Births | ||
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| * 1951 | Steven Hawley | Astronomer and astronaut. |
| * 1939 | Michael Gazzaniga | American neuroscientist, author and professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he heads the new SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind. |
| * 1929 | John Osborne | British playwright, producer and actor. |
| * 1928 | Helen Frankenthaler | American post-painterly abstraction artist. |
| * 1927 | Robert Noyce | Nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel in 1968. |
| * 1924 | Ed Koch | United States Congressman representing New York from 1969 to 1977 and the Mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989. |
| * 1923 | Og Mandino | "sales guru" and author, most famous for his book The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968). |
| * 1915 | Frank Sinatra | American singer who is one of the most highly acclaimed male popular song vocalists of all time. |
| * 1905 | Vasily Grossman | Prominent Soviet-era writer and journalist. |
| * 1897 | Lillian (author) Smith | American author and social activist. |
| * 1881 | Harold (Harry) Warner | Born Hirsch Eichelbaum, was one of the founders of Warner Bros. |
| * 1875 | Gerd von Rundstedt | Generalfeldmarschall of the German Army during World War II He held some of the highest field commands in all phases of the war. |
| * 1863 | Edvard Munch | Norwegian Symbolist painter and printmaker, and an important forerunner of the Expressionistic art movement. |
| * 1821 | Gustave Flaubert | French novelist. |
| * 1805 | William Lloyd Garrison | American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. |
| * 1745 | John Jay | American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat and jurist. |
| * 1731 | Erasmus Darwin | English physician, natural philosopher, physiologist, inventor and poet. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2005 | Gebran Tueni | Lebanese politician, famous for his editorials in the An Nahar daily newspaper in Beirut, Lebanon. |
| † 2003 | Heydar Aliyev | Also spelled as Heidar Aliev, Geidar Aliev, Haydar Aliyev, Geydar Aliyev, was the president of Azerbaijan for the New Azerbaijan Party from June 1993 to October 2003, when his son Ilham Aliyev succeeded him. |
| † 1999 | Joseph Heller | American novelist and playwright. |
| † 1998 | Morris Udall | Better known as "Mo", was an American politician. |
| † 1998 | Marco Denevi | Argentine award-winning author of novels and short stories, as well as a lawyer and journalist. |
| † 1998 | Lawton Chiles | American politician from the U S state of Florida. |
| † 1968 | Tallulah Bankhead | American actress, talk-show host and bon vivant. |
| † 1905 | Fiona MacLeod | Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as Fiona MacLeod, a pseudonym kept almost secret during his lifetime. |
| † 1905 | Fiona McLeod | Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as Fiona MacLeod, a pseudonym kept almost secret during his lifetime. |
| † 1905 | William Sharp | Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as Fiona MacLeod, a pseudonym kept almost secret during his lifetime. |
| † 1894 | John Sparrow Thompson | Canadian lawyer and judge who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Canada from December 5, 1892 to December 12, 1894 as well as Premier of Nova Scotia in 1882. |
| † 1889 | Robert Browning | English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. |
| † 1751 | Henry St John | English statesman and philosopher. |
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