Births | ||
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| * 1972 | Wentworth Miller | British-born American actor who rose to stardom following his role as Michael Scofield in the Fox Network television series Prison Break. |
| * 1953 | Cornel West | Prominent African-American scholar and public intellectual. |
| * 1949 | Heather Couper | British astronomer who popularized astronomy in the 1980s and 1990s on British television. |
| * 1945 | Richard Long | English sculptor, photographer and painter, one of the best known British land artists. |
| * 1944 | Dennis Overbye | Science correspondent for the New York Times. |
| * 1927 | Harriett Woods | American politician and activist, a two-time Democratic nominee for the United States Senate from Missouri, and a former Lieutenant Governor of Missouri. |
| * 1857 | Edward Elgar | English composer. |
| * 1855 | Archibald Berkeley Milne | Admiral of the Royal Navy who commanded the British Mediterranean Fleet at the outbreak of the First World War. |
| * 1840 | John Lancaster Spalding | First bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria from 1877 to 1908, a notable scholarly writer of the time and, a co-founder of The Catholic University of America. |
| * 1840 | Thomas Hardy | English novelist, short story writer and poet. |
| * 1835 | Pope Pius X | 257th Pope — the Bishop of Rome and head of the Roman Catholic Church, serving from 1903 to 1914. |
| * 1816 | John Godfrey Saxe | American poet. |
| * 1740 | Donatien de Sade | Better known as the Marquis de Sade, was a French writer of philosophy-laden and often violent pornography, as well as some strictly philosophical works. |
Deaths | ||
| † 1994 | David Stove | Australian philosopher of science. |
| † 1987 | Anthony de Mello | Jesuit priest, psychotherapist and writer who became widely known for his books on spirituality. |
| † 1983 | Stan Rogers | Canadian folk musician and songwriter. |
| † 1968 | A. A. Thomson | English writer best known for his books on cricket. |
| † 1962 | Vita Sackville-West | Most famous as Vita Sackville-West, was an English poet, novelist and writer on gardening. |
| † 1951 | John Erskine | U S educator and author, born in New York City and raised in Weehawken, New Jersey. |
| † 1951 | Emile Chartier | Notable French essayist and philosopher who wrote under the pseudonym Alain. |
| † 1948 | Viktor Brack | Organizer of the Euthanasia Programme, Operation T4, where the Nazi state systematically murdered German disabled people. |
| † 1948 | Karl Brandt | Personal physician of Adolf Hitler in August 1944 and headed the administration of the Nazi euthanasia program from 1939. |
| † 1943 | Nile Kinnick | 1939 Heisman Trophy winner. |
| † 1941 | Lou Gehrig | Born Ludwig Heinrich Gehrig, was an American Major League Baseball player in the first half of the twentieth century. |
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