Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1981 | Elijah Wood | American actor. |
| * 1978 | Gianluigi Buffon | Italian FIFA World Cup-winning goalkeeper. |
| * 1971 | Anthony Hamilton | American R&B, and soul singer-songwriter, and record producer who rose to fame with his platinum-selling second studio album Comin' from Where I'm From (2003). |
| * 1968 | Sarah McLachlan | Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. |
| * 1956 | Tim Flannery | Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist and global warming activist. |
| * 1955 | Nicolas Sarkozy | More commonly known as Nicolas Sarkozy, is a French politician, and the head of the right-wing party UMP. |
| * 1954 | Rick Warren | American Evangelical Christian pastor, global strategist, theologian, philanthropist, and author. |
| * 1947 | Jeanne Shaheen | Politican from New Hampshire and a member of the Democratic Party. |
| * 1940 | Carlos Slim Helu | Mexican business magnate and philanthropist who as of 2011 is the richest person in the world, for the second year in a row. |
| * 1936 | Alan Alda | Award-winning American actor, perhaps most famous for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the television series M*A*S*H. |
| * 1935 | David Lodge | English comic novelist and literary critic. |
| * 1912 | Jackson Pollock | One of the leading artists and an influential American painter in the Abstract Expressionist movement, together with Willem de Kooning. |
| * 1900 | Alice Neel | American portrait painter. |
| * 1889 | Edwin C. Kemble | American physicist who made contributions to the theory of quantum mechanics and molecular structure and spectroscopy. |
| * 1887 | Arthur Rubinstein | Polish-American pianist who is widely considered as one of the greatest piano virtuosi of the 20th century. |
| * 1875 | Donald McGill | English artist, known as the "King of the Saucy Postcard". |
| * 1873 | Colette | French writer, usually known simply by her pen-name "Colette. |
| * 1853 | Jose Marti | Leader of the Cuban independence movement as well as an esteemed poet and writer. |
| * 1841 | Henry Morton Stanley | Welsh-born reporter for the New York Herald, went to Africa in search of missionary and explorer David Livingstone. |
| * 1834 | Sabine Baring-Gould | English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. |
| * 1770 | John Tobin | British playwright, who was for most of his life unsuccessful, but in the year of his death made a hit with The Honey Moon. |
| * 1457 | Henry VII of England | King of England, and the first monarch of the Tudor dynasty. |
Deaths | ||
| † 1996 | Jerry Siegel | American writer, and the co-creator of Superman; he is most commonly known as Jerry Siegel. |
| † 1996 | Joseph Brodsky | Russian-American poet, winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature, and Poet Laureate of the United States for 1991–1992. |
| † 1995 | George Woodcock | Canadian writer of political biography and history, essayist, literary critic, poet, anarchist, and pacifist. |
| † 1986 | Christa McAuliffe | American teacher from Concord, New Hampshire, and was one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. |
| † 1960 | Zora Neale Hurston | American folklorist and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance, well known for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. |
| † 1939 | William Butler Yeats | Irish symbolist poet, dramatist and mystic. |
| † 1933 | George Saintsbury | Prolific and popular English historian and literary scholar. |
| † 1836 | William Scott Stowell | English judge and jurist. |
| † 1596 | Francis Drake | English privateer, navigator, naval pioneer and raider, politician, and civil engineer, of the Elizabethan period. |
| † 1547 | Henry VIII of England | King of England from 1509 to 1547. |
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