Births | ||
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| * 1964 | Maynard James Keenan | American rock singer, songwriter, musician, and producer. |
| * 1957 | Nick Hornby | English novelist and essayist. |
| * 1957 | Jan Zaanen | Professor of Theoretical Physics at Leiden University, The Netherlands. |
| * 1948 | John N. Gray | British political philosopher and author. |
| * 1938 | David Dilks | English historian, specializing in the field of International Relations. |
| * 1932 | Karen Demirchyan | Armenian communist and later independent politician, Armenian Communist Party first secretary from 1974 to 1988. |
| * 1897 | Thornton Wilder | American author and playwright. |
| * 1894 | Nikita Khrushchev | Leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin. |
| * 1885 | Karen Blixen | Danish author; born Karen Christence Dinesen, she is also known under her pen name Isak Dinesen. |
| * 1882 | Artur Schnabel | Pianist and composer, born in Lipnik in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. |
| * 1854 | Benjamin Tucker | Journalist, socialist, and the leading proponent of American individualist anarchism in the 19th century. |
| * 1837 | J. P. Morgan | American financier, banker, philanthropist and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time. |
| * 1799 | Eliza Acton | English poet and cook who produced one of the country's first cookbooks aimed at the domestic reader rather than the professional cook or chef, Modern Cookery for Private Families. |
| * 1622 | Henry Vaughan | Welsh Metaphysical poet and a doctor, the twin brother of the philosopher Thomas Vaughan. |
Deaths | ||
| † 1994 | Roger Wolcott Sperry | Neuropsychologist, neurobiologist and pioneer in the sciences of consciousness who, together with David H Hubel and Torsten Wiesel, won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine, for his independent work in split-brain research. |
| † 1993 | Turgut Ozal | Twentieth prime minister (December 13, 1983 to October 31, 1989) and the eighth president (November 9, 1989 to April 17, 1993) of the Turkish Republic. |
| † 1988 | Louise Nevelson | Born Leah Berliawsky, was a U S sculptor. |
| † 1985 | Basil Bunting | British modernist poet. |
| † 1942 | Jean Baptiste Perrin | French physicist and Nobel laureate. |
| † 1893 | Lucy Larcom | American poet whose idealistic poems caught the attention of John Greenleaf Whittier. |
| † 1884 | Thomas Gold Appleton | Son of merchant Nathan Appleton, was an American writer, an artist, and a patron of the fine arts. |
| † 1790 | Benjamin Franklin | American inventor, journalist, printer, diplomat, and statesman. |
| † 1696 | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal Sevigne | French aristocrat, remembered for her letter-writing. |
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