Births | ||
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| * 1983 | Vince Young | Commonly known as Vince Young or "VY", is a Pro Bowl American football player. |
| * 1975 | Jack (musician) Johnson | Hawaiin-born singer/songwriter, surfer, and filmmaker. |
| * 1969 | Sean Sellers | Young American murderer and an ex-Satanist, who converted to Christianity while in prison. |
| * 1964 | Tim Moore | British travel writer and humorist. |
| * 1957 | Michael Cretu | Romanian-born musician best known as the creator of the Enigma project. |
| * 1946 | Reggie Jackson | Former American Major League Baseball player. |
| * 1925 | Justus Dahinden | Swiss architect. |
| * 1919 | Margot Fonteyn | British ballet dancer, born Margaret Hookham, and nicknamed "Peggy". |
| * 1913 | Charles Trenet | Born Louis Charles Auguste Claude Trenet, was a French singer and songwriter. |
| * 1909 | Fred Perry | Born in Southport, Cheshire, was an English tennis and table tennis player and three-time Wimbledon champion. |
| * 1904 | Shunryu Suzuki | Japanese Zen master of the Soto school, who played a major role in establishing Buddhism in America. |
| * 1896 | Brock Chisholm | Canadian First World War veteran, medical practitioner and the first Director-General of the World Health Organization. |
| * 1886 | Ture Nerman | Swedish communist politician. |
| * 1883 | Walter Gropius | German architect and founder of the Bauhaus. |
| * 1872 | Bertrand Russell | British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. |
| * 1852 | Isaac Leib Peretz | Polish-born author and poet who is counted among the three great classical writers in the Yiddish language. |
| * 1850 | Oliver Heaviside | Self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, invented mathematical techniques to the solution of differential equations, reformulated Maxwell's field equations in terms of electric and magnetic forces and energy flux, and independently co-formulated vector analysis. |
| * 1785 | John Wilson | Scottish writer, the writer most frequently identified with the pseudonym Christopher North of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. |
| * 1783 | Martin Harris | Underwrote the first printing of The Book of Mormon and also served as one of Three Witnesses who testified that they had seen the Golden Plates from which the Book of Mormon had been transcribed. |
| * 1711 | Roger Joseph Boscovich | Physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, and Jesuit. |
| * 1048 | Omar Khayyam | Persian mathematician, astronomer, and writer; originally named Ghiyath al-Din Abu'l-Fath Omar ibn Ibrahim Al-Nisaburi Khayyámi Edward FitzGerald's translations of his poetic Rubaiyat were immensely popular, and remain influential. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2007 | Pierre-Gilles de Gennes | French physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in Physics in 1991. |
| † 1995 | Henri Laborit | French physician, writer and philosopher. |
| † 1981 | William Saroyan | Armenian American author, famous for his novel The Human Comedy (1943), and other works dealing with the comedies and tragedies of everyday existence. |
| † 1959 | Apsley Cherry-Garrard | English explorer of Antarctica. |
| † 1958 | Elmer Davis | Well-known news reporter, author, the Director of the United States Office of War Information during World War II, and a Peabody Award Recipient. |
| † 1949 | James Truslow Adams | American writer and historian. |
| † 1941 | Werner Sombart | German economist and sociologist, the head of the "Youngest Historical School" and one of the leading Continental European social scientists during the first quarter of the 20th century. |
| † 1928 | Bill Haywood | Prominent figure in American radical unionism as a leader of the Western Federation of Miners and later as a founding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World. |
| † 1911 | Gustav Mahler | Bohemian-Austrian composer and conductor. |
| † 1909 | George Meredith | English novelist and poet. |
| † 1800 | Alexander Suvorov | Russian Generalissimo. |
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