Births | ||
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| * 1984 | Katy Perry | Better known by her stage name Katy Perry, is an American singer-songwriter and musician. |
| * 1959 | Bruce Mau | Canadian designer. |
| * 1957 | Nancy Cartwright | American film and television actress, comedienne and voice artist. |
| * 1952 | Samir Geagea | Lebanese politician and former warlord. |
| * 1944 | James Carville | Liberal American political consultant, commentator, media personality, and pundit. |
| * 1944 | Jon Anderson | English musician, most famous as the lead singer of the progressive rock band Yes. |
| * 1940 | Bob Knight | Also known as "The General", is an American former college basketball head coach. |
| * 1913 | Klaus Barbie | SS-Hauptsturmführer, soldier and Gestapo member. |
| * 1912 | Minnie Pearl | Country comedian. |
| * 1902 | Henry Steele Commager | American historian and teacher. |
| * 1888 | Richard E. Byrd | U S Naval officer, aviator, and pioneering polar explorer. |
| * 1881 | Pablo Picasso | Spanish artist who lived and worked in Paris for many years. |
| * 1838 | Georges Bizet | French composer of the romantic era most famous for his opera Carmen. |
| * 1811 | Evariste Galois | French mathematician, who, while still in his teens, developed the well-known Galois theory. |
| * 1806 | Max Stirner | Born Johann Kaspar Schmidt, was a German philosopher who was a major influence on the nineteenth century development of ideas of nihilism, existentialism and individualist anarchism. |
| * 1800 | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Nineteenth century British poet, historian and Whig politician. |
| * 1767 | Benjamin Constant | Swiss-born thinker, writer and French politician. |
| * 1735 | James Beattie | Scottish scholar and writer. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2012 | Jacques Barzun | French-born American scholar, historian, critic, teacher and editor. |
| † 2003 | Pandurang Shastri Athavale | Known as dada, meaning elder brother in Marathi) was an Indian philosopher and social reformer who gave discourses upon the Hindu religious texts, Srimad Bhagawad Gita and Upnishads. |
| † 2001 | Elizabeth Jennings | English poet, noted for her clarity of style and simplicity of literary approach. |
| † 1995 | Gavin Ewart | Prolific British poet known for his witty and sometimes unsettling treatments of unlikely subjects. |
| † 1989 | Mary McCarthy | American author and critic. |
| † 1980 | Virgil Fox | American organist. |
| † 1974 | Antonio Llido | Spanish Catholic priest and pedagogue who adopted socialist political ideals whilst a missionary in Chile. |
| † 1971 | Philip Wylie | U S author of social criticism, short stories, screenplays, and several science-fiction novels. |
| † 1957 | Edward Plunkett Dunsany | Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist, best known for his works of fantasy. |
| † 1945 | Robert Ley | Nazi German politician and head of the German Labor Front from 1933 to 1945. |
| † 1889 | Emile Augier | French dramatist. |
| † 1852 | Daniel Webster | United States Senator and Secretary of State. |
| † 1806 | Henry Knox | American bookseller from Boston who became the chief artillery officer of the Continental Army and later the nation's first Secretary of War. |
| † 1760 | George II of Great Britain‎ | King of Great Britain and Ireland and Elector of Hanover from 1727. |
| † 1400 | Geoffrey Chaucer | English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, and diplomat. |
| † 1180 | John of Salisbury | English philosopher who wrote on ethics, logic and political theory. |
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