Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1981 | Carlos Zambrano | American Major League baseball player who is currently playing for the Chicago Cubs. |
| * 1974 | Alanis Morissette | Canadian singer, songwriter and actress. |
| * 1973 | Heidi Klum | German model, actress, TV presenter, fashion designer, television producer and singer. |
| * 1970 | R. Madhavan | Indian film actor who acts in regional Indian movies, with his priority language being Tamil. |
| * 1965 | Nigel Short | British chess grandmaster and chess writer. |
| * 1959 | Martin Brundle | English motor racing driver known chiefly as the man who ran Ayrton Senna close in British Formula Three, a journeyman Formula One driver and as an ITV Sport F1 commentator. |
| * 1957 | Jeff Hawkins | Founder of Palm Computing and Handspring. |
| * 1955 | Tony Snow | White House Press Secretary for the George W Bush administration. |
| * 1940 | Kip Thorne | American physicist at the California Institute of Technology who specializes in the cosmological implications of the general theory of relativity. |
| * 1937 | Colleen McCullough | Internationally acclaimed Australian author. |
| * 1937 | Morgan Freeman | American actor and film director who first became known in the American media through roles on the kids' show The Electric Company and on the soap opera Another World. |
| * 1928 | Bob Monkhouse | British comedian, actor and presenter. |
| * 1926 | Marilyn Monroe | American actress, singer, model, and one of the most famous Hollywood icons of the twentieth century. |
| * 1878 | John Masefield | English poet and writer; he was Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death. |
| * 1833 | John Marshall Harlan | Kentucky lawyer and politician who served as an associate justice on the Supreme Court. |
| * 1801 | Brigham Young | Second prophet and president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
| * 1793 | Henry Francis Lyte | Anglican divine and hymn-writer. |
| * 1780 | Carl von Clausewitz | Prussian general and influential military theorist. |
| * 1618 | Johann Franck | German lyric poet and hymnist. |
| * 1265 | Dante Alighieri | Better known as Dante, was an Italian Florentine poet. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2008 | Yves Saint-Laurent | French fashion designer. |
| † 2004 | William Manchester | American historian and biographer. |
| † 2001 | Nkosi Johnson | Born Xolani Nkosi, was the longest living person born with HIV/AIDS. |
| † 1987 | Khwaja Ahmad Abbas | Indian film director, novelist, screenwriter, and a journalist in the Urdu, Hindi, and English languages. |
| † 1971 | Reinhold Niebuhr | American Protestant theologian most famous for his efforts to relate the Christian faith to the realities of politics and diplomacy. |
| † 1968 | Helen Keller | American writer and social activist; an illness at the age of 19 months left her deaf and blind. |
| † 1962 | Adolf Eichmann | High-ranking Nazi and SS-Obersturmbannführer. |
| † 1959 | Sax Rohmer | Prolific English novelist, most remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr Fu Manchu. |
| † 1952 | John Dewey | American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer. |
| † 1946 | Leo Slezak | Austrian tenor opera singer and film actor. |
| † 1941 | Hugh Walpole | English writer. |
| † 1938 | Odon von Horvath | One of the most important German-language playwrights and authors of the twentieth century. |
| † 1927 | J. B. Bury | Preeminent historian and expert on Roman history. |
| † 1912 | Daniel Burnham | American architect and urban planner. |
| † 1868 | James Buchanan | 15th President of the United States (1857–1861). |
| † 1642 | John Suckling | English Cavalier poet. |
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