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Births

* 1972 Jude Law Academy Award-nominated English actor.
* 1969 George Corpsegrinder (musician) Fisher Vocalist for the death metal band Cannibal Corpse.
* 1959 Paula Poundstone American comedian.
* 1959 Ritsuko Okazaki Japanese singer-songwriter and author, known for her contribution to various anime series such as Fruits Basket.
* 1957 Paul Rudnick American playwright, novelist, screenwriter and essayist.
* 1953 Stanley Williams Early leader of the Crips, a notorious American street gang which had its roots in South Central Los Angeles in 1969.
* 1938 Jon Voight American film and television actor.
* 1937 Maumoon Abdul Gayoom President of the Republic of Maldives from 1978 to 2008.
* 1922 Richard Davisson American physicist.
* 1910 Ronald Coase British economist and the Clifton R Musser Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago Law School.
* 1893 Vera Brittain English writer, feminist and pacifist, best remembered as the author of the best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth, recounting her experiences during World War I and the growth of her ideology of pacifism.
* 1876 Pablo Casals Born Pau Casals i Defillσ, was a Spanish cellist and conductor.
* 1876 Lionel Tertis English violist and one of the first viola players to find international fame.
* 1873 H. Stanley Allen Pioneer in early X-ray research, working under J J Thomson at the University of London and alongside Nobel laureate Charles Glover Barkla at the University of Edinburgh.
* 1848 John Vance Cheney American poet.
* 1833 John James Ingalls American politician.
* 1814 Edwin Hubbell Chapin Universalist minister who became famed as an orator in the 1840s.
* 1811 Francisco Palau Beatified Carmelite Spanish priest.
* 1809 Albert Pike American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason, who is the only Confederate military officer or figure to be honored with an outdoor statue in Washington, D C.
* 1809 William Ewart Gladstone British Liberal politician and Prime Minister (1868–1874, 1880–1885, 1886 and 1892–1894).
* 1808 Andrew Johnson Seventeenth President of the United States (1865–1869), succeeding to the presidency upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
* 1721 Madame de Pompadour Born Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, was a well-known French courtesan and mistress to King Louis XV.
* 1579 John Fletcher Jacobean playwright.

Deaths

† 2003 Bob Monkhouse British comedian, actor and presenter.
† 1986 Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet and Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist and opera director.
† 1986 Harold Macmillan British Conservative politician and publisher who served six years as Prime Minister (1957–1963).
† 1971 John Marshall Harlan American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1955 to 1971.
† 1937 Don Marquis American humorist, journalist, novelist, poet, cartoonist, newspaper columnist, and playwright most famous for creating the characters "Archy" the cockroach, and "Mehitabel" the cat.
† 1926 Rainer Maria Rilke Born Renι Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, is generally considered the German language's greatest poet of the 20th century.
† 1919 William Osler Canadian physician.
† 1894 Christina Rossetti English poet and the sister of artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
† 1891 Leopold Kronecker Prussian mathematician and logician who argued that arithmetic and analysis must be founded on "whole numbers.
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