Births | ||
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* 1979 | Natasha Lyonne | American stage, film, and television actress. |
* 1973 | David Blaine | American illusionist and stunt performer. |
* 1965 | Robert Downey | Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning American actor and musician. |
* 1964 | David Cross | American comedian/actor. |
* 1963 | Martin Firrell | Has been described as a cultural activist, a campaigner and benign propagandist, placing text in public space to promote debate and positive social change. |
* 1960 | Jonathan Agnew | English cricket broadcaster and former professional cricketer. |
* 1960 | Hugo Weaving | Australian film and stage actor. |
* 1957 | Aki Kaurismaki | Finnish film director. |
* 1953 | Sammy Wilson | Politician in Northern Ireland and both a Member of Parliament and a Member of the Legislative Assembly for East Antrim. |
* 1950 | Harvey (philosopher) Brown | Philosopher of physics. |
* 1950 | Charles Bernstein | American poet, theorist, editor, and literary scholar. |
* 1949 | Abdullah Ocalan | Founding leader of the Kurdish militant group Kurdistan Workers Party,which is organisation fighting for a socialist Independent Kurdistan and the rights of the Kurdish People. |
* 1941 | Rudi Vis | British politician in the United Kingdom for the Labour Party, and Member of Parliament for the Finchley and Golders Green constituency. |
* 1933 | Frits Bolkestein | Dutch politician and former EU Commissioner. |
* 1932 | Andrei Tarkovsky | Soviet and Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist and opera director. |
* 1928 | Maya Angelou | African-American poet, memoirist, actress, director, and civil rights activist. |
* 1914 | Marguerite Duras | Better known as Marguerite Duras, was a French writer and film director. |
* 1899 | Sigurd Olson | Author, wilderness advocate and conservation movement leader. |
* 1884 | Isoroku Yamamoto | Fleet Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II He was a graduate of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy and an alumnus of the U S Naval War College and Harvard University. |
* 1810 | James Freeman Clarke | American preacher and author. |
* 1809 | Benjamin Peirce | American mathematician who taught at Harvard University for forty years. |
* 1792 | Thaddeus Stevens | Also known as "The Great Commoner," was a United States Representative from Pennsylvania. |
* 1785 | Bettina von Arnim | Also known as "Bettina Brentano", was a German writer, publisher, composer, singer, visual artist, and illustrator. |
* 1772 | Rabbi Nachman | Known as Reb Nachman of Breslov or simply as Rebbe Nachman, was the founder of the Breslov Hasidic dynasty. |
Deaths | ||
2013 | Roger Ebert | American film critic and screenwriter. |
1991 | Max Frisch | Swiss architect, playwright and novelist, who is regarded as one of the most influential Swiss writers of the 20th century. |
1988 | Eric A. Havelock | Professor at the University of Toronto and was active in the academic milieu of the Canadian socialist movement during the 1930s. |
1987 | C. L. Moore | American science fiction and fantasy writer, usually credited as C L Moore. |
1983 | Gloria Swanson | Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning American Hollywood actress. |
1979 | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | Served as the President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973 and as Prime Minister from 1973 to 1977. |
1968 | Martin Luther King | Baptist minister, civil rights activist, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize of 1964. |
1951 | Sadegh Hedayat | Iran's foremost modern writer of prose fiction and short stories. |
1923 | John Venn | British logician and philosopher. |
1919 | William Crookes | English chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, in London, and worked on spectroscopy. |
1841 | William Henry Harrison | Ninth President of the United States. |
1284 | Alfonso X of Castile | Spanish monarch who ruled as the King of Galicia, Castile and Leσn from 1252 until his death. |
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