Births | ||
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| * 1985 | Lewis Hamilton | British Formula One driver. |
| * 1963 | Rand Paul | United States junior Senator for the state of Kentucky. |
| * 1961 | John Thune | Republican junior U S Senator from the state of South Dakota. |
| * 1958 | Donna Rice | Figure in the 1987 sex scandal that ended the second presidential campaign of Gary Hart. |
| * 1957 | Katie Couric | American journalist, author, and an anchor on CBS. |
| * 1925 | Gerald Durrell | Naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter, most famous for founding what is know called the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust on the Channel Island of Jersey and for writing a number of books based on his animal-collecting and conservation expeditions. |
| * 1920 | Albert Meltzer | Anarchist activist and writer. |
| * 1916 | Elena Ceausescu | Wife of Romania's Communist leader Nicolae Ceauºescu, and Deputy Prime Minister of Romania. |
| * 1891 | Zora Neale Hurston | American folklorist and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance, well known for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. |
| * 1873 | Charles Peguy | French poet, socialist activist and essayist. |
| * 1839 | Ouida | Pen name of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé. |
| * 1832 | Thomas De Witt Talmage | American Presbyterian preacher, clergyman and divine. |
| * 1817 | John M. Sandidge | Member of the Louisiana State House of Representatives (1846 - 1855), serving as its speaker (1854 - 1855), as a delegate to the state constitutional convention (1852) and as a U S Representative from Louisiana (1855 - 1859). |
| * 1805 | David Whitmer | Early adherent of the Latter Day Saint movement and one of the Three Witnesses to the Book of Mormon's Golden Plates. |
| * 1800 | Millard Fillmore | Thirteenth President of the United States, serving from 1850 until 1853, and the last member of the Whig Party to hold the nation's highest office. |
Deaths | ||
| † 1998 | Richard Hamming | American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer science and telecommunications. |
| † 1995 | Murray Rothbard | American economist and political author. |
| † 1989 | Hirohito | Emperor Sh?wa of Japan. |
| † 1943 | Nikola Tesla | Physicist, inventor, and electrical engineer. |
| † 1890 | George Lemuel Woods | American lawyer, judge, and politician. |
| † 1846 | John Hookham Frere | English diplomat and author. |
| † 1715 | Francois Fenelon | French educationalist, critic, poet, and political and religious philosopher. |
| † 1619 | Nicholas Hilliard | First true english born painter of English miniatures. |
| † 1536 | Catherine of Aragon | Also known as Katherine or Katharine;, was the Queen of England as the first wife of Henry VIII of England, and Princess of Wales by her first marriage to Arthur, Prince of Wales. |
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