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Births

* 1991 Julianna Rose Mauriello American actress who stars in LazyTown and has appeared in Broadway musicals.
* 1966 Helena Bonham Carter English actress best known for her roles in costume dramas, as Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter series and as Mrs.
* 1964 Caitlin R. Kiernan Irish-born American author and paleontologist, perhaps best known for her novels The Drowning Girl: A Memoir and The Red Tree.
* 1963 Simon Armitage English poet, playwright and novelist from Huddersfield.
* 1951 Sally Ride American physicist and a former NASA astronaut who, in 1983, became the first American woman and youngest American to enter space.
* 1949 Ward Cunningham Computer programmer, most famous as the inventor of the first wiki, which was first called WikiWikiWeb, and one of the pioneers of software design patterns and Extreme Programming.
* 1948 Stevie Nicks American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career.
* 1946 Simon Hoggart British journalist and broadcaster.
* 1933 Edward Whittemore American novelist (1974–1987) and Central Intelligence Agency case officer, Directorate of Operations (Asia, Middle East, Europe, 1958–1967).
* 1928 Jack Kevorkian Controversial Armenian American pathologist.
* 1926 Miles Davis American jazz musician.
* 1909 J. Irwin Miller American industrialist and patron of modern architecture.
* 1908 Robert Morley British actor who, often in supporting roles, was time and again cast as the archetypal English gentleman representing the Establishment.
* 1907 John Wayne Better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer.
* 1877 Sadao Araki General in the Imperial Japanese Army before World War II A charismatic leader and one of the principal nationalist right-wing political theorists in the late Japanese Empire, he was regarded as the leader of the radical faction within the politicized Japanese Army.
* 1867 Mary of Teck Born Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes, was Queen consort of George V of the United Kingdom and grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
* 1863 Bob Fitzsimmons Cornish native, moved to New Zealand in his childhood.
* 1822 Goncourt brothers And Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt (December 17 1830 – June 20 1870) were French writers who, in a lifelong collaboration, produced a number of histories, novels and works of art criticism.
* 1795 Thomas Noon Talfourd English judge and author.
* 1700 Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf German religious and social reformer and bishop of the Moravian Church.
* 1689 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu English aristocrat and writer, chiefly remembered today for her letters.

Deaths

† 2006 Alan Kotok American computer scientist at Digital Equipment Corporation, the World Wide Web Consortium and MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
† 1976 Martin Heidegger German philosopher.
† 1948 Theodor Morell German dictator Adolf Hitler's personal physician.
† 1933 Horatio Bottomley English journalist, newspaper proprietor, financier, Member of Parliament, and fraudster.
† 1922 Ernest Solvay Belgian chemist, industrialist and philanthropist.
† 1894 Roden Noel Also known as Noël, was an English poet.
† 1703 Samuel Pepys English naval administrator, Member of Parliament and Fellow of the Royal Society, but is now best remembered for the diary which he kept through the 1660s.
† 1536 Francesco Berni Italian poet credited for beginning what is now known as "Bernesque poetry", a serio-comedic type of poetry with elements of satire.
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