Births | ||
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| * 1983 | Robert Agresta | Lawyer and an American Republican Party politician who was elected on November 4, 2008 to serve a three-year term as a Republican councilman in the Borough of Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. |
| * 1972 | Ze Frank | Online performance artist and humorist based in Brooklyn, New York. |
| * 1962 | Olli Rehn | Finnish politician who is currently serving as European Commissioner for Enlargement. |
| * 1955 | Angus Young | Rock guitarist who has been a member of Australian hard rock band AC/DC since the group was formed in 1973. |
| * 1948 | Al Gore | American politician and social activist. |
| * 1943 | Christopher Walken | American film and theater actor. |
| * 1940 | Barney Frank | Long-time U S Representative from Massachusetts, reputed for his sharp wit. |
| * 1936 | Marge Piercy | American poet, novelist, and social activist. |
| * 1927 | Cesar Chavez | Labor organizer and social activist. |
| * 1926 | John Fowles | English novelist and essayist. |
| * 1924 | Leo Buscaglia | Teacher, writer, and lecturer; Professor at the University of Southern California. |
| * 1914 | Octavio Paz | Born Octavio Paz Lozano in Mexico City in the middle of the Mexican Revolution. |
| * 1906 | Sin-Itiro Tomonaga | Japanese physicist, influential in the development of quantum electrodynamics, work for which he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 along with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger. |
| * 1878 | Jack (boxer) Johnson | Better known as Jack Johnson and nicknamed the "Galveston Giant", was an American boxer and arguably the best heavyweight of his generation. |
| * 1844 | Andrew Lang | Scots poet, novelist, and literary critic, and contributor to anthropology. |
| * 1833 | Gail Hamilton | American writer and essayist, under pseudonym Gail Hamilton. |
| * 1829 | Charles Seymour Robinson | Pastor, and an editor and compiler of hymns. |
| * 1812 | Thomas Gold Appleton | Son of merchant Nathan Appleton, was an American writer, an artist, and a patron of the fine arts. |
| * 1809 | Edward FitzGerald | Born Edward Marlborough Purcell, was an English writer, best known as the poet of the first and most famous English translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. |
| * 1732 | Joseph Haydn | One of the most prominent composers of the Classical period, and is called by some the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet". |
| * 1621 | Andrew Marvell | English metaphysical poet, and the son of an Anglican clergyman. |
| * 1596 | Rene Descartes | Highly influential French philosopher, mathematician, physicist and writer. |
| * 1504 | Guru Angad Dev | ) was the second of The Ten Gurus of Sikhism. |
Deaths | ||
| † 1998 | Bella Abzug | Well-known American political figure, a leader of the women's movement, and a member of the United States House of Representatives. |
| † 1980 | Jesse Owens | African-American athlete and civic leader; winner of 4 Gold medals in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany; he used the name Jesse beginning in childhood, when he gave his name as "J C Owens" and was misheard. |
| † 1970 | Semyon Timoshenko | Soviet military commander and senior professional officer of the Red Army at the beginning of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. |
| † 1967 | Rodion Malinovsky | Soviet military commander in World War II and Defense Minister of the Soviet Union in the late 1950s and 1960s. |
| † 1954 | Edwin Howard Armstrong | American engineer and the inventor of FM radio. |
| † 1952 | Walter Schellenberg | German Nazi who rose through the SS to become, following the abolition of the Abwehr in 1944, head of foreign intelligence. |
| † 1914 | Christian Morgenstern | German author. |
| † 1913 | J. P. Morgan | American financier, banker, philanthropist and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time. |
| † 1887 | John Godfrey Saxe | American poet. |
| † 1855 | Charlotte Bronte | English novelist and the eldest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels have become enduring classics of English literature. |
| † 1850 | John C. Calhoun | Prominent United States politician from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century. |
| † 1837 | John Constable | English Romantic painter. |
| † 1784 | Thomas Adam | Church of England clergyman and religious writer. |
| † 1727 | Isaac Newton | English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, inventor, theologian and natural philosopher. |
| † 1631 | John Donne | Jacobean metaphysical poet. |
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