Births | ||
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| * 1975 | Brandon Sanderson | American fantasy author. |
| * 1963 | Jennifer Beals | American actress who is known for her roles in The L Word, The Chicago Code, Flashdance and Devil in a Blue Dress. |
| * 1963 | Hans Reiser | Owner of Namesys. |
| * 1962 | Bukola Saraki | Has been governor of Kwara State, Nigeria since 29 May 2003. |
| * 1960 | Derrick Jensen | American author and environmental activist who lives in Northern California. |
| * 1940 | Phil Ochs | Folksinger active in the civil rights movement and in opposition to the Vietnam War. |
| * 1902 | Ralph Richardson | English actor, one of a group of theatrical knights of the mid-20th century who, though more closely associated with the stage, also appeared in several classic films. |
| * 1895 | Ingeborg Refling Hagen | Norwegian author and teacher. |
| * 1885 | F. S. Flint | English poet and translator who was a prominent member of the Imagist group. |
| * 1875 | Carter Woodson | African American historian, author, journalist and the founder of Black History Month. |
| * 1861 | Italo Svevo | Better known by his pseudonym Italo Svevo, was a Triestine businessman and writer, best known for his novel La coscienzia di Zeno. |
| * 1852 | Albert Abraham Michelson | German-born American physicist known for his work on the measurement of the speed of light and especially for the Michelson-Morley experiment. |
| * 1808 | Horatius Bonar | Scottish churchman and poet. |
Deaths | ||
| 2009 | Kim Peek | Savant with a photographic or eidetic memory and developmental disabilities, resulting from congenital brain abnormalities. |
| 2008 | Bernard Crick | British political theorist and democratic socialist whose views were often summarised as "politics is ethics done in public". |
| 1996 | Marcello Mastroianni | Italian film actor. |
| 1982 | Frederick Terman | American academic. |
| 1972 | Jacques Deval | Known by the pseudonym Jacques Deval, was a French playwright and director. |
| 1968 | Norman Thomas | Long-time leader of the Socialist Party in the United States, and a six-time candidate for President. |
| 1953 | Robert Andrews Millikan | American experimental physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics for his measurement of the charge on the electron and for his work on the photoelectric effect. |
| 1878 | Bayard Taylor | U S poet and writer. |
| 1848 | Emily Bronte | One of the Brontλ sisters, was an English novelist and poet who is most famous for her only novel, Wuthering Heights. |
| 1494 | Matteo Maria Boiardo | Italian poet and dramatist, best known for his romance Orlando Innamorato. |
| 0 | Leonid Brezhnev | Effective ruler of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982, at first in partnership with others. |
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