Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1986 | Lana Del Rey | American singer-songwriter. |
| * 1982 | Prince of Wales William | Commonly known as Prince William, is the eldest son of Charles, Prince of Wales and his first wife, the late Diana, Princess of Wales and a grandson of Queen Elizabeth II He is second in the line of succession to the British Throne and the thrones of the other Commonwealth Realms, behind his father. |
| * 1981 | Brandon Flowers | Vocalist and keyboardist in the American rock band The Killers. |
| * 1967 | Jim Breuer | American comedian and actor mostly known for his appearance between 1995 and 1998 on Saturday Night Live. |
| * 1953 | Benazir Bhutto | Pakistani politician, the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, twice elected as Prime Minister of Pakistan, first in 1988 and again 1993. |
| * 1950 | Anne Carson | Canadian poet, and professor of Classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. |
| * 1948 | Ian McEwan | British novelist. |
| * 1948 | Andrzej Sapkowski | Polish fantasy writer. |
| * 1947 | Dana Rohrabacher | American politician, who has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1989, currently representing California's 46th congressional district. |
| * 1945 | Adam Zagajewski | Polish poet, novelist, translator and essayist. |
| * 1935 | Francoise Sagan | Real name Fran็oise Quoirez, was a French dramatist, playwright, novelist, and screenwriter, most famous for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois characters. |
| * 1932 | Bernard Ingham | British journalist best known for his work as press secretary to Margaret Thatcher during her time as Prime Minister. |
| * 1930 | Gerald Kaufman | British Labour Member of Parliament who was a government minister during the 1970s. |
| * 1927 | Bob Keeshan | Better known as Captain Kangaroo, was a United States television personality and childrens' advocate. |
| * 1912 | Mary McCarthy | American author and critic. |
| * 1905 | Jean-Paul Sartre | Normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre, was a French existentialist philosopher, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist, and critic. |
| * 1893 | Alois Haba | Czech composer primarily known for his microtonal compositions. |
| * 1892 | Reinhold Niebuhr | American Protestant theologian most famous for his efforts to relate the Christian faith to the realities of politics and diplomacy. |
| * 1887 | Hastings Ismay | British soldier and diplomat, remembered primarily for his role as Winston Churchill's chief military assistant during the Second World War and his service as the first Secretary General of NATO from 1952 to 1957. |
| * 1873 | H. M. Tomlinson | British writer and journalist. |
| * 1839 | Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis | Brazilian writer best known for his innovative novels and short stories, though he was also a poet, dramatist and translator. |
| * 1825 | William Stubbs | Highly influential mediaeval, constitutional and ecclesiastical historian. |
| * 1820 | William Greenough Thayer Shedd | Son of the Reverend Marshall Shedd and Eliza Thayer, was an American Presbyterian theologian. |
| * 1813 | W. E. Aytoun | Scottish poet, humorist and writer. |
| * 1812 | Moses Hess | German philosopher who is considered one of the founders of communism and zionism. |
| * 1781 | Simeon Denis Poisson | French mathematician, geometer, and physicist who specialized in applying mathematics to a wide variety of physics fields, including electricity, magnetism, hydrodynamics and celestial mechanics. |
| * 1639 | Increase Mather | Religious leader and educator in colonial New England. |
Deaths | ||
| 2000 | Alan Hovhaness | American composer of Armenian and Scottish ancestry. |
| 1970 | Sukarno | Known as Sukarno, was an Indonesian nationalist and orator who later became the founding President (19451967) of the Republic of Indonesia. |
| 1940 | Edouard Vuillard | French painter and printmaker associated with the Nabis. |
| 1868 | Charles (archdeacon) Dodgson | English clergyman; he was Archdeacon of Richmond from 1854 to his death in 1868. |
| 1788 | Johann Georg Hamann | German philosopher of the Counter-Enlightenment and a main proponent of the Sturm und Drang movement. |
| 1631 | John (explorer) Smith | Admiral of New England was an English soldier, explorer, and author. |
| 1529 | John Skelton | English poet, variously asserted to have been born in Armathwaite, Cumberland, or Yorkshire. |
| 1527 | Niccolo Machiavelli | Florentine political philosopher, historian, musician, poet, and romantic comedic playwright. |
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