Births | ||
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| * 1979 | Julian Sanchez | American libertarian writer living in Washington, D C. |
| * 1965 | Aamir Khan | Indian actor, director, producer and activist. |
| * 1957 | Franco Frattini | Italian politician. |
| * 1948 | Tom Coburn | United States Senator from Oklahoma. |
| * 1947 | Pam Ayres | British writer of humorous poetry. |
| * 1934 | Eugene Cernan | Former American astronaut. |
| * 1928 | Frank Borman | Retired NASA astronaut and engineer, best remembered as the Commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the Moon, making him, along with fellow crew mates Jim Lovell and Bill Anders, the first of only 24 humans to do so He was also the chief executive officer of Eastern Air Lines from 1975 to 1986. |
| * 1925 | John Wain | British poet, anthologist and journalist. |
| * 1912 | W. Willard Wirtz | Former United States Secretary of Labor. |
| * 1908 | Maurice Merleau-Ponty | French phenomenological philosopher. |
| * 1903 | Adolph Gottlieb | American abstract expressionist painter and sculptor. |
| * 1879 | Albert Einstein | Theoretical physicist and humanist who is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists of all time. |
| * 1879 | Harold Monro | Belgian-born British poet, publisher, bookseller and anthologist. |
| * 1835 | Giovanni Schiaparelli | Italian astronomer, noted for his observations of Mars and Mercury. |
Deaths | ||
| † 1995 | William Alfred Fowler | American astrophysicist, who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe. |
| † 1989 | Edward Abbey | American writer noted for his advocacy of environmental issues and criticism of public land policies. |
| † 1977 | Fannie Lou Hamer | Born Fannie Lou Townsend, was an American voting rights activist and civil rights leader. |
| † 1973 | Howard H. Aiken | Pioneer in computing, being the primary engineer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer. |
| † 1946 | Werner von Blomberg | Leading member of the German Army until January 1938. |
| † 1917 | Zenas Ferry Moody | Republican governor of Oregon from 1882 to 1887. |
| † 1883 | Karl Marx | German political philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. |
| † 1471 | Thomas Malory | English author. |
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