Births | ||
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| * 1984 | Matt Mullenweg | Entrepreneur living in San Francisco, California. |
| * 1961 | Jasper Fforde | English-born Welsh novelist and aviator. |
| * 1957 | Bryan Robson | English former football manager and a former player. |
| * 1946 | John (theologian) Piper | Reformed Baptist minister and author currently serving as senior pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. |
| * 1938 | Arthur Scargill | Leader of the National Union of Mineworkers from 1981 to 2000 and is presently (2006) the leader of the Socialist Labour Party, a political party he founded in 1996. |
| * 1936 | Eva Hesse | German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. |
| * 1934 | Jean Chretien | Known commonly as Jean Chrιtien, is a former Canadian politician who was the 20th Prime Minister of Canada. |
| * 1934 | C. A. R. Hoare | British computer scientist, and winner of the 1980 Turing Award. |
| * 1922 | Valentine Telegdi | Hungarian-born U S experimental physicist. |
| * 1916 | Jimmy Quillen | Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from northeast Tennessee from 1963 to 1997. |
| * 1907 | Abraham Joshua Heschel | Polish-born American rabbi, considered by many to be one of the most significant Jewish theologians of the 20th century. |
| * 1907 | Pierre Mendes-France | French politician who served as France's Prime Minister from 1954 until 1955. |
| * 1906 | Albert Hofmann | Swiss scientist best known for first synthesizing Lysergic acid diethylamide. |
| * 1887 | Aldo Leopold | United States wildlife biologist and conservationist. |
| * 1873 | Dwight Morrow | American businessman, politician, attorney, and diplomat. |
| * 1842 | William James | Pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. |
| * 1825 | Bayard Taylor | U S poet and writer. |
| * 1815 | John A. Macdonald | First Prime Minister of Canada. |
| * 1807 | Charles Jeffreys | English music publisher and composer of songs. |
| * 1762 | Andrew Cherry | Irish dramatist, songwriter, actor and theatre manager. |
| * 1755 | Alexander Hamilton | American politician, statesman, writer, lawyer, and soldier. |
Deaths | ||
| 2010 | Miep Gies | One of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis during World War II She discovered and preserved Anne Frank's diary after the Franks were arrested. |
| 2008 | Edmund Hillary | New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. |
| 2007 | Robert Anton Wilson | American novelist, essayist, Absurdist philosopher, futurist, and guerilla ontologist, most famous for his satirical work, The Illuminatus! Trilogy. |
| 1991 | Carl David Anderson | American physicist. |
| 1988 | Isidor Isaac Rabi | Galician-born physicist, and Nobel laureate. |
| 1955 | Rodolfo Graziani | Italian military officer who led expeditions in Africa before and during World War II He became commander after the death of Italo Balbo. |
| 1944 | Emilio De Bono | Italian general who fought in World War I and fascist activist who helped organize the Italian Fascist Party. |
| 1943 | Arthur Guiterman | American writer best known for his humorous poems. |
| 1941 | Emanuel Lasker | German-born chess grandmaster, mathematician and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years. |
| 1928 | Thomas Hardy | English novelist, short story writer and poet. |
| 1900 | James Martineau | English philosopher. |
| 1843 | Francis Scott Key | American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the words to the United States national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner". |
| 1817 | Timothy Dwight | American academic and educator, theologian and author, and Congregationalist minister. |
| 1791 | William Williams Pantycelyn | Also known as Williams Pantycelyn and Pantycelyn, is generally acknowledged as Wales's most important hymn writer. |
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