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Births

* 1987 Andy Murray Scottish professional tennis player.
* 1980 Rocky Marquette American actor.
* 1978 Caroline Dhavernas Canadian actress, most famous in the United States as "Jaye" from the short-lived television series Wonderfalls.
* 1975 Ray (American football) Lewis American football linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League.
* 1972 Richard Blackwood British stand-up comedian, television personality, sometime actor and MC.
* 1969 Emmitt Smith Former American football player.
* 1964 Lars Lokke Rasmussen Current Prime Minister of Denmark and the leader of the centre-right Liberal party, Venstre.
* 1956 Dan Patrick Professionally known as Dan Patrick, is an American sportscaster, radio personality, and actor from Mason, Ohio.
* 1953 Mike Oldfield English multi-instrumentalist musician and composer.
* 1951 Frank Wilczek American physicist and Nobel laureate (2004).
* 1948 Brian Eno Commonly referred to simply as Eno, is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.
* 1942 Jusuf Kalla Current Vice President of Indonesia.
* 1940 Roger Ailes President of Fox News Channel and chairman of the Fox Television Stations Group.
* 1937 Madeleine Albright Czech-born American politician.
* 1936 Ralph Steadman British cartoonist and caricaturist who is best known for his work with American author Hunter S Thompson.
* 1935 Utah Phillips Labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller, poet and self-described "Golden Voice of the Great Southwest".
* 1931 Ken Venturi American former professional golfer and golf broadcaster.
* 1930 Jasper Johns Contemporary artist; painter and printer.
* 1926 Peter Shaffer English dramatist and screenwriter, best known for his The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Equus and Amadeus.
* 1915 Paul Samuelson American economist.
* 1915 Harold Barlow American songwriter.
* 1911 Max Frisch Swiss architect, playwright and novelist, who is regarded as one of the most influential Swiss writers of the 20th century.
* 1902 Richard J. Daley Mayor of Chicago, Illinois from 1955 to 1976; 21 years as the undisputed Democratic boss of Chicago and is considered by historians to be the "last of the big city bosses.
* 1890 Katherine Anne Porter Celebrated American journalist, essayist, short story writer and novelist.
* 1887 Edwin Muir Scottish poet, novelist and translator, born in Deerness, on the Orkney Islands.
* 1862 Cassius Jackson Keyser American mathematician of pronounced philosophical inclinations.
* 1859 Henry Charles Beeching English clergyman, author and poet.
* 1856 L. Frank Baum American author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with illustrator William Wallace Denslow, of one of the most popular books in American children's literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
* 1804 Samuel Laman Blanchard English poet, essayist and journalist.

Deaths

† 2012 Carlos Fuentes Mexican novelist, short-story writer, essayist, playwright and critic.
† 2008 Willis Lamb Physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum".
† 2007 Jerry Falwell American pastor, Southern Baptist, televangelist, founder of the Moral Majority and Liberty University, and a prominent conservative activist.
† 2004 Gloria E. Anzaldua Chicana lesbian feminist writer and scholar best known for co-editing the anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color.
† 1984 Francis Schaeffer American Evangelical Christian theologian, philosopher, and Presbyterian pastor.
† 1967 Edward Hopper American Realist painter, best remembered for his eerily realistic depictions of solitude in contemporary American life.
† 1954 William March Born William Edward Campbell, was an American soldier and author, most famous for his novels The Bad Seed and Company K His innovative writing style is characterized by a deep compassion and understanding of suffering.
† 1949 Hugh Kingsmill English biographer, literary critic, fiction-writer and anthologist.
† 1949 Mary Antin American author and immigration rights activist.
† 1937 Philip Snowden British politician, and the first Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer.
† 1935 Kazimir Malevich Painter, art theoretician, pioneer of geometric abstract art and one of the most important members of the Russian avant-garde.
† 1886 Emily Dickinson American poet.
† 1856 Theodore Guerin Born Anne-Thιr?se Guιrin, was a Roman Catholic saint of French descent and the foundress of the Sisters of Providence of Saint-Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana.
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