Births | ||
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| * 1968 | Kylie Minogue | Often known simply as "Kylie", is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, showgirl, and actress. |
| * 1964 | David Baddiel | British comedian, writer and television presenter. |
| * 1960 | Mark Sanford | American politician from South Carolina. |
| * 1945 | Patch Adams | Medical doctor, social activist, citizen diplomat, professional clown, performer, and author. |
| * 1944 | Rudy Giuliani | American lawyer, businessman, and politician. |
| * 1932 | Varadaraja V. Raman | Emeritus Professor of Physics and Humanities at the w:Rochester Institute of Technology. |
| * 1930 | Frank Drake | American astronomer and astrophysicist. |
| * 1923 | Gyorgy Ligeti | Jewish Hungarian composer, widely seen as one of the great composers of instrumental music of the 20th century. |
| * 1917 | Barry Commoner | American biologist, college professor, and eco-socialist. |
| * 1916 | Walker Percy | American Southern author whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. |
| * 1912 | Patrick (Australian novelist) White | Australian novelist and winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature. |
| * 1908 | Ian Fleming | British author, journalist and Second World War Navy Commander. |
| * 1892 | Sepp Dietrich | German Waffen-SS general, an SS-Oberstgruppenführer, and one of the closest men to Adolf Hitler. |
| * 1883 | Vinayak Damodar Savarkar | Indian revolutionary and Hindu political leader, who is credited with developing an Indian nationalist political ideology he termed Hindutva. |
| * 1819 | Frederic Dan Huntington | American clergyman and the first Protestant Episcopal bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York. |
| * 1807 | Louis Agassiz | Swiss-born American zoologist, glaciologist, and geologist and one of the first world-class American scientists. |
| * 1779 | Thomas Moore | Irish poet and hymnist, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Last Rose of Summer. |
| * 1759 | William Pitt | British politician during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2007 | David (white nationalist) Lane | American white nationalist leader and author. |
| † 2001 | Francisco Varela | Chilean biologist and philosopher who, together with his teacher Humberto Maturana, is best known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology. |
| † 1998 | Phil Hartman | Canadian-born American graphic artist, writer, actor, voice artist and comedian. |
| † 1972 | King of England Edward VIII | . |
| † 1937 | Alfred Adler | Austrian medical doctor and psychologist. |
| † 1913 | John Lubbock | English banker, politician, naturalist and archaeologist. |
| † 1900 | George Grove | English writer on music, immortalised in the title of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. |
| † 1878 | John Russell | Known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was a British Whig and Liberal politician who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century. |
| † 1849 | Anne Bronte | British novelist and poet, the youngest sibling of Charlotte and Emily Brontë. |
| † 1808 | Richard (bishop) Hurd | English divine and writer, and bishop of Worcester. |
| † 1747 | Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues | French moralist, essayist, and miscellaneous writer. |
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