Births | ||
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| * 1983 | Ben Croshaw | British-born Australian based game designer. |
| * 1966 | Eric Cantona | French former footballer of the 1990s. |
| * 1963 | Michael Chabon | Pulitzer Prize winning American author, essayist, short-story writer, and screenwriter. |
| * 1941 | Bob Dylan | American folk and rock singer-songwriter, born in Duluth, Minnesota. |
| * 1941 | George Lakoff | Professor of cognitive linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1972. |
| * 1940 | Joseph Brodsky | Russian-American poet, winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature, and Poet Laureate of the United States for 1991–1992. |
| * 1932 | Arnold Wesker | English playwright, seen as one of the originators of the kitchen sink drama. |
| * 1899 | Henri Michaux | Belgian writer and painter. |
| * 1878 | Harry Emerson Fosdick | American Baptist and Presbyterian minister. |
| * 1870 | Benjamin N. Cardozo | Long-time Justice of the Court of Appeals of New York, where his opinions included many declarations that would become famous in legal circles; he was appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States in 1932. |
| * 1870 | Jan Christiaan Smuts | South African statesman, general, and intellectual. |
| * 1819 | Victoria of the United Kingdom | Queen of the United Kingdom from 20 June 1837, and Empress of India from 1876 until her death. |
| * 1794 | William Whewell | English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian and historian of science. |
| * 1743 | Jean-Paul Marat | Swiss-born physician, philosopher and scientist who would become one of the most influential men of the French Revolution through his newspapers and pamphlets, especially L'Ami du peuple. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2011 | Mark Haines | Former host of the CNBC show Squawk Box. |
| † 1995 | Harold Wilson | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970, and again from 1974 to 1976. |
| † 1994 | John Wain | British poet, anthologist and journalist. |
| † 1987 | Hermione Gingold | British actress known for her sharp-tongued, eccentric persona. |
| † 1959 | John Foster Dulles | Served as U S Secretary of State under President Dwight D Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. |
| † 1905 | Charles Henry Webb | American poet, author and journalist. |
| † 1881 | Samuel Palmer | English landscape painter, etcher, printmaker and writer. |
| † 1879 | William Lloyd Garrison | American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. |
| † 1627 | Luis de Gongora | Spanish Baroque lyric poet and playwright. |
| † 1543 | Nicolaus Copernicus | Early modern astronomer and mathematician; proponent of the heliocentric cosmic model. |
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