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Births

* 1977 Orlando Bloom British actor.
* 1969 Genco Gulan Aconceptual artist, based in Istanbul.
* 1969 Stephen Hendry Scottish professional snooker player and seven time World Champion.
* 1959 Ernie Irvan Former race car driver in NASCAR.
* 1940 Edmund White American writer.
* 1937 George Reisman American economist and political author.
* 1926 Michael Bond English writer of children's stories; his best-known creation is Paddington Bear.
* 1924 Paul Karl Feyerabend Philosopher of science, professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, who became famous for his purportedly anarchistic view of science, his bitingly critical prose on the prevailing scientific philosophies, and his rejection of the existence of universal methodological rules.
* 1912 Dieter Wisliceny Member of the Nazi SS, and a key executioner of the Final Solution of the Jewish Question, the final phase of the Holocaust.
* 1895 Jan Burgers Dutch physicist, credited to be the father of Burgers' equation, the Burgers vector in dislocation theory and the Burgers material in viscoelasticity.
* 1890 Elmer Davis Well-known news reporter, author, the Director of the United States Office of War Information during World War II, and a Peabody Award Recipient.
* 1872 G. I. Gurdjieff Greek-Armenian mystic and a spiritual teacher of what came to be called "the Work" or "The Fourth Way", in which he taught people how to increase and focus their attention and energy through various awareness exercises.
* 1827 Ethel Lynn Beers American poet best known for her patriotic and sentimental Civil War poem "All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight".
* 1810 Ernestine Rose Atheist feminist, Individualist Feminist, and abolitionist.
* 1808 Salmon P. Chase American politician and jurist in the Civil War era who served as U S Senator from Ohio and Governor of Ohio; as Secretary of the Treasury under President Abraham Lincoln; and as Chief Justice of the United States.
* 1784 Samuel Woodworth American author, literary journalist, playwright, librettist, and most famously, poet.
* 1720 Richard (bishop) Hurd English divine and writer, and bishop of Worcester.

Deaths

† 2009 Nancy Bird Walton Pioneering Australian aviatrix, and was the founder and patron of the Australian Women Pilots' Association.
† 2009 Patrick McGoohan Irish actor and director, most famous for playing the title role in the Prisoner and John Drake in Danger Man as well as playing the murderer in many Columbo films.
† 2004 Tom Hurndall British photographer, member of the International Solidarity Movement and an activist against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.
† 1982 Sigurd Olson Author, wilderness advocate and conservation movement leader.
† 1978 Hubert Humphrey Vice President of the United States of America from 1965 to 1969 and was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1968.
† 1962 Ernie Kovacs American comedian whose uninhibited, often ad-libbed, and visually experimental comic style came to influence numerous television comedy programs for years after his tragic, early death in an automobile accident.
† 1956 Lyonel Feininger German-American painter and caricaturist.
† 1954 William H. P. Blandy United States Navy Admiral who was most known for overseeing the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Island in the Pacific Ocean.
† 1941 James Joyce Irish novelist, short-story writer and poet.
† 1931 John Burgess Pioneering American political scientist.
† 1929 Wyatt Earp Officer of the law, gambler and saloon keeper in the Wild West.
† 1921 Francis William Bourdillon British poet and translator.
† 1907 Jakob Hurt Estonian folklorist, theologian, and linguist, one of the most important figures of Estonian national awakening.
† 1864 Stephen Foster Known as the "father of American music", was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century.
† 1841 Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac French politician and journalist, one of the most notorious members of the National Convention during the French Revolution.
† 1838 John Scott Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1801 to 1806 and from 1807 to 1827.
† 1691 George Fox Founder of the Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers.
† 1599 Edmund Spenser English poet, who wrote such pastorals as The Shepheardes Calendar, Astrophell and Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, but is most famous for the multi-layered allegorical romance The Faerie Queene.
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