Births | ||
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| * 1981 | Ben Moody | Two Grammy Awards winner, a former guitarist of Evanescence, the worldwide known band he co-founded with Amy Lee in the mid-1990s, and now a solo artist. |
| * 1971 | Stan Collymore | Professional English soccer player in the mid-to-late 1990's He is known as much for his footballing talents as his controversial off-the-field activites. |
| * 1964 | Nigel Benn | English former boxer who held world titles at both Middleweight and Super Middleweight. |
| * 1948 | Northern Calloway | Played David on Sesame Street from 1971 through 1989, and also voiced Muppet characters such as Same Sound Brown. |
| * 1938 | Peter Beard | American photographer. |
| * 1932 | Piper Laurie | American actress. |
| * 1931 | Sam Cooke | Better known under the stage name Sam Cooke, was an American gospel, R&B, soul, and pop singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. |
| * 1931 | Claire Rayner | English nurse, journalist, broadcaster and novelist, best known for her role for many years as an agony aunt. |
| * 1920 | Irving Kristol | American columnist, journalist, and writer who was dubbed the "godfather of neoconservatism. |
| * 1909 | U Thant | Burmese diplomat, who served as the third Secretary-General of the United Nations (1961–1971). |
| * 1908 | Lev Davidovich Landau | Soviet physicist, who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics. |
| * 1906 | Robert E. Howard | American writer of fantasy and historical adventure pulp stories, published primarily in Weird Tales magazine in the 1930s. |
| * 1903 | Fritz Houtermans | Dutch-Austrian-German atomic and nuclear physicist who made important contributions to geochemistry and cosmochemistry. |
| * 1897 | Leslie Sarony | Born Leslie Legge Frye, was a British entertainer, singer and songwriter. |
| * 1886 | Isabel Paterson | Best-selling writer, influential literary critic, and libertarian philosopher. |
| * 1877 | Hjalmar Schacht | Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank under the Weimar Republic, and President of the Reichsbank under the Nazi regime between 1933 and 1939. |
| * 1874 | Leonard Eugene Dickson | Often called "L E Dickson", was an American mathematician. |
| * 1788 | Lord Byron | Generally known as Lord Byron, was an Anglo-Scottish poet and leading figure in Romanticism. |
| * 1729 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist, and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era. |
| * 1654 | Richard Blackmore | English poet, religious writer and physician. |
| * 1561 | Francis Bacon | English philosopher, statesman and essayist. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2010 | Jean Simmons | English actress. |
| † 2003 | Marvin Bower | American business leader, considered by the Harvard Business School as "the father of modern management consulting. |
| † 2003 | Bill Mauldin | Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist from the United States, who became famous for his "Willie and Joe" cartoons during World War II. |
| † 1990 | Roman Vishniac | Renowned Russian-American photographer of poor Jews in Eastern European ghettos in the 1930s. |
| † 1980 | Peter (artist) Schmidt | British artist, painter, pioneering multimedia exhibitor, and an influential teacher. |
| † 1973 | Lyndon B. Johnson | Often referred to as LBJ, was an American politician. |
| † 1957 | Ralph Barton Perry | American philosopher. |
| † 1945 | Arthur Symons | British poet and critic. |
| † 1922 | Pope Benedict XV | Born Giacomo della Chiesa, reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from September 3, 1914 to January 22, 1922. |
| † 1915 | Anna Bartlett Warner | American writer, the author of several books, and of poems set to music as hymns and religious songs for children. |
| † 1901 | Victoria of the United Kingdom | Queen of the United Kingdom from 20 June 1837, and Empress of India from 1876 until her death. |
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