
* 1877 Muhammad Iqbal Indian- and Urdu-language poet, philosopher and politician of the Indian subcontinent whose vision of an independent state for the Muslims of British India was to inspire the creation of Pakistan.
* 1871 Florence R. Sabin American medical scientist/spelunker.
* 1731 Benjamin Banneker Free African American mathematician, astronomer, surveyor, almanac author and farmer.
* 1721 Mark Akenside English poet and physician.

Deaths

† 2006 Ellen Willis American essayist and critic.
† 2003 Mario Merz Italian artist.
† 1988 John N. Mitchell United States Attorney General under President Richard M Nixon.
† 1970 Charles de Gaulle In France commonly referred to as le général de Gaulle, was a French military leader and statesman.
† 1968 Antonio Porchia Argentinian writer and poet.
† 1953 Dylan Thomas Welsh poet and writer.
† 1952 Philip Murray Scottish born steelworker and an American labor leader.
† 1940 Neville Chamberlain British politician from a famous political dynasty.
† 1924 Henry Cabot Lodge Republican statesman and noted historian.
† 1918 Guillaume Apollinaire French writer of Italian birth and Polish descent, was hugely influential as a Modernist poet and as a spokesman for the Cubist painters.
† 1896 Edward Hazen Parker American physician and poet.
† 1865 George Arnold Author and poet.
† 1662 William Lenthall English politician during the period of the English Civil War, and Speaker of the House of Commons in the Long Parliament (1640–1653).
† 1596 George Peele English dramatist.
† 1520 Bernardo Dovizi Italian cardinal and comedy-writer, known best as Cardinal Bibbiena, for the town Bibbiena, where he was born.
† 1504 Frederick IV of Naples Last King of Naples of the House of Trastámara, ruling from 1496 to 1501.
† 0 Gunter Schabowski Günter Schabowski was the German Democratic Republic's Politbüro member who accidentally gave the order for the Inner German Border to be opened in Berlin.
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