Births | ||
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* 1989 | Sanjaya Malakar | Finalist on sixth season of the popular television show American Idol. |
* 1968 | Big Daddy Kane | Known as Big Daddy Kane, is a record producer/rapper from the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn, New York. |
* 1964 | John E. Sununu | Former Republican United States Senator from New Hampshire. |
* 1960 | Alison Bechdel | American cartoonist. |
* 1958 | Siobhan Fahey | Irish musician who was a founding member of Bananarama, and later the musical band Shakespears Sister. |
* 1937 | Jared Diamond | American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, bio-geographer and nonfiction author. |
* 1935 | Mary Oliver | American poet. |
* 1933 | Karl Lagerfeld | German fashion designer, artist and photographer. |
* 1923 | Uri Avnery | Israeli journalist, left wing peace activist, Knesset member, who was originally a member of the right wing Revisionist Zionist movement. |
* 1919 | Robert B. (physicist) Leighton | Prominent American experimental physicist who spent his professional career at the California Institute of Technology. |
* 1917 | Miguel Serrano | Chilean diplomat and Esoteric Hitlerist author. |
* 1903 | Cyril Connolly | English author, editor and critic. |
* 1897 | Georges Bataille | French writer. |
* 1892 | Arthur Compton | American physicist and Nobel laureate in physics for his discovery of the Compton effect. |
* 1890 | Franz Werfel | Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet who wrote in German. |
* 1886 | Hilda Doolittle | Usually known only by her initials H D, was an American poet, novelist and memoirist. |
* 1885 | Carl Van Doren | U S critic, historian, and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. |
* 1872 | K. S. Ranjitsinhji | Indian prince and Test cricketer who played for the English cricket team. |
* 1850 | Benjamin Fish Austin | Nineteenth century Canadian educator, Methodist minister, and Spiritualist. |
* 1839 | Charles Sanders Peirce | American philosopher, chemist and polymath, who is now remembered as a pioneer of the field of semiotics and, with the formulation of the pragmatic maxim, the founder of the philosophies of Pragmatism and Pragmaticism. |
* 1835 | William Torrey Harris | American educator, and lexicographer. |
* 1755 | Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac | French politician and journalist, one of the most notorious members of the National Convention during the French Revolution. |
Deaths | ||
† 2009 | Sam Hinton | American folk singer and marine biologist, best known for popularizing traditional folksongs and folklore. |
† 1988 | Virginia Satir | Psychotherapist, family therapist, co-founder of the Mental Health Research Institute in Menlo Park, founder of the International Human Learning Resources Network in 1970, and The Advanta Network in 1977; born Virginia Pagenkopf. |
† 1985 | Jock Stein | Scottish football manager best known for his time as manager of Celtic and for managing the Scotland national football team. |
† 1983 | Felix Bloch | Swiss physicist, who was awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Edward Purcell "for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith". |
† 1976 | Dalton Trumbo | American screenwriter and novelist, and a member of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry. |
† 1935 | Huey Long | Known as "The Kingfish," was a Louisiana governor (1928–1932) and U S Senator (1932–1935). |
† 1930 | Aubrey Faulkner | Leading cricketer for South Africa for two decades. |
† 1922 | Wilfrid Scawen Blunt | British poet and writer. |
† 1865 | George Linley | Verse-writer and musical composer. |
† 1845 | Joseph Story | American lawyer and jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1811 to 1845. |
† 1797 | Mary Wollstonecraft | English social philosopher and pioneering advocate of women's rights; wife of William Godwin, and mother of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. |
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