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Births

* 1977 Jaime Pressly American actress and model.
* 1975 Cherie Priest American novelist.
* 1970 Christopher Nolan Film director.
* 1958 Kate Bush English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer; sister of John Carder Bush.
* 1956 Lev Leviev Uzbek-born Israeli-British businessman.
* 1950 Harriet Harman British politician, Member of Parliament for Camberwell and Peckham and the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.
* 1947 Arnold Schwarzenegger Austrian-American actor, Republican politician, bodybuilder, businessman, who was the 38th Governor of California.
* 1947 Richard Griffiths Tony-award winning English actor who has appeared on stage, film and television.
* 1934 Bud Selig Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
* 1924 William H. Gass American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and former philosophy professor.
* 1922 Emil Wolf Czech born American physicist who made advancements in physical optics, including diffraction, coherence properties of optical fields, spectroscopy of partially coherent radiation, and the theory of direct scattering and inverse scattering.
* 1909 C. Northcote Parkinson British historian and author.
* 1900 Filipp Golikov Soviet military commander, promoted Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1961.
* 1898 Henry Moore English artist and sculptor.
* 1890 Casey Stengel American baseball player and manager from the early 1910s into the 1960s.
* 1889 Dorothy Wellesley Styled Lady Gerald Wellesley between 1914 and 1943, was an English socialite, author, poet and literary editor.
* 1881 Smedley Butler One of the most colorful officers in the Marine Corps' long history, was one of the two Marines who received two Medals of Honor for separate acts of outstanding heroism.
* 1863 Henry Ford Founder of the Ford Motor Company.
* 1857 Thorstein Veblen Born Tosten Bunde Veblen, was a Norwegian-American sociologist and economist and a leader of the Efficiency Movement, most famous for The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899).
* 1832 George Lemuel Woods American lawyer, judge, and politician.
* 1819 John Campbell Shairp Scottish critic and man of letters.
* 1818 Emily Bronte One of the Brontλ sisters, was an English novelist and poet who is most famous for her only novel, Wuthering Heights.
* 1763 Samuel Rogers English poet.
* 1726 William (ecclesiastic) Jones Known as William Jones of Nayland, was a British clergyman and author.

Deaths

† 2007 Ingmar Bergman Swedish director and screenwriter whose unique cinematographic style made him one of the most notable directors of the twentieth century.
† 2007 Michelangelo Antonioni Italian modernist film director whose films are widely considered among the most influential in film aesthetics.
† 2007 Ali Meshkini Iranian cleric and politician and the chairman of the Assembly of Experts.
† 2006 Murray Bookchin American libertarian socialist speaker and writer.
† 1996 Claudette Colbert French-born American stage and film actress.
† 1976 Rudolf Bultmann German theologian of Lutheran background, who was for three decades professor of New Testament studies at the University of Marburg.
† 1975 Jimmy Hoffa American labor union leader and author.
† 1975 James Blish American author of fantasy and science fiction.
† 1918 Joyce Kilmer American journalist and poet.
† 1898 Otto von Bismarck German aristocrat and statesman; Prime Minister of Prussia (1862–1890), First Chancellor of Germany (1871–1890); he is nicknamed the Iron Chancellor and is noted for the laconicity of his statements.
† 1894 Walter Pater English essayist and literary critic.
† 1870 Lyman Heath American vocalist and composer.
† 1771 Thomas Gray English poet, classical scholar, and professor of history at Cambridge University.
† 1718 William Penn Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania, the British North American colony that became the U S state of Pennsylvania.
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