Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1979 | Peter Doherty | Frontman and songwriter for the band Babyshambles, and formerly co-frontman and songwriter of Britrock band, The Libertines. |
| * 1970 | Dave Eggers | American writer, editor and publisher. |
| * 1963 | Ian Holloway | English football manager. |
| * 1949 | David Mellor | British former Conservative politician, barrister and radio presenter. |
| * 1948 | James Taylor | American singer-songwriter and guitarist. |
| * 1947 | Mitt Romney | American businessman and the 70th Governor of Massachusetts. |
| * 1946 | Liza Minnelli | Academy Award-winning and Tony Award-winning American actress and singer. |
| * 1942 | Ratko Mladic | Leader of the Army of the Republika Srpska during the 1992–95 war in Bosnia. |
| * 1928 | Edward Albee | American playwright, known for works including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Zoo Story, The Sandbox and The American Dream. |
| * 1925 | Harry Harrison | American science fiction author most famous for his character the Stainless Steel Rat and the novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966), the basis for the film Soylent Green (1973). |
| * 1922 | Jack Kerouac | Born Jean-Louis Lebris Kerouac, was an American novelist, poet and artist. |
| * 1922 | Lane Kirkland | American labor union leader who served as president of the AFL-CIO for over sixteen years. |
| * 1913 | Tommy Farr | One of the most famous Welsh boxers of the 20th century. |
| * 1912 | Irving Layton | Born Israel Pincu Lazarovitch, was a Romanian-born Canadian poet. |
| * 1890 | Vaslav Nijinsky | Famous Russian ballet dancer. |
| * 1877 | Wilhelm Frick | Prominent Nazi official. |
| * 1824 | Gustav Kirchhoff | German physicist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects. |
| * 1799 | Mary Howitt | English poet, and author of the famous poem The Spider and the Fly. |
| * 1685 | George Berkely | Also known as Bishop Berkeley, was an influential Irish philosopher whose primary philosophical achievement is the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism". |
| * 1672 | Richard Steele | Irish writer and politician, remembered, along with his friend, Joseph Addison, as co-founder of The Spectator magazine. |
| * 1626 | John Aubrey | English biographer, antiquary and folklorist. |
| * 1607 | Paul Gerhardt | German hymn writer. |
Deaths | ||
| † 1984 | Edwin C. Kemble | American physicist who made contributions to the theory of quantum mechanics and molecular structure and spectroscopy. |
| † 1957 | John Middleton Murry | English writer and critic. |
| † 1955 | Charlie Parker | American jazz saxophonist, and co-inventor of the bebop style of jazz, widely considered one of the most influential of jazz musicians. |
| † 1947 | Smith Wigglesworth | British Pentecostal preacher and faith healer. |
| † 1925 | Sun Yat-sen | Chinese revolutionary leader and statesman who is considered by many to be the "Father of Modern China". |
| † 1916 | Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach | Austrian writer. |
| † 1579 | Alessandro Piccolomini | Italian humanist and philosopher from Siena, who promoted the popularization in the vernacular of Latin and Greek scientific and philosophical treatises. |
| † 1507 | Cesare Borgia | Of the House of Borgia, was the son of Pope Alexander VI who appointed him as a military leader. |
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