Births | ||
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| * 1977 | Mahela Jayawardene | Former captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team. |
| * 1971 | Paul Bettany | English actor. |
| * 1957 | Siouxsie Sioux | Lead singer of the punk/goth band Siouxsie & the Banshees and lead singer of The Creatures. |
| * 1954 | Lawrence M. Krauss | American theoretical physicist who is professor of physics, Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration, and director of the Origins Project at the Arizona State University. |
| * 1954 | Pauline Hanson | Controversial Australian politician who was the leader of One Nation Party, a party with an anti-immigration, nativist platform. |
| * 1947 | Peter DeFazio | American politician. |
| * 1945 | Bruce Cockburn | Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist. |
| * 1934 | Harlan Ellison | American author and media critic. |
| * 1932 | Jeffrey Bernard | British journalist who was columnist for the UK magazine The Spectator. |
| * 1930 | John Barth | American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodernist and metafictive quality of his work. |
| * 1923 | Henry Kissinger | German-born US diplomat of Jewish heritage and religion. |
| * 1921 | Caryl Chessman | Convicted robber and rapist who served time on death row and was excecuted in the state of California. |
| * 1915 | Herman Wouk | Bestselling American author with a number of notable novels to his credit, including The Caine Mutiny (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 1952), The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance. |
| * 1912 | John Cheever | American novelist and short story writer. |
| * 1911 | Hubert Humphrey | Vice President of the United States of America from 1965 to 1969 and was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1968. |
| * 1909 | W. W. Hansen | U S physicist who was one of the founders of the technology of microwave electronics. |
| * 1907 | Rachel Carson | American biologist and writer. |
| * 1894 | Dashiell Hammett | American author of hardboiled detective novels and short stories. |
| * 1894 | Louis-Ferdinand Celine | French author. |
| * 1877 | Isadora Duncan | Dancer, considered by many to be the creator of modern dance. |
| * 1871 | Georges Rouault | French Catholic painter associated with Fauvism and Expressionism. |
| * 1867 | Arnold Bennett | English novelist and playwright. |
| * 1862 | John Kendrick Bangs | American author and satirist, and the creator of modern Bangsian fantasy, the school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially in the afterlife. |
| * 1836 | Jay Gould | American financier and railroad developer. |
| * 1832 | Zenas Ferry Moody | Republican governor of Oregon from 1882 to 1887. |
| * 1819 | Julia Ward Howe | American writer, poet, and social activist. |
| * 1794 | Cornelius Vanderbilt | American businessman who made a large fortune in the shipping and railroad businesses. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2003 | Luciano Berio | Italian composer. |
| † 1988 | Ernst Ruska | German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for his work in electron optics, including the design of the first electron microscope. |
| † 1964 | Jawaharlal Nehru | Indian politician and the first Prime Minister of India. |
| † 1943 | Arthur Mee | British writer, journalist and educator. |
| † 1676 | Paul Gerhardt | German hymn writer. |
| † 1564 | John Calvin | Major French Protestant theologian during the Protestant Reformation; he is renowned for his teaching and infamous for his role in the execution of Michael Servetus. |
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