Births | ||
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| * 1969 | Bruce Parry | Former British Royal Marine instructor who presents the documentary program Tribe, in which he visits various tribes around the world and lives by their customs for one month. |
| * 1967 | Billy Corgan | Most commonly known as Billy Corgan, is an American vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter best known for his work in the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. |
| * 1962 | Kalpana Chawla | Indian-born American astronaut and space shuttle mission specialist. |
| * 1961 | Dana Reeve | Born Dana Morosini, was an American actress, singer, and social activist and wife of Christopher Reeve. |
| * 1948 | William Ford Gibson | American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. |
| * 1942 | John Wayne Gacy | American serial killer. |
| * 1927 | Patrick Allen | British actor and voice actor. |
| * 1922 | Patrick Suppes | American philosopher who has made significant contributions to philosophy of science, theory of measurement, foundations of quantum mechanics, decision theory, psychology, and educational technology. |
| * 1920 | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman | Also popularly known in Bangladesh and West Bengal as Bangabandhu and Sheikh Mujib, was a Bengali politician and the founding leader of Bangladesh. |
| * 1919 | Nat King Cole | American singer and jazz musician; born Nathaniel Adams Coles. |
| * 1917 | Sam Hinton | American folk singer and marine biologist, best known for popularizing traditional folksongs and folklore. |
| * 1856 | Mikhail Vrubel | Usually regarded as the greatest Russian painter of the Art Nouveau movement. |
| * 1820 | Jean Ingelow | English poet and novelist. |
| * 1780 | Thomas Chalmers | Scottish mathematician and a leader of the Free Church of Scotland. |
| * 1757 | Alexander (1757-1831) Knox | Irish theological writer. |
| * 1754 | Madame Roland (Marie-Jeanne Roland de la Platiere) | Born Marie-Jeanne Phlipon and better known simply as Madame Roland, was, together with her husband Jean-Marie Roland de la Plati?re, a supporter of the French Revolution and influential member of the Girondist faction. |
| * 1676 | Thomas Boston | Scottish church leader. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2007 | John Backus | American computer scientist and winner of the 1977 Turing Award. |
| † 2005 | George F. Kennan | American advisor, diplomat, political scientist, and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. |
| † 1993 | Helen Hayes | American actress; one of the few people who has won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award; born Helen Hayes Brown. |
| † 1978 | Malvina Reynolds | American folk/blues singer-songwriter and political activist. |
| † 1956 | Fred Allen | Born John Florence Sullivan, was an American comedian and radio host. |
| † 1937 | Austen Chamberlain | British statesman and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. |
| † 1928 | Antoni Lange | Polish poet, writer and translator. |
| † 1680 | Francois de La Rochefoucauld | Noted French author of maxims and memoirs, as well as an example of the accomplished 17th-century nobleman. |
| † 1640 | Philip Massinger | English dramatist. |
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