Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1963 | Brian Greene | Theoretical physicist and string theorist. |
| * 1961 | John Kruk | American former professional baseball player. |
| * 1954 | Kevin Warwick | United Kingdom scientist and professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom. |
| * 1946 | James Henry Jim Webb | American politician, the junior senator from Virginia. |
| * 1944 | Alice Walker | African-American author whose most famous novel, The Color Purple, won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award. |
| * 1944 | Denis Dutton | Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, and co-founder and co-editor of the Web publication Arts & Letters Daily. |
| * 1943 | Joseph E. Stiglitz | American economist and author. |
| * 1942 | Carole King | American singer and songwriter; born Carol Klein. |
| * 1940 | J. M. Coetzee | Often called J M Coetzee, is a South African-born writer and academic. |
| * 1932 | Gerhard Richter | Prominent German artist who is considered by some critics to be one of the most important German artists of the post-World War II period. |
| * 1923 | Brendan Behan | Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright who wrote in both Irish and English. |
| * 1922 | Kathryn Grayson | American actress and operatic soprano singer. |
| * 1911 | Gypsy Rose Lee | Also known as Rose Louise Hovick and Louise Hovick, was an American actress and burlesque entertainer. |
| * 1885 | Alban Berg | Austrian composer. |
| * 1880 | Thomas Kettle | Irish writer, barrister, Irish nationalist politician and economist. |
| * 1880 | James (author) Stephens | Irish novelist, broadcaster and poet, now best known for his fantasy novel The Crock of Gold. |
| * 1874 | Amy Lowell | American poet of the Imagist school who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. |
| * 1866 | George Ade | American writer, newspaper columnist, and playwright. |
| * 1865 | Beatrice Stella Campbell | British actress, the first actress to play "Eliza Doolittle", in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. |
| * 1854 | Edward Carson | Leader of the Irish Unionists, a barrister and a judge. |
| * 1837 | Alfred Ainger | English biographer and hymn-writer. |
| * 1773 | William Henry Harrison | Ninth President of the United States. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2002 | Princess Margaret | Second daughter of George VI of the United Kingdom and the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II. |
| † 2001 | Leonard Mandel | Lee DuBridge Professor Emeritus of Physics and Optics at the University of Rochester. |
| † 2001 | Herbert Simon | American political scientist whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, computer science, public administration, economics, management, philosophy of science and sociology and was a professor, most notably, at Carnegie Mellon University. |
| † 1996 | Adolf Galland | World War II German fighter pilot and commander of Germany's fighter force from 1941 to 1945. |
| † 1995 | J. William Fulbright | Well-known member of the United States Senate representing Arkansas. |
| † 1981 | Helen Schucman | Research psychologist from New York City, most famous for her work in producing A Course in Miracles. |
| † 1979 | Dennis Gabor | Hungarian-born British physicist and inventor at Imperial College London (1958–1967), most notable for inventing holography in 1949, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971. |
| † 1979 | Allen Tate | American poet, essayist, and social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1943–1944. |
| † 1975 | Leon R. Yankwich | U S District Court Judge. |
| † 1906 | Paul Laurence Dunbar | American poet and writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. |
| † 1883 | Henry John Stephen Smith | Mathematician remembered for his work in elementary divisors, quadratic forms, matrix theory, and number theory. |
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