Births | ||
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| * 1983 | Diora Baird | American actress and former model for Guess? who has appeared in films such as Wedding Crashers and Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. |
| * 1975 | Zach Braff | Grammy Award-winning American television and film actor, director, screenwriter, and producer. |
| * 1961 | Rory Bremner | British impressionist and comedian, noted for his political satire. |
| * 1960 | Miss Foozie | Better known as simply Miss Foozie, is a character from Chicago. |
| * 1956 | Michele Bachmann | Republican State Representative for Minnesota's 6th congressional district. |
| * 1949 | Horst Ludwig Stormer | German physicist who shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics with Daniel Tsui and Robert Laughlin, "for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations". |
| * 1945 | Neal Boortz | Libertarian American talk radio host based in Atlanta, Georgia. |
| * 1937 | Merle Haggard | American country music singer, guitarist and songwriter. |
| * 1928 | James D. Watson | American scientist, best known as one of the four discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule. |
| * 1926 | Ian Paisley | Politician and church leader in Northern Ireland. |
| * 1908 | John P. (diplomat) Davies | American diplomat and Medal of Freedom recipient. |
| * 1908 | John Paton Davies | American diplomat and Medal of Freedom recipient. |
| * 1857 | Arthur Wesley Dow | American painter, printmaker, photographer, and influential arts educator. |
| * 1826 | Gustave Moreau | French Symbolist painter, famous for his illustration of biblical and mythological figures. |
| * 1823 | Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney | Born Julia Fletcher, was an American Universalist educator and poet, whose works began to be published when she was 14, and who later wrote under various pseudonyms. |
| * 1773 | James Mill | Scottish utilitarian philosopher of the school of Jeremy Bentham; also an economist, historian and political theorist. |
| * 1741 | Nicolas Chamfort | Born Nicolas-Sébastien Roch, was a French writer. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2012 | Fang Lizhi | Chinese astrophysicist whose liberal ideas inspired the pro-democracy student movement of 1986–87 and the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. |
| † 2000 | Habib Bourguiba | President of Tunisia from July 25, 1957 until 7 November 1987. |
| † 1992 | Isaac Asimov | Russian-born American author and biochemist. |
| † 1984 | Jimmy Kennedy | British songwriter. |
| † 1971 | Igor Stravinsky | Russian-born composer, is thought to be one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. |
| † 1935 | Edwin Arlington Robinson | American poet. |
| † 1927 | Florence Earle Coates | —American poet born in Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania poet laureate who gained notoriety both at home and abroad for her works of poetry—nearly three-hundred of which were published in literary magazines of her day such as the Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's, The Literary Digest, Lippincott's, The Century Magazine, and Harper's. |
| † 1875 | Moses Hess | German philosopher who is considered one of the founders of communism and zionism. |
| † 1528 | Albrecht Durer | German painter and printmaker. |
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