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* 1980 | Michelle Kwan | American figure skater and media celebrity who has won nine U S championships, five world championships, and two Olympic medals. |
* 1968 | Jeff VanderMeer | American writer, editor and publisher. |
* 1966 | Jim Gaffigan | American stand-up comic and actor. |
* 1964 | Robert Newman | British stand-up comedian, author and political activist. |
* 1954 | Robert M. Price | American theologian and writer. |
* 1944 | Ian Wilmut | English embryologist best known as the leader of the group that in 1996 first cloned a mammal, a sheep named Dolly, from fully differentiated adult mammary cells. |
* 1941 | Michael Howard | British politician who has been a Conservative MP since the 1983 General Election for the constituency of Folkestone and Hythe. |
* 1940 | Dick Armey | Former U S Representative from Texas's 26,26th congressional district, (1985–2003) and House Majority Leader (1995–2003). |
* 1940 | Ringo Starr | Known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is a popular British musician, best known as drummer for The Beatles. |
* 1907 | Robert A. Heinlein | One of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of science fiction of the 20th Century. |
* 1907 | Laszlo Tisza | Professor of Physics Emeritus at MIT. |
* 1906 | Satchel Paige | American baseball player whose pitching in the Negro leagues and in Major League Baseball made him a legend in his own lifetime. |
* 1903 | Steven Runciman | Better known as Sir Steven Runciman, was a British historian known for his studies of eastern Christendom during the Middle Ages. |
* 1902 | Rudolf Mildner | Chief of the Gestapo at Kattowicz and was head of the political department at Auschwitz which conducted third degree methods of interrogation from March 1941 until September 1943. |
* 1891 | Tadamichi Kuribayashi | Lieutenant General in the Imperial Japanese Navy and the commander of Japanese defense of Iwo Jima during Battle of Iwo Jima. |
* 1887 | Marc Chagall | Russian-Jewish painter who was born in Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire. |
* 1860 | Gustav Mahler | Bohemian-Austrian composer and conductor. |
* 1798 | Robert Gilfillan | Poet and songwriter, born at Dunfermline, Scotland. |
* 1619 | Bhai Makhan Shah Labana | Devout Sikh and a rich trader from Tanda district Jhelum. |
Deaths | ||
† 2007 | John Szarkowski | Photographer, curator, historian, and critic. |
† 2006 | Syd Barrett | Born Roger Keith Barrett, was an English singer, songwriter, guitarist and artist. |
† 1984 | George Oppen | American poet, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist group of poets. |
† 1975 | Otto Skorzeny | Standartenführer in the German Waffen-SS during World War II After fighting on the Eastern Front, and being recommended to Adolf Hitler by Ernst Kaltenbrunner, he is known as the commando leader who led Operation Eiche, the rescue of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from imprisonment after his overthrow. |
† 1973 | Max Horkheimer | German-Jewish philosopher-sociologist, famous for his work in critical theory as a member of the "Frankfurt School" of social research. |
† 1970 | E. M. Forster | English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. |
† 1930 | Arthur Conan Doyle | British writer, most famous as the creator of the character Sherlock Holmes. |
† 1930 | Arthur Conan Doyle | British writer, most famous as the creator of the character Sherlock Holmes. |
† 1881 | Sidney Lanier | American poet, novelist and musician. |
† 1880 | Lydia Maria Child | American abolitionist, women's rights activist, opponent of American expansionism, Indian rights activist, novelist, and journalist. |
† 1816 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Irish playwright and Whig statesman. |
† 1764 | William Pulteney | English politician, created Earl of Bath in 1742 by King George II. |
† 1701 | William Stoughton | Puritan judge in charge of what has come to be known as the Salem Witch Trials, first as the Chief Magistrate of the Special Court of Oyer and Terminer in 1692, and then as the Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature in 1693. |
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