Births | ||
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| * 1988 | Hayley Williams | Lead singer of the alternative rock band called Paramore. |
| * 1984 | Gilles Simon | French professional tennis player. |
| * 1969 | Sarah Vowell | Author, journalist, former rock critic and a contributing editor on the PRI program This American Life. |
| * 1966 | Chris Abani | Nigerian author. |
| * 1948 | Gerard Depardieu | French actor and film-maker. |
| * 1943 | Cokie Roberts | Journalist and author, best known for her work on National Public Radio. |
| * 1930 | Wilfrid Sheed | English-born American novelist and essayist. |
| * 1910 | Charles Olson | Influential American poet, credited as one of the thinkers who coined the term postmodern. |
| * 1906 | Oscar Levant | American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor. |
| * 1901 | Marlene Dietrich | German-American actress and singer. |
| * 1887 | Edward Andrade | English physicist, writer and poet. |
| * 1822 | Louis Pasteur | French microbiologist, chemist, pioneer of the "Germ theory of disease", and inventor of the process of Pasteurization. |
| * 1797 | Charles Hodge | Principal of Princeton Theological Seminary between 1851 and 1878. |
| * 1727 | Arthur Murphy | Irish writer, known by the pseudonym, Charles Ranger. |
| * 1571 | Johannes Kepler | German Lutheran mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, and a key figure in the 17th century astronomical revolution. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2012 | Norman Schwarzkopf | Also known as Stormin' Norman, was a United States Army 4 Star General who, while he served as Commander-in-Chief of U S Central Command, was commander of the Coalition Forces in the Gulf War of 1991. |
| † 2007 | Benazir Bhutto | Pakistani politician, the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, twice elected as Prime Minister of Pakistan, first in 1988 and again 1993. |
| † 1981 | Hoagy Carmichael | American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. |
| † 1972 | Lester B. Pearson | Canadian statesman, diplomat and politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957. |
| † 1938 | Osip Mandelstam | Russian poet and essayist, one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets. |
| † 1859 | Josiah (editor and author) Conder | Correspondent of Robert Southey and well connected to romantic authors of his day, was editor of the British literary magazine The Eclectic Review, the Nonconformist and abolitionist newspaper The Patriot, the author of romantic verses, poetry, and many popular hymns. |
| † 1834 | Charles Lamb | English essayist and poet, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced along with his sister, Mary Lamb. |
| † 1800 | Blair Hugh | Scottish author, considered one of the first great theorists of written discourse. |
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