Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1981 | Devendra Banhart | Folk musician and songwriter. |
| * 1980 | Steven Gerrard | English football player with Liverpool FC. |
| * 1974 | Kevin Barnes | Singer and songwriter for the indie rock group of Montreal. |
| * 1974 | Big L (rapper) | Better known as Big L, was an American rap artist. |
| * 1972 | Manny Ramirez | Retired Dominican-born American Major League Baseball player. |
| * 1963 | Helen Sharman | British chemist. |
| * 1959 | Phil Brown | Born in South Shields. |
| * 1922 | Hal Clement | American science fiction author. |
| * 1921 | Jamie Uys | South African film director. |
| * 1908 | Hannes Alfven | Swedish plasma physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1970 for his work developing magnetohydrodynamics theory. |
| * 1899 | Irving Thalberg | American film producer during the early years of motion pictures. |
| * 1839 | Hermann Adler | Chief Rabbi of the British Empire from 1891 to 1911. |
| * 1814 | Mikhail Bakunin | Russian political philosopher, anarchist, and noted atheist. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2012 | Andrew Huxley | British Nobel Prize-winning biologist. |
| † 2010 | Rudi Vis | British politician in the United Kingdom for the Labour Party, and Member of Parliament for the Finchley and Golders Green constituency. |
| † 1993 | Sun Ra | Born Herman Poole Blount, legal name Le Sony'r Ra, was a prolific jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his "cosmic philosophy," musical compositions and performances. |
| † 1981 | Ziaur Rahman | Hero of the Bangladesh Liberation War, a retired three star Lieutenant General of the Bangladesh Army and a statesman. |
| † 1977 | Paul Desmond | Born Paul Emil Breitenfeld, was a jazz alto saxophonist and composer born in San Francisco, best known for the work he did in the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for penning the group's greatest hit, "Take Five". |
| † 1975 | Steve Prefontaine | American middle and long-distance runner. |
| † 1967 | Claude Rains | English actor, best known for his many roles in Hollywood films. |
| † 1964 | Leo Szilard | Hungarian-American physicist, and probably the first scientist to take seriously the idea of actually developing atomic bombs; he drafted the famous letter sent by Albert Einstein to U S President Franklin Delano Roosevelt that was largely responsible for initiating the Manhattan Project to develop nuclear weapons during World War II. |
| † 1960 | Boris Pasternak | Russian poet and writer famous for his novel Doctor Zhivago (1957). |
| † 1937 | Madison Grant | American lawyer, historian and anthropologist. |
| † 1912 | Wilbur Wright | Generally credited with the design and construction of the first practical airplane. |
| † 1832 | James Mackintosh | Scottish jurist, politician and historian. |
| † 1778 | Voltaire | Famous using his pen name Voltaire, was a French writer, deist and philosopher. |
| † 1744 | Alexander Pope | Considered one of the greatest English poets of the eighteenth century. |
| † 1593 | Christopher Marlowe | English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. |
| † 1431 | Joan of Arc | Mystic visionary, military leader, martyr, saint and heroine of France. |
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