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Births

* 1984 Scarlett Johansson American film actress.
* 1971 Alon Mizrahi Israeli football player.
* 1970 Stel Pavlou British author and screenwriter.
* 1968 Rasmus Lerdorf Danish-Greenlandic programmer and the author of the first version of the PHP web programming language.
* 1958 Jamie Lee Curtis Two time Golden Globe-winning, and Emmy Award-nominated American film actress and a successful writer of books for children.
* 1949 Chip Berlet American political writer.
* 1944 Lucio Russo Italian physicist, mathematician and historian of science.
* 1940 Terry Gilliam American-born British writer, filmmaker, animator, actor and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe.
* 1921 Jacob (Rodney Dangerfield) Cohen Born Jacob Cohen, was an American comedian and actor.
* 1921 Rodney (born Jacob Cohen) Dangerfield Born Jacob Cohen, was an American comedian and actor.
* 1917 Andrew Huxley British Nobel Prize-winning biologist.
* 1899 Hoagy Carmichael American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader.
* 1891 Edward Berays Austrian-born American publicist, sometimes called "the father of public relations".
* 1890 Charles de Gaulle In France commonly referred to as le gιnιral de Gaulle, was a French military leader and statesman.
* 1881 Ismail Enver Known to Europeans during his political career as Enver Pasha or Enver Bey, was a Turkish military officer and a leader of the Young Turk revolution.
* 1869 Andre Gide French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947.
* 1868 John Nance Garner Representative from Texas, the thirty-second Vice President of the United States and the forty-forth Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
* 1857 George Gissing British novelist.
* 1819 George Eliot English novelist and poet, more well-known by her pen name George Eliot, who also for a time used Marian and Mary Anne as variant spellings of her name.
* 1800 Linn Boyd Prominent U S politician of the 1840s and 1850s, and served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1851 to 1855.

Deaths

† 2000 Emil Zatopek Czech long-distance runner best known for winning three gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.
† 1994 Viola Spolin Considered the mother of the improvisational theater movement in the United States.
† 1993 Anthony Burgess English writer whose novels include the Malayan trilogy, A Clockwork Orange, the Enderby cycle, Nothing Like The Sun, Earthly Powers and The Kingdom Of The Wicked.
† 1988 Luis Barragan Considered the most important Mexican architect of the 20th century.
† 1988 Erich Fried Austrian poet, essayist and translator.
† 1983 Leonard Wibberley Prolific Irish author, best known for his comic novels about the imaginary country Grand Fenwick, particularly The Mouse That Roared.
† 1980 Mae West American actress and playwright, most commonly known as "Mae" West.
† 1963 John F. Kennedy 35th President of the United States, a brother of Robert F Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, and the first husband of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
† 1963 C. S. Lewis Irish author, scholar of medieval literature, and Christian apologist.
† 1963 Aldous Huxley British author, most famous for his novel Brave New World.
† 1944 Arthur Stanley Eddington Plumian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge.
† 1943 Lorenz Hart American lyricist, famous for his work with Richard Rodgers.
† 1916 Jack London American author.
† 1876 Edwin Ransford English singer and composer.
† 1694 John Tillotson Archbishop of Canterbury (1691–1694).
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