Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1973 | Marshall Faulk | Former American football running back in the National Football League for the Indianapolis Colts and the St Louis Rams. |
| * 1960 | Roger Lewis | Welsh biographer. |
| * 1957 | Tzachi Hanegbi | Israeli politician. |
| * 1954 | Recep Tayyip Erdogan | Prime minister of the Republic of Turkey. |
| * 1950 | Helen Clark | New Zealand politician who served as the 37th Prime Minister in three successive terms from 1999 to 2008. |
| * 1935 | Jane Wagner | American playwright and actress, best known as Lily Tomlin's comedy writer, collaborator, and companion. |
| * 1932 | Johnny Cash | Born J R Cash and most famous as Johnny Cash, was a vastly influential American country music singer, guitarist and songwriter. |
| * 1928 | Ariel Sharon | Major-general in the Israeli army, Israeli politician and Prime Minister 2001–2006. |
| * 1918 | Theodore Sturgeon | American Science-Fiction writer, essayist, and poet. |
| * 1913 | George Barker | English poet and author. |
| * 1897 | Princess Elizabeth Bibesco | English writer and poet, active between 1921 and 1940. |
| * 1894 | Wilhelm Bittrich | Obergruppenführer of the German SS and a Waffen-SS General during World War II He is perhaps now best remembered for his contribution to the defeat of the failed allied airborne offensive Operation Market Garden which took place in the Netherlands in September of 1944. |
| * 1859 | Basil King | Canadian-born clergyman and author. |
| * 1839 | John Pentland Mahaffy | Irish classical scholar. |
| * 1802 | Victor Hugo | Recognized as the most influential French Romantic writer of the 19th century and is often identified as the greatest French poet. |
| * 1786 | Francois Arago | French Catalan mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician. |
| * 1729 | Anders Chydenius | Swedish-Finnish priest and member of the Riksdag of the Estates. |
| * 1715 | Claude Adrien Helvetius | French philosopher and littérateur. |
| * 1671 | Anthony Ashley-Cooper | English philosopher and politician. |
| * 1564 | Christopher Marlowe | English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2005 | Jef Raskin | Expert in human-computer interaction who began the Macintosh project for Apple Computer. |
| † 1994 | Bill Hicks | American stand-up comedian, satirist and social critic. |
| † 1988 | Swami Narayanananda | Teacher of the Vedanta philosophy. |
| † 1987 | Paul Taunton Matthews | British theoretical particle physicist. |
| † 1969 | Karl Jaspers | German psychiatrist and philosopher. |
| † 1966 | Gino Severini | Italian painter and a leading member of the Futurist movement and signed in 1910 the Manifesto of the Futurists together with his fellow Italians: Boccione, Carr? and Balla. |
| † 1954 | William Ralph Inge | Popularly referred to simply as Dean Inge, was an English author, Anglican prelate, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral. |
| † 1909 | Theodore L. Cuyler | Presbyterian minister and religious writer in the United States. |
| † 1896 | Arsene Houssaye | Born Ars?ne Housset, was a French novelist, poet and man of letters. |
| † 1823 | John Philip Kemble | English actor. |
| † 1821 | Joseph de Maistre | Savoyard lawyer, diplomat, writer, and philosopher. |
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