Births | ||
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| * 1980 | Regina Spektor | Soviet-born American singer-songwriter and pianist. |
| * 1968 | Molly Ringwald | American actress, singer, and dancer. |
| * 1964 | Matt Dillon | Academy Award-, Golden Globe Award- and BAFTA Award-nominated American actor. |
| * 1962 | Rob Riemen | Dutch writer and cultural philosopher who is the founder, president and CEO of the Nexus Institute, and founder and editor of Nexus, a journal of essays for cultural philosophy. |
| * 1954 | John Travolta | American actor, dancer and singer. |
| * 1936 | Ian Hacking | Canadian philosopher specializing in philosophy of science. |
| * 1934 | Audre Lorde | Multi-faceted writer and activist. |
| * 1933 | Yoko Ono | Japanese-American avant-garde artist and musician, famous for her marriage and collaborations with John Lennon as well as for her solo work. |
| * 1932 | Milos Forman | Better known as Miloš Forman, is a Czech-American film director, screenwriter, actor, professorand and an emigrant from Czechoslovakia. |
| * 1931 | Toni Morrison | American writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. |
| * 1929 | Len Deighton | English novelist, historian and cookery writer. |
| * 1916 | Jean Drapeau | Canadian lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Montreal from 1954 to 1957 and from 1960 to 1986. |
| * 1898 | Luis Munoz Marin | Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician. |
| * 1883 | Nikos Kazantzakis | Greek novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher. |
| * 1848 | Louis Comfort Tiffany | American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass and is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements. |
| * 1838 | Ernst Mach | Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher, noted for his contributions to physics such as the Mach number and the study of shock waves. |
| * 1836 | Ramakrishna | Born Gadadhar Chattopadhyay, was an Indian mystic, a promoter of bhakti traditions, and a teacher of the philosophy of Advaita Ved?nta. |
| * 1609 | Edward Hyde | English historian, statesman and grandfather of two queens regnant, Mary II and Anne. |
| * 1530 | Uesugi Kenshin | Samurai warlord who ruled Echigo province in the Sengoku Period of Japan. |
| * 1516 | Mary I of England | Queen of England and Ireland, was known as Bloody Mary for her persecution of Protestants. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2008 | Ralph Brazelton Peck | Eminent civil engineer specializing in soil mechanics. |
| † 1967 | J. Robert Oppenheimer | American physicist and the scientific director of the Manhattan Project. |
| † 1937 | Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze | Generally known as Sergo Ordzhonikidze, was a Georgian Bolshevik, later member of the CPSU Politburo and close friend to Josef Stalin. |
| † 1886 | John Bartholomew Gough | United States temperance orator. |
| † 1873 | Vasil Levski | Bulgarian revolutionary, renowned as the national hero of Bulgaria. |
| † 1851 | Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi | Widely known as Gustav Jacobi, was a German mathematician. |
| † 1679 | Anne Conway | English philosopher, cited as an influence by Leibniz, and an early convert to Quakerism. |
| † 1654 | Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac Balzac | French author, best known for his epistolary essays, which were widely circulated and read in his day. |
| † 1564 | Michelangelo | Italian architect, painter, poet and sculptor. |
| † 1564 | Michelangelo Buonarroti | Italian architect, painter, poet and sculptor. |
| † 1546 | Martin Luther | German theologian, an Augustinian monk, and an ecclesiastical reformer whose teachings inspired the Reformation and deeply influenced the doctrines and culture of the Lutheran and Protestant traditions. |
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