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Today's Anniversary – Wednesday, December 03


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Births

* 1992 Joseph McManners English actor and singer.
* 1973 Joe the Plumber (Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher) Better known as "Joe the Plumber," is a political commentator, Internet correspondent, and former employee of a plumbing contractor.
* 1952 Benny Hinn Pentecostal pastor and televangelist.
* 1949 Carl Kruger New York state Senator.
* 1948 Ozzy Osbourne Better known as Ozzy Osbourne, is an English musician, famous for his solo career and as lead singer of the band Black Sabbath.
* 1944 Craig Raine English poet and critic.
* 1943 J. Philippe Rushton Psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario, Canada best known for his controversial work on racial differences.
* 1942 Joseph Silk English-born astronomer and the Savilian Chair of Astronomy at the University of Oxford.
* 1930 Jean-Luc Godard French film director, whose works include the films Alphaville, ? bout de souffle, Une Femme est une femme, Vivre sa vie, Bande ? part, Tout va bien and many more.
* 1924 Edwin Ernest Salpeter Austrian-Australian-American astrophysicist.
* 1924 John Backus American computer scientist and winner of the 1977 Turing Award.
* 1923 Trevor Bailey Former England Test cricketer.
* 1883 Anton Webern Austrian composer of atonal music.
* 1872 Jack Judge English songwriter and music-hall entertainer.
* 1863 Oliver Herford American humorous poet and illustrator.
* 1857 Joseph Conrad Polish writer, working in England, regarded as one of the greatest novelists in the English language.
* 1820 John Coleridge British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician.
* 1803 Robert Hawker Often known as "Stephen Hawker", was an Anglican clergyman, poet and antiquarian of Cornwall.
* 1766 Robert Bloomfield Self-educated English peasant poet.

Deaths

† 2011 Diana Gould Geography schoolteacher from Cirencester, Gloucestershire who came to public attention in 1983 when she was picked to ask a question to Margaret Thatcher on BBC TV's Nationwide, hosted by Sue Lawley.
† 2000 Gwendolyn Brooks American poet.
† 1999 Madeline Kahn Academy Award-nominated Jewish American actress of movie, television and theater distinguished by an unusual gift for comedy.
† 1993 Lewis Thomas Physician, author, administrator, educator, policy advisor and researcher.
† 1980 Oswald Mosley British politician principally known as the founder of the British Union of Fascists.
† 1951 George Henry Powell British songwriter who, under the pseudonym George Asaf, wrote the lyrics of the marching song Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag.
† 1919 Pierre-Auguste Renoir French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style.
† 1910 Mary Baker Eddy Founded the Church of Christ, Scientist in 1879 and was the author of its fundamental doctrinal textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
† 1894 Robert Louis Stevenson Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature.
† 1882 Sergey Nechayev Russian revolutionary figure associated with the Nihilist movement and known for his single-minded pursuit of revolution by any means necessary, including political violence.
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