Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1981 | Josh Groban | Commonly known as Josh Groban, is an American singer, known for his mature, dusky baritone voice. |
| * 1971 | Derren Brown | British illusionist, mentalist, painter, writer and sceptic. |
| * 1971 | Roman Giertych | Polish politician, Deputy Prime Minister and, since May 5, 2006, Minister of Education. |
| * 1961 | Wendy Liebman | American stand-up comedian. |
| * 1951 | Lee Atwater | American political consultant and Republican party strategist. |
| * 1947 | Alan Guth | Physicist and cosmologist. |
| * 1944 | Roger Scruton | British philosopher. |
| * 1941 | Paddy Ashdown | Commonly known as Paddy Ashdown, is a British politician and former Royal Marine. |
| * 1934 | Vincent Fourcade | French-American interior designer and the business and life partner of Robert Denning. |
| * 1934 | Ralph Nader | American lawyer and Green Party politician. |
| * 1933 | Edward Lucie-Smith | British poet, critic and anthologist. |
| * 1932 | Elizabeth Taylor | English-born Academy Award winning actress. |
| * 1929 | Jack Gibson | Australian rugby league footballer. |
| * 1920 | Julian Jaynes | American psychologist, best known for his book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976). |
| * 1912 | Lawrence Durrell | Considered a British novelist, poet, dramatist and travel writer, even though it was discovered posthumously that he never actually held British citizenship. |
| * 1902 | John Steinbeck | One of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century. |
| * 1897 | Bernard Lyot | French astronomer. |
| * 1886 | Hugo Black | American politician and jurist. |
| * 1847 | Ellen Terry | English stage actress who became the leading Shakespearean actress in Britain. |
| * 1835 | Richard Garnett | Scholar, librarian, biographer and poet. |
| * 1807 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | American poet and one of the five members of the group known as the Fireside Poets. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2011 | Frank Buckles | Was, at age 110, the last known surviving American-born veteran of the First World War. |
| † 2008 | William F. Buckley | American author, conservative journalist, who founded the conservative political magazine National Review in 1955 and hosted the award-winning television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999. |
| † 2006 | Linda Smith | British stand-up comic and comedy writer. |
| † 2002 | Spike Milligan | Known as Spike Milligan, was an Irish writer, artist, musician, humanitarian, comedian and poet. |
| † 1993 | Lillian Gish | Oscar-nominated American actress. |
| † 1992 | S. I. Hayakawa | Canadian-born American academic and political figure. |
| † 1989 | Konrad Lorenz | Austrian zoologist, animal psychologist, and ornithologist. |
| † 1986 | Jacques Plante | Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. |
| † 1966 | Vinayak Damodar Savarkar | Indian revolutionary and Hindu political leader, who is credited with developing an Indian nationalist political ideology he termed Hindutva. |
| † 1936 | Ivan Pavlov | Russian physiologist, psychologist, and physician. |
| † 1859 | Thomas Kibble Hervey | British poet and critic. |
| † 1706 | John Evelyn | English writer on the arts and sciences, and a founder member of the Royal Society. |
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