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Births

* 1969 Yvette Cooper British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford since 2010, having previously been MP for Pontefract and Castleford since 1997.
* 1968 Paul Merson Former footballer turned pundit.
* 1954 Louis Sachar American author of children's books.
* 1939 Brian Mulroney Predominantly known as Brian Mulroney, was the eighteenth Prime Minister of Canada from September 17, 1984, to June 25, 1993 and was leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1983 to 1993.
* 1924 James Barr Scottish Old Testament scholar.
* 1904 B. F. Skinner American behaviorist, author, inventor, baseball enthusiast, social philosopher and poet.
* 1883 Paul Sophus Epstein Russian-American mathematician/physicist.
* 1868 Ernest Bramah Author of a series of stories about Kai Lung, a Chinese storyteller, and was also the creator of the blind detective Max Carrados.
* 1828 Henrik Ibsen Norwegian playwright who was largely responsible for the rise of the modern realistic drama.
* 1770 Friedrich Holderlin Major German lyric poet, whose work bridges the Classical and Romantic schools.

Deaths

† 1997 V. S Pritchett British short story writer, novelist, memoirist and critic.
† 1990 Victor Rothschild Rothschild British biologist.
† 1964 Brendan Behan Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright who wrote in both Irish and English.
† 1962 C. Wright Mills American sociologist, best remembered for studying the structure of power in the U S in his book The Power Elite.
† 1929 Ferdinand Foch French soldier and writer.
† 1903 Charles Godfrey Leland American humorist and folklorist.
† 1878 Julius Robert von Mayer German physician and physicist and one of the founders of thermodynamics.
† 1875 John Mitchel Irish nationalist activist, solicitor and political journalist.
† 1872 Francisco Palau Beatified Carmelite Spanish priest.
† 1870 Thomas Erskine Revisionary and constructive lay theologian in the early part of the 19th century.
† 1793 William Murray Mansfield Better known as Lord Mansfield, was a British barrister, politician and judge noted for his reform of English law.
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