Births | ||
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| * 1972 | Joe Calzaghe | Also known as "The Pride of Wales", is a Welsh boxer of Italian and Welsh descent, currently living in Cwmbran, Wales, and is one of the pound for pound top 10 boxers in the world according to the Ring Magazine. |
| * 1963 | Peter Schiff | American businessman, financial commentator and author noted for his predictions of the housing market crash in 2005, support for unregulated markets and reduction of the powers of federal government. |
| * 1958 | Eldon Hoke | American musician. |
| * 1958 | Pekka Haavisto | Finnish politician representing the Green League. |
| * 1955 | B. W. Powe | Canadian writer poet, novelist, essayist, philosopher, and teacher. |
| * 1954 | Viktor Yushchenko | President of Ukraine since 2004. |
| * 1952 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Science fiction novelist. |
| * 1937 | Robert Gallo | U S biomedical researcher. |
| * 1936 | Jannis Kounellis | Greek artist. |
| * 1929 | Roger Bannister | English athlete best known as the first man to run a mile in less than 4 minutes. |
| * 1915 | Vasily Zaytsev | Soviet sniper during World War II, notable particularly for his activities between November 10 and December 17, 1942 during the Battle of Stalingrad. |
| * 1912 | Wernher von Braun | German rocket scientist and astronautics engineer who was one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Germany and the United States. |
| * 1910 | Akira Kurosawa | Japanese film director, producer, and screenwriter. |
| * 1904 | H. Beam Piper | American science fiction author of future history and alternate history stories. |
| * 1900 | Erich Fromm | German-American psychologist and humanistic philosopher. |
| * 1887 | Juan Gris | Better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter who lived and worked in France almost all of his life. |
| * 1865 | Madison Cawein | Poet from Louisville, Kentucky, whose poem "Waste Land" has been linked with T S Eliot's later The Waste Land. |
| * 1860 | Horatio Bottomley | English journalist, newspaper proprietor, financier, Member of Parliament, and fraudster. |
| * 1837 | Richard Anthony Proctor | English astronomer. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2013 | Boris Berezovsky | Russian-born billionaire. |
| † 2011 | Elizabeth Taylor | English-born Academy Award winning actress. |
| † 1992 | Friedrich Hayek | Nobel laureate in economics, social scientist and political theorist. |
| † 1960 | Franklin Pierce Adams | American columnist, well known by his initials F P A, and wit, best known for his newspaper column, "The Conning Tower", and his appearances as a regular panelist on radio's Information Please. |
| † 1946 | Arthur Ponsonby | British politician, writer, and social activist; 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede. |
| † 1945 | Tadamichi Kuribayashi | Lieutenant General in the Imperial Japanese Navy and the commander of Japanese defense of Iwo Jima during Battle of Iwo Jima. |
| † 1939 | Richard Halliburton | American author. |
| † 1931 | Bhagat Singh | Indian freedom fighter, considered to be one of the most influential revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement. |
| † 1909 | John Davidson | Scottish journalist, playwright, fiction-writer and translator, but is best remembered as a poet. |
| † 1842 | Stendhal | More widely known as Stendhal, the most famous of his many pen-names, was a 19th century French writer. |
| † 1819 | August von Kotzebue | German dramatist. |
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