Births | ||
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| * 1975 | Alex Rodriguez | Nicknamed A-Rod, is an American Major League Baseball player, currently playing for the New York Yankees. |
| * 1974 | Pete Yorn | Singer-songwriter, born in Montville, New Jersey. |
| * 1971 | Matthew F. Hale | Former Pontifex Maximus, or leader, of the pro-White religious group, the World Church of the Creator. |
| * 1967 | Juliana Hatfield | American musician and singer-songwriter from the Boston area, formerly of the indie rock band Blake Babies. |
| * 1967 | Rahul Bose | Indian actor, screenwriter, director, social activist, and rugby union player who is mostly known for his roles in arthouse films. |
| * 1967 | Sean Punch | Canadian writer and game designer. |
| * 1957 | Bill Engvall | American comedian, and a member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. |
| * 1948 | Hans Rosling | Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institute and Director of the Gapminder Foundation, which developed the Trendalyzer software system. |
| * 1940 | Troy Perry | Founded the Metropolitan Community Church, a Christian denomination with a special affirming ministry with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. |
| * 1938 | Gary Gygax | American writer and game designer famous for designing the fantasy role playing game, Dungeons & Dragons, with co-creator Dave Arneson. |
| * 1927 | John Seigenthaler | American journalist, writer, and political figure. |
| * 1916 | Elizabeth Hardwick | American essayist and novelist. |
| * 1914 | 2nd Baron Mancroft Mancroft | British Conservative politician and humorous writer. |
| * 1913 | Phillip Guston | Notable painter of the New York School, which included many of the Abstract Expressionists such as Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning. |
| * 1878 | Iwane Matsui | General of the Japanese Imperial Army and the commander of the expeditionary forces sent to China in World War II He was sentenced to death by hanging by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East for being responsible for the Nanking Massacre. |
| * 1870 | Hilaire Belloc | British writer and poet, known chiefly for his essays and children's books; he was sometimes referred to by the nickname "Old Thunder". |
| * 1824 | Alexandre Dumas | Popular French novelist and playwright, best known for his novel and play, La Dame aux camιlias. |
| * 1801 | George Biddell Airy | English mathematician and astronomer, Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881. |
| * 1777 | Thomas Campbell | Scottish poet, who served as Lord Rector of Glasgow University (18261829). |
Deaths | ||
| 2003 | Bob Hope | Best known as Bob Hope, was an English-born American entertainer, having appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio and television, movies and in army concerts. |
| 1980 | Muhammad Reza Pahlavi | Shah of Iran from 1941 until he was deposed in 1979 by the Islamic Revolution. |
| 1974 | Eric Mervyn Lindsay | Irish astronomer. |
| 1970 | Antonio de Oliveira Salazar | Served as the Prime Minister and dictator of Portugal from 1932 to 1968. |
| 1962 | Richard Aldington | Born Edward Godfree Aldington, was an English writer and poet. |
| 1946 | Gertrude Stein | American expatriate writer, poet, feminist, and playwright, who lived most of her life in Europe. |
| 1924 | Ferruccio Busoni | Italian composer, pianist, editor, writer, piano and composition teacher, and conductor. |
| 1841 | Mikhail Lermontov | Russian Romantic writer and poet, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus. |
| 1759 | Pierre Louis Maupertuis | French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters. |
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