Births | ||
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| * 1971 | Robert Gibbs | White House Press Secretary for President Barack Obama. |
| * 1968 | Lucy Lawless | New Zealand actress and singer best known for playing the title character of the television series Xena: Warrior Princess and for her role as Number Three on the series Battlestar Galactica. |
| * 1958 | Nouriel Roubini | Turkish-American professor of economics at New York University and chairman of the economic website Roubini Global Economics. |
| * 1957 | Elizabeth Hand | American writer, whose first story, "Prince of Flowers", was published in 1988 in Twilight Zone magazine, and her first novel, Winterlong, was published in 1990. |
| * 1943 | John Major | British politician who served as Prime Minister from 1990 to 1997. |
| * 1943 | Eric Idle | British comedian, writer, and actor. |
| * 1934 | Paul Crouch | Co-founder, chairman, and president of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, the world's largest Christian television network. |
| * 1931 | Norman Tebbit | British Conservative politician. |
| * 1929 | Richard Lewontin | American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and social commentator. |
| * 1929 | Sheldon Kopp | American psychotherapist and author. |
| * 1918 | Pearl Bailey | American actress and singer. |
| * 1916 | Eugene McCarthy | American politician from the U S state of Minnesota, serving in the U S House of Representatives (1949–1959) and the U S Senate from 1959 to 1971 and playing a major role in the 1968 presidential election, unsuccessfully seeking the Democratic nomination on an anti-Vietnam War platform. |
| * 1913 | R. S. Thomas | Published as R S Thomas, was a Welsh poet and Anglican Clergyman, noted for his nationalism and spirituality. |
| * 1899 | Lavrentiy Beria | Soviet politician, and chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus under Stalin. |
| * 1853 | Elihu Thomson | Engineer and inventor who was instrumental in the founding of major electrical companies in the United States, United Kingdom and France. |
| * 1790 | John Tyler | Tenth (1841) Vice President of the United States, and the tenth (1841–1845) President of the United States. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2005 | Johnnie Cochran | Famed African American defense attorney best known for his role in the "Dream Team" of legal defense for O J Simpson during his highly publicized murder trial. |
| † 1999 | Sheldon Kopp | American psychotherapist and author. |
| † 1994 | Eugene Ionesco | Born Eugen Ionescu, was a French-Romanian playwright and dramatist, one of the foremost playwrights of Theatre of the Absurd. |
| † 1991 | Lee Atwater | American political consultant and Republican party strategist. |
| † 1982 | Carl Orff | German composer, most famous for his cantata Carmina Burana (1937). |
| † 1970 | Vera Brittain | English writer, feminist and pacifist, best remembered as the author of the best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth, recounting her experiences during World War I and the growth of her ideology of pacifism. |
| † 1912 | Robert Falcon Scott | Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions. |
| † 1866 | John Keble | English churchman, one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement, and gave his name to Keble College, Oxford. |
| † 1848 | John Jacob Astor | Originally either Johann Jakob or Johann Jacob, was the first of the Astor family dynasty and the first millionaire in the United States, making his fortune in the fur trade, real estate, and opium industries. |
| † 1788 | Charles Wesley | Leader of the Methodist movement, the younger brother of John Wesley. |
| † 1772 | Emanuel Swedenborg | Swedish philosopher, mystic, and scientist. |
| † 1552 | Guru Angad Dev | ) was the second of The Ten Gurus of Sikhism. |
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