Births | ||
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| * 1981 | Jonah Lehrer | American author and editor of Wired magazine, who writes on the topics of psychology, neuroscience, and the relationship between science and the humanities. |
| * 1963 | Yann Martel | Canadian author most famous for his Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi. |
| * 1956 | Anthony Bourdain | American author and the "Chef-at-Large" of Brasserie Les Halles, based in New York City with locations in Miami, Florida, and Washington, D C Bourdain is also host of the Travel Channel's culinary and cultural adventure program, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. |
| * 1954 | Sonia Sotomayor | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (since 2009), and a former judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1998–2009) and of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1992–1998). |
| * 1946 | Romeo Dallaire | Canadian senator, humanitarian, author and retired general. |
| * 1932 | Peter Blake | English pop artist. |
| * 1929 | Eric Carle | Children's book author and illustrator. |
| * 1928 | Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov | Russian theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. |
| * 1925 | Robert Venturi | Philadelphia-based architect who worked under Eero Saarinen and Louis Kahn before forming his own firm with John Rauch. |
| * 1918 | Sid Tepper | American songwriter. |
| * 1908 | Willard van Orman Quine | Influential 20th Century American philosopher and logician. |
| * 1903 | George Orwell | Pen name of British novelist, essayist, and journalist Eric Arthur Blair. |
| * 1900 | Louis Mountbatten | British admiral and statesman. |
| * 1852 | Antonio Gaudi | Also known as Antonio Gaudí, was a Catalan architect famous for his highly individual designs. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2009 | Michael Jackson | American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. |
| † 1997 | Jacques-Yves Cousteau | French naval officer, inventor, explorer and researcher. |
| † 1995 | Warren E. Burger | Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986. |
| † 1984 | Michel Foucault | French philosopher and historian, Professor of the History of Systems of Thought at the Coll?ge de France from 1970 until his death in 1984, revolutionized the academic study of the history of medicine, sexuality, penality, the liberal state and classical ethics, and contributed to the philosophy of language and aesthetics. |
| † 1976 | Johnny Mercer | Popular American songwriter and singer. |
| † 1961 | Miriam Ferguson | Became the first female Governor of Texas in 1924, and the second female state governor in the United States. |
| † 1940 | Wilhelm Stekel | Austrian psychologist and psychoanalyst. |
| † 1916 | Thomas Eakins | American painter, sculptor, photographer and art instructor. |
| † 1822 | E. T. A. Hoffmann | Better known by his pen name E T A Hoffmann, was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. |
| † 1684 | Robert (bishop) Leighton | Scottish prelate and scholar, best known as a church minister, Bishop of Dunblane, Archbishop of Glasgow, and Principal of the University of Edinburgh from 1653 to 1662. |
| † 1634 | John Marston | English poet, playwright and satirist. |
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