Births | ||
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| * 1982 | David Wright | Major League Baseball player. |
| * 1969 | Alain de Botton | Swiss writer, television presenter, and entrepreneur, resident in the UK His books and television programs discuss various contemporary subjects and themes in a philosophical style, emphasizing philosophy's relevance to everyday life. |
| * 1959 | Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz | Prime minister of Poland, 2005–06. |
| * 1958 | Steve Sailer | American journalist and movie critic for The American Conservative, ex-correspondent for UPI, and VDARE. |
| * 1957 | Mike Watt | Punk rock musician and songwriter with The Minutemen, fIREHOSE, and Iggy Pop & The Stooges. |
| * 1957 | Billy Bragg | English musician known for his blend of folk, punk-rock, and protest music, and his poetic lyrics dealing with political as well as romantic themes. |
| * 1946 | Andrei Codrescu | Jewish Romanian-American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and commentator for National Public Radio. |
| * 1945 | Tom Tancredo | American politician from the Republican Party. |
| * 1942 | Rana Bhagwandas | Pakistani senior judge and former acting-Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. |
| * 1935 | William Julius Wilson | Leading professor of sociology, and is currently a Lewis P and Linda L Geyser University Professor at Harvard University, after working at the University of Chicago from 1972 to 1996. |
| * 1924 | Judy LaMarsh | Canadian politician, lawyer, author and broadcaster. |
| * 1917 | David Bohm | American-born British quantum physicist who made significant contributions in the fields of theoretical physics, philosophy and neuropsychology. |
| * 1902 | Sidney Hook | Prominent New York intellectual and philosopher who championed pragmatism. |
| * 1895 | Susanne Langer | American philosopher of art. |
| * 1850 | Theo Marzials | British composer, singer and poet. |
| * 1838 | Edwin Abbot | English schoolmaster and theologian, most famous as the author of the mathematical satire and religious allegory Flatland (1884). |
Deaths | ||
| † 2010 | Brian Hanrahan | Diplomatic Editor for BBC News and a well known correspondent. |
| † 2008 | Adrian Mitchell | English poet and dramatist. |
| † 1997 | Denise Levertov | British-American poet. |
| † 1996 | Carl Sagan | American astronomer and popular science writer. |
| † 1993 | W. Edwards Deming | American statistician, college professor, author, lecturer, and consultant, known for his work in the field of Quality management. |
| † 1984 | Dmitriy Ustinov | Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union from 1976 until his death. |
| † 1984 | Stanley Milgram | American social psychologist famous for his controversial study known as the Milgram Experiment on obedience to authority figures, conducted in the 1960s during his professorship at Yale, and for the small-world experiment as part of his dissertation while at Harvard. |
| † 1982 | Arthur Rubinstein | Polish-American pianist who is widely considered as one of the greatest piano virtuosi of the 20th century. |
| † 1976 | Richard J. Daley | Mayor of Chicago, Illinois from 1955 to 1976; 21 years as the undisputed Democratic boss of Chicago and is considered by historians to be the "last of the big city bosses. |
| † 1968 | John Steinbeck | One of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century. |
| † 1958 | Sir John Squire | British poet, writer, historian, and influential literary editor of the post-World War I period. |
| † 1937 | Erich Ludendorff | German Army officer, Generalquartiermeister during World War I, victor of Li?ge, and, with Paul von Hindenburg, one of the victors of the Battle of Tannenberg. |
| † 1935 | Eliza Calvert Hall | American author, women's rights advocate and suffragist from Bowling Green in western Kentucky in the United States. |
| † 1866 | Ann Taylor | Writer of hymns and nursery rhymes. |
| † 1860 | Alfred Bunn | English theatrical manager. |
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