Births | ||
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* 1969 | Matthew Perry | Canadian-American film and television actor, best known for his work as Chandler Bing in the sitcom Friends. |
* 1961 | Katya Chamma | Brazilian composer, singer, poet, writer and cultural producer. |
* 1947 | Lawrence Kudlow | American conservative economic commentator, journalist and broadcaster. |
* 1946 | Bill Clinton | US politician, 42nd President of the United States; husband of Hillary Clinton. |
* 1942 | Fred Thompson | American lawyer, lobbyist, character actor and former Republican Senator from Tennessee. |
* 1924 | Willard Boyle | Canadian physicist and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device. |
* 1921 | Gene Roddenberry | Born in El Paso, Texas and spent his boyhood in Los Angeles. |
* 1919 | Malcolm Forbes | American businessman, and the publisher of Forbes magazine. |
* 1908 | Josephine Jacobsen | American poet, short story writer, and critic. |
* 1902 | Ogden Nash | American poet. |
* 1900 | Gilbert Ryle | British philosopher. |
* 1897 | Roman Vishniac | Renowned Russian-American photographer of poor Jews in Eastern European ghettos in the 1930s. |
* 1883 | Coco Chanel | 19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971 was a pioneering French fashion designer whose modernist philosophy, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her an important figure in 20th-century fashion. |
* 1874 | Arthur Henry Reginald Buller | Bitish/Canadian mycologist. |
* 1872 | Theophile de Donder | Belgian mathematician and physicist famous for his 1923 work in developing correlations between the Newtonian concept of chemical affinity and the Gibbsian concept of free energy. |
* 1870 | Bernard Baruch | American financier, stock market speculator, statesman, and presidential advisor. |
* 1856 | John Cotton Dana | American librarian and museum director. |
* 1780 | Pierre-Jean de Beranger | Prolific French poet and chansonnier, who enjoyed great popularity and influence in France during his lifetime, but faded into obscurity in the decades following his death. |
* 1689 | Samuel Richardson | One of the most admired fiction-writers of his day, both in his native England and across Europe. |
* 1631 | John Dryden | Influential English poet, literary critic, and playwright. |
Deaths | ||
† 2004 | J. Irwin Miller | American industrialist and patron of modern architecture. |
† 2002 | Irving Copi | American philosopher, author and logician. |
† 1995 | Pierre Schaeffer | French composer, writer, broadcaster and engineer most widely recognized as the chief pioneer of musique concr?te His writings are often concerned with his development of the genre as well as the theoretics and philosophy of music in general. |
† 1994 | Linus Pauling | American quantum chemist and biochemist, a pioneer in the application of quantum mechanics to chemistry, and one of the founders of molecular biology. |
† 1977 | Groucho Marx | Primarily known as Groucho Marx, was an American comedian and actor, famous for his work in the Marx Brothers comedy team, and his solo film and television career. |
† 1968 | George Gamow | Ukrainian born physicist and cosmologist. |
† 1960 | Frances Cornford | English poet in the Georgian tradition. |
† 1959 | Jacob Epstein | American-born British sculptor who worked chiefly in the UK, where he pioneered modern sculpture. |
† 1950 | Black Elk | Famous Wichasha Wakan and Heyoka of the Oglala Lakota. |
† 1945 | Albert Jay Nock | Influential American author, educational theorist, capitalist anarchist, social critic of the early and middle 20th century, and a philosophical founder of the modern, libertarian conservative movement later embraced by Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, and Ron Paul. |
† 1944 | Gunther von Kluge | German military leader. |
† 1936 | Federico Garcia Lorca | Spanish poet, dramatist, painter, pianist and composer. |
† 1936 | Federico Garcia Lorca | Spanish poet, dramatist, painter, pianist and composer. |
† 1923 | Vilfredo Pareto | Italian engineer, sociologist, economist, and philosopher, who contributed greatly to turning economics into a data-based science. |
† 1905 | William-Adolphe Bouguereau | French academic painter. |
† 1823 | Robert Bloomfield | Self-educated English peasant poet. |
† 1662 | Blaise Pascal | French mathematician, logician, physicist and theologian. |
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