Births | ||
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| * 1990 | Kristen Stewart | American actress, best known for playing Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga. |
| * 1974 | Jenna Jameson | American pornographic actress. |
| * 1963 | Marc Jacobs | American Fashion designer. |
| * 1951 | Stefan Szczesny | Mediterranean painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. |
| * 1938 | Viktor Chernomyrdin | Prime Minister of Russia. |
| * 1936 | Valerie Solanas | American feminist. |
| * 1932 | Jim Fowler | Professional zoologist and was host of the Emmy Award-winning television show Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. |
| * 1929 | Fred Hollows | New Zealand-born ophthalmologist and humanitarian who devoted a great part of his life to the eradication of curable blindness among the underprivileged communities of Oceania, Asia and Africa. |
| * 1928 | Tom Lehrer | American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician. |
| * 1915 | Leonard Wibberley | Prolific Irish author, best known for his comic novels about the imaginary country Grand Fenwick, particularly The Mouse That Roared. |
| * 1906 | Hugh Gaitskell | British politician and leader of the Labour Party from 1955 until his death. |
| * 1905 | J. William Fulbright | Well-known member of the United States Senate representing Arkansas. |
| * 1904 | Ludwig Hohl | Swiss author noted for his radical thoughts about life and literature. |
| * 1898 | Paul Robeson | American actor of film and stage, All-American and professional athlete, writer, multi-lingual orator, lawyer, and basso profondo concert singer who was also noted for his wide-ranging social justice activism. |
| * 1865 | Charles Proteus Steinmetz | German-American mathematician and electrical engineer. |
| * 1865 | Erich Ludendorff | German Army officer, Generalquartiermeister during World War I, victor of Li?ge, and, with Paul von Hindenburg, one of the victors of the Battle of Tannenberg. |
| * 1865 | Laurence Hope | Pen-name of the English poet Adela Florence Nicholson. |
| * 1835 | Leopold II of Belgium | Succeeded his father, Leopold I of Belgium, to the Belgian throne in 1865 as Leopold II, King of the Belgians, and remained king until his death. |
| * 1821 | Charles Baudelaire | French poet, critic and translator. |
| * 1749 | Camillo Federici | Italian dramatist and actor. |
| * 1680 | Philippe Nericault Destouches | French dramatist. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2005 | Andrea Dworkin | American radical feminist and writer. |
| † 1976 | Phil Ochs | Folksinger active in the civil rights movement and in opposition to the Vietnam War. |
| † 1959 | Frank Lloyd Wright | American architect. |
| † 1953 | Hans Reichenbach | Leading philosopher of science, educator and proponent of logical positivism. |
| † 1945 | Dietrich Bonhoeffer | German Lutheran pastor, theologian, participant in the German resistance movement against Nazism and founding member of the Confessing Church. |
| † 1945 | Wilhelm Canaris | German admiral and head of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, from 1935 to 1944. |
| † 1917 | Edward Thomas | English poet, critical biographer and topographical writer. |
| † 1905 | Sarah Chauncey Woolsey | American children's author who wrote under the pen name Susan Coolidge. |
| † 1899 | Stephen Johnson Field | American jurist. |
| † 1761 | William Law | English divine. |
| † 1626 | Francis Bacon | English philosopher, statesman and essayist. |
| † 1553 | Francois Rabelais | French humanist writer of satirical romances. |
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