Births | ||
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| * 1971 | Henrik Larsson | Swedish football player. |
| * 1968 | Van Jones | Environmental advocate, civil rights activist, attorney, and author who served from March 16 to September 5, 2009 as Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality in the United States. |
| * 1962 | Jim Al-Khalili | British theoretical nuclear physicist, academic, author and broadcaster. |
| * 1952 | Manuel Zelaya | Honduran businessman and politician. |
| * 1951 | Guy Lafleur | Former professional ice hockey player and is widely regarded as one of the most naturally gifted and popular players ever to play professional ice hockey. |
| * 1948 | George R. R. Martin | American author and screenwriter of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. |
| * 1947 | Steve Gerber | American comic book writer best known as co-creator of the satiric Marvel Comics character Howard the Duck. |
| * 1934 | Sophia Loren | Italian actress. |
| * 1928 | Joyce Brothers | Family psychologist, author, and advice columnist; born Joyce Diane Bauer. |
| * 1928 | Donald Hall | American poet. |
| * 1927 | Rachel Roberts | British actress. |
| * 1927 | John Dankworth | English jazz composer, saxophonist and clarinetist. |
| * 1922 | William Kapell | American pianist. |
| * 1917 | Red Auerbach | Head basketball coach and a front office executive for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association. |
| * 1902 | Stevie Smith | Born Florence Margaret Smith, was an English poet and novelist. |
| * 1899 | Leo Strauss | German-Jewish philosopher who specialized in the study of classical political philosophy. |
| * 1892 | Roy Turk | U S songwriter. |
| * 1880 | Ugo Cavallero | Italian military commander before and during World War II Cavallero became Benito Mussolini's Undersecretary of War in 1925. |
| * 1878 | 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. |
| * 1851 | Henry Stephens Salt | Influential English writer and campaigner for social reform in the fields of prisons, schools, economic institutions and the treatment of animals. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2005 | Simon Wiesenthal | Jewish survivor of the Nazi concentration camps who became an Austrian Nazi-hunter. |
| † 1996 | Paul Erdos | Immensely prolific and famously eccentric mathematician who, with hundreds of collaborators, worked on problems in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, classical analysis, approximation theory, set theory and probability theory. |
| † 1957 | Jean Sibelius | Finnish composer known particularly for his symphonies and tone poems. |
| † 1911 | Robinson Duckworth | English clergyman. |
| † 1863 | Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm (of the Brothers Grimm) Grimm | And Wilhelm Karl Grimm (February 24 1786 – December 16 1859), were both giants in the field of Germanic philology, though they are best remembered by the general reading public for their Kinder- und Hausmärchen. |
| † 1863 | Wilhelm Karl (of the Brothers Grimm) Grimm | And Wilhelm Karl Grimm (February 24 1786 – December 16 1859), were both giants in the field of Germanic philology, though they are best remembered by the general reading public for their Kinder- und Hausmärchen. |
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