Births | ||
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| * 1979 | Dmitri Bulykin | Russian football forward who plays for Fortuna Düsseldorf on loan from Anderlecht. |
| * 1975 | Davey Havok | American singer, actor and fashion designer, best known as the vocalist of the bands AFI and Blaqk Audio. |
| * 1971 | Joel McHale | Stand-up comedian, actor, voice artist, producer, writer, and comedian. |
| * 1948 | John R. Bolton | Attorney and an American diplomat in several Republican administrations, served as the interim U S Permanent Representative to the United Nations with the title of ambassador from August 2005 until December 2006 on a recess appointment. |
| * 1942 | Joseph (Joe) Biden | Vice President of the United States. |
| * 1936 | Don DeLillo | Award-winning American author, playwright, and essayist, best known for his novels, which paint detailed portraits of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. |
| * 1925 | Robert F. Kennedy | American politician, Attorney General of the U S and Senator; brother of President John F Kennedy and Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy. |
| * 1924 | Benoit Mandelbrot | Poland-born French-American mathematician known as the "father of fractal geometry". |
| * 1923 | Nadine Gordimer | South African Jewish novelist and writer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in literature and 1974 Booker Prize. |
| * 1921 | Jim Garrison | Who changed his first name to Jim in the early 1960s, was the Democratic District Attorney of Orleans Parish, Louisiana from 1962 to 1973. |
| * 1908 | Alistair Cooke | Journalist and broadcaster. |
| * 1901 | Nazim Hikmet | Turkish poet and dramatist, who is widely regarded as the best-known Turkish poet in the West; his works have been translated into several languages. |
| * 1889 | Edwin Hubble | American astronomer. |
| * 1884 | Norman Thomas | Long-time leader of the Socialist Party in the United States, and a six-time candidate for President. |
| * 1871 | Arthur Guiterman | American writer best known for his humorous poems. |
| * 1866 | Kenesaw Mountain Landis | American federal judge from 1905 to 1920, the year in which he was appointed the first commissioner of Major League Baseball. |
| * 1855 | Josiah Royce | American objective idealist philosopher. |
| * 1752 | Thomas Chatterton | English poet and literary forger, claimed by some as the father of English Romantic poetry. |
| * 1750 | Tipu Sultan | Also known as the Tiger of Mysore, was the de facto ruler of the Indian Kingdom of Mysore from 1782 until his death in 1799. |
| * 1670 | Bernard Mandeville | Dutch physician, poet and social philosopher who settled in England. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2007 | Ian Smith | Farmer and politician who served as Prime Minister of Rhodesia from 1964 to 1979. |
| † 1978 | Giorgio de Chirico | Often known as Népo, was an influential pre-Surrealist Italian painter born in Volos, Greece to a Genovese mother and a Sicilian father. |
| † 1975 | Francisco Franco | Commonly known as Francisco Franco, was a military generalissimo, leader of Spain from October 1936 (whole country from April 1, 1939 on), and de-facto regent of the nominally restored Kingdom of Spain from 1947 until his death in 1975. |
| † 1936 | Buenaventura Durruti | Spanish-born anarchist, a central figure in Spanish anarchism during the period leading up to and during the Spanish Civil War. |
| † 1936 | Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera | Spanish politician who was the founder of the Falangism political ideology, which is generally regarded as a form of Fascism. |
| † 1933 | Augustine Birrell | English essayist, biographer and politician. |
| † 1913 | Herrick Johnson | American Presbyterian clergyman and author. |
| † 1910 | Leo Tolstoy | Russian writer, philosopher and social activist credited as a major influence on Christian anarchism; his name is usually rendered into English as Leo Tolstoy, and sometimes Tolstoi. |
| † 1900 | Arthur Sullivan | English composer and conductor, best known as the composer of the Savoy operas, "The Lost Chord", and "Onward, Christian Soldiers". |
| † 1863 | Bartholomew Dowling | Irish-born author. |
| † 1847 | Henry Francis Lyte | Anglican divine and hymn-writer. |
| † 1789 | Abraham Davenport | American politician who served in the Connecticut legislature during the American Revolution, and as a Colonel, in the Connecticut State Militia. |
| † 1612 | John Harington | Courtier, author, and scientist. |
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