Births | ||
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| * 1986 | Patrick (American football) White | Redshirted junior NCAA American football player for the West Virginia Mountaineers. |
| * 1982 | Bert McCracken | Professionally known as Bert McCracken, is the lead singer of the American rock band The Used. |
| * 1981 | Park Ji-Sung | Professional South Korean footballer who plays for the English football club Manchester United in the Premier League, as well as the South Korean national football team. |
| * 1975 | Chelsea Handler | American standup comedian, humorist, television host, actress and author. |
| * 1964 | Lee Evans | English stand-up comedian and actor. |
| * 1954 | John Doe | American singer, songwriter and bass player who was the founder of the seminal L A punk band X. |
| * 1953 | Jose Maria Aznar | Spanish politician who served as the President of the Government of Spain from 1996 to 2004. |
| * 1950 | Bhakti Tirtha Swami | Also known as Swami Krishnapada, was a prominent scholar, Gaudiya Vaishnava Hindu teacher, and religious leader of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, commonly known as the Hare Krishna Movement. |
| * 1949 | Jack Handey | American humorist. |
| * 1943 | George Harrison | British songwriter, musician and film producer best known as a member of The Beatles. |
| * 1941 | David Puttnam | British movie producer and director. |
| * 1939 | John Leonard | American literary, TV, film and cultural critic. |
| * 1930 | Wendy Beckett | And is a South African-born British art expert, consecrated virgin and contemplative hermit who became an unlikely celebrity during the 1990s, presenting a series of acclaimed art history documentaries for the BBC. |
| * 1920 | Sun Myung Moon | Founder of the Unification Church, a new religious movement. |
| * 1918 | Peg Bracken | American author. |
| * 1917 | Anthony Burgess | English writer whose novels include the Malayan trilogy, A Clockwork Orange, the Enderby cycle, Nothing Like The Sun, Earthly Powers and The Kingdom Of The Wicked. |
| * 1915 | Sinnathamby Rajaratnam | Former Foreign Minister (1965-1980) and Second Deputy Prime Minister (1980-1985) of Singapore. |
| * 1914 | John Arlott | English journalist, author and cricket commentator for the BBC's Test Match Special. |
| * 1894 | Meher Baba | Indian mystic who publicly declared in 1954 that he was the Avatar of the age. |
| * 1888 | John Foster Dulles | Served as U S Secretary of State under President Dwight D Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. |
| * 1861 | Rudolf Steiner | Austrian philosopher, literary scholar, architect, playwright, educator, and social thinker. |
| * 1841 | Pierre-Auguste Renoir | French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. |
| * 1778 | Jose de San Martin | Argentine general and the primary leader of the southern part of South America's successful struggle for independence from Spain. |
| * 1707 | Carlo Goldoni | Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. |
| * 1701 | Thomas Adam | Church of England clergyman and religious writer. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2013 | C. Everett Koop | American physician. |
| † 2009 | Philip Jose Farmer | American author, principally known for his science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories, especially those of his Riverworld series. |
| † 2005 | Peter Benenson | British lawyer and the founder of human rights organisation Amnesty International. |
| † 1999 | Glenn T. Seaborg | American scientist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements". |
| † 1983 | Tennessee Williams | American playwright. |
| † 1980 | Robert Hayden | Born Asa Bundy Sheffey, was an American poet, essayist, and educator. |
| † 1970 | Mark Rothko | Born Marcus Rothkowitz, was a Latvian-born American painter sometimes classified as an Abstract Expressionist. |
| † 1934 | John McGraw | Considered to be one of the greatest managers in baseball history. |
| † 1919 | Henry Charles Beeching | English clergyman, author and poet. |
| † 1914 | John Tenniel | British illustrator, graphic humorist and political cartoonist, most famous for his association with Lewis Carroll and his works. |
| † 1852 | Thomas Moore | Irish poet and hymnist, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Last Rose of Summer. |
| † 1723 | Christopher Wren | 17th century English designer, astronomer, geometer, and one of the greatest English architects in history. |
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