Births | ||
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| * 1981 | Natalie Portman | More famous under her stage name Natalie Portman, is an Oscar-winning Israeli-American actress. |
| * 1963 | Johnny Depp | American actor. |
| * 1961 | Aaron Sorkin | Playwright and screenwriter, originally from Scarsdale, New York. |
| * 1960 | Carlo Beenakker | Professor at Leiden University and leader of the university's mesoscopic physics group, established in 1992. |
| * 1943 | Joe Haldeman | American science fiction author. |
| * 1938 | Jackie Mason | American stand-up comedian and former rabbi. |
| * 1933 | Don Young | Has been the sole congressman from Alaska in the United States House of Representatives since 1973. |
| * 1930 | Barbara (singer) | Known as Barbara, was a popular French female singer. |
| * 1917 | Eric Hobsbawm | British Marxist historian and author, once the leading theorist of the defunct Communist Party of Great Britain, and former president of Birkbeck College, University of London. |
| * 1916 | Robert McNamara | American politician, former US Secretary of Defence and former President of the World Bank. |
| * 1891 | Cole Porter | American composer and songwriter noted for his sophisticated lyrics, clever rhymes, and complex forms. |
| * 1885 | John Edensor Littlewood | British mathematician. |
| * 1865 | Carl Nielsen | Danish composer, conductor and violinist. |
| * 1791 | John Howard Payne | American actor, playwright, author and statesman. |
| * 1781 | George Stephenson | English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public railway line in the world to use steam locomotives. |
| * 1672 | Peter I of Russia | Also known as Peter the Great, was a Russian monarch. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2013 | Iain Banks | Officially Iain Banks, was a Scottish writer. |
| † 2005 | Richard Eberhart | Pulitzer Prize winning American poet. |
| † 1973 | Erich von Manstein | Served the German military as a lifelong professional soldier. |
| † 1964 | 1st Baron Beaverbrook | Canadian – British business tycoon, politician, and writer. |
| † 1927 | Victoria Woodhull | U S suffragist and, in 1872, a Presidential candidate. |
| † 1924 | George Mallory | Himalayan climber who famously perished on Mount Everest in 1924. |
| † 1877 | John Joseph Griffin | English chemist and publisher. |
| † 1870 | Charles Dickens | Foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. |
| † 1865 | Charles Jeffreys | English music publisher and composer of songs. |
| † 1834 | William Carey | English Baptist missionary and a Reformed Baptist minister, known as the "father of modern missions" and one of the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society. |
| † 1717 | Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte (Madame Guyon) Guyon | Commonly known as Madame Guyon, was a French mystic and one of the key advocates of Quietism. |
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