Births | ||
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| * 1962 | Lisa Randall | American theoretical physicist and expert on particle physics, string theory and cosmology, who worked on several of the competing models of string theory in the quest to explain the fabric of reality. |
| * 1957 | Richard Powers | Novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology on human lives, but without "gee-whiz" or Luddite overtones. |
| * 1949 | Lech Kaczynski | Polish politician; a leader of Prawo i Sprawiedliwość party, and the President of Poland from 2005 to 2010. |
| * 1944 | Paul Lansky | One of the 'original' electronic music or computer music composers who has been producing works from the seventies right up to the present day. |
| * 1942 | Roger Ebert | American film critic and screenwriter. |
| * 1942 | Paul McCartney | English singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record and film producer, poet, painter, and animal rights and peace activist. |
| * 1932 | Geoffrey Hill | English poet and is Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford. |
| * 1929 | Jurgen Habermas‎ | German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and American pragmatism. |
| * 1920 | Ian Carmichael | English film, stage, television and radio actor. |
| * 1913 | Sammy Cahn | American lyricist, songwriter and musician. |
| * 1907 | Frithjof Schuon | Swiss philosopher and author of numerous books on religion and spirituality. |
| * 1886 | George Mallory | Himalayan climber who famously perished on Mount Everest in 1924. |
| * 1882 | Georgi Dimitrov | Also known as Georgi Mikhaylovich Dimitrov, a Bulgarian Communist leader, was appointed General Secretary of the Comintern from 1934, remaining in office until the organization's dissolution in 1943. |
| * 1850 | Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis | Significant American publisher. |
| * 1769 | Robert Stewart Castlereagh | Irish and British statesman. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2011 | Yelena Bonner | Human rights activist in the former Soviet Union and widow of the late Andrei Sakharov. |
| † 2010 | Jose Saramago | Portuguese novelist, poet, playwright and journalist. |
| † 1989 | I. F. Stone | Better known as I F Stone, was an iconoclastic American investigative journalist best known for his influential political newsletter, I F Stone's Weekly. |
| † 1982 | Djuna Barnes | American novelist, poet, and playwright. |
| † 1982 | John Cheever | American novelist and short story writer. |
| † 1974 | Georgy Zhukov | Soviet military commander who, in the course of World War II, led the Red Army to liberate the Soviet Union from the Axis Powers' occupation, to advance through much of Eastern Europe, and to conquer Germany's capital, Berlin. |
| † 1928 | Roald Amundsen | Norwegian explorer of Earth's polar regions. |
| † 1911 | J(ames) Proctor Knott | Attorney General of Missouri at the outset of the American Civil War and Governor of Kentucky from 1883 to 1887. |
| † 1905 | Carmine Crocco | Known as Donatello, was an Italian brigand. |
| † 1902 | Samuel (novelist Butler | British satirist, best known for his novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh. |
| † 1884 | Matthew Simpson | American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1852. |
| † 1835 | William Cobbett | English politician, agriculturist, journalist and pamphleteer, writing first in the Tory and then in the Radical cause. |
| † 1805 | Arthur Murphy | Irish writer, known by the pseudonym, Charles Ranger. |
| † 1749 | Ambrose Philips | English poet. |
| † 1704 | Tom (satirist) Brown | English translator and writer of satire, largely forgotten today save for a four-line gibe he wrote concerning Dr John Fell. |
| † 1677 | Johann Franck | German lyric poet and hymnist. |
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