Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1980 | Tomas Kalnoky | Lead singer and songwriter of the ska band Streetlight Manifesto. |
| * 1973 | Stephenie Meyer | American author. |
| * 1969 | Ed Miliband | British Labour Party politician, who is the current Leader of the Labour Party and the Leader of the Opposition of the United Kingdom. |
| * 1963 | Paul Bloom | Professor of psychology at Yale University and an internationally recognized expert on language and development. |
| * 1957 | Hamid Karzai | Current President of Afghanistan. |
| * 1950 | Dana Gioia | American poet and critic. |
| * 1946 | Jeff Sessions | Junior United States Senator from Alabama. |
| * 1946 | Roselyne Bachelot | French Minister of Environment. |
| * 1943 | Tarja Halonen | Finnish politician who served as president of Finland from 2000 to 2012. |
| * 1931 | Walter Abish | Famous Austrian-born American author of experimental novels and short stories. |
| * 1922 | Ava Gardner | American actress. |
| * 1919 | Pierre Soulages | French painter, engraver and sculptor. |
| * 1913 | Ad Reinhardt | Painter, writer, and pioneer of conceptual and minimal art. |
| * 1910 | Fritz Leiber | American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. |
| * 1907 | I. F. Stone | Better known as I F Stone, was an iconoclastic American investigative journalist best known for his influential political newsletter, I F Stone's Weekly. |
| * 1894 | Georges Guynemer | French aviator and fighter pilot in the First World War. |
| * 1881 | Juan Ramon Jimenez | Spanish poet, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956. |
| * 1868 | Emanuel Lasker | German-born chess grandmaster, mathematician and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years. |
| * 1822 | Matthew Arnold | English poet, essayist and cultural critic. |
| * 1818 | Eliza Cook | English author born in Southwark. |
| * 1818 | James Prescott Joule | English physicist and brewer. |
| * 1798 | Adam Mickiewicz | Polish writer and poet, considered by many to be the greatest Polish Romantic poet of the 19th century. |
| * 1754 | George Crabbe | English poet, known for his realistic and unsentimental portrayals of peasant life. |
| * 1491 | Ignatius of Loyola | Also known as Ignacio López de Loyola, was the principal founder and first Superior General of the Society of Jesus, a religious order of the Catholic Church professing direct service to the Pope in terms of mission. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2008 | Samuel P. Huntington | Political scientist known for his analysis of the relationship between the military and the civil government, his investigation of coup d'états, and his thesis that the central political actors of the 21st century will be civilizations rather than nation-states. |
| † 2008 | Harold Pinter | British playwright, actor and theatre director. |
| † 1994 | John Osborne | British playwright, producer and actor. |
| † 1993 | Norman Vincent Peale | Author of The Power of Positive Thinking and chief progenitor of the theory of positive thinking. |
| † 1980 | Karl Donitz | German naval leader who commanded the German Navy during the second half of World War II He became a Großadmiral and served as Commander of Submarines and later was Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy. |
| † 1977 | Samael Aun Weor | Prolific writer, lecturer and teacher of occultism. |
| † 1973 | Periyar E. V. Ramasamy | Also known as Ramaswami, EVR, Thanthai Periyar, or Periyar, was a Dravidian social activist and former politician from India, who founded the Self-Respect Movement and Dravidar Kazhagam. |
| † 1961 | Charles (writer) Hamilton | English writer. |
| † 1961 | Frank Richards | English writer. |
| † 1935 | Alban Berg | Austrian composer. |
| † 1914 | John Muir | Scottish born American environmentalist, naturalist, traveler, writer, and scientist. |
| † 1889 | Charles Mackay | Scottish poet, journalist, and song writer. |
| † 1872 | William John Macquorn Rankine | Scottish engineer and physicist. |
| † 1870 | Albert Barnes | American theologian, who graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, in 1820, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1823. |
| † 1863 | William Makepeace Thackeray | English Victorian writer. |
| † 1850 | Frederic Bastiat | Early free-market economist and classical liberal French author. |
| † 1839 | James Smith | Along with his younger brother Horace Smith, wrote the Rejected Addresses. |
| † 0 | Benjamin Rush | Physician, writer, educator, and humanitarian. |
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