Births | ||
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| * 1972 | Edyta Gorniak | One of the most popular female singers in the history of Polish pop music. |
| * 1964 | Patrick Warburton | American actor of television, film, and voice acting. |
| * 1955 | Heidi Hautala | Finnish politician. |
| * 1954 | Yanni | Greek keyboardist and composer. |
| * 1954 | Condoleezza Rice | National Security Advisor and Secretary of State to George W Bush. |
| * 1954 | Eric Mazur | Prominent physicist and educator at Harvard University. |
| * 1944 | Karen Armstrong | British author of numerous works on comparative religion. |
| * 1935 | King of Jordan Hussein | King of Jordan from the abdication of his father, King Talal, in 1952, until his death. |
| * 1922 | Boutros Boutros-Ghali | Egyptian diplomat who was the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1992 to December 1996. |
| * 1908 | Joseph McCarthy | Republican Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 to 1957. |
| * 1907 | Pedro Arrupe | Twenty-eighth Father General (1965–83) of the Society of Jesus. |
| * 1906 | Louise Brooks | American silent film actress, dancer, model, showgirl and writer. |
| * 1900 | Aaron Copland | American composer of concert and film music. |
| * 1889 | Jawaharlal Nehru | Indian politician and the first Prime Minister of India. |
| * 1840 | Claude Monet | Also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet, was a French Impressionist painter. |
| * 1771 | Marie Francois Xavier Bichat | French anatomist and physiologist. |
| * 1650 | King of England William III | Also known as William II of Scotland and William of Orange, was a Dutch aristocrat and the Prince of Orange from his birth, King of England and Ireland from 13 February 1689, and King of Scotland from 11 April 1689, in each case until his death. |
Deaths | ||
| † 1999 | Peter Wildeblood | British-Canadian journalist, novelist, playwright, and gay rights campaigner. |
| † 1990 | Malcolm Muggeridge | British journalist, author, media personality, soldier, spy and Christian scholar. |
| † 1977 | A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada | Hindu teacher and the founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, commonly known as the Hare Krishna Movement. |
| † 1975 | Harry J. Anslinger | First Commissioner of the U S Federal Bureau of Narcotics, widely considered the first United States "drug czar". |
| † 1916 | Saki | Pen name of British author Hector Hugh Munro, whose witty and sometimes macabre stories satirised Edwardian society and culture. |
| † 1915 | Booker T. Washington | American political leader, educator and author of African ancestry, most famous for his tenure as President of Tuskegee University (1880–1915). |
| † 1831 | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | German philosopher, most famous for attempting to elaborate a comprehensive and systematic ontology from a logical starting point. |
| † 1825 | Jean Paul | Influential German novelist and short-story writer. |
| † 1716 | Gottfried Leibniz | German philosopher and mathematician. |
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