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| * 1956 | Aaron C. Brown | American author and financial trader. |
| * 1949 | Gerrit Graham | American actor and writer. |
| * 1942 | Jimi Hendrix | Born Johnny Allen Hendrix, was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. |
| * 1940 | Bruce Lee | Chinese American martial artist and actor who is widely regarded as the most influential martial artist of the 20th century. |
| * 1925 | John Maddox | British science writer. |
| * 1914 | Bryce Crawford | American chemist who worked for decades as a professor of physical chemistry in the University of Minnesota, and has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1956. |
| * 1874 | Charles A. Beard | Influential American historian. |
| * 1857 | Charles Scott Sherrington | English neurophysiologist, histologist, bacteriologist, and a pathologist, Nobel laureate and president of the Royal Society in the early 1920s. |
| * 1809 | Fanny Kemble | Famous British actress and author in the early and mid nineteenth century. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2008 | Adi Da | Born Franklin Albert Jones in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, was a contemporary, often controversial guru, spiritual writer, and artist, and the founder of the new religious movement currently known as Adidam. |
| † 2000 | Malcolm Bradbury | English comic novelist, screenwriter, literary critic and academic. |
| † 1985 | Fernand Braudel | French historian, who revolutionized the 20th century study of his discipline by considering the effects of economics and geography on global history. |
| † 1978 | Harvey Milk | American politician and gay rights activist, and the first openly gay city supervisor of San Francisco, California. |
| † 1955 | Arthur Honegger | French composer. |
| † 1895 | Alexandre Dumas | Popular French novelist and playwright, best known for his novel and play, La Dame aux camélias. |
| † 1868 | Black Kettle | Cheyenne leader who unsuccessfully attempted to resist white settlement from Kansas and Colorado territories. |
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