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Births

* 1993 AnnaSophia Robb American actress.
* 1986 Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Tamil-speaking teacher and Sufi mystic from the island of Sri Lanka who first came to the United States in October 1971 and established the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship of North America in Philadelphia.
* 1986 Amir (boxer) Khan British boxing champion from Greater Manchester, England.
* 1966 Bushwick Bill Better known by the stage name Bushwick Bill, is a member of the American hip hop group Geto Boys along with Willie D and Scarface.
* 1965 Munir Said Thalib Known simply by his first name Munir, is Indonesia's most famous human rights and anti-corruption activist.
* 1962 Mark Pesce One of the early pioneers of computable Virtual Reality, is a writer and teacher.
* 1961 Ann Coulter American syndicated columnist, bestselling author, and television pundit.
* 1953 Norman Finkelstein American assistant professor of political science at DePaul University known for advocating controversial positions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and for criticizing the way the Holocaust is handled by most parties and organizations.
* 1951 Bill Bryson Best-selling American author of humorous books on travel, as well as books on the English language and on scientific subjects.
* 1948 Per Bak Danish theoretical physicist who coauthored the 1987 academic paper that coined the term "self-organized criticality.
* 1945 John Banville Irish novelist and journalist.
* 1943 Jim Morrison American singer, songwriter, musician, poet and founding member of The Doors.
* 1942 Mario Savio Political activist.
* 1939 William Allan Wulf Computer scientist notable for his work in programming languages and compilers.
* 1933 Flip Wilson American comedian and actor, whose flippant sense of humour earned him his nickname while he was serving in the United States Air Force.
* 1922 Lucian Freud British painter and printmaker.
* 1913 Delmore Schwartz American poet.
* 1909 Lesslie Newbigin Christian theologian and bishop involved in missiology and the Gospel & Our Culture Movement.
* 1901 Caryl Brahms Born Doris Caroline Abrahams, was an English writer of Turkish-Jewish descent.
* 1894 James Thurber American humorist and cartoonist.
* 1868 Norman Douglas British writer, now most famous for his 1917 novel South Wind.
* 1865 Jean Sibelius Finnish composer known particularly for his symphonies and tone poems.
* 1864 Camille Claudel French sculptor and graphic artist.
* 1828 Henry Timrod American poet from South Carolina, often called the Poet Laureate of the Confederacy.
* 1542 Queen of Scots) Mary I of Scotland (a.k.a. Mary Roman Catholic queen of Scotland from 1542 until 1567 and a cousin of Elizabeth I.

Deaths

† 1986 Sydney J. Harris Syndicated essayist and drama critic.
† 1980 John Lennon Born John Winston Lennon, was a singer, songwriter, guitarist, political activist, humorist, painter, writer and founding member of The Beatles.
† 1978 Golda Meir Israeli politician and one of the founders of the State of Israel.
† 1952 Charles Lightoller Second officer on board the Titanic and the most senior officer to survive the disaster.
† 1932 Gertrude Jekyll British garden designer, writer, and artist.
† 1926 Sarah Doudney English novelist and poet, best known as a children's writer and hymnwriter.
† 1914 Madison Cawein Poet from Louisville, Kentucky, whose poem "Waste Land" has been linked with T S Eliot's later The Waste Land.
† 1903 Herbert Spencer English philosopher, prominent classical liberal political theorist, and sociological theorist of the Victorian era.
† 1903 John Lanahan American preacher.
† 1895 George Augustus Henry Sala English journalist.
† 1885 William Henry Vanderbilt American railroad executive, the son and heir of millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt.
† 1864 George Boole English mathematician, logician and philosopher.
† 1859 Thomas De Quincey English author and intellectual.
† 1830 Benjamin Constant Swiss-born thinker, writer and French politician.
† 1691 Richard Baxter English Puritan church leader, divine scholar and controversialist, called by Dean Stanley "the chief of English Protestant Schoolmen".
† 1626 John (poet) Davies English poet and lawyer, who became attorney general in Ireland and formulated many of the legal principles that underpinned the British Empire.
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