Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1987 | William Moseley | English actor. |
| * 1984 | Patrick Stump | Lead singer, composer and rhythm guitarist of the band Fall Out Boy. |
| * 1967 | Jason Whitlock | Sportswriter for The Kansas City Star, Foxsports. |
| * 1963 | Russell T Davies | Welsh television producer and writer whose works include Queer as Folk, Bob & Rose, The Second Coming, Casanova, and the 2005 revival of the classic British science fiction series Doctor Who. |
| * 1959 | Nicholas D. Kristof | U S journalist, author, op-ed columnist and a winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. |
| * 1955 | Eric Schmidt | Engineer, a former member of the board of directors of Apple Inc. |
| * 1951 | Ace Frehley | Better known as "Ace", is an American guitarist best known as a founding member and lead guitarist for the rock band Kiss. |
| * 1948 | Frank Abagnale | Check forger and impostor for five years in the 1960s. |
| * 1946 | Nicholas Serota | Curator and Director of the Tate gallery, the United Kingdom's national gallery of modern and British art. |
| * 1944 | Michael Fish | Semi-retired weather forecaster, most known for his BBC Weather television presentations, although he was actually a qualified meteorologist employed by the Met Office. |
| * 1935 | Nico Perrone | Italian essayist, historian and journalist. |
| * 1932 | Pik Botha | South African politician who served as foreign minister in the last years of apartheid. |
| * 1927 | Coretta Scott King | Civil rights activist, author, and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| * 1913 | Philip Abelson | American physicist, editor of scientific literature, and science writer. |
| * 1904 | Cecil Day Lewis | Irish poet, the British Poet Laureate between 1968 to 1972, and, under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake, a mystery writer. |
| * 1880 | George Henry Powell | British songwriter who, under the pseudonym George Asaf, wrote the lyrics of the marching song Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag. |
| * 1874 | Maurice Baring | Versatile English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist, and also as a travel writer and war correspondent. |
| * 1822 | Ulysses S. Grant | Born Hiram Ulysses Grant, was the Commanding General of Union army during the American Civil War and 18th President of the United States. |
| * 1820 | Herbert Spencer | English philosopher, prominent classical liberal political theorist, and sociological theorist of the Victorian era. |
| * 1791 | Samuel F. B. Morse | American inventor, and painter of portraits and historic scenes. |
| * 1759 | Mary Wollstonecraft | English social philosopher and pioneering advocate of women's rights; wife of William Godwin, and mother of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. |
| * 1556 | Francois Beroalde de Verville | French Renaissance novelist, poet and intellectual. |
| * 0 | Sergei Prokofiev | Composer and pianist born in the Russian Empire. |
Deaths | ||
| † 1965 | Edward R. Murrow | American journalist; born Egbert Roscoe Murrow. |
| † 1954 | H. Stanley Allen | Pioneer in early X-ray research, working under J J Thomson at the University of London and alongside Nobel laureate Charles Glover Barkla at the University of Edinburgh. |
| † 1937 | Daniel Daly | United States Marine and one of only 19 men to receive the Medal of Honor twice for two separate acts of heroism. |
| † 1937 | Antonio Gramsci | Italian writer, politician and political theorist. |
| † 1932 | Hart Crane | American poet. |
| † 1915 | Alexander Scriabin | Russian composer and pianist. |
| † 1882 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | American philosopher, essayist, and poet. |
| † 1804 | Jonathan Boucher | English schoolmaster, clergyman and philologist, who spent some years in America, leaving in 1775 because, despite being a close friend of George Washington, he consistently campaigned against the Revolution. |
| † 1794 | William (philologist) Jones | English philologist and student of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages. |
| † 1521 | Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese sea explorer who sailed for both Portugal and Spain; the first person to lead an expedition to circumnavigate the earth; born Fern?o de Magalh?es he changed his name to Fernando or Hernando de Magallanes after entering into the service of Spain. |
| † 0 | Edward Gibbon | Arguably the most important historian since the time of the ancient Roman Tacitus. |
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