Births | ||
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| * 1963 | Mark Pryor | Democratic politician in Arkansas. |
| * 1960 | Brian Cowen | Irish politician who served as Taoiseach from 7 May 2008 until his retirement on 9 March 2011. |
| * 1960 | Richard Bartle | English writer and game researcher, best known for being the co-author of MUD, the first multi-user dungeon. |
| * 1957 | Greg Walden | Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Oregon and represents its Second District, which covers more than two-thirds of the state Walden earned a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Oregon in 1981. |
| * 1949 | George Foreman | American two-time World Heavyweight Boxing Champion. |
| * 1939 | David Horowitz | American conservative writer and activist. |
| * 1938 | Donald Knuth | Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University, is a renowned computer scientist and winner of the 1974 Turing Award. |
| * 1936 | Robert Woodrow Wilson | American astronomer, 1978 Nobel laureate in physics, who with Arno Allan Penzias discovered in 1964 the cosmic microwave background radiation. |
| * 1935 | Ronnie Hawkins | Generally known as Ronnie Hawkins, is a Juno Award-winning rockabilly musician whose career has spanned more than half a century. |
| * 1903 | Barbara Hepworth | Major British sculptor and artist of the twentieth century. |
| * 1901 | Henning von Tresckow | Major General in the German Wehrmacht who organized German resistance against Hitler. |
| * 1887 | Robinson Jeffers | American poet. |
| * 1835 | Fukuzawa Yukichi | Japanese author, writer, teacher, entrepreneur and political theorist whose ideas about government and social institutions made a lasting impression on a rapidly changing Japan during the period known as the Meiji Era. |
| * 1834 | John (Lord Acton) Acton | English historian, commonly known simply as Lord Acton. |
| * 1822 | Theodore L. Cuyler | Presbyterian minister and religious writer in the United States. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2010 | Tony Halme | Controversial member of the Finnish Parliament, representing the True Finns party, and prior to that a professional wrestler/mixed martial artist. |
| † 2001 | John G. Schmitz | Conservative Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Orange County, California, prominent member of the John Birch Society, and the American Independent Party candidate for President of the United States in 1972. |
| † 1981 | Fawn Brodie | Biographer and professor of history at UCLA. |
| † 1971 | Coco Chanel | 19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971 was a pioneering French fashion designer whose modernist philosophy, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her an important figure in 20th-century fashion. |
| † 1970 | Charles Olson | Influential American poet, credited as one of the thinkers who coined the term postmodern. |
| † 1961 | Dashiell Hammett | American author of hardboiled detective novels and short stories. |
| † 1955 | Joseph McCabe | Well-known atheist and author of numerous books. |
| † 1951 | Sinclair Lewis | American writer, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1930. |
| † 1933 | Benjamin Fish Austin | Nineteenth century Canadian educator, Methodist minister, and Spiritualist. |
| † 0 | Ethan Allen | Early American revolutionary and guerrilla leader during the era of the Vermont Republic. |
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