Births | ||
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| * 1990 | Emma Watson | English actress known primarily for her portrayal of Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series. |
| * 1978 | Milton (baseball) Bradley | Major League Baseball outfielder known for both his skill as a player and his angry personality. |
| * 1972 | Arturo Gatti | Former Canadian professional boxer. |
| * 1964 | Lee Kernaghan | One of Australia's most popular and influential country singers and songwriters. |
| * 1943 | Hugh Thompson | US Army helicopter pilot who rescued Vietnamese civilians during the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam war and campaigned to bring those responsible to justice. |
| * 1940 | Jeffrey Archer | British best-selling author and former politician. |
| * 1924 | Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu | Also known as Madame Ngô Ð?nh Nhu and born Tr?n L? Xuân, was considered the First Lady of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963. |
| * 1920 | Thomas Szasz | Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York, and a noted critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry. |
| * 1912 | Kim Il-sung | Founder of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and its supreme leader until his death. |
| * 1908 | Eden Ahbez | American poet, musician, and songwriter; born Alexander Aberle, adopted and raised as George McGrew, he insisted on spelling his adult name in lower-case letters, and was called "ahbe" by his family and friends. |
| * 1904 | Arshile Gorky | Better known as Arshile Gorky, was an American abstract expressionist painter of Armenian descent, living and working in New York, where he was later strongly involved with American Surrealism. |
| * 1868 | Harold W. Percival | Theosophist and writer who founded The Word Foundation. |
| * 1861 | Bliss Carman | Preeminent Canadian poet. |
| * 1858 | Emile Durkheim | French sociologist whose contributions were instrumental in the formation of sociology, anthropology and religious studies. |
| * 1843 | Henry James | Brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James, was an American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. |
| * 1817 | Benjamin Jowett | Theologian and classical scholar who became one of the great public figures of Victorian England. |
| * 1814 | John Lothrop Motley | American historian, novelist and diplomat. |
| * 1707 | Leonhard Euler | Swiss mathematician and physicist, considered to be one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. |
| * 1452 | Leonardo da Vinci | Italian Renaissance architect, musician, inventor, engineer, sculptor, and painter. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2009 | Clement Freud | British writer, broadcaster and politician. |
| † 2009 | Laszlo Tisza | Professor of Physics Emeritus at MIT. |
| † 2002 | Byron White | Won fame both as a football running back and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. |
| † 2002 | Damon Knight | American science fiction author, editor, critic and fan. |
| † 1998 | Pol Pot | Born Saloth Sar, was the General Secretary of the Cambodian Communist Party and the Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea from 1976 to 1979. |
| † 1990 | Greta Garbo | Born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish born actress and Hollywood icon. |
| † 1988 | Kenneth Williams | English comic actor and comedian. |
| † 1984 | William Empson | Influential English literary critic and poet. |
| † 1980 | Jean-Paul Sartre | Normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre, was a French existentialist philosopher, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist, and critic. |
| † 1956 | Emil Nolde | German painter. |
| † 1942 | Robert Musil | Austrian writer. |
| † 1938 | Cesar Vallejo | Peruvian poet. |
| † 1927 | Henry Holiday | English painter and illustrator. |
| † 1888 | Matthew Arnold | English poet, essayist and cultural critic. |
| † 1865 | Abraham Lincoln | 16th President of the United States and led the country during the American Civil War. |
| † 1764 | Madame de Pompadour | Born Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, was a well-known French courtesan and mistress to King Louis XV. |
| † 1053 | Earl of Wessex Godwin | One of the most powerful lords in England under the Danish king Canute the Great and his successors. |
| † 0 | Sergei Prokofiev | Composer and pianist born in the Russian Empire. |
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