Births | ||
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| * 1968 | Stewart Lee | English stand-up comedian, writer and director probably best known for being one half of the 1990s comedy duo Lee and Herring, and for co-writing and directing the critically-acclaimed and controversial stage show Jerry Springer - The Opera. |
| * 1957 | Katherine Harris | Second-term member of the United States House of Representatives for Florida's 13th congressional district until she left Congress to make an unsuccessful run for the Senate in 2006. |
| * 1955 | Akira Toriyama | Widely known and acclaimed mangaka best known for his work in the Dr Slump and Dragon Ball series. |
| * 1954 | Arthur Uther Pendragon | English druid and campaigner in the United Kingdom. |
| * 1952 | John C. Dvorak | American columnist and broadcaster in the areas of technology and computing. |
| * 1951 | Dean Kamen | American entrepreneur and inventor. |
| * 1947 | Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo | 14th president of the Philippines. |
| * 1945 | Tommy Smith | Long-serving footballer with Liverpool, known for his uncompromising defensive style. |
| * 1942 | Peter Greenaway | Welsh-born English film director. |
| * 1937 | Colin Powell | 65th United States Secretary of State, serving from 20 January 2001 to 12 November 2004. |
| * 1929 | Ivar Giaever | Norwegian physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson "for their discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in solids". |
| * 1916 | Gregory Peck | Renowned 20th century American actor and activist. |
| * 1908 | Bette Davis | Two-time Academy Award-winning American actress of film, television and theatre. |
| * 1908 | Herbert von Karajan | Austrian orchestra and opera conductor. |
| * 1906 | Lord Buckley | Born Richard Myrle Buckley, was an American monologist and comedian. |
| * 1904 | Richard Eberhart | Pulitzer Prize winning American poet. |
| * 1900 | Spencer Tracy | Actor of stage and screen, who appeared in 74 films from 1930 to 1967. |
| * 1864 | Basil Hood | British songwriter. |
| * 1856 | Booker T. Washington | American political leader, educator and author of African ancestry, most famous for his tenure as President of Tuskegee University (1880–1915). |
| * 1837 | Algernon Charles Swinburne | English poet. |
| * 1588 | Thomas Hobbes | English philosopher, whose famous 1651 book Leviathan established the agenda for nearly all subsequent Western political philosophy. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2008 | Charlton Heston | Born John Charles Carter, was an American film actor noted for his heroic roles and for his long involvement in political issues, mainly as five-time president of the National Rifle Association. |
| † 2006 | Allan Kaprow | American Fluxus artist, assemblagist a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art, and the originator of Happenings. |
| † 2005 | Saul Bellow | Acclaimed Canadian-born American writer. |
| † 1997 | Allen Ginsberg | American Beat poet born in Newark, New Jersey. |
| † 1994 | Kurt Donald Cobain | Lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist of the American grunge band, Nirvana. |
| † 1984 | Arthur Travers Harris | British air marshal during World War II. |
| † 1975 | Chiang Kai-shek | Political and military leader of 20th century China. |
| † 1967 | Johan Falkberget | Born Johan Petter Lillebakken, was a coal miner who became a major Norwegian novelist. |
| † 1964 | Douglas MacArthur | American military leader. |
| † 1941 | Andrew Paterson | Famous Australian bush poet and author. |
| † 1928 | Chauncey Depew | United States Senator. |
| † 1794 | Georges Danton | Leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution and the first President of the Committee of Public Safety. |
| † 1765 | Edward Young | English poet, best remembered for Night Thoughts. |
| † 1695 | George Savile | English statesman, writer, and politician. |
| † 1693 | Christian Scriver | German Lutheran devotional writer. |
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