Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1985 | Leona Lewis | British singer-songwriter. |
| * 1968 | Sebastian Bach | Heavy metal singer, best known as ex-frontman of Skid Row. |
| * 1964 | Nigel Farage | English MEP, and the current leader of the UK Independence Party. |
| * 1961 | Eddie Murphy | Golden Globe-winning actor (2007) and comedian, for performance at Beverly Hills Cop, Trading Places, The Nutty Professor, and most recently Tower Heist. |
| * 1958 | Vanna Bonta | Novelist, poet and actress. |
| * 1945 | Bernie Parent | Professional ice hockey goaltender. |
| * 1939 | Paul Craig Roberts | Economist and a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate. |
| * 1934 | Jane Goodall | English UN Messenger of Peace, primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist. |
| * 1930 | Helmut Kohl | German conservative politician and statesman. |
| * 1930 | Lawton Chiles | American politician from the U S state of Florida. |
| * 1926 | Gus Grissom | More widely known as Gus Grissom, was one of the original NASA Project Mercury astronauts and a United States Air Force pilot. |
| * 1925 | Tony Benn | Known as Tony Benn, formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a British politician on the left of the Labour Party. |
| * 1924 | Marlon Brando | American actor, widely regarded as one of the most influential actors of all time. |
| * 1922 | Doris Day | American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate. |
| * 1916 | Herb Caen | Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist working in San Francisco. |
| * 1915 | Piet de Jong | Retired Dutch politician of the defunct Catholic People's Party now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal. |
| * 1894 | Dora Russell | Born Dora Black, was a British feminist, social activist and writer. |
| * 1880 | Otto Weininger | Austrian philosopher. |
| * 1852 | Talbot Baines Reed | English writer who specialised in boys' school stories. |
| * 1835 | Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford | Notable American writer remembered for her novels, poems and detective stories. |
| * 1823 | William Marcy (Boss) Tweed | Known as Boss Tweed and often erroneously referred to as William Marcy Tweed, was an American politician and political boss of Tammany Hall who became an icon of urban political machines. |
| * 1822 | Edward Everett Hale | American author and Unitarian clergyman. |
| * 1793 | Dionysius Lardner | Irish scientific writer who popularised science and technology, and edited the 133-volume Cabinet Cyclopedia. |
| * 1783 | Washington Irving | American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century. |
| * 1593 | George Herbert | English poet and orator. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2000 | Terence McKenna | American writer, philosopher, and ethnobotanist, who advocated paths of shamanism, and the use of hallucinogenic substances as a means of increasing many forms of human awareness. |
| † 1991 | Graham Greene | Prolific English novelist, playwright, short story writer, travel writer and critic whose works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world. |
| † 1974 | Marston Bates | American zoologist. |
| † 1954 | Aristides de Sousa Mendes | Portuguese diplomat who fought against his own government for the safety of Jews living in Europe in the early years of World War II Between June 16 and 23, 1940, he frantically issued Portuguese visas free of charge, to over 30,000 refugees seeking to escape the Nazi terror, 12,000 of whom were Jews. |
| † 1954 | Aristides de Sousa Mendes | Portuguese diplomat who fought against his own government for the safety of Jews living in Europe in the early years of World War II Between June 16 and 23, 1940, he frantically issued Portuguese visas free of charge, to over 30,000 refugees seeking to escape the Nazi terror, 12,000 of whom were Jews. |
| † 1950 | Carter Woodson | African American historian, author, journalist and the founder of Black History Month. |
| † 1933 | Wilson Mizner | American playwright, raconteur, and entrepreneur. |
| † 1915 | Isaac Leib Peretz | Polish-born author and poet who is counted among the three great classical writers in the Yiddish language. |
| † 1908 | James Jeffrey Roche | Irish-American poet, journalist and diplomat, Editor of the Boston Pilot and Helped put Teddy Roosevelt in to office. |
| † 1854 | John Wilson | Scottish writer, the writer most frequently identified with the pseudonym Christopher North of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. |
| † 1826 | Reginald Heber | English bishop, now remembered chiefly as a hymn-writer. |
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