Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1987 | Javon Ringer | American football running back. |
| * 1967 | R. Scott Bakker | Canadian fantasy author. |
| * 1952 | John Cornyn | Junior United States Senator from Texas. |
| * 1952 | Ralph Merkle | Pioneer in public key cryptography, and more recently a researcher and speaker on molecular nanotechnology and cryonics. |
| * 1945 | David Friedman | A law professor and writer, who became a leading figure in the anarcho-capitalist community. |
| * 1940 | Thomas M. Disch | American science fiction author and poet. |
| * 1929 | John Henry Holland | American scientist and Professor of Psychology and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. |
| * 1929 | Desmond Ford | Australian theologian and biblical scholar known for his dynamic and grace-centred preaching. |
| * 1923 | James Dickey | Popular American poet and novelist. |
| * 1915 | Abba Eban | Born Aubrey Solomon Eban, was an Israeli diplomat, politician and author. |
| * 1915 | Khushwant Singh | Prominent Indian novelist and journalist. |
| * 1913 | Masanobu Fukuoka | Japanese farmer and philosopher celebrated for his natural farming and re-vegetation of desertified lands. |
| * 1906 | Harold Rosenberg | American art critic, educator and historian. |
| * 1905 | Ayn Rand | Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. |
| * 1901 | Jascha Heifetz | Lithuanian-born American violinist. |
| * 1887 | Ernst Hanfstaengl | Worked for both Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler. |
| * 1882 | James Joyce | Irish novelist, short-story writer and poet. |
| * 1864 | Margot Asquith | Scottish-born socialite and author, married to the British Prime Minister H H Asquith. |
| * 1859 | Havelock Ellis | British doctor, sexual psychologist and social reformer. |
| * 1754 | Charles Maurice de (a.k.a. Talleyrand) Talleyrand-Perigord | French diplomat. |
| * 1745 | Hannah More | English religious writer and philanthropist. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2008 | Earl Butz | United States government official who served as the U S Secretary of Agriculture under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. |
| † 2005 | Max Schmeling | German boxer whose two fights with Joe Louis transcended boxing and became worldwide social events because of their national associations. |
| † 1996 | Gene Kelly | Better known as Gene Kelly, was an American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer, and choreographer. |
| † 1995 | Fred Perry | Born in Southport, Cheshire, was an English tennis and table tennis player and three-time Wimbledon champion. |
| † 1979 | Sid Vicious | Born John Simon Ritchie-Beverly, was an English punk-rock musician who was bass player for the Sex Pistols. |
| † 1972 | Natalie Clifford Barney | American poet, memoirist, and epigrammatist, most of whose life was spent in France. |
| † 1970 | Bertrand Russell | British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. |
| † 1968 | Pitirim Sorokin | Russian-born American sociologist. |
| † 1936 | Owen Seaman | British writer, journalist and poet. |
| † 1920 | Theo Marzials | British composer, singer and poet. |
| † 1901 | Marko Miljanov | Warrior and writer from Montenegro. |
| † 1884 | Wendell Phillips | Born in Boston, Massachusetts, was an American abolitionist, Native American advocate and orator. |
| † 1864 | Adelaide Anne Procter | English poet, the eldest daughter of the poet Bryan Procter. |
| † 1529 | Baldassare Castiglione | Italian courtier, diplomat and author, best-known for his study of the ideal courtly life, Il Libro del Cortegiano. |
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