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Births

* 1986 Patrick (American football) White Redshirted junior NCAA American football player for the West Virginia Mountaineers.
* 1982 Bert McCracken Professionally known as Bert McCracken, is the lead singer of the American rock band The Used.
* 1981 Park Ji-Sung Professional South Korean footballer who plays for the English football club Manchester United in the Premier League, as well as the South Korean national football team.
* 1975 Chelsea Handler American standup comedian, humorist, television host, actress and author.
* 1964 Lee Evans English stand-up comedian and actor.
* 1954 John Doe American singer, songwriter and bass player who was the founder of the seminal L A punk band X.
* 1953 Jose Maria Aznar Spanish politician who served as the President of the Government of Spain from 1996 to 2004.
* 1950 Bhakti Tirtha Swami Also known as Swami Krishnapada, was a prominent scholar, Gaudiya Vaishnava Hindu teacher, and religious leader of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, commonly known as the Hare Krishna Movement.
* 1949 Jack Handey American humorist.
* 1943 George Harrison British songwriter, musician and film producer best known as a member of The Beatles.
* 1941 David Puttnam British movie producer and director.
* 1939 John Leonard American literary, TV, film and cultural critic.
* 1930 Wendy Beckett And is a South African-born British art expert, consecrated virgin and contemplative hermit who became an unlikely celebrity during the 1990s, presenting a series of acclaimed art history documentaries for the BBC.
* 1920 Sun Myung Moon Founder of the Unification Church, a new religious movement.
* 1918 Peg Bracken American author.
* 1917 Anthony Burgess English writer whose novels include the Malayan trilogy, A Clockwork Orange, the Enderby cycle, Nothing Like The Sun, Earthly Powers and The Kingdom Of The Wicked.
* 1915 Sinnathamby Rajaratnam Former Foreign Minister (1965-1980) and Second Deputy Prime Minister (1980-1985) of Singapore.
* 1914 John Arlott English journalist, author and cricket commentator for the BBC's Test Match Special.
* 1894 Meher Baba Indian mystic who publicly declared in 1954 that he was the Avatar of the age.
* 1888 John Foster Dulles Served as U S Secretary of State under President Dwight D Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959.
* 1861 Rudolf Steiner Austrian philosopher, literary scholar, architect, playwright, educator, and social thinker.
* 1841 Pierre-Auguste Renoir French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style.
* 1778 Jose de San Martin Argentine general and the primary leader of the southern part of South America's successful struggle for independence from Spain.
* 1707 Carlo Goldoni Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice.
* 1701 Thomas Adam Church of England clergyman and religious writer.

Deaths

† 2013 C. Everett Koop American physician.
† 2009 Philip Jose Farmer American author, principally known for his science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories, especially those of his Riverworld series.
† 2005 Peter Benenson British lawyer and the founder of human rights organisation Amnesty International.
† 1999 Glenn T. Seaborg American scientist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements".
† 1983 Tennessee Williams American playwright.
† 1980 Robert Hayden Born Asa Bundy Sheffey, was an American poet, essayist, and educator.
† 1970 Mark Rothko Born Marcus Rothkowitz, was a Latvian-born American painter sometimes classified as an Abstract Expressionist.
† 1934 John McGraw Considered to be one of the greatest managers in baseball history.
† 1919 Henry Charles Beeching English clergyman, author and poet.
† 1914 John Tenniel British illustrator, graphic humorist and political cartoonist, most famous for his association with Lewis Carroll and his works.
† 1852 Thomas Moore Irish poet and hymnist, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Last Rose of Summer.
† 1723 Christopher Wren 17th century English designer, astronomer, geometer, and one of the greatest English architects in history.
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