Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1990 | Alan Dzagoev | Russian international football midfielder who plays for CSKA Moscow. |
| * 1958 | Jello Biafra | Punk rock musician, spoken word artist, and activist. |
| * 1951 | Starhawk | American writer, social activist and pagan in the Reclaiming tradition. |
| * 1945 | Ken Livingstone | British politician, who was the last leader of the Greater London Council from 1981 to its abolition in 1986, a Labour Member of Parliament for Brent East (1987–2000), and the first elected Mayor of London (2000–2008). |
| * 1945 | Tommy Franks | Retired General in the United States Army. |
| * 1943 | Newt Gingrich | American politician who was Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. |
| * 1943 | Burt Rutan | Aerospace engineer, notable for designing SpaceShipOne. |
| * 1942 | Mohamed ElBaradei | Egyptian diplomat, and the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency. |
| * 1937 | Paul Enns | Author and minister. |
| * 1933 | Harry Browne | Free-market libertarian writer and investment analyst who was the Presidential candidate of the United States Libertarian Party in 1996 and 2000. |
| * 1929 | Tigran Petrosian | World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969. |
| * 1919 | Kingman Brewster | American educator, President of Yale University, and US diplomat. |
| * 1900 | Martin Bormann | Prominent Nazi official. |
| * 1898 | M. C. Escher | Dutch artist; most famous for his woodcuts, lithographs and mezzotints, which tend to feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, and tessellations. |
| * 1888 | Heinz Guderian | German WWII general and tank commander, theorist of tank combat and one of the founders of blitzkrieg strategy. |
| * 1882 | Igor Stravinsky | Russian-born composer, is thought to be one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. |
| * 1881 | Tommy Burns | Born Noah Brusso, was a Canadian world heavyweight champion boxer. |
| * 1871 | James Weldon Johnson | Leading American author, critic, journalist, poet, anthropologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, early civil rights activist, and prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance. |
| * 1867 | Henry Lawson | Australian writer and poet. |
| * 1839 | Henry Holiday | English painter and illustrator. |
| * 1832 | William Crookes | English chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, in London, and worked on spectroscopy. |
| * 1797 | Alexandre Vinet | Swiss critic and theologian. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2012 | Rodney King | African-American resident of Los Angeles who was violently arrested by officers of the L A Police Department. |
| † 2009 | Erik Naggum | Lisp programmer. |
| † 2000 | Ismail Mahomed | South African lawyer who served as the Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and the Supreme Court of Namibia, and co-authored the constitution of Namibia. |
| † 1996 | Thomas Samuel Kuhn | American intellectual who wrote extensively on the history of science and developed several important notions in the philosophy of science. |
| † 1965 | J. Allen Boone | Author of several books about nonverbal communication with animals in the 1940s and '50s. |
| † 1963 | John Cowper Powys | British novelist, poet, essayist, philosopher, literary critic and autobiographer. |
| † 1925 | A. C. Benson | British essayist, poet and author. |
| † 1887 | Mark (educator) Hopkins | American educator and theologian. |
| † 1845 | Richard Harris Barham | English novelist, humorous poet, and priest in the Church of England. |
| † 1791 | Selina Hastings | English religious leader who played a prominent part in the religious revival of the eighteenth century and the Methodist movement in England and Wales, and has left a Christian denomination in England and Sierra Leone. |
| † 1719 | Joseph Addison | English politician and writer. |
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