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Births

* 1989 Taylor Swift Grammy-winning, American country music singer-songwriter.
* 1981 Amy Lee Most famous as Amy Lee, is an American singer-songwriter and classically trained pianist who is the lead vocalist and co-founder of the rock band Evanescence.
* 1975 Tom DeLonge Former guitarist and vocalist of and Box Car Racer.
* 1962 Rex Ryan Current head coach of the New York Jets.
* 1962 Jamie Raskin American law professor and politician.
* 1953 Ben Bernanke Chairman of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve.
* 1948 Ted Nugent Aka the Nuge and "the Motor City Madman", is a guitarist from Detroit, Michigan, originally gaining fame as a member of the Amboy Dukes.
* 1945 Herman Cain American businessman, politician, radio host of The Herman Cain Show in Atlanta, Georgia, former chairman and CEO of Godfather's Pizza, and former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
* 1936 Aga Khan IV 49th hereditary Imam of the Ismaili Muslims, comprised of ethnically and culturally diverse peoples living in over 25 countries around the world.
* 1923 Antoni Tapies Spanish Catalan artist, born in Barcelona, who from 1947 on, started to paint in a surrealistic style.
* 1923 Phillip Warren Anderson American theoretical physicist.
* 1920 George Shultz Former United States Secretary of Labor (from 1969 to 1970), U S Secretary of the Treasury (from 1972 to 1974), and a former U S Secretary of State (from 1982 to 1989).
* 1915 Ross Macdonald Who wrote under the pseudonym Ross Macdonald, was an American-Canadian writer of mystery fiction and detective fiction.
* 1911 Kenneth Patchen American poet and painter.
* 1903 John (artist) Piper English painter and printmaker.
* 1890 Marc Connelly American playwright who received the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for his drama Green Pastures.
* 1890 Mary Butts British modernist writer.
* 1887 George Polya Hungarian mathematician and professor of mathematics at ETH Zürich and at Stanford University.
* 1887 Alvin C. York United States soldier, famous as a World War I hero.
* 1871 Emily Carr Canadian artist and writer.
* 1835 Phillips Brooks Noted United States clergyman and author, who briefly served as Bishop of Massachusetts in the Episcopal Church during the early 1890s.
* 1818 John Manners Known as Lord John Manners before 1888, was an English statesman.
* 1815 Arthur Penrhyn Stanley English churchman, Dean of Westminster, known as Dean Stanley.
* 1797 Heinrich Heine Journalist, an essayist, and one of the most significant German romantic poets.
* 1585 William Drummond Scottish poet.
* 1521 Sixtus V (pope) Born Felice Peretti, was pope from 1585 to 1590.
* 1048 Abu-Rayhan Biruni Persian polymath, scientist, physicist, anthropologist, psychologist, astronomer, chemist, critic of alchemy and astrology, encyclopedist, historian, geographer, traveller, geodesist, geologist, pharmacist, philosopher, theologian, scholar and teacher, and he contributed greatly to all of these fields.

Deaths

† 2010 Richard Holbrooke American advisor, diplomat, political scientist, investment banker, and historian.
† 2009 Paul Samuelson American economist.
† 2009 T S Satyan Popularly known T S Satyan, was one of India's earliest and most eminent photojournalists.
† 2006 Richard Carlson Author and motivational speaker who became famous with his best-selling book Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff…and it’s all Small Stuff (1997).
† 2005 Stanley Williams Early leader of the Crips, a notorious American street gang which had its roots in South Central Los Angeles in 1969.
† 1983 Mary Renault English writer most famous for her historical novels set in ancient Greece.
† 1972 L. P. Hartley British writer.
† 1961 Grandma born Anna Mary Robertson Moses Better known as "Grandma Moses", was a renowned American folk artist.
† 1948 Michael (writer) Roberts English poet, writer, critic and broadcaster, who made his living as a teacher.
† 1947 Nicholas Roerich Also known as Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh, was a Russian archeologist, painter, poet, mystic, spiritual teacher and social activist.
† 1924 Samuel Gompers Sometimes known as "Samuel L Gompers", although he had no middle name, was a British-born American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history.
† 1906 Charles Hamilton Aide Popular novelist, playwright, songwriter, dramatist, and society person in England and France.
† 1906 Charles Hamilton Aide Popular novelist, playwright, songwriter, dramatist, and society person in England and France.
† 1852 Frances Wright Also widely known as Fanny Wright, was a Scotland-born lecturer, writer, feminist, abolitionist, and utopian, who became a U S citizen in 1825.
† 1814 Charles-Joseph Ligne Field marshal and writer, and member of a princely family of Hainaut.
† 1784 Samuel Johnson British author, linguist and lexicographer.
† 1204 Maimonides Commonly known as Moses Maimonides, was a Jewish rabbi, physician, and philosopher.
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