Births | ||
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* 1978 | Ayumi Hamasaki | Japanese pop singer. |
* 1974 | Paul Teutul | One of the stars of the American reality television program American Chopper. |
* 1955 | Philip Oakey | Aka Phil Oakey, is a British pop singer who rose to fame in the late 1970s, early 1980s as a founder member and lead singer of the Sheffield-based synthpop group The Human League, a group which continues today. |
* 1952 | Larry Winget | American motivational speaker, bestselling author, and television personality. |
* 1950 | Antonio Di Pietro | Italian politician. |
* 1947 | Ward Churchill | American writer and activist. |
* 1946 | Susan McClary | Musicologist considered to be a significant figure in the "New Musicology". |
* 1945 | Don McLean | American singer-songwriter most famous for his 1971 songs "American Pie" and "Vincent". |
* 1944 | Vernor Vinge | Computer scientist and science fiction author, as well as a retired San Diego State University Professor of Mathematics. |
* 1937 | Johnnie Cochran | Famed African American defense attorney best known for his role in the "Dream Team" of legal defense for O J Simpson during his highly publicized murder trial. |
* 1924 | Gilbert Simondon | French philosopher best known for his theory of individuation and his interest in technology. |
* 1917 | Christian de Duve | Belgian cytologist and biochemist. |
* 1904 | 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. |
* 1902 | Walter Thomas Monnington | English painter. |
* 1901 | Roy Campbell | South African poet, satirist and translator. |
* 1890 | Groucho Marx | Primarily known as Groucho Marx, was an American comedian and actor, famous for his work in the Marx Brothers comedy team, and his solo film and television career. |
* 1879 | Wallace Stevens | American poet and businessman. |
* 1877 | Carl Hayden | U S Representative from Arizona (1912-1927) and U S Senator from Arizona (1927-1969). |
* 1871 | Cordell Hull | United States Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944 under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 for his role in establishing the United Nations. |
* 1869 | Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi | Commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi. |
* 1852 | William Ramsay | Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air". |
* 1851 | Ferdinand Foch | French soldier and writer. |
* 1847 | Sergey Nechayev | Russian revolutionary figure associated with the Nihilist movement and known for his single-minded pursuit of revolution by any means necessary, including political violence. |
* 1800 | Nat Turner | American slave who led a 1831 slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia. |
* 1798 | Theodore Guerin | Born Anne-Thιr?se Guιrin, was a Roman Catholic saint of French descent and the foundress of the Sisters of Providence of Saint-Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. |
* 1452 | Richard III of England | King of England during the Wars of the Roses, and was the last monarch of the Plantagenet dynasty. |
Deaths | ||
2012 | J. Philippe Rushton | Psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario, Canada best known for his controversial work on racial differences. |
2009 | Marek Edelman | Jewish-Polish political and social activist and cardiologist. |
2006 | Paul Halmos | Hungarian-born Jewish American mathematician who made fundamental advances in the areas of probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, functional analysis, and mathematical logic. |
2005 | Nipsey Russell | Comedian best known for his appearances as a guest panelist on many game shows in the 1970s and 80s, and for his performance as the Tin Man in the film The Wiz. |
1996 | Henri Nouwen | Dutch Catholic priest and writer who authored 40 books on the spiritual life. |
1988 | Alec Issigonis | Greek-British designer of cars, now remembered chiefly for the groundbreaking and influential development of the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation in 1959. |
1987 | Peter Medawar | Brazilian-born English scientist best known for his work on how the immune system rejects or accepts organ transplants. |
1968 | Marcel Duchamp | French artist who became an American citizen in 1955. |
1947 | P. D. Ouspensky | Russian mystic philosopher,. |
1911 | John Bascom | Professor of rhetoric at Williams College from 1855 to 1874, and was president of the University of Wisconsin from 1874 to 1887. |
1906 | Raja Ravi Varma | Indian painter who achieved recognition for his depiction of scenes from the epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayana. |
1902 | John Whiteaker | American politician, a Democrat, and served as the first state Governor of Oregon from 1859 until 1862. |
1853 | Francois Arago | French Catalan mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician. |
1842 | William Ellery (preacher) Channing | Foremost Unitarian theologian and preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century. |
1803 | Samuel Adams | American revolutionary and organizer of the Boston Tea Party. |
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