Births | ||
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| * 1978 | Frank Lampard | English football player currently at Chelsea and previously with West Ham United and Swansea City. |
| * 1973 | Kevin Keck | American poet and essayist noted for his candid writing about sexuality. |
| * 1971 | Josh Lucas | American actor. |
| * 1967 | Nicole Kidman | Academy Award-winning American-Australian actress, producer and singer. |
| * 1952 | Vikram Seth | Indian poet and author. |
| * 1951 | Paul Muldoon | Northern Irish poet, literary critic and academic who has lived in the USA for the past twenty years. |
| * 1949 | Lionel Richie | American singer-songwriter and record producer. |
| * 1942 | Brian Wilson | American pop musician, best known as a founding member of and the main producer, composer, and arranger for The Beach Boys. |
| * 1940 | Eugen Drewermann | German theologian, psychotherapist, author, peace activist and former Roman Catholic priest. |
| * 1934 | Isaac Abella | Professor of Physics at The University of Chicago. |
| * 1929 | Jean Baudrillard | Cultural theorist and philosopher. |
| * 1928 | Jean-Marie Le Pen | French politician and the founder and former president of the Front National political party. |
| * 1928 | Eric Dolphy | Jazz musician who played alto saxophone, flute, clarinet and bass clarinet. |
| * 1909 | Errol Flynn | Australian-born film actor, most famous for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his flamboyant lifestyle. |
| * 1907 | Jimmy Driftwood | Better known as Jimmy Driftwood or Jimmie Driftwood, was a prolific American folk songwriter and musician, most famous for his songs "The Battle of New Orleans" and "Tennessee Stud". |
| * 1905 | Lillian Hellman | American playwright. |
| * 1887 | Kurt Schwitters | German painter and played an important role in Dada. |
| * 1811 | Matthew Simpson | American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1852. |
| * 1808 | Samson Raphael Hirsch | Intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism. |
| * 1786 | Marceline Desbordes-Valmore | French poet. |
| * 1763 | Theobald Wolfe Tone | Commonly known as Wolfe Tone, was a leading figure in the United Irishmen Irish independence movement and is regarded as the father of Irish republicans. |
| * 1756 | Joseph Martin Kraus | German composer and Hofkapellmeister in the service of king Gustav III of Sweden in Stockholm. |
| * 1743 | Anna Letitia Barbauld | English poet and miscellaneous writer. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2005 | Jack Kilby | Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 2000 for his invention of the integrated circuit in 1958 while working at Texas Instruments. |
| † 2002 | Erwin Chargaff | Austrian biochemist who emigrated to the United States during the Nazi era. |
| † 1995 | Emil Cioran | Romanian writer, noted for his somber works in the French language; known in French as Émile Cioran. |
| † 1994 | Jay Miner | Famous microprocessor designer, known primarily for his work in multimedia chips. |
| † 1965 | Bernard Baruch | American financier, stock market speculator, statesman, and presidential advisor. |
| † 1919 | Tivadar Csontvary Kosztka | Hungarian painter. |
| † 1912 | Voltairine de Cleyre | American anarchist and feminist writer and orator, who opposed statist policies, marriage, and the domination of religion in human sexual roles and women's opportunities. |
| † 1837 | William IV of the United Kingdom | King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1830 to 1837. |
| † 1836 | Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyes | Commonly known as Abbé Siey?s, was a French Roman Catholic abbé and clergyman, one of the chief theorists of the French Revolution, French Consulate, and First French Empire. |
| † 1731 | Edward Ned Ward | Also known as Edward Ward, was a satirical writer and publican in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century based in London, England. |
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