Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1976 | John Elkann | Global industrialist. |
| * 1973 | Rachel Maddow | American radio personality, television host, and political commentator. |
| * 1968 | Alexander Stubb | Finnish politician and was Minister for Foreign Affairs in 2008–2011 and a Member of the European Parliament with the European People's Party 2004–2008. |
| * 1963 | Begum Inaara Aga Khan | Wife of Aga Khan IV, the 49th hereditary Imam of the Ismaili Muslims. |
| * 1961 | Susan Boyle | Scottish church volunteer and amateur singer who leapt to almost immediate global fame when she sang "I Dreamed a Dream" from the musical play Les Misérables on the third series of Britain's Got Talent in the competition's first round. |
| * 1950 | Samuel Alito | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. |
| * 1946 | Arrigo Sacchi | Italian football coach, the former head coach of the Italian national football team (1991–1996), and twice manager of A C Milan (1987–1991, 1996–1997). |
| * 1942 | Samuel R. Delany | Award-winning science fiction author. |
| * 1940 | Wangari Maathai | Kenyan environmental and social activist who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize of 2004. |
| * 1933 | Claude Cohen-Tannoudji | French physicist, who was awarded the 1997 Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on cooling and trapping atoms with laser light. |
| * 1931 | Rolf Hochhuth | German author. |
| * 1929 | Milan Kundera | Franco-Czech novelist born in Brno, Moravia, now the Czech Republic. |
| * 1922 | Alan Perlis | American computer scientist known for his pioneering work in programming languages, most notably as a member of the team that developed the ALGOL programming language. |
| * 1922 | William Manchester | American historian and biographer. |
| * 1908 | Abraham Maslow | American psychologist who pioneered humanistic psychology and developed ideas related to a hierarchy of needs. |
| * 1901 | Whittaker Chambers | American writer and editor, who first served in the Soviet underground and later, under subpoena before the House Un-American Activities Committee, alleged that he had run several spy rings of former Federal officials, including Alger Hiss. |
| * 1890 | Howard Scott | Founder of the Technocracy movement. |
| * 1884 | Laurette Taylor | American actress, primarily on stage, with some forays into silent film. |
| * 1875 | Edgar Wallace | Prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals. |
| * 1868 | Edmond Rostand | French poet and dramatist most famous for his fictional play Cyrano de Bergerac, based upon the life of Cyrano de Bergerac. |
| * 1866 | Ferruccio Busoni | Italian composer, pianist, editor, writer, piano and composition teacher, and conductor. |
| * 1815 | Otto von Bismarck | German aristocrat and statesman; Prime Minister of Prussia (1862–1890), First Chancellor of Germany (1871–1890); he is nicknamed the Iron Chancellor and is noted for the laconicity of his statements. |
| * 1811 | James McCosh | Prominent philosopher of the Scottish School of Common Sense. |
| * 1809 | Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol | Ukrainian-born Russian writer, whose best known work is perhaps Dead Souls, seen by many as the first "modern" Russian novel. |
| * 1753 | Joseph de Maistre | Savoyard lawyer, diplomat, writer, and philosopher. |
| * 1697 | Antoine Francois Prevost | Also known as the Abbé Prévost, was a French novelist, historian and journalist. |
| * 1647 | John Wilmot | English nobleman, a friend of King Charles II of England, and the writer of much satirical and bawdy poetry. |
| * 1578 | William Harvey | English physician who is credited with first correctly describing, in exact detail, the properties of blood being pumped around the body by the heart. |
Deaths | ||
| † 1998 | Rozz Williams | Born Roger Alan Painter, was an American rock vocalist best known for fronting the bands Christian Death and Shadow Project, the latter with Eva O. |
| † 1991 | Martha Graham | American dancer and choreographer regarded as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance, and is widely considered one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. |
| † 1984 | Marvin Gaye | American pop, soul and R&B singer and songwriter. |
| † 1976 | Max Ernst | German painter and sculptor who worked in the styles of Dadaism, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism. |
| † 1968 | Lev Davidovich Landau | Soviet physicist, who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics. |
| † 1963 | Richard Weaver | American scholar who taught English at the University of Chicago. |
| † 1918 | Isaac Rosenberg | English poet of the First World War. |
| † 1902 | Thomas Dunn English | American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey who represented the state's 6th congressional district in the House of Representatives from 1891 to 1895. |
| † 1779 | John Langhorne | English poet and clergyman, best known for his work on translating Plutarch's Lives. |
| † 1684 | Roger Williams | Anglo-American clergyman, a pioneering advocate for freedom of conscience in religious matters, and the separation of church and state. |
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