Births | ||
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| * 1983 | Jessica Lynch | Former Quartermaster Corps Private First Class in the United States Army, who became famous as a prisoner of war of the Iraqi military in the 2003 invasion of Iraq who was rescued by United States forces on 1 April 2003. |
| * 1965 | Kevin James | Better known as Kevin James, is a comedian and actor. |
| * 1962 | Matteo Messina Denaro | Also known as "Diabolik," is a Sicilian mafioso. |
| * 1941 | K. Barry Sharpless | American chemist renowned for his work on organometallic chemistry. |
| * 1933 | Arno Allan Penzias | American physicist, who was awarded, together with Robert Woodrow Wilson, the 1978 Nobel laureate in physics, for having discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation. |
| * 1916 | Morris West | Australian writer. |
| * 1914 | Bernard Malamud | American novelist and short-story writer. |
| * 1894 | Rudolf Hess | Prominent figure in Nazi Germany, acting as Adolf Hitler's deputy in the Nazi Party. |
| * 1889 | Ludwig Wittgenstein | Austrian-born philosopher who spent much of his life in England. |
| * 1856 | Henry Morgenthau | U S diplomat and businessman, most famous as the American ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. |
| * 1820 | Alice Cary | Poet born near Cincinnati, Ohio. |
| * 1798 | Eugene Delacroix | French painter, one of the leading Romanticists of the nineteenth century. |
| * 1787 | Ludwig Uhland | German poet. |
| * 1785 | John James Audubon | Born Jean Rabin, also known as Jean-Jacques Audubon, was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. |
| * 1564 | William Shakespeare | English playwright and poet, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2007 | Jack Valenti | Influential American lobbyist and a long-time president of the Motion Picture Association of America. |
| † 1998 | David Fasold | Former United States Merchant Marine officer and salvage expert who is best known for his book The Ark of Noah, chronicling his early expeditions to the Durup?nar Noah's Ark site. |
| † 1996 | Stirling Silliphant | Prolific American screenwriter and producer. |
| † 1989 | Lucille Ball | Iconic American comedian, actress and star of the landmark sitcom I Love Lucy, and charter member of the Television Hall of Fame. |
| † 1988 | Valerie Solanas | American feminist. |
| † 1984 | Count Basie | American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. |
| † 1976 | Andrei Grechko | Soviet general, Marshal of the Soviet Union, and Minister of Defense. |
| † 1970 | Gypsy Rose Lee | Also known as Rose Louise Hovick and Louise Hovick, was an American actress and burlesque entertainer. |
| † 1969 | Morihei Ueshiba | Philosopher, martial artist, author, and the creator of the discipline of Aikido. |
| † 1951 | Arnold Sommerfeld | German physicist who introduced the fine-structure constant in 1919. |
| † 1938 | Edmund Husserl | Philosopher from Moravia, then part of the Austrian Empire, known as the father of phenomenology. |
| † 1920 | Srinivasa Ramanujan | Groundbreaking Indian mathematician. |
| † 1775 | Josiah Quincy | Famous American lawyer. |
| † 1726 | Jeremy Collier | English bishop and theatre critic. |
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