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Births

* 1974 Joshua Fernandez Malaysian film director / designer.
* 1970 Luis Miguel Mexican singer.
* 1961 Peter Chung Korean American animator.
* 1960 Gregory Colbert Canadian a film-maker and photographer best known as the creator of Ashes and Snow, a traveling exhibition of photographic artworks and films housed in the Nomadic Museum.
* 1957 Afrika Bambaataa DJ and community leader from the South Bronx, who was instrumental in the early development of Hip Hop throughout the 1970s.
* 1953 Ruby Wax American comedian who made a career in the United Kingdom as part of the alternative comedy scene in the 1980s.
* 1947 Murray Perahia American concert pianist and conductor.
* 1946 Mark Haines Former host of the CNBC show Squawk Box.
* 1943 Bill Raftery American basketball analyst, play-by-play announcer, and former college basketball coach.
* 1940 Bernd Heinrich Professor in the zoology department at the University of Vermont and is the author of a number of books about nature writing, zoology, ecology, and evolution.
* 1938 Stanley Fish American literary theorist and legal scholar.
* 1935 Dudley Moore British musician, actor and comedian.
* 1933 Jayne Mansfield Born Vera Jayne Palmer, was an American actress and sex symbol.
* 1931 Fred Brooks Software engineer and computer scientist, best-known for managing the development of OS/360, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month.
* 1912 Glenn T. Seaborg American scientist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements".
* 1834 Joseph Roux French Catholic parish priest, poet, and philologist.
* 1772 David Ricardo English political economist, often credited with systematizing economics, and was one of the most influential of the classical economists.
* 1758 Fisher Ames Representative in the United States Congress from Massachusetts.
* 1452 Frederick IV of Naples Last King of Naples of the House of Trastámara, ruling from 1496 to 1501.
* 0 Benedict XVI (Pope) Pope Benedict XVI, born Joseph Ratzinger, was the 265th Pope Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.

Deaths

† 2009 J. G. Ballard British novelist and short story writer who was a prominent member of the New Wave in science fiction.
† 2004 John Maynard Smith British evolutionary biologist and geneticist.
† 1998 Octavio Paz Born Octavio Paz Lozano in Mexico City in the middle of the Mexican Revolution.
† 1997 Eldon Hoke American musician.
† 1992 Frankie Howerd Distinctive English comedian and comic actor whose career spanned six decades.
† 1979 Wilhelm Bittrich Obergruppenführer of the German SS and a Waffen-SS General during World War II He is perhaps now best remembered for his contribution to the defeat of the failed allied airborne offensive Operation Market Garden which took place in the Netherlands in September of 1944.
† 1967 Konrad Adenauer German statesman.
† 1963 Alfred Whitney Griswold American historian, and president of Yale University, 1950–1963.
† 1939 Henry Stephens Salt Influential English writer and campaigner for social reform in the fields of prisons, schools, economic institutions and the treatment of animals.
† 1938 Henry Newbolt Early 20th century English poet, best known for "Vitai Lampada".
† 1914 Charles Sanders Peirce American philosopher, chemist and polymath, who is now remembered as a pioneer of the field of semiotics and, with the formulation of the pragmatic maxim, the founder of the philosophies of Pragmatism and Pragmaticism.
† 1898 George Parsons Lathrop Poet, novelist and brother of Francis Lathrop.
† 1893 John Addington Symonds English poet and literary critic.
† 1882 Charles Darwin English naturalist who outlined the theory of evolution and proposed that evolution could be explained in part through natural and sexual selection.
† 1881 Benjamin Disraeli British politician, novelist, and essayist, serving twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
† 1881 Joseph Lane American general during the Mexican-American War and a United States Senator from Oregon.
† 1824 Lord Byron Generally known as Lord Byron, was an Anglo-Scottish poet and leading figure in Romanticism.
† 1618 Thomas Bastard English clergyman famed for his published English language epigrams.
† 1608 Thomas Sackville Dorset English statesman, courtier, poet and playwright.
† 1588 Paolo Veronese Important Venetian Renaissance painter.
† 1578 Uesugi Kenshin Samurai warlord who ruled Echigo province in the Sengoku Period of Japan.
† 1560 Philipp Melanchthon Born Philipp Schwartzerdt, was a German reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, intellectual leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and an influential designer of educational systems.
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