Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1985 | Blake Ross | Co-creator of the Mozilla Firefox browser. |
| * 1980 | Justin Heazlewood | Australian writer, humourist and musician. |
| * 1975 | Bryan Alvarez | Professional wrestler and the editor of Figure Four Weekly, a newsletter that has covered professional wrestling since 1995. |
| * 1963 | T. B. Joshua | Nigerian founder of The Synagogue, Church of All Nations, a Christian organisation headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. |
| * 1961 | Jim Goad | American author and publisher noted for the controversy surrounding his magazine ANSWER Me!. |
| * 1951 | Andranik Margaryan | Served as the Prime Minister of Armenia from May 12, 2000, when the President appointed him, until his death on March 25, 2007. |
| * 1948 | Len Wein | American comic book writer and editor. |
| * 1948 | Yossi Beilin | Leftist Israeli politician, Knesset member, and a former deputy foreign minister and justice minister within the Israeli Labour Party. |
| * 1946 | Catherine Brechignac | French physicist. |
| * 1941 | Chick Corea | Multiple Grammy Award winning American jazz pianist/keyboardist and composer known for his work during the 1970s in the genre of jazz fusion. |
| * 1929 | Anne Frank | Jewish diarist and aspiring writer, who died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. |
| * 1924 | George H. W. Bush | Forty-first President of the United States. |
| * 1915 | David Rockefeller | Prominent American banker, statesman, globalist, and the current patriarch of the Rockefeller family. |
| * 1908 | Otto Skorzeny | Standartenführer in the German Waffen-SS during World War II After fighting on the Eastern Front, and being recommended to Adolf Hitler by Ernst Kaltenbrunner, he is known as the commando leader who led Operation Eiche, the rescue of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from imprisonment after his overthrow. |
| * 1897 | Anthony Eden | British politician, was Foreign Secretary during World War II and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1955 to 1957. |
| * 1892 | Djuna Barnes | American novelist, poet, and playwright. |
| * 1858 | Harry Johnston | British explorer, botanist, linguist and colonial administrator, one of the key players in the "Scramble for Africa" that occurred at the end of the 19th century. |
| * 1819 | Charles Kingsley | English author, clergyman and educator. |
| * 1802 | Harriet Martineau | English writer and philosopher, renowned in her day as a controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist. |
| * 1659 | Yamamoto Tsunetomo | Samurai of the Saga domain in the Hizen Province of Japan, famous for his sayings in Hagakure [In the Shadow of Leaves], a controversial exposition of his views on Bushido. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2006 | Jose Leite Lopes | Brazilian theoretical physicist in the field of quantum field theory and particle physics. |
| † 2006 | Gyorgy Ligeti | Jewish Hungarian composer, widely seen as one of the great composers of instrumental music of the 20th century. |
| † 2003 | Gregory Peck | Renowned 20th century American actor and activist. |
| † 1972 | Saul Alinsky | American activist and writer. |
| † 1972 | Edmund Wilson | American writer and literary critic. |
| † 1968 | Herbert Read | English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art. |
| † 1952 | Michael von Faulhaber | Roman Catholic Cardinal, who was Archbishop of Munich from 1917 to 1952. |
| † 1937 | Mikhail Tukhachevsky | Soviet military commander, chief of the Red Army (1925–1928), and one of the most prominent victims of Stalin's Great Purge of the late 1930s. |
| † 1936 | Karl Kraus | Austrian journalist, satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. |
| † 1936 | M. R. James | Distinguished English biblical scholar, medievalist, palaeographer and bibliographer, but is best known for his Ghost Stories of an Antiquary and other works of supernatural fiction. |
| † 1878 | William Cullen Bryant | American Romantic poet and journalist. |
| † 1842 | Thomas Arnold | Schoolmaster and historian, head of Rugby School from 1828 to 1841. |
| † 1840 | Gerald Griffin | Irish novelist, poet and playwright. |
| † 1759 | William Collins | English lyric poet, seen as one of the most influential precursors of Romanticism. |
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