Births | ||
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| * 1972 | Mike Tomlin | American football head coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League. |
| * 1940 | Judith Krug | American librarian, supporter of freedom of speech, and prominent critic against censorship. |
| * 1935 | Jimmy Swaggart | Pentecostal preacher and pioneer of televangelism. |
| * 1933 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. |
| * 1930 | Cecil Taylor | American pianist and poet now generally acknowledged to be one of the great innovative sources of free jazz. |
| * 1911 | Wilhelm Mohnke | One of the original 120 members of the SS-Staff Guard "Berlin" formed in March 1933. |
| * 1902 | Wolcott Gibbs | Editor, humorist, parodist, drama critic, and short story writer for The New Yorker magazine from 1927 until his death. |
| * 1874 | Harold L. Ickes | American politician. |
| * 1867 | Lionel Johnson | English poet, essayist and critic. |
| * 1863 | Leslie Stuart | English composer of early musical theatre, best known for the hit show Florodora (1899) and many popular songs. |
| * 1855 | C. V. Boys | British physicist, known for his careful and innovative experimental work. |
| * 1767 | Andrew Jackson | Seventh President of the United States (1829-1837), hero of the Battle of New Orleans (1815), a founder of the Democratic Party, and the eponym of the era of Jacksonian democracy. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2007 | Harold Powers | American musicologist. |
| † 2004 | John Pople | Theoretical chemist. |
| † 1998 | Benjamin Spock | American pediatrician and author. |
| † 1990 | Jim Ede | Also known as 'Jim' Ede, was a British collector of art and friend to artists. |
| † 1983 | Rebecca West | Pseudonym of Cecily Isabel Fairfield, an Anglo-Irish feminist and author. |
| † 1975 | Aristotle Onassis | Greek shipping magnate. |
| † 1962 | Arthur Compton | American physicist and Nobel laureate in physics for his discovery of the Compton effect. |
| † 1941 | Alexej von Jawlensky | Russian Expressionist painter active in Germany. |
| † 1938 | Nikolai Bukharin | Bolshevik revolutionary and theorist. |
| † 1937 | H. P. Lovecraft | American author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, noted for combining these three genres within single narratives and possibly best known for the creation of the Cthulhu Mythos. |
| † 1921 | Mehmed Talat | Also known as "Talat Pasha", was one of the first important members of the Committee of Union and Progress. |
| † 1897 | James Joseph Sylvester | English mathematician, and a leader in American mathematics in the second half of the 19th century. |
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