Births | ||
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| * 1969 | Terrence Howard | American actor. |
| * 1967 | John Barrowman | Scottish actor, musical performer, dancer, singer, and TV presenter who has lived and worked both in the United Kingdom and the United States. |
| * 1952 | Douglas Adams | English author and satirist, most famous for his The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series of radio plays and books. |
| * 1936 | Roy Shaw | Former criminal, and was a professional boxer and unlicensed fighter during the 1970s and 1980s. |
| * 1932 | Nigel Lawson | British politician. |
| * 1931 | Rupert Murdoch | Owner of News Corporation, a worldwide media conglomerate. |
| * 1927 | V Shanta | Oncologist. |
| * 1920 | Nicolaas Bloembergen | Dutch/ American physicist who was awarded the 1981 Physics Nobel Prize for his work on laser spectroscopy. |
| * 1916 | Harold Wilson | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970, and again from 1974 to 1976. |
| * 1915 | J. C. R. Licklider | American computer scientist who considered one of the most important figures in computer science and general computing history. |
| * 1891 | Michael Polanyi | Born Polányi Mihály, was a Hungarian–British polymath whose thought and work extended across physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy. |
| * 1890 | Vannevar Bush | American engineer and science administrator known for his work on analog computing, his political role in the development of the atomic bomb as a primary organizer of the Manhattan Project, the founding of Raytheon, and the idea of the memex which later inspired the creation of hypertext and the World Wide Web. |
| * 1796 | Francis Wayland | American Baptist educator and economist. |
| * 1544 | Torquato Tasso | Italian epic poet and dramatist, best known for his Rinaldo (1562), Aminta (1573) and Gerusalemme Liberata (1580). |
Deaths | ||
| † 2006 | Slobodan Milosevic | President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia. |
| † 1999 | Peter Franken | American physicist who contributed to the field of nonlinear optics. |
| † 1984 | Ithiel de Sola Pool | Pioneer in the development of social science. |
| † 1982 | Edmund Cooper | English poet and prolific writer of speculative fiction, romances, technical essays, several detective stories, and a children's book. |
| † 1973 | Tim Buck | Long-time leader of the Communist Party of Canada. |
| † 1971 | C. D. Broad | English epistemologist, historian of philosophy, philosopher of science, moral philosopher, and writer on the philosophical aspects of psychical research. |
| † 1967 | Walter A. Shewhart | American physicist, engineer and statistician, sometimes known as the father of statistical quality control. |
| † 1960 | Roy Chapman Andrews | American explorer, adventurer and naturalist who became the director of the American Museum of Natural History, primarily known for leading a series of expeditions through the fragmented China of the early 20th century into the Gobi Desert and Mongolia. |
| † 1957 | Richard E. Byrd | U S Naval officer, aviator, and pioneering polar explorer. |
| † 1944 | Edgar Zilsel | Austrian historian, sociologist, and philosopher of science. |
| † 1936 | David Beatty | Admiral in the Royal Navy. |
| † 1894 | James Fitzjames Stephen | English lawyer and judge, created 1st Baronet Stephen by Queen Victoria. |
| † 1874 | Charles Sumner | American politician and statesman from Massachusetts. |
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