Births | ||
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| * 1977 | Z-Ro | Better known by his stage name Z-Ro, is an American rapper, singer and producer from Houston, Texas. |
| * 1946 | Dolly Parton | American musician. |
| * 1946 | Julian Barnes | British novelist and short story writer. |
| * 1943 | Janis Joplin | American singer and songwriter. |
| * 1936 | Ziaur Rahman | Hero of the Bangladesh Liberation War, a retired three star Lieutenant General of the Bangladesh Army and a statesman. |
| * 1909 | John Pudney | British journalist and writer. |
| * 1887 | Alexander Woollcott | American critic and journalist known for his involvement in the Algonquin Round Table and his writings in The New Yorker magazine. |
| * 1871 | Frederick B. Maurice | British general, military correspondent, writer and academic. |
| * 1863 | Werner Sombart | German economist and sociologist, the head of the "Youngest Historical School" and one of the leading Continental European social scientists during the first quarter of the 20th century. |
| * 1850 | Augustine Birrell | English essayist, biographer and politician. |
| * 1843 | William Mulock | Canadian lawyer, businessman, educator, farmer, politician, judge, and philanthropist. |
| * 1839 | Paul Cezanne | French Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. |
| * 1809 | Edgar Allan Poe | American poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, editor, critic and a leading American Romanticist. |
| * 1808 | Lysander Spooner | American individualist anarchist, entrepreneur, political philosopher, abolitionist, supporter of the labor movement, and legal theorist of the nineteenth century. |
| * 1807 | Robert E. Lee | Career army officer and the most successful general of the Confederate forces during the American Civil War. |
| * 1803 | Sarah Helen Whitman | Poet, essayist, transcendentalist, Spiritualist and a romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe. |
| * 1752 | James Morris | Continental Army officer from Connecticut during the American Revolutionary War and founder of the Morris Academy. |
| * 1736 | James Watt | Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both the Kingdom of Great Britain and the world. |
| * 1200 | Dogen | Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher born in Ky?to, and the founder of the S?t? school of Zen in Japan. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2000 | Hedy Lamarr | Austrian-born American actress. |
| † 2000 | G. Ledyard Stebbins | American and botanist and geneticist regarded as one of the leading evolutionary biologists and foremost botanists of the twentieth century. |
| † 1997 | James Dickey | Popular American poet and novelist. |
| † 1990 | Osho | Born Chandra Mohan Jain [?????? ???? ???], and also known as Acharya Rajneesh from the 1960s onwards, as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh during the 1970s and 1980s and as Osho from 1989, was an Indian mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher who inspired a controversial spiritual movement in India, the United States, the Netherlands, Germany, and many other countries. |
| † 1985 | Eric Voegelin | German-born American philosopher. |
| † 1980 | William O. Douglas | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. |
| † 1955 | Gus Arnheim | American band leader and songwriter. |
| † 1926 | Digby Jephson | Cricketer who played for Cambridge University and Surrey. |
| † 1865 | Pierre-Joseph (P. J.) Proudhon | First individual to call himself an "anarchist," and the first documented as using the word "Capitalist" to mean property-owner. |
| † 1729 | William Congreve | English playwright and poet. |
| † 1547 | Henry Howard | English courtier, soldier and poet. |
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