Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1994 | Justin Bieber | Pop and R&B singer from Canada. |
| * 1963 | Mark Kingwell | Canadian philosopher who is professor of philosophy and associate chair at the University of Toronto's Department of Philosophy. |
| * 1963 | Miss Shangay Lily | Best known for being Spain's first and most famous drag queen. |
| * 1959 | Nicholas John Griffin | British politician, chairman of the British National Party and Member of the European Parliament for North West England. |
| * 1950 | Dave Marsh | American music critic and historian. |
| * 1946 | Jim Crace | British novelist. |
| * 1943 | Richard H. Price | Leading American physicist, well known for his important work in general relativity. |
| * 1942 | Louis V. Gerstner | Chairman of the board of IBM from April 1993 until his retirement in December 2002. |
| * 1939 | Tzvetan Todorov | French philosopher of Bulgarian origin. |
| * 1928 | Seymour Papert | MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and prominent educator. |
| * 1925 | Theodore Levitt | American economist and professor at Harvard Business School. |
| * 1922 | Yitzhak Rabin | Israeli general, statesman and prime minister, who won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize. |
| * 1922 | Michael Flanders | English actor, broadcaster, and writer and performer of comic songs. |
| * 1921 | Richard Wilbur | American poet, a former United States Poet Laureate and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. |
| * 1917 | Robert Lowell | American poet. |
| * 1913 | Ralph Ellison | American scholar and writer, most famous for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. |
| * 1899 | Erich von dem Bach | Born Erich Julius Eberhard von Zelewski, was a Nazi official and a member of the SS, in which he reached the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer. |
| * 1886 | Oskar Kokoschka | Austrian artist and poet of Czech origin, best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes. |
| * 1880 | Manfred Kyber | German writer, theater critic, playwright and poet. |
| * 1880 | Lytton Strachey | English biographer, critic and leading light of the Bloomsbury group. |
| * 1879 | Aleksandar Stamboliyski | Prime minister of Bulgaria from 1919 until 1923. |
| * 1837 | William Dean Howells | American realist author and literary critic. |
| * 1807 | Wilford Woodruff | Fourth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, from 1889 until his death in 1898. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2012 | Andrew Breitbart | American publisher, commentator for the Washington Times, author, an occasional guest commentator on various news programs who has served as an editor for the Drudge Report website. |
| † 2006 | Harry Browne | Free-market libertarian writer and investment analyst who was the Presidential candidate of the United States Libertarian Party in 1996 and 2000. |
| † 1991 | Edwin H. Land | American scientist and inventor. |
| † 1986 | Tommy Farr | One of the most famous Welsh boxers of the 20th century. |
| † 1983 | Arthur Koestler | Hungarian-Jewish novelist, philosopher, and political activist who lived much of his life in England. |
| † 1973 | Lev Artsimovich | Russian physicist, who worked on the field of nuclear fusion and plasma physics. |
| † 1966 | Fritz Houtermans | Dutch-Austrian-German atomic and nuclear physicist who made important contributions to geochemistry and cosmochemistry. |
| † 1958 | Giacomo Balla | Italian painter born in Turin, in the Piedmont region of Italy, the son of an industrial chemist. |
| † 1950 | Alfred Korzybski | Polish engineer, mathematician, and philosopher, most famous for creating the theory of General Semantics. |
| † 1912 | George Grossmith | English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer. |
| † 1862 | Peter (mathematician) Barlow | English mathematician and physicist. |
| † 1757 | Edward Moore | English dramatist and miscellaneous writer, the son of a dissenting minister, born at Abingdon, Berkshire. |
| † 1734 | Roger North | English lawyer, biographer and amateur musician. |
| † 1633 | George Herbert | English poet and orator. |
| † 1620 | Thomas Campion | English composer, poet and physician. |
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