Births | ||
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| * 1965 | Bernard Hopkins | American boxer and the reigning Ring magazine light heavyweight champion. |
| * 1963 | Bruce Schneier | American cryptographer, computer security specialist, and writer. |
| * 1958 | Boris Tadic | Has been the President of Serbia since the year 2004. |
| * 1941 | Captain Beefheart | American musician and painter. |
| * 1940 | Anna Hazare | Popularly known as Anna Hazare, is an Indian social activist who is especially recognised for his contribution to the development of Ralegan Siddhi, a village in Parner taluka of Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra, India and his efforts for establishing it as a model village, for which he was awarded the Padma Bhushan—the third-highest civilian award—by the government of India in 1992. |
| * 1935 | Robert Silverberg | Prolific author best known for writing science fiction, a multiple winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. |
| * 1929 | Martin Luther King | Baptist minister, civil rights activist, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize of 1964. |
| * 1923 | Lee Teng-hui | Politician in the Republic of China. |
| * 1918 | Gamal Abdel Nasser | Leader of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. |
| * 1917 | Janio Quadros | Brazilian politician who was President of Brazil in 1961. |
| * 1912 | Frank Westheimer | American chemist. |
| * 1908 | Edward Teller | American nuclear physicist, known as "the father of the hydrogen bomb. |
| * 1906 | Aristotle Onassis | Greek shipping magnate. |
| * 1904 | Eddie DeLange | American bandleader and lyricist. |
| * 1891 | Osip Mandelstam | Russian poet and essayist, one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets. |
| * 1863 | Frederic G. Kenyon | British paleographer and biblical and classical scholar. |
| * 1841 | Sarah Doudney | English novelist and poet, best known as a children's writer and hymnwriter. |
| * 1829 | Silas Weir Mitchell | American physician and writer. |
| * 1809 | Pierre-Joseph (P. J.) Proudhon | First individual to call himself an "anarchist," and the first documented as using the word "Capitalist" to mean property-owner. |
| * 1791 | Franz Grillparzer | Austrian dramatic poet. |
| * 1622 | Moliere | French theatre writer, director and actor, one of the masters of comic satire. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2003 | Doris Fisher | American singer and songwriter, daughter of songwriter Fred Fisher. |
| † 1998 | Harriet Van Horne | American newspaper columnist and film/television critic. |
| † 1993 | Sammy Cahn | American lyricist, songwriter and musician. |
| † 1972 | Daisy Ashford | During her childhood a writer of fiction, but abandoned her literary career as a teenager. |
| † 1968 | Leopold Infeld | Polish physicist. |
| † 1919 | Rosa Luxemburg | Marxist, revolutionary, and martyr. |
| † 1908 | James Ryder Randall | Journalist and poet. |
| † 1895 | Stephen F. Chadwick | American Democrat politician who served as Governor of Oregon from 1877 to 1878. |
| † 1865 | Edward Everett | As an American politician and orator, who served as a US Congressman, US Senator, Governor of Massachusetts, US Secretary of State, and as President of Harvard University. |
| † 1842 | Joseph Hopkinson | Member of the U S House of Representatives and a United States federal judge from Pennsylvania. |
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