Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1989 | Theo Walcott | English football player with Arsenal FC. |
| * 1969 | Alexander McQueen | British fashion designer. |
| * 1967 | Lauren Graham | Golden Globe-nominated American actress. |
| * 1959 | Flavor Flav | Known by his stage name Flavor Flav, is an American rapper, television star, hype man, and member of the politically conscious hip hop group Public Enemy. |
| * 1959 | Jens Stoltenberg | Prime Minister of Norway. |
| * 1953 | Richard M. Stallman | Founder of the Free Software movement, the GNU project, the Free Software Foundation, and the League for Programming Freedom. |
| * 1952 | Philippe Kahn | Inventor of the camera phone, CEO of Fullpower, Founder of Starfish Software, Lightsurf technologies, Borland, and the Lee-Kahn Foundation. |
| * 1943 | Ursula Goodenough | Professor of Biology and a leading proponent of Religious Naturalism and the epic of evolution. |
| * 1933 | Sanford Weill | Commonly known as Sandy Weill, is a banker, financier and philanthropist. |
| * 1927 | Daniel Patrick Moynihan | Four-term U S Senator, ambassador, administration official, and academic. |
| * 1911 | Josef Mengele | German SS officer and a physician in the German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. |
| * 1908 | Rene Daumal | French writer, philosopher and poet. |
| * 1906 | Henny Youngman | Comedian and violinist famous for "one-liners", short simple jokes usually delivered rapid-fire. |
| * 1892 | Cesar Vallejo | Peruvian poet. |
| * 1880 | Lawrence Oates | British explorer. |
| * 1878 | Clemens August Graf von Galen | Bishop of Münster from 1933 until his death in 1946. |
| * 1878 | Reza Shah Pahlavi | Shah of Iran, was the monarch of Iran from 1925 to 1941. |
| * 1871 | Hans Merensky | South African geologist, conservationist, scientist and philanthropist. |
| * 1789 | Georg Ohm | German physicist, best known for determining that there is a direct proportionality between the potential difference applied across a conductor and the resultant electric current – now known as Ohm's law. |
| * 1751 | James Madison | Fourth (1809–1817) President of the United States. |
| * 1721 | Tobias Smollett | Scottish novelist, translator, historian and editor. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2003 | Lawrence H. Aller | American astronomer. |
| † 1997 | Jean-Dominique Bauby | Well-known French journalist and author and editor of the French fashion magazine ELLE. |
| † 1993 | Natalia Correia | Portuguese writer, and was the author of the lyrics of Hino dos Açores, the traditional anthem of The Azores. |
| † 1979 | Jean Monnet | Regarded by many as a chief architect of European Unity. |
| † 1963 | William Henry Beveridge | British economist and social reformer. |
| † 1935 | Aron Nimzowitsch | Latvian-born Danish unofficial chess grandmaster and a very influential chess writer. |
| † 1932 | Harold Monro | Belgian-born British poet, publisher, bookseller and anthologist. |
| † 1912 | Lawrence Oates | British explorer. |
| † 1903 | Roy Bean | Eccentric U S barkeeper and a self-proclaimed judge who is notorious for many outrageous rulings and for holding hearings in his saloon. |
| † 1898 | Aubrey Beardsley | English illustrator whose black-and-white ink drawings influenced the development of the Art Nouveau style. |
| † 1864 | Robert Smith Surtees | English journalist, comic novelist and writer on field sports. |
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z