Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1987 | Alessandra Torresani | American actress. |
| * 1975 | Daniel Tosh | Comedian who currently resides in Los Angeles, California. |
| * 1967 | Noel Gallagher | Former lead songwriter, guitarist and sometime lead-singer with the British rock band Oasis. |
| * 1959 | Rupert Everett | British actor. |
| * 1953 | Danny Elfman | American singer-songwriter who led the rock band Oingo Boingo from 1978 until its breakup in 1995, and has since gone on to become one of the most sought-after film score composers working in Hollywood today. |
| * 1932 | Paul R. Ehrlich | Author of The Population Explosion (1990). |
| * 1929 | Peter Higgs | British theoretical physicist and an emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh. |
| * 1928 | Kyril Bonfiglioli | English art-dealer, science fiction editor, champion swordsman, and comic novelist. |
| * 1922 | Iannis Xenakis | Greek composer and architect and major contributor to musical modernism. |
| * 1917 | John F. Kennedy | 35th President of the United States, a brother of Robert F Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, and the first husband of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. |
| * 1912 | Chien-Shiung Wu | Chinese-born American physicist with an expertise in radioactivity. |
| * 1906 | T. H. (Terence Hanbury) White | British writer. |
| * 1904 | Gregg Toland | American cinematographer, noted for his innovative use of lighting and techniques such as deep focus in films such as Wuthering Heights, The Long Voyage Home and Citizen Kane. |
| * 1903 | Bob Hope | Best known as Bob Hope, was an English-born American entertainer, having appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio and television, movies and in army concerts. |
| * 1892 | Max Brand | American western fiction author. |
| * 1880 | Oswald Spengler | German historian, philosopher and political writer, most famous for his Der Untergang des Abendlandes, completed in 1922 and translated as The Decline of the West in 1928. |
| * 1874 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton | British writer whose prolific and diverse output included works of philosophy, ontology, poetry, play writing, journalism, public lecturing and debating, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction. |
| * 1828 | Gerald Massey | English self-taught Egyptologist and poet. |
| * 1824 | William Morley Punshon | English Nonconformist divine. |
| * 1736 | Patrick Henry | Prominent figure in the American Revolution, known and remembered primarily for his stirring oratory. |
| * 1630 | King of England Charles II | King of England, Scotland, and Ireland. |
Deaths | ||
| † 1998 | Barry Goldwater | American politician. |
| † 1997 | Jeff Buckley | Also known as "Scotty Moorhead", was an American singer-songwriter. |
| † 1995 | Margaret Chase Smith | American politician, a Republican Senator from Maine, the first woman to be elected to both the US House and the Senate, and the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for the US Presidency at a major party convention (1964 Republican). |
| † 1979 | Mary Pickford | Canadian-born film star and co-founder of United Artists, known as "America's Sweetheart" and "the girl with the curls. |
| † 1970 | Eva Hesse | German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. |
| † 1958 | Juan Ramon Jimenez | Spanish poet, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956. |
| † 1951 | Fanny Brice | Popular and influential American comedian, singer, theatre and film actress and entertainer. |
| † 1942 | John Barrymore | American actor of the early 20th century. |
| † 1911 | W. S. Gilbert | English dramatist and librettist best known for his operatic collaborations with the composer Arthur Sullivan. |
| † 1877 | John Lothrop Motley | American historian, novelist and diplomat. |
| † 1866 | Winfield Scott | United States Army general, and unsuccessful presidential candidate of the Whig Party in 1852. |
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