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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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