Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1980 | Rex Grossman | American quarterback for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League. |
| * 1978 | Jared Fogle | Nicknamed "Jared the Subway Guy", is a spokesman used by Subway restaurants in its television advertising campaign. |
| * 1978 | Kobe Bryant | American All-Star shooting guard in the NBA who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers. |
| * 1970 | River Phoenix | Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated American actor. |
| * 1962 | Shaun Ryder | Aka X, is an English singer and songwriter and an ex-postman who became famous in the "Madchester" era band Happy Mondays. |
| * 1950 | Roza Otunbayeva | Head of a provisional government in Kyrgyzstan, following the series of riots which led to the ousting of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. |
| * 1949 | William Lane Craig | Christian apologist, evangelist, and author and editor of over 30 books. |
| * 1949 | Shelley Long | Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning American actress and comedienne. |
| * 1947 | Willy Russell | English dramatist, screenwriter, composer and lyricist. |
| * 1935 | Roy Strong | English art historian, museum curator, writer, broadcaster and landscape designer. |
| * 1935 | Sol Kerzner | South African hotel and gambling magnate. |
| * 1933 | Robert Curl | Emeritus professor of chemistry at Rice University. |
| * 1927 | Allan Kaprow | American Fluxus artist, assemblagist a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art, and the originator of Happenings. |
| * 1926 | Clifford Geertz | American anthropologist and served until his death as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. |
| * 1924 | Robert Solow | American economist particularly known for his work on the theory of economic growth that culminated in the exogenous growth model named after him. |
| * 1924 | Ephraim Kishon | Israeli writer, satirist, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director. |
| * 1923 | E. F. Codd | British computer scientist and winner of the 1981 Turing Award. |
| * 1912 | Nelson Rodrigues | Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist. |
| * 1912 | Gene Kelly | Better known as Gene Kelly, was an American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer, and choreographer. |
| * 1911 | J. V. Cunningham | American poet, sometimes described as a neo-classicist or anti-modernist. |
| * 1905 | Constant Lambert | English conductor, critic and modernist composer. |
| * 1900 | Malvina Reynolds | American folk/blues singer-songwriter and political activist. |
| * 1884 | Will Cuppy | American humorist, hermit, and self-styled curmudgeon. |
| * 1868 | Edgar Lee Masters | American poet, biographer and dramatist. |
| * 1864 | Eleftherios Venizelos | Greek politician. |
| * 1852 | Arnold Toynbee | English economic historian noted for his social commitment and desire to improve the living conditions of the working classes; he was the uncle of Arnold J Toynbee. |
| * 1849 | William Ernest Henley | English poet, critic and editor. |
| * 1785 | Oliver Hazard Perry | Officer of the United States Navy, famous for his actions in the Battle of Lake Erie. |
| * 1769 | Georges Cuvier | French naturalist and zoologist. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2002 | Anthony Stafford Beer | British theorist, consultant and professor at the Manchester Business School. |
| † 1989 | Ronald David Laing | Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness and particularly the experience of psychosis. |
| † 1960 | Oscar Hammerstein | Born Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein, was an American writer, producer, and director of musicals for almost forty years. |
| † 1952 | Frederic G. Kenyon | British paleographer and biblical and classical scholar. |
| † 1933 | Adolf Loos | One of the most important and influential Austrian and Czechoslovak architects of European Modern architecture. |
| † 1927 | Bartolomeo Vanzetti | Anarchist, who with Ferdinando Nicola Sacco was convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. |
| † 1819 | Oliver Hazard Perry | Officer of the United States Navy, famous for his actions in the Battle of Lake Erie. |
| † 1806 | Charles-Augustin de Coulomb | French physicist. |
| † 1723 | Increase Mather | Religious leader and educator in colonial New England. |
| † 1305 | William Wallace | Scottish knight and resistance leader during the Wars of Scottish Independence. |
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