Births | ||
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| * 1983 | Brooke Fraser | Award-winning New Zealand singer-songwriter. |
| * 1971 | Jeev Milkha Singh | First Indian professional golfer to become a member of the European Tour. |
| * 1959 | Donna Brazile | American author, educator, and political activist and strategist affiliated with the Democratic Party. |
| * 1955 | Paul Simonon | Best known as the bass guitarist and vocalist for punk rock band The Clash. |
| * 1953 | Robert Charles Wilson | Canadian science fiction author. |
| * 1953 | J. M. DeMatteis | American writer of comic books. |
| * 1952 | Julie Taymor | American director of theater, opera and film. |
| * 1949 | Don Johnson | American actor known for his work in television and film. |
| * 1931 | John Allen Fraser | Retired Canadian parliamentarian and former Speaker of the House of Commons. |
| * 1929 | Keith Andrew | Former English cricketer who played in two Tests, in 1954–55 and in 1963. |
| * 1928 | Friedensreich Hundertwasser | Born Friedrich Stowasser, was an Austrian painter, architect, and sculptor. |
| * 1923 | Freeman Dyson | English-born American physicist, mathematician, and futurist, famous for his work in quantum mechanics, nuclear weapons design and policy, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. |
| * 1921 | Maurice Davis | American Rabbi and human rights activist. |
| * 1920 | Albert Memmi | Tunisian Jewish writer and essayist who migrated to France. |
| * 1913 | Muriel Rukeyser | American poet and political activist, best known for her poems about equality, feminism, social justice, and Judaism. |
| * 1907 | Oscar Niemeyer | Brazilian architect who is considered one of the most important names in international modern architecture. |
| * 1897 | David McCord | Poet and writer of verse for children. |
| * 1892 | J. Paul Getty | American industrialist and founder of the Getty Oil Company. |
| * 1881 | Branch Rickey | Actively involved in Major League Baseball for 50 years. |
| * 1870 | Josef Hoffmann | Austrian architect, designer of consumer goods and founding member of the Vienna Secession. |
| * 1859 | Ludoviko Lazaro Zamenhof | Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist, philologist, and the initiator of Esperanto, the most widely spoken artificial language to date. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2011 | Christopher Hitchens | English-American journalist and author of twelve books on politics, literature, and religion, including his anti-religion polemic, God Is Not Great. |
| † 1991 | Vasily Zaytsev | Soviet sniper during World War II, notable particularly for his activities between November 10 and December 17, 1942 during the Battle of Stalingrad. |
| † 1981 | Claud Cockburn | Influential left-wing English journalist; also a novelist, short-story writer and autobiographer. |
| † 1966 | Walt Disney | American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, and animator. |
| † 1958 | Wolfgang Pauli | Austrian-Swiss physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1945. |
| † 1950 | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel | Major political and social leader of India and its struggle for independence, and is credited for achieving the political integration of India. |
| † 1949 | Alice Bailey | Born Alice LaTrobe Bateman, was a writer on spiritual, occult and religious themes. |
| † 1947 | Arthur Machen | Welsh writer of supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction. |
| † 1908 | Donald Grant Mitchell | American essayist and novelist. |
| † 1890 | Sitting Bull | Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux holy man and war chief, notable for his role in the defeat of George Armstrong Custer and the U S 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of Little Bighorn. |
| † 1864 | Eliza Farnham | 19th-century American novelist, feminist, abolitionist, and activist for prison reform, her fame as a writer rests upon her work Life in Prairie Land (1846), an account of life on the Illinois prairie near Pekin between 1836 and 1840. |
| † 1796 | Anthony Wayne | United States Army general and statesman. |
| † 1792 | Joseph Martin Kraus | German composer and Hofkapellmeister in the service of king Gustav III of Sweden in Stockholm. |
| † 1683 | Izaak Walton | English writer, author of The Compleat Angler. |
| † 1072 | Alp Arslan | Second sultan of the dynasty of Seljuk Turks, in Persia, and great-grandson of Seljuk, the founder of the dynasty. |
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