Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1979 | Brian Urlacher | American football player for the Chicago Bears. |
| * 1975 | Lauryn Hill | Musician, poet, and activist. |
| * 1974 | Frank Klepacki | Renowned video game music composer working for for Petroglyph games. |
| * 1958 | Paul Weller | English singer-songwriter. |
| * 1952 | Gordon Smith | United States Senator from Oregon. |
| * 1923 | Karl Hess | American libertarian and speechwriter for Barry Goldwater. |
| * 1921 | Hal David | American lyricist and songwriter. |
| * 1921 | Jack Steinberger | German-American physicist currently residing near Geneva, Switzerland. |
| * 1908 | Theodore Roethke | American poet who published several volumes of poetry characterized by their rhythm and natural imagery. |
| * 1897 | Gene Tunney | Heavyweight boxing champion from 1926-28 who defeated Jack Dempsey twice, first in 1926 and then in 1927. |
| * 1895 | Dorothea Lange | Influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist best known for her Depression-era work. |
| * 1886 | Philip Murray | Scottish born steelworker and an American labor leader. |
| * 1879 | 1st Baron Beaverbrook | Canadian – British business tycoon, politician, and writer. |
| * 1845 | Hermann Laroche | Russian banker, critic of classical music and composer who was renowned throughout Moscow. |
| * 1835 | Henry Codman Potter | United States Protestant Episcopal bishop, the son of Bishop Alonzo Potter, was born in Schenectady, New York. |
| * 1803 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | American philosopher, essayist, and poet. |
| * 1803 | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | English novelist, playwright, and politician. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2005 | Ismail Merchant | Indian-born film producer; co-founder of Merchant Ivory Productions. |
| † 1954 | Robert Capa | Photojournalist. |
| † 1948 | Witold Pilecki | Polish cavalry captain, the founder of a WWII resistance movement Secret Polish Army, who deliberately let himself get caught and imprisoned in Auschwitz in order to organize resistance there. |
| † 1934 | Gustav Holst | English composer and music teacher. |
| † 1924 | Lyubov Popova | Russian avant-garde Cubist, Suprematist and Constructivist painter and designer. |
| † 1805 | William Paley | British Christian apologist, philosopher, and utilitarian. |
| † 1693 | Madame de La Fayette | French writer, the author of La Princesse de Cl?ves, France's first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature. |
| † 1681 | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | Spanish dramatist and poet. |
| † 1085 | Gregory VII (Pope) | Born Hildebrand of Sovana, was Pope from April 22, 1073, until his death. |
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