Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1989 | Alex D. Linz | American actor. |
| * 1981 | Eli Manning | American football player, who plays quarterback for the NFL's New York Giants. |
| * 1969 | Michael Schumacher | German Formula One driver and the most successful driver of all time. |
| * 1965 | Sheila Majid | Commonly known as Sheila Majid, is a popular singer from Malaysia. |
| * 1956 | Mel Gibson | Noted Australian-American actor, producer and director. |
| * 1952 | Jim Ross | Professional wrestling commentator, referee, restaurateur, and former WWE executive. |
| * 1941 | Robin Morgan | Radical feminist, writer, and activist. |
| * 1939 | Bobby Hull | Retired Canadian ice hockey player. |
| * 1929 | Gordon Moore | Cofounder of Intel Corporation and the author of Moore's Law (published in an article April 19, 1965 in Electronics Magazine). |
| * 1915 | Jack Levine | American expressionist painter best known for his satires of modern life in the United States. |
| * 1909 | Victor Borge | Born B?rge Rosenbaum, was a Danish comedian, conductor and pianist, affectionately known as The Clown Prince of Denmark, The Unmelancholy Dane, and The Great Dane. |
| * 1901 | Eric Voegelin | German-born American philosopher. |
| * 1892 | J. R. R. Tolkien | English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, most famous for his classic high fantasy works. |
| * 1888 | Herbert Morrison | British Labour Party politician and Cabinet minister. |
| * 1887 | August Macke | One of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter. |
| * 1883 | Clement Attlee | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951. |
| * 1803 | Douglas William Jerrold | English dramatist and writer. |
| * 1777 | Louis Poinsot | French mathematician and physicist. |
| * 1698 | Metastasio | Better known by his pseudonym of Metastasio, was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2010 | Mary Daly | American radical feminist philosopher, academic, and theologian. |
| † 1977 | Carroll Quigley | Noted American historian, polymath, and theorist of the evolution of civilizations, best known for his book Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (1966). |
| † 1959 | Edwin Muir | Scottish poet, novelist and translator, born in Deerness, on the Orkney Islands. |
| † 1946 | William Joyce | Propaganda broadcaster for Nazi Germany during World War II, best known by his British listeners as Lord Haw Haw. |
| † 1945 | Edgar Cayce | American psychic who channeled answers to questions on subjects such as astrology, reincarnation, and Atlantis while in trance. |
| † 1923 | Jaroslav Hasek | Czech humorist and satirist. |
| † 1915 | James Elroy Flecker | English poet, novelist and playwright. |
| † 1868 | Albert Gorton Greene | American judge and poet. |
| † 1670 | George Monck | English general and politician. |
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