Births | ||
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| * 1971 | Charlie Brooker | Satirist, TV critic, TV presenter and columnist for the UK's Guardian newspaper. |
| * 1970 | Inzamam-ul-Haq | Retired Pakistani cricketer who represented the national side from 1991 to 2007. |
| * 1968 | Brian (physicist) Cox | Also known as B E Cox, is a particle physicist, a Royal Society research fellow, and a professor at the University of Manchester. |
| * 1959 | Ira Glass | American public radio personality, and host and producer of the radio show This American Life and the television program of the same name. |
| * 1948 | Mike Lange | Ice hockey play-by-play broadcaster for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the NHL. |
| * 1945 | Nicolas Bratza | British judge and President of the European Court of Human Rights. |
| * 1916 | Paul Halmos | Hungarian-born Jewish American mathematician who made fundamental advances in the areas of probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, functional analysis, and mathematical logic. |
| * 1914 | Asger Jorn | Born in Vejrum, in the northwest corner of Jutland, Denmark and baptized Asger Oluf J?rgensen. |
| * 1910 | Richard Weaver | American scholar who taught English at the University of Chicago. |
| * 1902 | Isabel Bishop | Major painter of Depression-era social realism. |
| * 1900 | Basil Bunting | British modernist poet. |
| * 1878 | Edward Thomas | English poet, critical biographer and topographical writer. |
| * 1868 | Emile Chartier | Notable French essayist and philosopher who wrote under the pseudonym Alain. |
| * 1863 | Arthur Machen | Welsh writer of supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction. |
| * 1847 | Alexander Graham Bell | Eminent scientist, inventor and innovator most noted as the inventor of the telephone. |
| * 1845 | Georg Cantor | Russian-born mathematician and philosopher of Danish and Austrian descent, most famous as the creator of set theory, and of Cantor's theorem which implies the existence of an "infinity of infinities. |
| * 1829 | James Fitzjames Stephen | English lawyer and judge, created 1st Baronet Stephen by Queen Victoria. |
| * 1817 | Joseph Cummings | Fifth president of Northwestern University from 1881 to 1890, served as president of Wesleyan University for 18 years from 1857 to 1875, and also served as the president of the predecessor of Syracuse University from 1854 to 1857. |
| * 1756 | William Godwin | Leader of the English Jacobin movement, a political philosopher, educationalist, novelist, historian and biographer. |
| * 1748 | Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyes | Commonly known as Abbé Siey?s, was a French Roman Catholic abbé and clergyman, one of the chief theorists of the French Revolution, French Consulate, and First French Empire. |
| * 1652 | Thomas Otway | English dramatist of the Restoration period. |
| * 1606 | Edmund Waller | English poet. |
| * 1583 | Edward Herbert | British soldier, diplomat, historian, poet, autobiographer and metaphysician, sometimes called "the father of deism". |
Deaths | ||
| † 2010 | Michael Foot | British politician, son of the politician Isaac Foot. |
| † 1999 | Jackson C. Frank | American singer/songwriter. |
| † 1996 | Marguerite Duras | Better known as Marguerite Duras, was a French writer and film director. |
| † 1987 | Danny Kaye | Born David Daniel Kaminsky, was an American actor, singer and comedian. |
| † 1985 | Kyril Bonfiglioli | English art-dealer, science fiction editor, champion swordsman, and comic novelist. |
| † 1983 | Pierre Stephen Robert Payne | Novelist, historian, poet, and biographer. |
| † 1926 | Sir Sidney Lee | Born Solomon Lazarus Lee, was an English biographer and critic, and the second editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. |
| † 1879 | William Howitt | English author. |
| † 1879 | William Kingdon Clifford | English mathematician and philosopher. |
| † 1850 | Oliver Cowdery | Scribe to Joseph Smith, Jr during the production of the Book of Mormon. |
| † 1765 | William Stukeley | English antiquary and pioneering field-archaeologist. |
| † 1707 | Aurangzeb | More commonly known as Aurangzeb or by his chosen imperial title Alamgir, was the sixth Mughal Emperor, whose reign lasted from 1658 until his death in 1707. |
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