Births | ||
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| * 1971 | Bobby Jindal | Current Republican governor of the U S state of Louisiana. |
| * 1964 | Tony (comedian) Martin | Comedian and writer from Te Kuiti, New Zealand who has had a successful TV, radio, stand-up and film career in Australia. |
| * 1959 | Eliot Spitzer | American lawyer and New York State Democratic Party politician. |
| * 1953 | John Edwards | Former United States Senator from North Carolina, who was the running mate of the unsuccessful 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, Senator John Kerry. |
| * 1942 | Preston Manning | Canadian politician. |
| * 1929 | E. O. Wilson | Entomologist and biologist known for his work on ecology, evolution, and sociobiology. |
| * 1929 | Yevgeniy Chazov | Prominent physician of the Soviet Union and Russia, specializing in cardiology, Chief of the Fourth Directorate of the Ministry of Health of the USSR, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, a recipient of numerous awards and decorations, Soviet, Russian, and foreign. |
| * 1928 | Maurice Sendak | American writer and illustrator of children's literature. |
| * 1926 | Lionel Jeffries | British actor, screenwriter and film director. |
| * 1925 | James Salter | American short story writer and novelist. |
| * 1924 | Friedrich Bauer | German computer scientist and professor emeritus at Technical University of Munich. |
| * 1922 | Judy Garland | Born Frances Ethel Gumm, was an American film actress and singer. |
| * 1921 | Duke of Edinburgh Philip | Consort of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. |
| * 1915 | Saul Bellow | Acclaimed Canadian-born American writer. |
| * 1911 | Terence Rattigan | English dramatist and screenwriter. |
| * 1909 | Larry LeSueur | Born Laurence Edward LeSueur, was a well-known war correspondent during World War II He worked closely with Edward R Murrow and was part of an elite group of broadcast pioneers known as the Murrow's Boys. |
| * 1861 | Pierre Duhem | French physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science, best known for his writings on the indeterminacy of experimental criteria and on scientific development in the Middle Ages. |
| * 1832 | Edwin Arnold | English poet and journalist. |
| * 1819 | Gustave Courbet | French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. |
| * 1818 | William Ellery (poet) Channing | Transcendentalist poet and nephew of the Unitarian preacher William Ellery Channing. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2004 | Ray Charles | Born Ray Charles Robinson, was an American Soul musician, singer, songwriter, and composer. |
| † 2001 | John McKay | American football coach. |
| † 2000 | Hafez al-Assad | President of the Syrian Arab Republic since from 1971 to 2000. |
| † 1967 | Spencer Tracy | Actor of stage and screen, who appeared in 74 films from 1930 to 1967. |
| † 1946 | Jack (boxer) Johnson | Better known as Jack Johnson and nicknamed the "Galveston Giant", was an American boxer and arguably the best heavyweight of his generation. |
| † 1940 | Marcus Garvey | Publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, Black nationalist, orator, and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. |
| † 1926 | Antonio Gaudi | Also known as Antonio Gaudí, was a Catalan architect famous for his highly individual designs. |
| † 1909 | Edward Everett Hale | American author and Unitarian clergyman. |
| † 1901 | Robert Williams Buchanan | Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist. |
| † 1877 | Friedrich Tholuck | Known as August Tholuck, was a German Protestant theologian and church leader. |
| † 1865 | Lydia Sigourney | Extremely popular American poet during the early and mid 19th century. |
| † 1861 | Theodore Winthrop | Writer, lawyer and world traveler. |
| † 1580 | Luis de Camoes | Considered the national poet of Portugal. |
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