Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1981 | Larisa Oleynik | American actress. |
| * 1976 | Necro (rapper) | American rapper, record producer, business owner, actor and director. |
| * 1975 | Allen Iverson | Nicknamed A I and The Answer, is an American professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association. |
| * 1965 | Damien Hirst | British artist, the most prominent of the Young British Artists. |
| * 1958 | Prince (musician) | Funk/rock/pop/R&B singer, songwriter, and actor. |
| * 1954 | Jan Theuninck | Belgian painter and poet. |
| * 1952 | Orhan Pamuk | Turkish novellist in the post-modern style. |
| * 1945 | Deborah Tannen | American sociolinguist who is noted for her work on linguistic differences between men and women. |
| * 1943 | Billy (wrestler) Graham | American professional wrestler who rose to fame in the World Wide Wrestling Federation in the 1970s. |
| * 1942 | Muammar Gaddafi | Leader of Libya from 1969, when he overthrew the monarchy in a bloodless coup, until 2011 when he was overthrown by a NATO-backed internal rebellion. |
| * 1929 | John Turner | Retired Canadian politician. |
| * 1921 | Bernard Lown | Original developer of the modern defibrillator and is an internationally known peace activist. |
| * 1917 | Gwendolyn Brooks | American poet. |
| * 1914 | Khwaja Ahmad Abbas | Indian film director, novelist, screenwriter, and a journalist in the Urdu, Hindi, and English languages. |
| * 1911 | Stanley (comedian) Unwin | South African-born British comedian and comic writer, famous for his idiosyncratic brand of English known as "Unwinese". |
| * 1900 | Frederick Terman | American academic. |
| * 1899 | Elizabeth Bowen | Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer. |
| * 1896 | Robert S. Mulliken | American physicist and chemist, primarily responsible for the early development of molecular orbital theory, i e the elaboration of the molecular orbital method of computing the structure of molecules. |
| * 1868 | Charles Rennie Mackintosh | Scottish architect, designer and watercolourist. |
| * 1861 | Alice Moore Hubbard | Born Alice Luann Moore, was a noted American feminist, writer, and, with her husband, Elbert Hubbard was a leading figure in the Roycroft movement. |
| * 1848 | Paul Gauguin | French Post-Impressionist painter. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2007 | Michael Hamburger | German-born British translator and poet. |
| † 1994 | Dennis Potter | Controversial English dramatist who is best known for several widely acclaimed television dramas which mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social. |
| † 1981 | Jan Burgers | Dutch physicist, credited to be the father of Burgers' equation, the Burgers vector in dislocation theory and the Burgers material in viscoelasticity. |
| † 1980 | Henry Miller | American writer. |
| † 1980 | Phillip Guston | Notable painter of the New York School, which included many of the Abstract Expressionists such as Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning. |
| † 1971 | Leo Burnett | Advertising executive famous for creating such icons as the Jolly Green Giant, the Marlboro Man, Toucan Sam, Charlie the Tuna, Morris the Cat, the Pillsbury Doughboy, the 7up "Spot", and Tony the Tiger. |
| † 1967 | Dorothy Parker | American writer, poet, and critic. |
| † 1966 | Hans Arp | German/French sculptor, painter, poet and a founding member of Dadaism. |
| † 1956 | Julien Benda | French philosopher and novelist. |
| † 1954 | Alan Turing | British mathematician and cryptographer who is considered to be one of the fathers of modern computer science. |
| † 1951 | Otto Ohlendorf | German SS-Gruppenführer and head of the interior division of the SD In June 1941, Reinhard Heydrich appointed Ohlendorf to be commander of Einsatzgruppe D which operated in southern Ukraine and Crimea. |
| † 1951 | Oswald Pohl | Nazi official and member of the SS, involved in the mass murders of Jews in concentration camps, the Endlösung. |
| † 1933 | Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis | Significant American publisher. |
| † 1911 | Henry Abbey | American writer and poet. |
| † 1900 | Richard Salter Storrs | American Congregational clergyman. |
| † 1884 | Charles Fenno Hoffman | American author and poet. |
| † 1866 | Chief Seattle | Leader of the Suquamish and Duwamish Native American tribes in what is now the U S state of Washington. |
| † 1852 | Hosea Ballou | American Universalist clergyman and theological writer. |
| † 1826 | Joseph von Fraunhofer | German optician. |
| † 1697 | John Aubrey | English biographer, antiquary and folklorist. |
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