Births | ||
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| * 1980 | Conor Oberst | American singer-songwriter best known for his work in Bright Eyes. |
| * 1976 | Brandon Boyd | Lead vocalist of the American rock band Incubus. |
| * 1969 | Joshua Micah Marshall | American political journalist and blogger. |
| * 1956 | Clare Short | British politician, Member of the Parliament and former Secretary of State for International Development. |
| * 1954 | Matt Groening | American cartoonist; member of the Rock Bottom Remainders. |
| * 1948 | Art Spiegelman | American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic memoir, Maus. |
| * 1946 | John Trudell | American author, a poet, musician and a former political activist. |
| * 1945 | Douglas Hofstadter | Mathematician, cognitive scientist, and Pulitzer Prize winning author. |
| * 1934 | Niklaus Wirth | Swiss computer scientist and winner of the 1984 Turing Award. |
| * 1923 | Yelena Bonner | Human rights activist in the former Soviet Union and widow of the late Andrei Sakharov. |
| * 1914 | Hale Boggs | American Democratic politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for Louisiana. |
| * 1910 | Irena Sendler | Social worker who during World War II was an activist in the Polish Underground and Polish anti-Holocaust resistance in Warsaw. |
| * 1909 | Miep Gies | One of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis during World War II She discovered and preserved Anne Frank's diary after the Franks were arrested. |
| * 1899 | Mani Madhava Chakyar | Celebrated master performance artist and Sanskrit scholar from Kerala, India, considered to be the greatest Chakyar Koothu and Kutiyattam (2000 year old Sanskrit theatre tradition) artist and authority of modern times. |
| * 1890 | Robert Ley | Nazi German politician and head of the German Labor Front from 1933 to 1945. |
| * 1883 | Sax Rohmer | Prolific English novelist, most remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr Fu Manchu. |
| * 1882 | John Barrymore | American actor of the early 20th century. |
| * 1874 | Ernest Shackleton | Anglo-Irish explorer, now chiefly remembered for his Antarctic expedition of 1914–1917 in the ship Endurance. |
| * 1861 | Alfred North Whitehead | British mathematician who became an American philosopher. |
| * 1843 | Russell Conwell | American Baptist minister who was the founder and first president of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| * 1822 | Henry Benjamin Whipple | First Episcopal bishop of Minnesota. |
| * 1820 | Susan B. Anthony | Prominent, independent and well educated American civil rights leader who, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, led the effort to secure Women's suffrage in the United States. |
| * 1748 | Jeremy Bentham | British gentleman, jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. |
| * 1564 | Galileo Galilei | Italian physicist and astronomer. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2001 | Martin de Maat | Improvisational comedy teacher and artistic director at The Second City. |
| † 1999 | Big L (rapper) | Better known as Big L, was an American rap artist. |
| † 1999 | Henry Way Kendall | American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 jointly with Jerome Isaac Friedman and Richard E Taylor "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics. |
| † 1998 | Martha Gellhorn | American war correspondent and novelist. |
| † 1993 | Harold Barlow | American songwriter. |
| † 1988 | Richard Feynman | American physicist; in the International Phonetic Alphabet his surname is rendered [?fa?nm?n], the first syllable sounding like "fine". |
| † 1984 | Ethel Merman | Tony Award and Grammy Award-winning star of stage and film musicals. |
| † 1965 | Nat King Cole | American singer and jazz musician; born Nathaniel Adams Coles. |
| † 1928 | Herbert Asquith | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916. |
| † 1901 | Maurice Thompson | American novelist. |
| † 1845 | Samuel Laman Blanchard | English poet, essayist and journalist. |
| † 1781 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist, and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era. |
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