Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1987 | Syesha Mercado | Singer-songwriter and actress. |
| * 1977 | Vittorio Leonardi | South African-born stand-up and improvisational comedian and actor. |
| * 1975 | Chris Cheney | Guitarist and lead vocalist in the Australian rock band, The Living End. |
| * 1969 | Glen Johnson | Professional boxer, nicknamed Gentleman. |
| * 1959 | Patrick Nielsen Hayden | Science fiction editor, writer, teacher, and musician. |
| * 1948 | Judith (journalist) Miller | Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist, formerly of the The New York Times in Washington D C. |
| * 1938 | Ian Brady | Born 2 January 1938 is a British murderer of children. |
| * 1925 | William J. Crowe | United States Navy admiral who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H W Bush, and as the Ambassador to the United Kingdom under President Bill Clinton. |
| * 1920 | Isaac Asimov | Russian-born American author and biochemist. |
| * 1902 | Alfred Barr | Known as Alfred H Barr, Jr, was an art historian and the first director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. |
| * 1895 | Folke Bernadotte | Swedish diplomat and United Nations mediator. |
| * 1886 | Apsley Cherry-Garrard | English explorer of Antarctica. |
| * 1873 | Therese of Lisieux | French Discalced Carmelite nun. |
| * 1865 | William Lyon Phelps | American author, critic and scholar. |
| * 1752 | Philip Morin Freneau | Notable American poet, nationalist, polemicist, sea captain and newspaper editor. |
| * 1629 | Christian Scriver | German Lutheran devotional writer. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2009 | John DeFrancis | American linguist, sinologist, author of Chinese language textbooks, lexicographer of Chinese dictionaries, and Professor Emeritus of Chinese Studies at the University of Hawai?i at M?noa. |
| † 2005 | John Ziman | Scientist, and later a philosopher specialising in the philosophy of science. |
| † 1994 | Dixie Lee Ray | Democratic politician and the seventeenth governor of Washington State in the United States 1977–1981, making her the first woman to hold that position. |
| † 1945 | Bertram Ramsey | British Admiral during World War II He played a major part in planning the Battle of Normandy D-day invasion and led the naval forces in the battle, and was also responsible for the Dunkirk evacuation during his time as Vice-Admiral Dover. |
| † 1939 | Roman Dmowski | Polish politician and statesman, chief ideologue and co-founder of the right-wing National Democracy political camp. |
| † 1924 | Sabine Baring-Gould | English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. |
| † 1892 | George Biddell Airy | English mathematician and astronomer, Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881. |
| † 1890 | George Henry Boker | American poet, playwright, and diplomat. |
| † 1801 | Johann Kaspar Lavater | Swiss poet and physiognomist. |
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