Births | ||
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| * 1955 | Steven M. Greer | Emergency and trauma physician, a former chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Caldwell Memorial Hospital in Lenoir, North Carolina, and a lifetime member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. |
| * 1947 | Mark Helprin | American novelist. |
| * 1946 | Gilda Radner | American comedienne and actress. |
| * 1940 | Muhammad Yunus | Bangladeshi banker and economist. |
| * 1932 | Andy Bathgate | Retired Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played 17 seasons in the National Hockey League for the New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins. |
| * 1930 | Itamar Franco | Brazilian politician, who served as the President of Brazil from 1992 to 1995. |
| * 1928 | Hans Blix | Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs 1978–79, Director General of the IAEA 1981–97, Executive Chairman of the UNMOVIC 2000–03. |
| * 1928 | John Stewart Bell | Irish physicist who worked in the field of particle physics at CERN, and who developed one of the most important theorems of quantum physics, Bell's Theorem. |
| * 1926 | Mel Brooks | American actor, director, and screenwriter. |
| * 1905 | Ashley Montagu | British-American anthropologist and humanist who wrote about issues such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development. |
| * 1892 | E. H. Carr | Liberal realist and later left-wing British historian, journalist and international relations theorist, and an opponent of empiricism within historiography. |
| * 1891 | Carl Panzram | American serial killer, arsonist and burglar. |
| * 1890 | William H. P. Blandy | United States Navy Admiral who was most known for overseeing the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Island in the Pacific Ocean. |
| * 1887 | Floyd Dell | American author, feminist, journalist, and socialist. |
| * 1873 | Alexis Carrel | French surgeon and biologist. |
| * 1867 | Luigi Pirandello | Italian dramatist, novelist and short-story writer. |
| * 1818 | John Weiss | American author and clergyman, as well as a noted abolitionist. |
| * 1814 | Frederick Willaim Faber | English hymn writer and theologian. |
| * 1712 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Franco-Swiss philosopher of Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism. |
| * 1703 | John Wesley | English preacher, and founder of the Methodist movement. |
| * 1491 | Henry VIII of England | King of England from 1509 to 1547. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2008 | Ruslana Korshunova | Kazakhstani fashion model of Russian ethnicity. |
| † 2006 | Theodore Levitt | American economist and professor at Harvard Business School. |
| † 2001 | Mortimer Adler | American Aristotelian philosopher and author. |
| † 1994 | William A. Henry III | Award-winning American cultural critic and author. |
| † 1993 | GG Allin | Born Jesus Christ Allin, was an American punk rock singer-songwriter who performed and recorded with many punk groups during his career. |
| † 1992 | John (artist) Piper | English painter and printmaker. |
| † 1975 | Rod Serling | American writer, known primarily as Rod Serling; most famous for his science fiction TV series The Twilight Zone. |
| † 1971 | Franz Stangl | SS officer, commandant of the Sobibór and of Treblinka extermination camp. |
| † 1958 | Alfred Noyes | English poet. |
| † 1936 | Alexander Berkman | Prominent Russian-born anarchist, and a close associate of Emma Goldman. |
| † 1889 | Maria Mitchell | First American woman to work as a professional astronomer. |
| † 1836 | James Madison | Fourth (1809–1817) President of the United States. |
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