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Births

* 1982 Michael Cammalleri Professional ice hockey player currently playing for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League.
* 1977 Kanye West American record producer and hip-hop artist based in Chicago, Illinois.
* 1971 Mark Feuerstein American film and television actor.
* 1970 Gabrielle Giffords American politician, serving as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Arizona's 8th congressional district from 2007 to 2012.
* 1957 Scott Adams American cartoonist and satirist, best known for his Dilbert series of comic strips and books.
* 1955 Tim Berners-Lee Inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees its continued development.
* 1947 Eric F. Wieschaus American developmental biologist, 1995 Nobel Laureate for Medicine.
* 1936 Robert W Floyd American computer scientist, and winner of the 1978 Turing Award.
* 1928 Gustavo Gutierrez Peruvian theologian and Dominican priest regarded as the founder of Liberation Theology.
* 1925 Barbara Bush Wife of 41st U S President George H W Bush and mother of 43rd U S President George W Bush.
* 1917 Byron White Won fame both as a football running back and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
* 1916 Francis Crick British physicist, molecular biologist and neuroscientist, most noted for being one of the co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953.
* 1910 John W. Campbell Influential American science fiction editor and writer, known for his challenges to writers.
* 1903 Marguerite Yourcenar Belgian-born French novelist who wrote under the pseudonym Marguerite Yourcenar.
* 1867 Frank Lloyd Wright American architect.
* 1859 Smith Wigglesworth British Pentecostal preacher and faith healer.
* 1814 Charles Reade English novelist and dramatist.
* 1810 Robert Schumann German composer and pianist.

Deaths

† 2007 Richard Rorty American philosopher and pragmatist.
† 2000 Jeff MacNelly Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and the creator of the popular comic strip Shoe.
† 1982 Satchel Paige American baseball player whose pitching in the Negro leagues and in Major League Baseball made him a legend in his own lifetime.
† 1975 Murray Leinster Nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history.
† 1970 Abraham Maslow American psychologist who pioneered humanistic psychology and developed ideas related to a hierarchy of needs.
† 1951 Paul Blobel SS-Standartenführer and a member of the SD Blobel was primarily responsible for the Babi Yar massacre at Kiev.
† 1929 Bliss Carman Preeminent Canadian poet.
† 1889 Gerard Manley Hopkins Jesuit priest and English poet whose posthumous, 20th-century fame established him among the finest Victorian poets.
† 1888 James Freeman Clarke American preacher and author.
† 1884 Henry Clay Work American composer and songwriter.
† 1876 George Sand Most famous under her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist and a pioneer of feminism.
† 1874 Patrick Matthew Scottish landowner and fruit farmer.
† 1857 Douglas William Jerrold English dramatist and writer.
† 1845 Andrew Jackson Seventh President of the United States (1829-1837), hero of the Battle of New Orleans (1815), a founder of the Democratic Party, and the eponym of the era of Jacksonian democracy.
† 1809 Thomas Paine English-American political writer, theorist, and activist who had a great influence on the thoughts and ideas which led to the American Revolution and the United States Declaration of Independence.
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