Births | ||
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| * 1995 | Callan McAuliffe | Australian actor. |
| * 1947 | Warren Zevon | American rock singer-songwriter and musician noted for including his sometimes sardonic opinions of life in his musical lyrics, composing songs that were sometimes humorous and often had political or historical themes. |
| * 1947 | Michio Kaku | Japanese American theoretical physicist, tenured professor and co-creator of string field theory. |
| * 1944 | David Gerrold | Better known by his pen name David Gerrold, is an American science fiction author. |
| * 1943 | Sharon Tate | American actress, model, wife of Roman Polański, and the most famous murder victim of Charles Manson and his followers. |
| * 1941 | Neil Diamond | American singer-songwriter, who, according to Billboard magazine, is the third most successful Adult Contemporary artist ever, ranking behind only Barbra Streisand and Elton John. |
| * 1932 | Henri Nouwen | Dutch Catholic priest and writer who authored 40 books on the spiritual life. |
| * 1915 | Robert Motherwell | U S abstract expressionist painter. |
| * 1911 | C. L. Moore | American science fiction and fantasy writer, usually credited as C L Moore. |
| * 1891 | Walter Model | German general and later field marshal during World War II He is noted for his defensive battles in the latter half of the war, mostly on the Eastern Front but also in the west, and for his close association with Adolf Hitler and Nazism. |
| * 1862 | Edith Wharton | American novelist, short story writer and designer. |
| * 1834 | Charles Henry Webb | American poet, author and journalist. |
| * 1776 | E. T. A. Hoffmann | Better known by his pen name E T A Hoffmann, was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. |
| * 1749 | Charles James Fox | British Whig politician most noted for his support of the American and French Revolutions. |
| * 1732 | Pierre de Beaumarchais | French playwright and social satirist. |
| * 1712 | Frederick II of Prussia | King of Prussia from 1740 to 1786. |
| * 1670 | William Congreve | English playwright and poet. |
| * 1664 | John Vanbrugh | English architect and dramatist, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace. |
Deaths | ||
| † 1994 | Raymond F. Jones | American science fiction author. |
| † 1986 | L. Ron Hubbard | American science fiction author. |
| † 1978 | William Barclay | Author, radio and television presenter, Church of Scotland minister and Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at the University of Glasgow. |
| † 1966 | Homi J. Bhabha | Indian nuclear physicist and the chief architect of the Indian atomic energy program. |
| † 1965 | Winston Churchill | British politician & statesman, best known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II He was Prime Minister of the UK from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. |
| † 1920 | Amedeo Modigliani | Italian painter and sculptor who pursued his career for the most part in France. |
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