Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1992 | Joseph McManners | English actor and singer. |
| * 1973 | Joe the Plumber (Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher) | Better known as "Joe the Plumber," is a political commentator, Internet correspondent, and former employee of a plumbing contractor. |
| * 1952 | Benny Hinn | Pentecostal pastor and televangelist. |
| * 1949 | Carl Kruger | New York state Senator. |
| * 1948 | Ozzy Osbourne | Better known as Ozzy Osbourne, is an English musician, famous for his solo career and as lead singer of the band Black Sabbath. |
| * 1944 | Craig Raine | English poet and critic. |
| * 1943 | J. Philippe Rushton | Psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario, Canada best known for his controversial work on racial differences. |
| * 1942 | Joseph Silk | English-born astronomer and the Savilian Chair of Astronomy at the University of Oxford. |
| * 1930 | Jean-Luc Godard | French film director, whose works include the films Alphaville, ? bout de souffle, Une Femme est une femme, Vivre sa vie, Bande ? part, Tout va bien and many more. |
| * 1924 | Edwin Ernest Salpeter | Austrian-Australian-American astrophysicist. |
| * 1924 | John Backus | American computer scientist and winner of the 1977 Turing Award. |
| * 1923 | Trevor Bailey | Former England Test cricketer. |
| * 1883 | Anton Webern | Austrian composer of atonal music. |
| * 1872 | Jack Judge | English songwriter and music-hall entertainer. |
| * 1863 | Oliver Herford | American humorous poet and illustrator. |
| * 1857 | Joseph Conrad | Polish writer, working in England, regarded as one of the greatest novelists in the English language. |
| * 1820 | John Coleridge | British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician. |
| * 1803 | Robert Hawker | Often known as "Stephen Hawker", was an Anglican clergyman, poet and antiquarian of Cornwall. |
| * 1766 | Robert Bloomfield | Self-educated English peasant poet. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2011 | Diana Gould | Geography schoolteacher from Cirencester, Gloucestershire who came to public attention in 1983 when she was picked to ask a question to Margaret Thatcher on BBC TV's Nationwide, hosted by Sue Lawley. |
| † 2000 | Gwendolyn Brooks | American poet. |
| † 1999 | Madeline Kahn | Academy Award-nominated Jewish American actress of movie, television and theater distinguished by an unusual gift for comedy. |
| † 1993 | Lewis Thomas | Physician, author, administrator, educator, policy advisor and researcher. |
| † 1980 | Oswald Mosley | British politician principally known as the founder of the British Union of Fascists. |
| † 1951 | George Henry Powell | British songwriter who, under the pseudonym George Asaf, wrote the lyrics of the marching song Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag. |
| † 1919 | Pierre-Auguste Renoir | French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. |
| † 1910 | Mary Baker Eddy | Founded the Church of Christ, Scientist in 1879 and was the author of its fundamental doctrinal textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. |
| † 1894 | Robert Louis Stevenson | Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. |
| † 1882 | Sergey Nechayev | Russian revolutionary figure associated with the Nihilist movement and known for his single-minded pursuit of revolution by any means necessary, including political violence. |
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