Births | ||
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| * 1939 | David Fasold | Former United States Merchant Marine officer and salvage expert who is best known for his book The Ark of Noah, chronicling his early expeditions to the Durup?nar Noah's Ark site. |
| * 1930 | Paul West | English writer and poet. |
| * 1924 | Allan McLeod Cormack | South African-born American physicist who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on x-ray computed tomography. |
| * 1915 | Paul Tibbets | Brigadier general in the United States Air Force and the pilot of the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. |
| * 1904 | William L. Shirer | American journalist and historian and one of the most famous journalists in the world. |
| * 1883 | Karl Jaspers | German psychiatrist and philosopher. |
| * 1878 | Kazimir Malevich | Painter, art theoretician, pioneer of geometric abstract art and one of the most important members of the Russian avant-garde. |
| * 1871 | Digby Jephson | Cricketer who played for Cambridge University and Surrey. |
| * 1868 | W. E. B. DuBois | American civil rights activist, sociologist, educator, historian, author, editor, and scholar. |
| * 1832 | John Heyl Vincent | American Methodist Episcopal bishop. |
| * 1817 | George Frederick Watts | Popular English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. |
| * 1798 | Ichabod Spencer | Popular 19th century American Presbyterian preacher and author. |
| * 1744 | Josiah Quincy | Famous American lawyer. |
| * 1685 | George Frideric Handel | German-born composer who moved first to Italy and then to England. |
| * 1633 | Samuel Pepys | English naval administrator, Member of Parliament and Fellow of the Royal Society, but is now best remembered for the diary which he kept through the 1660s. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2011 | Mataji Nirmala Srivastava | Founder of Sahaja Yoga. |
| † 2003 | Robert K. Merton | Distinguished American sociologist perhaps best known for having coined the phrase "self-fulfilling prophecy. |
| † 2000 | Stanley Matthews | Football player. |
| † 1984 | Jessamyn West | American Quaker who wrote numerous stories and novels, notably The Friendly Persuasion (1945). |
| † 1955 | Paul Claudel | French poet, playwright and diplomat. |
| † 1946 | Tomoyuki Yamashita | General of the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II He was most famous for conquering the British colonies of Malaya and Singapore, earning the nickname "Tiger of Malaya. |
| † 1934 | Edward Elgar | English composer. |
| † 1911 | Richard Henry Beddome | British military officer in India and a naturalist. |
| † 1900 | Ernest Dowson | English poet associated with the Decadent Movement. |
| † 1897 | David Law Proudfit | American poet and lithographer, who also wrote under the pseudonym Peleg Arkwright. |
| † 1855 | Carl Friedrich Gauss | German mathematician, astronomer and physicist. |
| † 1851 | Joanna Baillie | Scottish poet and dramatist. |
| † 1848 | John Quincy Adams | American lawyer, diplomat, politician, the sixth President of the United States (March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1829), and the son of John Adams and Abigail Adams. |
| † 1821 | John Keats | One of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. |
| † 1792 | Joshua Reynolds | English artist, a founder member of the Literary Club, and the first President of the Royal Academy. |
| † 1766 | Stanislaw Leszczynski | King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Duke of Lorraine and a count of the Holy Roman Empire. |
| † 1680 | Thomas Goodwin | Known as "the Elder", was an English Puritan theologian and preacher, and an important leader of religious Independents. |
| † 1668 | Owen Feltham | English writer, author of a popular book in his day entitled Resolves, Divine, Moral, and Political (c 1620), containing 146 short essays. |
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