Births | ||
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| * 1982 | Kelly Clarkson | American singer-songwriter and actress who has enjoyed success in the pop and rock music genres. |
| * 1973 | Sachin Tendulkar | Often referred to as The Little Master or The Master Blaster, is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. |
| * 1954 | Mumia Abu-Jamal | Former Black Panther activist, convicted murderer, and journalist on death row in the United States. |
| * 1942 | Barbra Streisand | American singer, actress, director and songwriter. |
| * 1941 | Richard Holbrooke | American advisor, diplomat, political scientist, investment banker, and historian. |
| * 1940 | Sue Grafton | Contemporary American author of detective novels. |
| * 1931 | Bridget Riley | English painter who is one of the foremost proponents of Op art, which exploits the fallibility of the human eye. |
| * 1924 | Clement Freud | British writer, broadcaster and politician. |
| * 1908 | George Oppen | American poet, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist group of poets. |
| * 1906 | William Joyce | Propaganda broadcaster for Nazi Germany during World War II, best known by his British listeners as Lord Haw Haw. |
| * 1905 | Robert Penn Warren | American poet, novelist, and literary critic, and one of the founders of New Criticism. |
| * 1904 | Willem de Kooning | Abstract expressionist painter, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands. |
| * 1903 | Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera | Spanish politician who was the founder of the Falangism political ideology, which is generally regarded as a form of Fascism. |
| * 1889 | Stafford Cripps | British Labour politician. |
| * 1889 | Lyubov Popova | Russian avant-garde Cubist, Suprematist and Constructivist painter and designer. |
| * 1879 | Felix Ehrenhaft | Austrian physicist who contributed to atomic physics, to the measurement of electrical charges and to the optical properties of metal colloids. |
| * 1876 | Erich Raeder | Naval leader in Germany before and during World War II Raeder attained the highest possible naval rank – that of Großadmiral – in 1939, becoming the first person to hold that rank since Alfred von Tirpitz. |
| * 1862 | A. C. Benson | British essayist, poet and author. |
| * 1815 | Anthony Trollope | One of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. |
| * 1750 | John Trumbull | American poet born in what is now Watertown, Connecticut, where his father was a Congregational preacher. |
| * 1581 | Vincent de Paul | Roman Catholic priest who helped found many charitable organizations, including the Daughters of Charity and the Lazarists. |
| * 1533 | William the Silent | Also widely known as William the Silent, was the main leader of the Dutch revolt against Spain that set off the Eighty Years' War and resulted in the formal independence of the United Provinces in 1648. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2011 | Sathya Sai Baba | Born Sathya Narayana Raju, was a popular Indian guru. |
| † 2011 | Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu | Also known as Madame Ngô Đ?nh Nhu and born Tr?n L? Xuân, was considered the First Lady of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963. |
| † 2010 | Pierre Hadot | Honorary professor at the Coll?ge de France, perhaps the world's leading historian of ancient philosophy, and a philosopher of note in his own right. |
| † 2002 | Barbara Grizzuti Harrison | American journalist, essayist and memoirist. |
| † 1986 | Duchess of Windsor Wallis | American wife of Edward, Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII. |
| † 1986 | Bill Edrich | English cricketer. |
| † 1976 | Mark Tobey | One of the earliest American abstract expressionist painters; he was born in Centerville, Wisconsin. |
| † 1960 | Max von Laue | German physicist who was awarded the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals. |
| † 1947 | Willa Cather | Among the most eminent American authors, known for her depictions of US life in her novels. |
| † 1936 | Finley Peter Dunne | Chicago-based U S author, writer and humorist. |
| † 1933 | Felix Adler | Jewish professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, popular lecturer, religious leader and social reformer who founded the Ethical Culture movement, and is often considered one of the main influences on modern Humanistic Judaism. |
| † 1891 | Helmuth von Moltke | Chief of Staff of the Prussian General Staff from 1857 to 1871 and then of the Great General Staff from 1871 to 1888. |
| † 1881 | James Thomas Fields | American publisher and author. |
| † 1875 | William Winwood Reade | Scottish philosopher, historian, anthropologist and explorer born in Perthshire, Scotland. |
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