Births | ||
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| * 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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