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| * 1975 | Steve Maraboli | Internet radio commentator, motivational speaker and author. |
| * 1971 | David Tennant | Scottish television, film and stage actor from Bathgate in West Lothian, best known as the tenth actor to portray the Doctor in the television series Doctor Who. |
| * 1960 | Neo Rauch | German artist whose monumental paintings owe a debt to Surrealists Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte. |
| * 1959 | Susan Faludi | American journalist and author. |
| * 1947 | Kathy Acker | Born Karen Alexander, was an American experimental writer. |
| * 1947 | James Woods | Oscar-nominated American actor. |
| * 1927 | Samuel P. Huntington | Political scientist known for his analysis of the relationship between the military and the civil government, his investigation of coup d'états, and his thesis that the central political actors of the 21st century will be civilizations rather than nation-states. |
| * 1926 | Diana Gould | Geography schoolteacher from Cirencester, Gloucestershire who came to public attention in 1983 when she was picked to ask a question to Margaret Thatcher on BBC TV's Nationwide, hosted by Sue Lawley. |
| * 1911 | Maurice Goldhaber | Austrian-American physicist, who established together with Chadwick, while working in 1934 at the Cavendish Laboratory, that the neutron isn't a compound of electron and proton. |
| * 1882 | Leopold Stokowski | Born Leopold Anthony Stokowski in London, also known as Leopold Antoni Stanis³aw Boles³awowicz Stokowski, was a famous orchestral conductor, and founder of the New York City Symphony Orchestra. |
| * 1857 | Clarence Darrow | American lawyer, best known for having defended teenaged thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14 year old Bobby Franks (1924) and defending John T Scopes in the so-called "Monkey" Trial (1925), opposing William Jennings Bryan. |
| * 1817 | George Henry Lewes | English philosopher, biographer, novelist, and literary and dramatic critic. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2004 | Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara | Founding father and Long-time Prime Minister and President of Fiji. |
| † 2003 | E. F. Codd | British computer scientist and winner of the 1981 Turing Award. |
| † 1996 | Piet Hein | Danish mathematician, scientist, inventor, and poet. |
| † 1991 | Austin Bradford Hill | English epidemiologist and statistician, pioneered the randomized clinical trial and, together with Sir Richard Doll, was the first to demonstrate the connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. |
| † 1970 | Michal Kalecki | Polish Marxist economist who specialized in macroeconomics of a broadly-defined Keynesian sort. |
| † 1955 | Albert Einstein | Theoretical physicist and humanist who is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists of all time. |
| † 1943 | Isoroku Yamamoto | Fleet Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II He was a graduate of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy and an alumnus of the U S Naval War College and Harvard University. |
| † 1940 | Herbert Fisher | English historian, educator, and Liberal politician. |
| † 1937 | Frank Rutter | British art art critic, curator and activist. |
| † 1928 | Epifanio de los Santos | Sometimes known as Don Pa?ong or Don Panyong, was a Filipino humanist historian, literary critic, art critic, jurist, prosecutor, antiquarian, scholar, painter, musician, musciologist, philosopher, philologist, archivist, journalist, chief-editor, bibliographer, paleographer, ethnographer, biographer, civil servant and patriot. |
| † 1898 | Gustave Moreau | French Symbolist painter, famous for his illustration of biblical and mythological figures. |
| † 1873 | Justus von Liebig | German chemist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry and worked on the organization of organic chemistry. |
| † 1853 | William R. King | U S Representative from North Carolina, a Senator from Alabama, and the thirteenth Vice President of the United States. |
| † 1802 | Erasmus Darwin | English physician, natural philosopher, physiologist, inventor and poet. |
| † 1587 | John Foxe | English Protestant writer, editor and translator. |
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