Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1982 | Lupe Fiasco | American rapper, artist, producer and CEO of 1st and 15th Entertainment. |
| * 1974 | Don West | African American attorney, author, speaker, and entrepreneur. |
| * 1972 | Jerome Bettis | Former American football halfback for the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers. |
| * 1968 | Warren Ellis | British author of comic books and graphic novels. |
| * 1959 | John McEnroe | Former World No 1 professional tennis player from the United States. |
| * 1954 | Iain Banks | Officially Iain Banks, was a Scottish writer. |
| * 1950 | Peter Hain | British Labour Party politician. |
| * 1948 | Eckhart Tolle | German / Canadian spiritual teacher, motivational speaker, and writer. |
| * 1941 | Kim Jong-il | Supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea from 1994 until his death, holding the offices of Chairman of the National Defense Commission, Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, and General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea. |
| * 1937 | Yuri I. Manin | Russian-German mathematician, known for work in algebraic geometry and diophantine geometry, and many expository works ranging from mathematical logic to theoretical physics. |
| * 1929 | Peter Porter | Australian-born poet and critic who has lived for most of his adult life in Britain. |
| * 1904 | George F. Kennan | American advisor, diplomat, political scientist, and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. |
| * 1903 | Edgar Bergen | American actor and radio performer, best known as a ventriloquist. |
| * 1876 | G. M. Trevelyan | English academic historian whose works reached a wide readership. |
| * 1871 | Arthur Ponsonby | British politician, writer, and social activist; 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede. |
| * 1838 | Henry Adams | U S historian, journalist, novelist and educator. |
| * 1822 | Francis Galton | English Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician. |
| * 1749 | Johann Jakob Wilhelm Heinse | German novelist and art critic who influenced the romantic school. |
| * 1497 | Philipp Melanchthon | Born Philipp Schwartzerdt, was a German reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, intellectual leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and an influential designer of educational systems. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2002 | John W. Gardner | President of the Carnegie Corporation and Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Lyndon Johnson. |
| † 1997 | Chien-Shiung Wu | Chinese-born American physicist with an expertise in radioactivity. |
| † 1992 | Janio Quadros | Brazilian politician who was President of Brazil in 1961. |
| † 1992 | Angela Carter | English novelist and journalist, known for her post-feminist magical realist and science fiction works. |
| † 1990 | Keith Haring | Pre-eminent artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York street culture of the 1980s. |
| † 1980 | Erich Huckel | German physicist and physical chemist. |
| † 1921 | Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield | American theologian and principal of Princeton Seminary from 1887 to 1921. |
| † 1898 | Thomas Bracken | Born at Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland, was a late 19th century poet who wrote the New Zealand National Anthem and who was the first person to publish the phrase God's Own Country. |
| † 1872 | Henry Fothergill Chorley | English literary, art and music critic. |
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