Births | ||
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| * 1959 | Satoru Iwata | Fourth president of Nintendo Co, Ltd. |
| * 1955 | Steven Wright | Academy Award winning American comedian, writer and actor, known for his bizarre comic style and morose stage persona. |
| * 1943 | Keith West | British singer and songwriter. |
| * 1942 | Byron Katie | Better known as Byron Katie, is the creator of the self-inquiry method called The Work. |
| * 1920 | George Porter | British chemist, who was awarded, together with Manfred Eigen and Ronald George Wreyford Norrish the 1967 Nobel Chemistry Prize "for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equlibrium by means of very short pulses of energy". |
| * 1902 | Michael (writer) Roberts | English poet, writer, critic and broadcaster, who made his living as a teacher. |
| * 1896 | Ira Gershwin | American lyricist, best remembered for the songs he wrote in collaboration with his brother George Gershwin. |
| * 1892 | Osbert Sitwell | English poet, novelist, memoirist and controversialist on behalf of the arts. |
| * 1886 | Joyce Kilmer | American journalist and poet. |
| * 1823 | Max Muller | More commonly known as Max Müller, was a German philologist and Orientalist, who was a major pioneer of the discipline of comparative religion. |
| * 1788 | Richard Harris Barham | English novelist, humorous poet, and priest in the Church of England. |
| * 1608 | George Monck | English general and politician. |
| * 1478 | Baldassare Castiglione | Italian courtier, diplomat and author, best-known for his study of the ideal courtly life, Il Libro del Cortegiano. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2003 | Barry Long | Australian spiritual teacher and writer. |
| † 2002 | Philip Berrigan | American Christian anarchist and peace activist. |
| † 1999 | Alexander Baron | British author and screenwriter. |
| † 1996 | Robert (linguist) Lees | American linguist. |
| † 1995 | James Reston | Nicknamed "Scotty", was a prominent American journalist whose career spanned the mid 1930s to the early 1990s. |
| † 1956 | Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar | Also known as "Babasaheb", was an Indian jurist, Progressive political and social leader and a Buddhist revivalist. |
| † 1925 | Russell Conwell | American Baptist minister who was the founder and first president of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| † 1889 | Jefferson Davis | American politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. |
| † 1882 | Anthony Trollope | One of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. |
| † 1658 | Baltasar Gracian | Most widely known as Baltasar Gracián, was a Spanish Jesuit author regarded as one of the most accomplished prose stylists of the Baroque era. |
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