Births | ||
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| * 1962 | Jodie Foster | Two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, director, and producer. |
| * 1946 | Mike Warnke | Christian evangelist and comedian who became one of evangelical Christianity's best-known experts on the subject of Satanism until an investigation by Cornerstone magazine revealed his testimony of having been a reformed ex-Satanist was a hoax. |
| * 1941 | Tommy Thompson | 19th U S Secretary of Health and Human Services and the 42nd Governor of Wisconsin. |
| * 1936 | Dick Cavett | Television talk show host known for his conversational style of in-depth discussion on often serious issues. |
| * 1935 | Jack Welch | Chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001. |
| * 1926 | Jeane Kirkpatrick | American conservative political scientist and member of the neoconservative movement. |
| * 1925 | Zygmunt Bauman | Polish sociologist. |
| * 1919 | Paul Taunton Matthews | British theoretical particle physicist. |
| * 1917 | Indira Gandhi | Daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, became the first woman Prime Minister of India in 1966. |
| * 1909 | Peter F. Drucker | Austrian-born American writer, management consultant and university professor. |
| * 1899 | Allen Tate | American poet, essayist, and social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1943–1944. |
| * 1888 | Jose Raul Capablanca | Cuban world-class chess master in the early to mid-twentieth century. |
| * 1865 | Madison Grant | American lawyer, historian and anthropologist. |
| * 1862 | Billy Sunday | American athlete who, after being a popular outfielder in baseball's National League during the 1880s, became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century. |
| * 1831 | James A. Garfield | 20th President of the United States (1881), and the second U S President to be assassinated. |
| * 1752 | George Rogers Clark | American pioneer and military officer credited with winning the Northwest Territory during the American Revolution. |
| * 1600 | Charles I of England | King of England, Scotland and Ireland from March 27, 1625 until his execution in 1649. |
Deaths | ||
| † 1994 | Erwin Griswold | U S Solicitor General under President Lyndon B Johnson, Dean of Harvard Law School, and President of the American Bar Foundation. |
| † 1984 | George Aiken | American politician from Vermont. |
| † 1982 | Erving Goffman | Canadian born American sociologist and writer. |
| † 1942 | Bruno Schulz | Polish writer and artist, considered by some to be the greatest prose stylist of the modern Polish language. |
| † 1918 | Joseph F. Smith | Usually known as Joseph F Smith to distinguish him from his son of the same name, was the sixth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
| † 1915 | Joe Hill | Born Joel Emmanuel Hägglund, and also known as Joseph Hillström, was a radical songwriter, labor activist and member of the Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the Wobblies. |
| † 1909 | John B. Tabb | American poet, Catholic priest, and professor of English, chiefly remembered today as educator of Jack London's friend, Californian poet George Sterling. |
| † 1887 | Emma Lazarus | American poet and playwright, born in New York City. |
| † 1867 | Fitz-Greene Halleck | American poet. |
| † 1828 | Franz Schubert | Austrian composer. |
| † 1798 | Theobald Wolfe Tone | Commonly known as Wolfe Tone, was a leading figure in the United Irishmen Irish independence movement and is regarded as the father of Irish republicans. |
| † 1692 | Thomas Shadwell | English playwright and miscellaneous writer who was appointed poet laureate in 1689. |
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