Births | ||
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| * 1977 | James Van Der Beek | American film actor. |
| * 1961 | Maurice Glasman | English academic, social thinker and Labour life peer in the House of Lords. |
| * 1948 | Gyles Brandreth | British author and broadcaster; he was a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1992 to 1997. |
| * 1945 | Anselm Kiefer | German painter and sculptor. |
| * 1934 | Christian Wolff | American composer. |
| * 1931 | John McPhee | American writer and journalist. |
| * 1931 | Neil Postman | Prominent American educator, media theorist and cultural critic, associated with New York University for more than forty years. |
| * 1929 | Hebe Camargo | Brazilian television presenter, actress and singer. |
| * 1911 | Alan Hovhaness | American composer of Armenian and Scottish ancestry. |
| * 1900 | Howard H. Aiken | Pioneer in computing, being the primary engineer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer. |
| * 1896 | Charlotte Whitton | Noted Canadian feminist and mayor of Ottawa. |
| * 1879 | Otto Hahn | German chemist and winner of the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his discovery of nuclear fission". |
| * 1859 | Kenneth Grahame | British writer most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. |
| * 1841 | Oliver Wendell Holmes | American jurist; Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932; often called "The Great Dissenter"; son of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. |
| * 1819 | Edwin Percy Whipple | Literary critic and essayist from Massachusetts. |
| * 1714 | Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach | German musician and composer. |
| * 1713 | Giancarlo Passeroni | Italian poet. |
Deaths | ||
| † 1999 | Adolfo Bioy Casares | Argentine fiction writer. |
| † 1999 | Joe DiMaggio | Born Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio, Jr, was a Major League Baseball center fielder who played his entire MLB career (1936–1951) for the New York Yankees. |
| † 1972 | Erich von dem Bach | Born Erich Julius Eberhard von Zelewski, was a Nazi official and a member of the SS, in which he reached the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer. |
| † 1961 | Thomas Beecham | British conductor. |
| † 1942 | Jose Raul Capablanca | Cuban world-class chess master in the early to mid-twentieth century. |
| † 1941 | Sherwood Anderson | American writer, mainly of short stories, most notably the collection Winesburg, Ohio. |
| † 1930 | William Howard Taft | 27th President of the United States (1909–1913) and 10th Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930). |
| † 1887 | Henry Ward Beecher | Theologically liberal American Congregationalist clergyman and reformer, and author. |
| † 1874 | 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. |
| † 1869 | Hector Berlioz | French composer, conductor and music critic, widely seen as the greatest representative in music of the French Romantic school. |
| † 1855 | William Poole | Also known as Bill the Butcher, was a member of the New York City gang the Bowery Boys, a bare-knuckle boxer, and a leader of the Know Nothing political movement. |
| † 1832 | Serfoji II of Thanjavur | Prince of the state of Thanjavur from 23 January 1787 until his death. |
| † 1702 | King of England William III | Also known as William II of Scotland and William of Orange, was a Dutch aristocrat and the Prince of Orange from his birth, King of England and Ireland from 13 February 1689, and King of Scotland from 11 April 1689, in each case until his death. |
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