Births | ||
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| * 1991 | Julianna Rose Mauriello | American actress who stars in LazyTown and has appeared in Broadway musicals. |
| * 1966 | Helena Bonham Carter | English actress best known for her roles in costume dramas, as Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter series and as Mrs. |
| * 1964 | Caitlin R. Kiernan | Irish-born American author and paleontologist, perhaps best known for her novels The Drowning Girl: A Memoir and The Red Tree. |
| * 1963 | Simon Armitage | English poet, playwright and novelist from Huddersfield. |
| * 1951 | Sally Ride | American physicist and a former NASA astronaut who, in 1983, became the first American woman and youngest American to enter space. |
| * 1949 | Ward Cunningham | Computer programmer, most famous as the inventor of the first wiki, which was first called WikiWikiWeb, and one of the pioneers of software design patterns and Extreme Programming. |
| * 1948 | Stevie Nicks | American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career. |
| * 1946 | Simon Hoggart | British journalist and broadcaster. |
| * 1933 | Edward Whittemore | American novelist (1974–1987) and Central Intelligence Agency case officer, Directorate of Operations (Asia, Middle East, Europe, 1958–1967). |
| * 1928 | Jack Kevorkian | Controversial Armenian American pathologist. |
| * 1926 | Miles Davis | American jazz musician. |
| * 1909 | J. Irwin Miller | American industrialist and patron of modern architecture. |
| * 1908 | Robert Morley | British actor who, often in supporting roles, was time and again cast as the archetypal English gentleman representing the Establishment. |
| * 1907 | John Wayne | Better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. |
| * 1877 | Sadao Araki | General in the Imperial Japanese Army before World War II A charismatic leader and one of the principal nationalist right-wing political theorists in the late Japanese Empire, he was regarded as the leader of the radical faction within the politicized Japanese Army. |
| * 1867 | Mary of Teck | Born Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes, was Queen consort of George V of the United Kingdom and grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. |
| * 1863 | Bob Fitzsimmons | Cornish native, moved to New Zealand in his childhood. |
| * 1822 | Goncourt brothers | And Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt (December 17 1830 – June 20 1870) were French writers who, in a lifelong collaboration, produced a number of histories, novels and works of art criticism. |
| * 1795 | Thomas Noon Talfourd | English judge and author. |
| * 1700 | Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf | German religious and social reformer and bishop of the Moravian Church. |
| * 1689 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | English aristocrat and writer, chiefly remembered today for her letters. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2006 | Alan Kotok | American computer scientist at Digital Equipment Corporation, the World Wide Web Consortium and MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. |
| † 1976 | Martin Heidegger | German philosopher. |
| † 1948 | Theodor Morell | German dictator Adolf Hitler's personal physician. |
| † 1933 | Horatio Bottomley | English journalist, newspaper proprietor, financier, Member of Parliament, and fraudster. |
| † 1922 | Ernest Solvay | Belgian chemist, industrialist and philanthropist. |
| † 1894 | Roden Noel | Also known as Noël, was an English poet. |
| † 1703 | Samuel Pepys | English naval administrator, Member of Parliament and Fellow of the Royal Society, but is now best remembered for the diary which he kept through the 1660s. |
| † 1536 | Francesco Berni | Italian poet credited for beginning what is now known as "Bernesque poetry", a serio-comedic type of poetry with elements of satire. |
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