Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1978 | Katherine Heigl | American actress and producer. |
| * 1961 | Arundhati Roy | Indian writer and social activist. |
| * 1954 | Emir Kusturica | Sarajevo-born film director. |
| * 1948 | Spider Robinson | American-born Canadian Hugo and Nebula award winning science fiction author. |
| * 1948 | Rudy Tomjanovich | Nicknamed Rudy T, is an American basketball player and coach who won two NBA Championships as the head coach of the Houston Rockets, in 1994 and 1995. |
| * 1944 | Dan Glickman | American politician. |
| * 1942 | Billy Connolly | Comedian, Musician, Presenter, and Actor. |
| * 1942 | Jean Ping | Gabonese diplomat and politician who is currently the Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union. |
| * 1925 | William F. Buckley | American author, conservative journalist, who founded the conservative political magazine National Review in 1955 and hosted the award-winning television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999. |
| * 1925 | Simon Van der Meer | Dutch accelerator physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 for his contributions to the project which led to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN. |
| * 1922 | Claus Moser | British statistician who has made major contributions in both academia and the Civil Service. |
| * 1922 | Martti Siirala | Finnish psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and philosopher. |
| * 1888 | Dale Carnegie | American writer, lecturer and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking and interpersonal skills. |
| * 1887 | Erich von Manstein | Served the German military as a lifelong professional soldier. |
| * 1886 | Margaret Caroline Anderson | Founder and editor of the celebrated literary magazine The Little Review, which published an extraordinary collection of modern American, English and Irish writers between 1914 and 1929. |
| * 1882 | Eric Rucker Eddison | Who wrote under the name E R Eddison, was an English fantasy writer best known for his novels The Worm Ouroboros, Mistress of Mistresses and A Fish Dinner in Memison. |
| * 1849 | Frances Hodgson Burnett | English–American playwright and author. |
| * 1828 | George Augustus Henry Sala | English journalist. |
| * 1784 | Zachary Taylor | Also known as "Old Rough and Ready," was the twelfth President of the United States, serving from 1849 to 1850. |
| * 1729 | Alexander Suvorov | Russian Generalissimo. |
| * 1713 | Laurence Sterne | Anglo-Irish novelist and clergyman. |
| * 1632 | Baruch Spinoza | Social and metaphysical philosopher famous for the elaborate development of his monist philosophy, which has become known as Spinozism. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2006 | George W. S. Trow | American essayist, novelist, playwright, and media critic. |
| † 2002 | John Rawls | American philosopher, a professor of political philosophy at Harvard University. |
| † 2001 | Melanie Thornton | American pop singer who fronted the Eurodance group La Bouche, who formed hits such as "Be My Lover" and "Sweet Dreams" in the mid-1990s. |
| † 1998 | Nicholas Kurti | Hungarian-born physicist who lived in Oxford, UK, for most of his life. |
| † 1997 | Barbara (singer) | Known as Barbara, was a popular French female singer. |
| † 1991 | Freddie Mercury | Born Farrokh Bulsara, was a Parsi-British musician, most famous as the lead singer of the rock band Queen. |
| † 1990 | Fred Shero | Canadian professional ice hockey player and head coach, who is most well known for coaching the Philadelphia Flyers to two Stanley Cups. |
| † 1980 | George Raft | American film actor and dancer. |
| † 1958 | Robert Cecil | Lawyer, politician and diplomat. |
| † 1946 | Laszlo Moholy-Nagy | Hungarian painter and photographer as well as professor in the Bauhaus school. |
| † 1940 | James Craig | Prominent Irish unionist politician, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party and the first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. |
| † 1929 | Georges Clemenceau | French journalist, physician and statesman. |
| † 1860 | George Croly | Dublin-born poet, novelist, historian, and divine. |
| † 1572 | John Knox | Key figure in the Protestant Reformation and spearheaded the Scottish Reformation and the Presbyterian denomination. |
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z