Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1976 | Tim Duncan | Virgin Islander American professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association. |
| * 1951 | Evan Thomas | American journalist and author. |
| * 1949 | James Fenton | English poet, journalist and literary critic. |
| * 1945 | Bjorn Ulvaeus | Swedish songwriter, composer, musician, writer, producer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA (197282), and co-composer of the musicals Chess,Kristina fr?n Duvem?la and Mamma Mia!. |
| * 1942 | Jon Kyl | United States junior senator for the state of Arizona, where he has served since 1995. |
| * 1942 | Michael Malone | American author and writer, born in Durham, North Carolina. |
| * 1940 | Al Pacino | Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, Tony-, BAFTA-, Emmy- and SAG award-winning American film and stage actor and director. |
| * 1939 | Nicole Hollander | American cartoonist and writer. |
| * 1939 | Tarcisio Burgnich | Former Italian football defender. |
| * 1921 | Karel Appel | Dutch painter and sculptor. |
| * 1915 | John James Cowperthwaite | British civil servant and the Financial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1961 to 1971. |
| * 1908 | Edward R. Murrow | American journalist; born Egbert Roscoe Murrow. |
| * 1900 | Wolfgang Pauli | Austrian-Swiss physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1945. |
| * 1883 | Semyon Budyonny | Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union. |
| * 1874 | Guglielmo Marconi | Italian physicist and inventor of a successful wireless telegraph. |
| * 1873 | Walter de la Mare | English poet, short story writer, and novelist. |
| * 1862 | Edward Grey | British Foreign Secretary from 1905 to 1916. |
| * 1852 | Leopoldo Alas | Also known as Clarνn, was a Spanish realist novelist born in Zamora. |
| * 1833 | Marko Miljanov | Warrior and writer from Montenegro. |
| * 1822 | James (musician) Pierpont | American songwriter, arranger, organist, and composer. |
| * 1792 | John Keble | English churchman, one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement, and gave his name to Keble College, Oxford. |
| * 1788 | William Henry Maule | English lawyer, member of parliament and judge. |
| * 1599 | Oliver Cromwell | English statesman, soldier, and revolutionary responsible for the overthrow of the monarchy, temporarily turning England into a republican Commonwealth, and assuming rule as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. |
| * 1214 | Louis IX of France | King of France from 1226. |
Deaths | ||
| 2010 | Alan Sillitoe | English novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, essayist and poet, who first came to prominence as one of the Angry Young Men of the 1950s. |
| 2008 | Humphrey Lyttelton | English jazz musician and broadcaster, for 36 years chairman of the BBC radio programme I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. |
| 2006 | Jane Jacobs | American-born Canadian urbanist, writer and activist. |
| 2004 | Thom Gunn | Anglo-American poet. |
| 1995 | Ginger Rogers | American film and stage actress, dancer and singer. |
| 1990 | Irving Fiske | Born Irving Fishman in Brooklyn, New York, was a playwright, inventor, freelance writer, speaker, and the co-founder of Quarry Hill Creative Center. |
| 1988 | Clifford D. Simak | American science fiction writer, and a winner of several Hugo and Nebula awards. |
| 1943 | Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord | German general who served for a period as Commander-in-Chief of the Reichswehr/German Army. |
| 1890 | Crowfoot | Or Isapo-Muxika was a chief of the Blackfoot First Nation in Canada. |
| 1840 | Simeon Denis Poisson | French mathematician, geometer, and physicist who specialized in applying mathematics to a wide variety of physics fields, including electricity, magnetism, hydrodynamics and celestial mechanics. |
| 1800 | William Cowper | English poet and hymnodist. |
| 1595 | Torquato Tasso | Italian epic poet and dramatist, best known for his Rinaldo (1562), Aminta (1573) and Gerusalemme Liberata (1580). |
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