Births | ||
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| * 1986 | Alexander Rybak | Norwegian singer-composer, violinist, pianist, writer, and actor of Belarusian descent. |
| * 1967 | Melanie Thornton | American pop singer who fronted the Eurodance group La Bouche, who formed hits such as "Be My Lover" and "Sweet Dreams" in the mid-1990s. |
| * 1966 | Darius Rucker | American musician. |
| * 1964 | Stephen Colbert | American satirist, comedian, writer and actor best known for his work on The Daily Show and, starting in 2005, The Colbert Report, in which he portrays a parody of conservative media pundits. |
| * 1964 | Ronnie Coleman | Retired American professional bodybuilder who shares the record of eight straight wins as Mr Olympia. |
| * 1963 | Kristine Larsen | American astronomer. |
| * 1956 | Sri Sri Ravi (spiritual leader) Shankar | Internationally recognized spiritual and humanitarian leader. |
| * 1950 | Stevie Wonder | African-American singer, songwriter, record producer, musician, and social activist. |
| * 1947 | Stephen R. Donaldson | American fantasy, science fiction and mystery novelist. |
| * 1940 | Bruce Chatwin | British novelist and travel writer. |
| * 1937 | Roger Zelazny | American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels. |
| * 1937 | Trevor Baylis | English inventor. |
| * 1931 | Jim Jones | Founder of Peoples Temple, a church-like social movement that committed mass suicide in its community of Jonestown, Guyana on 18 November 1978. |
| * 1924 | Harry Schwarz | South African lawyer, statesman and long-time political opposition leader against apartheid, who eventually served as the South African ambassador to the United States during the country’s transition to representative democracy. |
| * 1901 | Witold Pilecki | Polish cavalry captain, the founder of a WWII resistance movement Secret Polish Army, who deliberately let himself get caught and imprisoned in Auschwitz in order to organize resistance there. |
| * 1900 | Karl Wolff | High-ranking member of the Nazi SS He held the rank of Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS In May of 1945, Wolff negotiated the surrender of all German forces in Italy during the controversial secret Operation Sunrise. |
| * 1882 | Georges Braque | French painter and sculptor. |
| * 1881 | Lima Barreto | Brazilian author who is considered one of the best satirical writers in Brazilian literature. |
| * 1881 | Dimitrije Tucovic | Serbian socialist theorist and leader of the Social Democratic Party of Serbia. |
| * 1842 | Arthur Sullivan | English composer and conductor, best known as the composer of the Savoy operas, "The Lost Chord", and "Onward, Christian Soldiers". |
| * 1840 | Alphonse Daudet | French novelist, short-story writer and dramatist. |
| * 1813 | John Sullivan Dwight | Unitarian minister, transcendentalist and was America's first influential classical music critic. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2013 | Kenneth Waltz | Member of the faculty at the University of California and Columbia University and one of the most prominent scholars of international relations of the 20th century. |
| † 2007 | Mullah Dadullah | Highest ranking military and spiritual leader of the Taliban after Mullah Mohammed Omar. |
| † 1984 | Stanislaw Ulam | Polish-American mathematician who participated in the Manhattan Project and proposed the Teller–Ulam design of thermonuclear weapons. |
| † 1962 | Franz Kline | American painter mainly associated with the Abstract Expressionist group which was centered, geographically, around New York, and temporally, in the 1940s and 1950s; but not limited to that setting. |
| † 1914 | Isabella Fyvie Mayo | Scottish poet, and novelist who also wrote under the pen name Edward Garrett. |
| † 1885 | Jacob Henle | German pathologist and anatomist, born at Fürth, in Franconia. |
| † 1832 | Georges Cuvier | French naturalist and zoologist. |
| † 1809 | Beilby Porteus | Anglican reformer and leading abolitionist. |
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