Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1970 | Rahul Gandhi | Indian politician and member of the Parliament of India. |
| * 1964 | Boris Johnson | British journalist and Politician, who serves as the current Mayor of London. |
| * 1957 | Subcomandante Marcos | Leader of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, a Mexican political organisation. |
| * 1954 | Kathleen Turner | Academy Award-nominated American actress. |
| * 1951 | Ayman Zawahiri | Or simply known as al-Zawahiri or Ayman, is an Egyptian Islamic theologian and the current leader of al-Qaeda, taking over from Osama bin Laden. |
| * 1951 | Ayman al-Zawahiri | Or simply known as al-Zawahiri or Ayman, is an Egyptian Islamic theologian and the current leader of al-Qaeda, taking over from Osama bin Laden. |
| * 1949 | Paul deParrie | American pro-life activist and author who lived in Portland, Oregon. |
| * 1948 | Nick Drake | English folk singer-songwriter and musician. |
| * 1947 | John Ralston Saul | Canadian author and philosopher. |
| * 1947 | Salman Rushdie | Indian-born British essayist and author of fiction, most of which is set on the Indian subcontinent. |
| * 1945 | Aung San Suu Kyi | Non-violent pro-democracy social activist of Myanmar; Winner of the 1990 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought and the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. |
| * 1945 | Radovan Karadzic | Former Serbian politician, poet, political doctor and psychiatrist indicted for war crimes and genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. |
| * 1941 | Vaclav Klaus | Second President of the Czech Republic and a former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (1992–1997). |
| * 1923 | Colin Jordan | Leading representative of postwar National Socialism in Britain. |
| * 1922 | Aage Niels Bohr | Danish nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate, and the son of Niels Bohr. |
| * 1919 | Pauline Kael | American film critic best known for the reviews she wrote in The New Yorker. |
| * 1917 | Joshua Nkomo | Zimbabwean politician and the founder of the Zimbabwe African People's Union. |
| * 1914 | Alan Cranston | United States Senator from California and anti-nuclear weapons activist. |
| * 1906 | Ernst Chain | German-born British biochemist, and a 1945 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillin. |
| * 1903 | Lou Gehrig | Born Ludwig Heinrich Gehrig, was an American Major League Baseball player in the first half of the twentieth century. |
| * 1896 | Duchess of Windsor Wallis | American wife of Edward, Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII. |
| * 1861 | Jose Rizal | Filipino nationalist, doctor, writer, and polymath whose works and martyred death made him a hero of the Philippine Revolution. |
| * 1858 | Sam Walter Foss | Librarian and poet whose works included The House by the Side of the Road and The Coming American. |
| * 1856 | Elbert Hubbard | American writer, publisher, artist, businessman, anarchist and libertarian socialist philosopher. |
| * 1847 | George Barlow | English poet, who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym James Hinton. |
| * 1834 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | British Baptist minister and writer. |
| * 1809 | Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton | English poet and politician. |
| * 1623 | Blaise Pascal | French mathematician, logician, physicist and theologian. |
| * 1566 | James I of England | King who ruled over England, Scotland, and Ireland, and was the first Sovereign to reign in the three realms simultaneously. |
Deaths | ||
| † 1993 | William Golding | English novelist and poet. |
| † 1993 | Abraham Kaplan | U S philosopher, known best for being the first philosopher to systematically examine the behavioral sciences in his book "The Conduct of Inquiry" (1964). |
| † 1984 | Lee Krasner | Influential abstract expressionist American painter in the second half of the 20th Century; she was married with Jackson Pollock till his death in 1956. |
| † 1956 | Thomas J. Watson | President of International Business Machines, who oversaw that company's growth into an international force from the 1920s to the 1950s. |
| † 1937 | J. M. Barrie | Scottish novelist and dramatist, more commonly known as J M Barrie. |
| † 1902 | John (Lord Acton) Acton | English historian, commonly known simply as Lord Acton. |
| † 1878 | Charles Hodge | Principal of Princeton Theological Seminary between 1851 and 1878. |
| † 1850 | Margaret Fuller | American author, journalist, critic and women's rights activist. |
| † 1820 | Joseph Banks | English naturalist and botanist. |
| † 1794 | Richard Henry Lee | American statesman from Virginia best known for the motion in the Second Continental Congress calling for the colonies' independence from Great Britain. |
| † 1747 | Nader Shah | Ruled as Shah of Iran (1736–47) and was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty. |
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