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* 1979 | Alison Lohman | American actress who was born in Palm Springs, California. |
* 1976 | Ronaldo | Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a striker for the Campeonato Brasileiro club Corinthians. |
* 1973 | Mark Shuttleworth | South African entrepreneur. |
* 1971 | Lance Armstrong | American former professional road racing cyclist. |
* 1956 | Chris Hedges | War journalist and the author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002) and What Every Person Should Know about War (2003). |
* 1954 | Steven Pinker | Prominent Canadian-born American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and popular science writer known for his spirited and wide-ranging advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. |
* 1945 | John McAfee | Founder of McAfee Anti-Virus company and self help author. |
* 1917 | Francis Parker Yockey | American philosopher and polemicist, best known for his neo-Spenglerian book Imperium. |
* 1905 | Greta Garbo | Born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish born actress and Hollywood icon. |
* 1895 | John Diefenbaker | 13th Prime Minister of Canada. |
* 1893 | William March | Born William Edward Campbell, was an American soldier and author, most famous for his novels The Bad Seed and Company K His innovative writing style is characterized by a deep compassion and understanding of suffering. |
* 1861 | Owen Seaman | British writer, journalist and poet. |
* 1827 | John Townsend Trowbridge | Popular American author born in Ogden, New York to Windsor Stone Trowbridge and Rebecca Willey. |
* 1819 | Leon Foucault | French physicist best known for the invention of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation. |
* 1779 | Joseph Story | American lawyer and jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1811 to 1845. |
* 1755 | Martin Joseph Routh | President of Magdalen College from 28 April 1792 until his death. |
* 1709 | Samuel Johnson | British author, linguist and lexicographer. |
Deaths | ||
† 2010 | Jill Johnston | American feminist author and cultural critic. |
† 2009 | Irving Kristol | American columnist, journalist, and writer who was dubbed the "godfather of neoconservatism. |
† 1980 | Katherine Anne Porter | Celebrated American journalist, essayist, short story writer and novelist. |
† 1970 | Jimi Hendrix | Born Johnny Allen Hendrix, was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. |
† 1963 | Henry D. Moyle | Commonly known as Henry D Moyle, was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
† 1961 | Dag Hammarskjold | Swedish diplomat, the second United Nations Secretary-General, and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient. |
† 1956 | Adelard Godbout | Quebec agriculturalist and politician. |
† 1951 | Gelett Burgess | American artist, art critic, poet, author and humourist. |
† 1939 | Gwen John | Welsh artist noted especially for her portraits of anonymous female sitters. |
† 1924 | F. H. Bradley | British idealist philosopher. |
† 1911 | Pyotr Stolypin | Served as Nicholas II's Chairman of the Council of Ministers and was Prime Minister of Russia from 1906 to 1911. |
† 1905 | George MacDonald | Scottish author and Christian minister best known for his poetry, fairy tales and fantasy novels. |
† 1890 | Dion Boucicault | Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas. |
† 1885 | John Campbell Shairp | Scottish critic and man of letters. |
† 1830 | William Hazlitt | English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism. |
† 1783 | Leonhard Euler | Swiss mathematician and physicist, considered to be one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. |
† 1744 | Lewis Theobald | British textual editor and author, was a landmark figure both in the history of Shakespearean editing and in literary satire. |
† 1721 | Matthew Prior | English poet and diplomat. |
† 1180 | King of France Louis VII | King of France from 1137 until his death. |
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