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* 1973 | Bun B | Better known by his stage name Bun B, is an American rapper. |
* 1955 | Bruce Willis | American actor. |
* 1933 | Philip Roth | American novelist. |
* 1933 | Michel Sabbah | Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem. |
* 1930 | Ornette Coleman | American jazz saxophonist and composer. |
* 1928 | Hans Kung | Swiss Catholic priest, theologian, and prolific author. |
* 1928 | Patrick McGoohan | Irish actor and director, most famous for playing the title role in the Prisoner and John Drake in Danger Man as well as playing the murderer in many Columbo films. |
* 1927 | Allen Newell | American researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and Turing Award laureates in 1957 with Herbert Simon. |
* 1922 | Hiroo Onoda | Former Japanese army intelligence officer who fought in World War II, and did not surrender until 1974, having spent almost thirty years holding out in the Philippines. |
* 1912 | Adolf Galland | World War II German fighter pilot and commander of Germany's fighter force from 1941 to 1945. |
* 1906 | Adolf Eichmann | High-ranking Nazi and SS-Obersturmbannführer. |
* 1905 | Albert Speer | Commonly known as Albert Speer, was an architect, author and high-ranking Nazi German government official, sometimes called "the first architect of the Third Reich". |
* 1894 | Moms Mabley | African American comedienne. |
* 1891 | Earl Warren | 30th Governor of California (1943–1953) and 14th Chief Justice of the United States (1953–1969). |
* 1888 | Joseph Albers | German artist, mathematician and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the 20th century. |
* 1873 | Max Reger | German composer, conductor, pianist, organist, and academic teacher. |
* 1866 | Emilio De Bono | Italian general who fought in World War I and fascist activist who helped organize the Italian Fascist Party. |
* 1860 | William Jennings Bryan | American lawyer, statesman, and politician. |
* 1848 | Wyatt Earp | Officer of the law, gambler and saloon keeper in the Wild West. |
* 1824 | William Allingham | Irish man of letters and poet. |
* 1821 | Sir Richard Francis Burton | British consul, explorer, translator, writer, poet, Orientalist and swordsman known for his often-unprecedented exploits of travel and exploration as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. |
* 1813 | David Livingstone | Scottish missionary and explorer of the Victorian era, now best remembered because of his meeting with Henry Morton Stanley which gave rise to the popular quotation, "Dr Livingstone, I presume?". |
* 1590 | William Bradford | Leader of the Pilgrim settlers of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, and became Governor of the Plymouth Colony. |
Deaths | ||
† 2008 | Arthur C. Clarke | British author, inventor and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World. |
† 2008 | Paul Scofield | Award-winning English actor of stage and screen. |
† 1997 | Willem de Kooning | Abstract expressionist painter, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands. |
† 1996 | W. H. Murray | Mountain climber and Scottish author. |
† 1996 | Virginia Henderson | American nurse, researcher, theorist and author. |
† 1987 | Louis de Broglie | French physicist became a Nobel laureate in 1929 for his theory on wave–particle duality. |
† 1967 | Frederick E. Morgan | British army officer in the Second World War, famous as the original planner of Operation Overlord. |
† 1957 | Burton Rascoe | American journalist, editor and literary critic. |
† 1955 | Leonid Govorov | Soviet military commander, was appointed as instructor in tactics at the Dzerzhinskiy Artillery Academy in 1938. |
† 1950 | Edgar Rice Burroughs | American author of science-fiction and adventure stories, most famous for the creation of the jungle-born hero Tarzan. |
† 1930 | Arthur Balfour | British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 until 1905. |
† 1907 | Thomas Bailey Aldrich | Poet and novelist born in Portsmouth, USA. |
† 1711 | Thomas Ken | English churchman, was the most eminent of the English non-juring bishops, and one of the fathers of modern English hymnology. |
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