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Births

* 1963 Vytautas Juozapaitis Lithuanian opera singer, a soloist of Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre and Kaunas State Musical Theatre, a professor of Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and a docent of Vilnius College of Higher Education, the recipient of Lithuanian National Prize and all major Lithuanian scene awards.
* 1958 Mike Scott Scottish musician, who became famous as the founding member and chief songwriter of the musical group The Waterboys.
* 1951 Amy Hempel American short story writer, journalist, and university professor at Brooklyn College.
* 1948 Lester Bangs American journalist best known for his rock music criticism.
* 1947 Dilma Rousseff Brazilian economist and politician of Bulgarian origin.
* 1941 Ellen Willis American essayist and critic.
* 1938 Stewart Brand Author, editor, and creator of The Whole Earth Catalog and CoEvolution Quarterly.
* 1916 Shirley Jackson Influential American author.
* 1902 Thomas A. Bailey American historian based at Stanford University, who specialised in diplomatic history.
* 1897 Margaret Chase Smith American politician, a Republican Senator from Maine, the first woman to be elected to both the US House and the Senate, and the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for the US Presidency at a major party convention (1964 Republican).
* 1895 Paul Eluard French poet who was active in the Dada and Surrealist movements.
* 1895 George VI of the United Kingdom .
* 1886 Charles Seeger Musicologist, composer, and teacher.
* 1883 Morihei Ueshiba Philosopher, martial artist, author, and the creator of the discipline of Aikido.
* 1853 Errico Malatesta Italian anarcho-communist.
* 1852 Daniel De Leon Curaηao-born American socialist and Syndicalism-influenced trade unionist of Spanish Jewish origin.
* 1836 Frances Ridley Havergal English religious poet and hymn writer.
* 1811 Noah Porter American academic, philosopher, author, lexicographer and President of Yale College (1871–1886).
* 1801 Joseph Lane American general during the Mexican-American War and a United States Senator from Oregon.
* 1791 Charles Wolfe Irish poet.
* 1631 Anne Conway English philosopher, cited as an influence by Leibniz, and an early convert to Quakerism.
* 1503 or Michel de Nostredame) Nostradamus (Michel de Notredame French physician, astrologer, occultist and author of almanacs, most famous for his book Les Propheties; known primarily as Nostradamus, the latinization of his given name.

Deaths

† 1991 John Arlott English journalist, author and cricket commentator for the BBC's Test Match Special.
† 1990 Friedrich Durrenmatt Swiss author and dramatist.
† 1989 Andrei Sakharov Eminent Soviet-Russian nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist.
† 1974 Walter Lippmann Influential United States writer, journalist, and political commentator.
† 1974 Kurt Hahn German-born British educator and founder of several innovative educational movements, including Outward Bound.
† 1959 Stanley Spencer English painter.
† 1948 Alfred Cochrane Accomplished cricketer, and subsequently made his name as a writer on sporting subjects and of light verse.
† 1947 Stanley Baldwin Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on three separate occasions (1923–24, 1924–29 and 1935–37).
† 1945 Maurice Baring Versatile English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist, and also as a travel writer and war correspondent.
† 1873 Louis Agassiz Swiss-born American zoologist, glaciologist, and geologist and one of the first world-class American scientists.
† 1861 Prince Consort Albert Husband of Queen Victoria.
† 1799 George Washington Successful Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783, and later became the first President of the United States, an office to which he was elected, unanimously, twice and remained in from 1789 to 1797.
† 1788 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach German musician and composer.
† 1591 John of the Cross Spanish Carmelite mystic and poet.
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