Births | ||
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| * 1992 | Demi Lovato | American singer, songwriter and actress. |
| * 1970 | John D. Carmack | American game programmer, and a co-founder and technical director of id Software. |
| * 1962 | James Marsters | Actor, best known for playing the popular character Spike, a vampire, in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff series Angel. |
| * 1961 | Greg Egan | Australian computer programmer and science fiction author. |
| * 1958 | Patricia Rozema | Canadian film director and screenwriter, who first came to international prominence with her award winning film I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987). |
| * 1951 | Greg Bear | Science fiction author. |
| * 1941 | Slobodan Milosevic | President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia. |
| * 1940 | Tom DeMarco | Well-known author, teacher, and speaker on software engineering topics. |
| * 1935 | Ron Paul | Physician and a Republican United States Congressman from Lake Jackson, Texas, and candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in 1988, 2008 and 2012. |
| * 1933 | George J. Mitchell | American special envoy to the Middle East for the Obama administration. |
| * 1913 | Roger Wolcott Sperry | Neuropsychologist, neurobiologist and pioneer in the sciences of consciousness who, together with David H Hubel and Torsten Wiesel, won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine, for his independent work in split-brain research. |
| * 1898 | Leopold Infeld | Polish physicist. |
| * 1892 | George Aiken | American politician from Vermont. |
| * 1890 | H. P. Lovecraft | American author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, noted for combining these three genres within single narratives and possibly best known for the creation of the Cthulhu Mythos. |
| * 1888 | Eric Blom | Swiss-born British music critic and lexicographer. |
| * 1886 | Paul Tillich | Theologian and existentialist philosopher. |
| * 1884 | Rudolf Bultmann | German theologian of Lutheran background, who was for three decades professor of New Testament studies at the University of Marburg. |
| * 1874 | Mehmed Talat | Also known as "Talat Pasha", was one of the first important members of the Committee of Union and Progress. |
| * 1847 | Boleslaw Prus | Polish journalist and novelist known as the leading representative of realism in 19th-century Polish literature. |
| * 1833 | Benjamin Harrison | 23rd (1889–1893) President of the United States. |
| * 1829 | Henry Parry Liddon | English theologian and clergyman. |
| * 1810 | Ludwig August von Rochau | Journalist and politcian who participated in the Frankfurt Putsch of 1833 and subsequently spent ten years as an exile in France. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2007 | Leona Helmsley | Billionaire New York City hotel operator and real estate investor. |
| † 2001 | Fred Hoyle | British astronomer and science fiction author. |
| † 1972 | A.M. Klein | Canadian author. |
| † 1914 | Pope Pius X | 257th Pope — the Bishop of Rome and head of the Roman Catholic Church, serving from 1903 to 1914. |
| † 1912 | William Booth | British theologian and the founder of The Salvation Army. |
| † 1899 | Isaac McLellan | Author and poet, some of whose work has achieved notability by republication in anthologies. |
| † 1854 | Friedrich Schelling | Later von Schelling, was a German philosopher. |
| † 1701 | Charles Sedley | English wit and dramatist. |
| † 1648 | Edward Herbert | British soldier, diplomat, historian, poet, autobiographer and metaphysician, sometimes called "the father of deism". |
| † 1643 | Anne Hutchinson | Puritan preacher and religious dissident, banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for her activities; born Anne Marbury. |
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