Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1972 | Jesper Kyd | Acclaimed video game and film score composer. |
| * 1956 | Nathan Lane | Two-time Tony and Emmy Award-winning American actor of the stage and screen. |
| * 1949 | Arthur Kane | Musician and librarian best known as the bassist for the pioneering glam punk band the New York Dolls. |
| * 1947 | Paul Auster | American novelist, poet, scripwriter, essayist, and editor. |
| * 1943 | Neil Bogart | Born Neil E Bogatz, was an American record executive. |
| * 1933 | Than Shwe | Chairman from 1992 to 2011 of the State Peace and Development Council, a military junta that ruled the Union of Myanmar. |
| * 1920 | Morteza Motahhari | Iranian scholar, cleric, University lecturer, and politician. |
| * 1914 | Michel Thomas | Polyglot linguist, language teacher and decorated war veteran. |
| * 1909 | Simone Weil | French social and religious philosopher, as well as a Catholic mystic. |
| * 1907 | James A. Michener | American author of more than 40 titles, the majority of which are novels of sweeping sagas, covering the lives of many generations in a particular geographic locale and incorporating historical facts into the story as well. |
| * 1894 | Norman Rockwell | Early 20th century American painter. |
| * 1874 | Gertrude Stein | American expatriate writer, poet, feminist, and playwright, who lived most of her life in Europe. |
| * 1873 | Hugh Trenchard | Commander of the Royal Flying Corps in the Field and British Chief of the Air Staff during World War I and the 1920s. |
| * 1842 | Sidney Lanier | American poet, novelist and musician. |
| * 1830 | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil | British Conservative politician and Prime Minister. |
| * 1830 | Robert Cecil | British Conservative politician and Prime Minister. |
| * 1826 | Walter Bagehot | British businessman, essayist and journalist who wrote about literature, government and economics. |
| * 1819 | William (minister) Arthur | Wesleyan Methodist minister. |
| * 1816 | Frederick William Robertson | Known as Robertson of Brighton, was an English divine. |
| * 1811 | Horace Greeley | American editor of a leading newspaper, New York Tribune, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer and a politician. |
| * 1809 | Felix Mendelssohn | German composer, pianist, organist and conductor. |
Deaths | ||
| † 1959 | Buddy Holly | Better known as Buddy Holly, was an American singer, songwriter, and a pioneer of rock and roll. |
| † 1952 | Harold L. Ickes | American politician. |
| † 1925 | Oliver Heaviside | Self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, invented mathematical techniques to the solution of differential equations, reformulated Maxwell's field equations in terms of electric and magnetic forces and energy flux, and independently co-formulated vector analysis. |
| † 1924 | (Thomas) Woodrow Wilson | 45th state Governor of New Jersey (1911–1913) and later the 28th President of the United States (1913–1921). |
| † 1901 | Fukuzawa Yukichi | Japanese author, writer, teacher, entrepreneur and political theorist whose ideas about government and social institutions made a lasting impression on a rapidly changing Japan during the period known as the Meiji Era. |
| † 1862 | Jean-Baptiste Biot | French physicist, astronomer and mathematician who established the reality of meteorites. |
| † 1832 | George Crabbe | English poet, known for his realistic and unsentimental portrayals of peasant life. |
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