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Births

* 1964 Juliette Binoche French film actress.
* 1963 David Pogue Technology writer, journalist and commentator.
* 1962 Richard Quest British news anchor based in London on the Cable News Network edition CNN International.
* 1957 PZ Myers American biology professor at the University of Minnesota Morris and the author of the science blog Pharyngula, who works with zebrafish in the field of evolutionary developmental biology, and also cultivates an interest in cephalopods.
* 1957 Mona Sahlin Swedish politician and the former leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from March 17, 2007 to March 25, 2011.
* 1956 Shashi Tharoor Official candidate of India for the succession to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2006, and came a close second out of seven contenders in the race.
* 1954 Bobby Sands Irish Republican who died on hunger strike whilst in prison for the possession of firearms.
* 1952 Amir Peretz Chairman of the Israel Labour Party.
* 1943 Jef Raskin Expert in human-computer interaction who began the Macintosh project for Apple Computer.
* 1943 Bobby Fischer USA born chess Grandmaster who later renounced his USA citizenship and became an Icelandic citizen in March 2005.
* 1937 Bernard Landry Quebecois lawyer, teacher and politician.
* 1934 Yuri Gagarin Soviet cosmonaut and the first human in space (12 April 1961).
* 1923 Walter Kohn Austrian-born American theoretical physicist.
* 1918 Mickey Spillane Better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American author of crime novels.
* 1918 George Lincoln Rockwell Pilot in the U S Navy during World War II and the founder of the American Nazi Party in 1959.
* 1906 David Smith American Abstract Expressionist sculptor best known for creating large steel abstract geometric sculptures.
* 1902 Luis Barragan Considered the most important Mexican architect of the 20th century.
* 1892 Vita Sackville-West Most famous as Vita Sackville-West, was an English poet, novelist and writer on gardening.
* 1891 Francis Pegahmagabow Aboriginal soldier most highly decorated for bravery in Canadian military history and the most effective sniper of World War I Later in life, he served as chief and a councilor for the Wasauksing First Nation, and as an activist and leader in several First Nations organizations.
* 1890 Vyacheslav Molotov Soviet politician and diplomat, a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a protιgι of Joseph Stalin, to the 1950s, when he was dismissed from office by Nikita Khrushchev.
* 1881 Ernest Bevin British Trade Unionist and politician best known for his service as Minister of Labour in the war-time coalition, and as Foreign Secretary in the post-war Labour government.
* 1763 William Cobbett English politician, agriculturist, journalist and pamphleteer, writing first in the Tory and then in the Radical cause.

Deaths

† 1997 The Notorious B.I.G. Rapper.
† 1997 Robert B. (physicist) Leighton Prominent American experimental physicist who spent his professional career at the California Institute of Technology.
† 1996 George Burns Born Nathan Birnbaum, was an American comedian, actor and comedic partner and husband of Gracie Allen.
† 1995 Edward Berays Austrian-born American publicist, sometimes called "the father of public relations".
† 1994 Charles Bukowski Los Angeles, California poet and novelist sometimes mistakenly associated with Beat Generation writers because of alleged similarities of style and attitude.
† 1993 C. Northcote Parkinson British historian and author.
† 1992 Menachem Begin Israeli politician and the sixth Prime Minister of the State of Israel.
† 1981 Max Delbruck German-American biophysicist and Nobel laureate.
† 1936 Sri Yukteswar Giri Monastic name of Priyanath Karar, the guru of Paramahansa Yogananda.
† 1883 Arnold Toynbee English economic historian noted for his social commitment and desire to improve the living conditions of the working classes; he was the uncle of Arnold J Toynbee.
† 1879 John Weiss American author and clergyman, as well as a noted abolitionist.
† 1873 Thomas Oliphant Scottish songwriter.
† 1851 Hans Christian Orsted Danish physicist and chemist who is best known for discovering that electric currents can create magnetic fields.
† 1825 Anna Letitia Barbauld English poet and miscellaneous writer.
† 1609 William Warner English poet, born in London about 1558.
† 0 Modest Mussorgsky Russian composer who, along with the other members of the Five, created a Russian nationalist form of classical music.
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