Births | ||
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| * 1969 | Yvette Cooper | British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford since 2010, having previously been MP for Pontefract and Castleford since 1997. |
| * 1968 | Paul Merson | Former footballer turned pundit. |
| * 1954 | Louis Sachar | American author of children's books. |
| * 1939 | Brian Mulroney | Predominantly known as Brian Mulroney, was the eighteenth Prime Minister of Canada from September 17, 1984, to June 25, 1993 and was leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1983 to 1993. |
| * 1924 | James Barr | Scottish Old Testament scholar. |
| * 1904 | B. F. Skinner | American behaviorist, author, inventor, baseball enthusiast, social philosopher and poet. |
| * 1883 | Paul Sophus Epstein | Russian-American mathematician/physicist. |
| * 1868 | Ernest Bramah | Author of a series of stories about Kai Lung, a Chinese storyteller, and was also the creator of the blind detective Max Carrados. |
| * 1828 | Henrik Ibsen | Norwegian playwright who was largely responsible for the rise of the modern realistic drama. |
| * 1770 | Friedrich Holderlin | Major German lyric poet, whose work bridges the Classical and Romantic schools. |
Deaths | ||
| † 1997 | V. S Pritchett | British short story writer, novelist, memoirist and critic. |
| † 1990 | Victor Rothschild Rothschild | British biologist. |
| † 1964 | Brendan Behan | Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright who wrote in both Irish and English. |
| † 1962 | C. Wright Mills | American sociologist, best remembered for studying the structure of power in the U S in his book The Power Elite. |
| † 1929 | Ferdinand Foch | French soldier and writer. |
| † 1903 | Charles Godfrey Leland | American humorist and folklorist. |
| † 1878 | Julius Robert von Mayer | German physician and physicist and one of the founders of thermodynamics. |
| † 1875 | John Mitchel | Irish nationalist activist, solicitor and political journalist. |
| † 1872 | Francisco Palau | Beatified Carmelite Spanish priest. |
| † 1870 | Thomas Erskine | Revisionary and constructive lay theologian in the early part of the 19th century. |
| † 1793 | William Murray Mansfield | Better known as Lord Mansfield, was a British barrister, politician and judge noted for his reform of English law. |
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