Births | ||
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| * 1980 | John Terry | English professional footballer. |
| * 1973 | Terrell Owens | American football wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. |
| * 1971 | Larisa Alexandrova | Journalist. |
| * 1956 | Larry Bird | Retired American NBA basketball player, widely considered one of the best players of all time and one of the top clutch performers in the history of sports. |
| * 1952 | Susan Collins | American politician, the junior U S Senator from Maine and a Republican. |
| * 1949 | Tom Waits | American composer, singer, songwriter, musician and actor. |
| * 1948 | Mark Kurlansky | Highly-acclaimed American journalist and writer of general interest non-fiction. |
| * 1942 | Harry Chapin | American singer, songwriter, and social activist. |
| * 1932 | Pentti Linkola | Radical Finnish deep ecologist, polemicist, and fisherman. |
| * 1928 | Noam Chomsky | American professor of linguistics, anarchist, human rights activist, socialist and political analyst. |
| * 1907 | Wanda Toscanini | Daughter of the Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini and the wife of Ukrainian–American pianist Vladimir Horowitz. |
| * 1892 | Stuart Davis | American painter. |
| * 1885 | Zechariah Chafee | American judicial philosopher and civil libertarian. |
| * 1873 | Willa Cather | Among the most eminent American authors, known for her depictions of US life in her novels. |
| * 1872 | Johan Huizinga | Dutch historian, and one of the founders of modern cultural history. |
| * 1823 | Leopold Kronecker | Prussian mathematician and logician who argued that arithmetic and analysis must be founded on "whole numbers. |
| * 1785 | William Francis Patrick Napier | Irish soldier in the British Army and a military historian. |
| * 1784 | Allan Cunningham | Scottish poet. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2006 | Jeane Kirkpatrick | American conservative political scientist and member of the neoconservative movement. |
| † 1993 | Wolfgang Paul | German physicist, who co-developed the ion trap. |
| † 1985 | Robert Graves | Prolific English poet, scholar and novelist. |
| † 1985 | Potter Stewart | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. |
| † 1975 | Thornton Wilder | American author and playwright. |
| † 1946 | Laurette Taylor | American actress, primarily on stage, with some forays into silent film. |
| † 1929 | Charles Monro | British Army General during World War I and Governor of Gibraltar from 1923 to 1929. |
| † 1804 | John Tobin | British playwright, who was for most of his life unsuccessful, but in the year of his death made a hit with The Honey Moon. |
| † 1683 | Algernon Sydney | English politician, political theorist, and opponent of King Charles II of England. |
| † 1495 | Gabriel Biel | German scholastic philosopher. |
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