Births | ||
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| * 1978 | Manny Pacquiao | Also known as Manny Pacquiao, is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. |
| * 1975 | Milla Jovovich | Ukrainian model, actress, musician, and fashion designer. |
| * 1950 | Carson Grant | American actor and artist. |
| * 1941 | Chuba Okadigbo | Sometimes referred to as Oyi of Oyi after his hometown, had held numerous political appointments in the Nigerian government. |
| * 1937 | John Kennedy Toole | American novelist best known for his posthumously published comic novel A Confederacy of Dunces, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. |
| * 1937 | Kerry Packer | Australian billionaire media magnate. |
| * 1929 | William Safire | American author, columnist, journalist, presidential speechwriter, and language expert. |
| * 1920 | Kenneth E. Iverson | Canadian computer scientist noted for developing the APL programming language. |
| * 1910 | Eknath Easwaran | Spiritual teacher, an author of books on meditation and ways to lead a fulfilling life, as well as a translator and interpreter of Indian literature. |
| * 1881 | Aubrey Faulkner | Leading cricketer for South Africa for two decades. |
| * 1874 | William Lyon Mackenzie King | Tenth Prime Minister of Canada from December 29, 1921, to June 28, 1926; September 25, 1926, to August 6, 1930; and October 23, 1935, to November 15, 1948. |
| * 1873 | Ford Madox Ford | Also known as Ford Madox Hueffer, was a British novelist, essayist, memoirist and publisher. |
| * 1852 | Herbert Beerbohm Tree | English actor-manager and wit, whose professional name was Herbert Beerbohm Tree. |
| * 1807 | John Greenleaf Whittier | American poet and abolitionist. |
| * 1796 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton | One of the first major Canadian authors. |
| * 1770 | Ludwig van Beethoven | German composer who lived predominantly in Vienna, Austria. |
| * 1685 | Thomas Tickell | Minor English poet and man of letters. |
| * 1632 | Anthony (or a Wood) Wood | English antiquary and diarist. |
| * 1493 | Paracelsus | Alchemist, physician, astrologer, and general occultist. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2012 | Daniel Inouye | American politician who has served as United States Senator from Hawaii, from 1963 until his death in 2012. |
| † 2011 | Kim Jong-il | Supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea from 1994 until his death, holding the offices of Chairman of the National Defense Commission, Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, and General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea. |
| † 2010 | Captain Beefheart | American musician and painter. |
| † 1987 | Marguerite Yourcenar | Belgian-born French novelist who wrote under the pseudonym Marguerite Yourcenar. |
| † 1976 | David L. Webster | American physicist and physics professor, whose early research on X-rays and Parson's magneton influenced Arthur Compton. |
| † 1965 | 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. |
| † 1957 | Dorothy L. Sayers | Renowned British author, translator, student of classical and modern languages, and Christian humanist. |
| † 1930 | Peter Warlock | Anglo-Welsh composer and music critic. |
| † 1912 | Abbott Eliot Kittredge | Best known as A E Kittredge, was an American leader of the Presbyterian Church. |
| † 1909 | 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. |
| † 1907 | Lord Kelvin | 1st Baron Kelvin, often referred to simply as Lord Kelvin, was a Scottish physicist. |
| † 1907 | William - a.k.a. Lord Kelvin Thomson | 1st Baron Kelvin, often referred to simply as Lord Kelvin, was a Scottish physicist. |
| † 1896 | Alexander Herrmann | More famous as Herrmann the Great, was a French-born magician, who broke from tradition in his performance style, interweaving comedy with his magic. |
| † 1859 | Linn Boyd | Prominent U S politician of the 1840s and 1850s, and served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1851 to 1855. |
| † 1830 | Simon Bolivar | South American revolutionary leader. |
| † 1273 | Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi | Persian philosopher, theologian, poet, teacher, and founder of the Mevlevi order of Sufism; also known as Mevlana, Jalaluddin Rumi, or simply Rumi. |
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