Births | ||
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| * 1977 | Sarah Michelle Gellar | American actress, best known for her role in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer as well as All My Children. |
| * 1973 | Alexander Ribeiro da Costa | Brazilian singer and composer. |
| * 1957 | Richard Jeni | Known by his stage name Richard Jeni, was an American actor and comedian. |
| * 1954 | Bruce Sterling | American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his seminal work on the Mirrorshades anthology. |
| * 1950 | Francis Collins | Physician-geneticist noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes, and his administration of the Human Genome Project. |
| * 1934 | Loretta Lynn | Iconic country singer, and the subject of the 1980 Oscar-winning biopic "The Coal Miner's Daughter. |
| * 1923 | John Holt | American writer and educationalist. |
| * 1917 | Valerie Profumo | Wife of the disgraced British Politician and later charity worker John Profumo. |
| * 1907 | Francois Duvalier | President of Haiti from 1957 until his death in 1971. |
| * 1904 | John Gielgud | English actor, director, and producer. |
| * 1891 | Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar | Also known as "Babasaheb", was an Indian jurist, Progressive political and social leader and a Buddhist revivalist. |
| * 1889 | Arnold Joseph Toynbee | British historian and the nephew of Arnold Toynbee. |
| * 1879 | James Branch Cabell | American author of satirical fantasy works, most notably the series known as Biography of the Life of Manuel. |
| * 1862 | Pyotr Stolypin | Served as Nicholas II's Chairman of the Council of Ministers and was Prime Minister of Russia from 1906 to 1911. |
| * 1857 | Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom | Youngest daughter of Queen Victoria, was a pianist, author and photographer. |
| * 1802 | Horace Bushnell | American Congregational clergyman and theologian. |
| * 1629 | Christiaan Huygens | Dutch astronomer. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2010 | Alice Miller | Psychologist noted for her work on child abuse and its effects upon society as well as the lives of individuals. |
| † 2010 | Peter Steele | Lead singer of and a bassist for the doom/gothic metal band Type O Negative. |
| † 2007 | Frank Westheimer | American chemist. |
| † 1987 | Julius Sumner Miller | American science popularizer. |
| † 1986 | Simone De Beauvoir | French author and existentialist philosopher. |
| † 1978 | F. R. Leavis | Highly influential English literary critic and academic, based at Downing College, Cambridge. |
| † 1975 | Michael Flanders | English actor, broadcaster, and writer and performer of comic songs. |
| † 1964 | Rachel Carson | American biologist and writer. |
| † 1951 | Ernest Bevin | British Trade Unionist and politician best known for his service as Minister of Labour in the war-time coalition, and as Foreign Secretary in the post-war Labour government. |
| † 1950 | Ramana Maharshi | Hindu sage, and a proponent of Advaita Vedanta. |
| † 1930 | Vladimir Mayakovsky | Georgian-born Russian playwright, screenwriter and poet. |
| † 1925 | John Singer Sargent | Most successful portrait painter of his era, as well as a gifted landscape painter and watercolorist. |
| † 1924 | Louis Sullivan | American architect, the "father of modernism", and a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright. |
| † 1917 | Ludoviko Lazaro Zamenhof | Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist, philologist, and the initiator of Esperanto, the most widely spoken artificial language to date. |
| † 1910 | Mikhail Vrubel | Usually regarded as the greatest Russian painter of the Art Nouveau movement. |
| † 1895 | James Dwight Dana | American geologist, mineralogist and zoologist. |
| † 1881 | William Morley Punshon | English Nonconformist divine. |
| † 1759 | George Frideric Handel | German-born composer who moved first to Italy and then to England. |
| † 1685 | Thomas Otway | English dramatist of the Restoration period. |
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