Births | ||
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| * 1987 | Hill | Popularly known as Hill, is a Bruneian singer and actor. |
| * 1973 | Neil Strauss | Also known by his pen names Style and Chris Powles, is an American journalist, author and ghostwriter. |
| * 1971 | Sacha Baron Cohen | British comedian and actor. |
| * 1948 | Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan | World-renowned Pakistani musician, was primarily a singer of Qawwali, the devotional music of the Sufis. |
| * 1946 | Edwina Currie | Former British Government minister and Conservative MP. |
| * 1941 | Paul Simon | American singer-songwriter and guitarist, half of the folk-singing duo Simon and Garfunkel who continues a successful solo career. |
| * 1927 | Eddie Lane | American songwriter. |
| * 1927 | Turgut Ozal | Twentieth prime minister (December 13, 1983 to October 31, 1989) and the eighth president (November 9, 1989 to April 17, 1993) of the Turkish Republic. |
| * 1925 | Margaret Thatcher | First female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979–1990). |
| * 1925 | Lenny Bruce | Born Leonard Alfred Schneider, was an American stand-up comic and political satirist. |
| * 1920 | Laraine Day | American actress of stage, TV, radio, and film. |
| * 1877 | Theodore G. Bilbo | Both the 39th and the 43rd Governor of Mississippi. |
| * 1873 | Albert Jay Nock | Influential American author, educational theorist, capitalist anarchist, social critic of the early and middle 20th century, and a philosophical founder of the modern, libertarian conservative movement later embraced by Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, and Ron Paul. |
| * 1821 | Rudolf Virchow | German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician. |
| * 1797 | Thomas Haynes Bayly | Popular miscellaneous writer best known for his songs. |
| * 1797 | William Motherwell | Scottish poet, antiquary and journalist. |
| * 1788 | Thomas Erskine | Revisionary and constructive lay theologian in the early part of the 19th century. |
| * 1776 | Peter (mathematician) Barlow | English mathematician and physicist. |
Deaths | ||
| † 1984 | Alice Neel | American portrait painter. |
| † 1962 | Donald McGill | English artist, known as the "King of the Saucy Postcard". |
| † 1947 | Sidney Webb | British socialist, economist, reformer and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. |
| † 1869 | Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve | French literary critic, poet and novelist. |
| † 1795 | William Prescott | Commander in the American Revolutionary War. |
| † 1715 | Nicolas Malebranche | Rationalist French philosopher. |
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