Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1979 | Thea Gilmore | Oxfordshire-born British singer-songwriter. |
| * 1971 | Christina Applegate | American actress, best known for her role on Married… with Children. |
| * 1959 | Charles Kennedy | British politician native to Scotland who was the leader of the Liberal Democrats, the third largest political party in the United Kingdom, from 9 August 1999 until 7 January 2006. |
| * 1947 | John Larroquette | American film and television actor. |
| * 1944 | Ben Stein | American lawyer, economist, law professor, actor, comedian, author and former White House speechwriter. |
| * 1941 | Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi | Pakistani author, spiritual leader and founder of the Messiah Foundation International. |
| * 1926 | Poul Anderson | Prominent American science fiction author who wrote during a Golden Age of the genre. |
| * 1924 | Paul Desmond | Born Paul Emil Breitenfeld, was a jazz alto saxophonist and composer born in San Francisco, best known for the work he did in the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for penning the group's greatest hit, "Take Five". |
| * 1915 | Augusto Pinochet | General and de facto head of state of Chile. |
| * 1914 | Joe DiMaggio | Born Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio, Jr, was a Major League Baseball center fielder who played his entire MLB career (1936–1951) for the New York Yankees. |
| * 1913 | Lewis Thomas | Physician, author, administrator, educator, policy advisor and researcher. |
| * 1904 | Ba Jin | Chinese writer and anarchist; he was most famous under his pen name of Ba Jin. |
| * 1900 | Rudolf Hoss | SS-Obersturmbannführer and from May 4, 1940 to November 1943 was commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp. |
| * 1896 | Virgil Thomson | American composer from Missouri, whose rural background gave a sense of place in his compositions. |
| * 1893 | Joseph Wood Krutch | American writer, critic, and naturalist. |
| * 1890 | Isaac Rosenberg | English poet of the First World War. |
| * 1881 | John XXIII (Pope) | Elected as John XXIII, the 261st Pope of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City on October 28, 1958. |
| * 1870 | Maurice Denis | French painter and writer and a member of the Symbolist and Les Nabis movements. |
| * 1845 | Jose Maria Eca de Queiroz | Portuguese novelist, short-story writer, travel-writer, critic and diplomat. |
| * 1835 | Andrew Carnegie | Scottish-American businessman, a major philanthropist, and the founder of the Carnegie Steel Company, which later became U S Steel. |
| * 1814 | Julius Robert von Mayer | German physician and physicist and one of the founders of thermodynamics. |
| * 1562 | Lope de Vega | Spanish Baroque playwright and poet. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2005 | George Best | Northern Irish professional football player, best known for his years with Manchester United. |
| † 1998 | 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. |
| † 1997 | Hastings Banda | President of Malawi from 1966 to 1994. |
| † 1974 | Nick Drake | English folk singer-songwriter and musician. |
| † 1974 | U Thant | Burmese diplomat, who served as the third Secretary-General of the United Nations (1961–1971). |
| † 1970 | Yukio Mishima | Pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka, a Japanese novelist, playwright, essayist and short story writer. |
| † 1968 | Upton Sinclair | Prolific American author who wrote in many genres, often advocating Socialist views, and achieved considerable popularity in the first half of the twentieth century. |
| † 1958 | Charles Kettering | American inventor and social philosopher. |
| † 1946 | Henry Morgenthau | U S diplomat and businessman, most famous as the American ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. |
| † 1944 | Kenesaw Mountain Landis | American federal judge from 1905 to 1920, the year in which he was appointed the first commissioner of Major League Baseball. |
| † 1913 | Robert Stawell Ball | Irish astronomer and author of several popular books. |
| † 1886 | Elias Lyman Magoo | American clergyman and religious writer. |
| † 1854 | John Gibson Lockhart | Scottish biographer, literary critic, novelist and journalist, best known for his biography of his father-in-law, Walter Scott. |
| † 1763 | Antoine Francois Prevost | Also known as the Abbé Prévost, was a French novelist, historian and journalist. |
| † 1748 | Isaac Watts | English theologian, logician, and a prolific and popular hymnwriter. |
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