Births | ||
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| * 1974 | Jewel (singer) | Singer-songwriter, actress, philanthropist, and author, usually known by simply her first name, Jewel. |
| * 1958 | Mitch Albom | Sportswriter, novelist, newspaper columnist for the Detroit Free Press, syndicated radio host, and TV commentator. |
| * 1958 | Lea DeLaria | American comedian and jazz musician. |
| * 1958 | Drew Carey | Actor, comedian and game show host famous for his black-rimmed glasses. |
| * 1934 | Robert Moog | Considered the "father" of the synthesizer and a pioneer of electronic music. |
| * 1921 | James Blish | American author of fantasy and science fiction. |
| * 1921 | Humphrey Lyttelton | English jazz musician and broadcaster, for 36 years chairman of the BBC radio programme I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. |
| * 1910 | Franz Kline | American painter mainly associated with the Abstract Expressionist group which was centered, geographically, around New York, and temporally, in the 1940s and 1950s; but not limited to that setting. |
| * 1910 | Artie Shaw | Considered to be one of the best jazz musicians of his time. |
| * 1908 | John Bardeen | American physicist. |
| * 1900 | Hans Frank | German lawyer who worked for the Nazi party during the 1920s and 1930s and a senior official in Nazi Germany. |
| * 1848 | Otto Lilienthal | German "Glider King," was a pioneer of human aviation. |
| * 1810 | Margaret Fuller | American author, journalist, critic and women's rights activist. |
| * 1799 | Thomas Hood | English humorist and poet. |
| * 1735 | Charles-Joseph Ligne | Field marshal and writer, and member of a princely family of Hainaut. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2008 | Utah Phillips | Labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller, poet and self-described "Golden Voice of the Great Southwest". |
| † 2006 | Lloyd Bentsen | Four-term United States senator (1971 until 1993) from Texas and the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President in 1988. |
| † 1998 | Telford Taylor | American lawyer best known for his role in the Counsel for the Prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II, his opposition to Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s, and his outspoken criticism of U S actions during the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s. |
| † 1986 | Sterling Hayden | American actor, writer and seaman. |
| † 1975 | Moms Mabley | African American comedienne. |
| † 1965 | David Smith | American Abstract Expressionist sculptor best known for creating large steel abstract geometric sculptures. |
| † 1949 | W. W. Hansen | U S physicist who was one of the founders of the technology of microwave electronics. |
| † 1945 | Heinrich Himmler | Commander of the German Schutzstaffel and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany. |
| † 1937 | John D. Rockefeller | American business tycoon, industrialist, and book-keeper, most famous for his role in the early petroleum-industry and the founding of Standard Oil. |
| † 1906 | Henrik Ibsen | Norwegian playwright who was largely responsible for the rise of the modern realistic drama. |
| † 1870 | Mark Lemon | Editor of Punch, born in London, England. |
| † 1857 | Augustin Louis Cauchy | One of the most prominent mathematicians of the first half of the nineteenth century. |
| † 1825 | Mason Weems | Often referred to as Parson Weems, was an American printer and author known as the author of Life of Washington (1806), the source for several of the most famous legends about George Washington, "the Father of his Country," including the famous tale of the cherry tree. |
| † 1783 | James Otis | Lawyer in colonial Massachusetts who was an early advocate of the political views that led to the American Revolution. |
| † 1498 | Girolamo Savonarola | Italian Dominican priest and leader of Florence from 1494 until his execution in 1498. |
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