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Births

* 1979 Natasha Lyonne American stage, film, and television actress.
* 1973 David Blaine American illusionist and stunt performer.
* 1965 Robert Downey Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning American actor and musician.
* 1964 David Cross American comedian/actor.
* 1963 Martin Firrell Has been described as a cultural activist, a campaigner and benign propagandist, placing text in public space to promote debate and positive social change.
* 1960 Jonathan Agnew English cricket broadcaster and former professional cricketer.
* 1960 Hugo Weaving Australian film and stage actor.
* 1957 Aki Kaurismaki Finnish film director.
* 1953 Sammy Wilson Politician in Northern Ireland and both a Member of Parliament and a Member of the Legislative Assembly for East Antrim.
* 1950 Harvey (philosopher) Brown Philosopher of physics.
* 1950 Charles Bernstein American poet, theorist, editor, and literary scholar.
* 1949 Abdullah Ocalan Founding leader of the Kurdish militant group Kurdistan Workers Party,which is organisation fighting for a socialist Independent Kurdistan and the rights of the Kurdish People.
* 1941 Rudi Vis British politician in the United Kingdom for the Labour Party, and Member of Parliament for the Finchley and Golders Green constituency.
* 1933 Frits Bolkestein Dutch politician and former EU Commissioner.
* 1932 Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet and Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist and opera director.
* 1928 Maya Angelou African-American poet, memoirist, actress, director, and civil rights activist.
* 1914 Marguerite Duras Better known as Marguerite Duras, was a French writer and film director.
* 1899 Sigurd Olson Author, wilderness advocate and conservation movement leader.
* 1884 Isoroku Yamamoto Fleet Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II He was a graduate of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy and an alumnus of the U S Naval War College and Harvard University.
* 1810 James Freeman Clarke American preacher and author.
* 1809 Benjamin Peirce American mathematician who taught at Harvard University for forty years.
* 1792 Thaddeus Stevens Also known as "The Great Commoner," was a United States Representative from Pennsylvania.
* 1785 Bettina von Arnim Also known as "Bettina Brentano", was a German writer, publisher, composer, singer, visual artist, and illustrator.
* 1772 Rabbi Nachman Known as Reb Nachman of Breslov or simply as Rebbe Nachman, was the founder of the Breslov Hasidic dynasty.

Deaths

† 2013 Roger Ebert American film critic and screenwriter.
† 1991 Max Frisch Swiss architect, playwright and novelist, who is regarded as one of the most influential Swiss writers of the 20th century.
† 1988 Eric A. Havelock Professor at the University of Toronto and was active in the academic milieu of the Canadian socialist movement during the 1930s.
† 1987 C. L. Moore American science fiction and fantasy writer, usually credited as C L Moore.
† 1983 Gloria Swanson Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning American Hollywood actress.
† 1979 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Served as the President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973 and as Prime Minister from 1973 to 1977.
† 1968 Martin Luther King Baptist minister, civil rights activist, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize of 1964.
† 1951 Sadegh Hedayat Iran's foremost modern writer of prose fiction and short stories.
† 1923 John Venn British logician and philosopher.
† 1919 William Crookes English chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, in London, and worked on spectroscopy.
† 1841 William Henry Harrison Ninth President of the United States.
† 1284 Alfonso X of Castile Spanish monarch who ruled as the King of Galicia, Castile and Leσn from 1252 until his death.
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