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Births

* 1971 Henrik Larsson Swedish football player.
* 1968 Van Jones Environmental advocate, civil rights activist, attorney, and author who served from March 16 to September 5, 2009 as Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality in the United States.
* 1962 Jim Al-Khalili British theoretical nuclear physicist, academic, author and broadcaster.
* 1952 Manuel Zelaya Honduran businessman and politician.
* 1951 Guy Lafleur Former professional ice hockey player and is widely regarded as one of the most naturally gifted and popular players ever to play professional ice hockey.
* 1948 George R. R. Martin American author and screenwriter of fantasy, horror, and science fiction.
* 1947 Steve Gerber American comic book writer best known as co-creator of the satiric Marvel Comics character Howard the Duck.
* 1934 Sophia Loren Italian actress.
* 1928 Joyce Brothers Family psychologist, author, and advice columnist; born Joyce Diane Bauer.
* 1928 Donald Hall American poet.
* 1927 Rachel Roberts British actress.
* 1927 John Dankworth English jazz composer, saxophonist and clarinetist.
* 1922 William Kapell American pianist.
* 1917 Red Auerbach Head basketball coach and a front office executive for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association.
* 1902 Stevie Smith Born Florence Margaret Smith, was an English poet and novelist.
* 1899 Leo Strauss German-Jewish philosopher who specialized in the study of classical political philosophy.
* 1892 Roy Turk U S songwriter.
* 1880 Ugo Cavallero Italian military commander before and during World War II Cavallero became Benito Mussolini's Undersecretary of War in 1925.
* 1878 Upton Sinclair Prolific American author who wrote in many genres, often advocating Socialist views, and achieved considerable popularity in the first half of the twentieth century.
* 1851 Henry Stephens Salt Influential English writer and campaigner for social reform in the fields of prisons, schools, economic institutions and the treatment of animals.

Deaths

† 2005 Simon Wiesenthal Jewish survivor of the Nazi concentration camps who became an Austrian Nazi-hunter.
† 1996 Paul Erdos Immensely prolific and famously eccentric mathematician who, with hundreds of collaborators, worked on problems in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, classical analysis, approximation theory, set theory and probability theory.
† 1957 Jean Sibelius Finnish composer known particularly for his symphonies and tone poems.
† 1911 Robinson Duckworth English clergyman.
† 1863 Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm (of the Brothers Grimm) Grimm And Wilhelm Karl Grimm (February 24 1786 – December 16 1859), were both giants in the field of Germanic philology, though they are best remembered by the general reading public for their Kinder- und Hausmärchen.
† 1863 Wilhelm Karl (of the Brothers Grimm) Grimm And Wilhelm Karl Grimm (February 24 1786 – December 16 1859), were both giants in the field of Germanic philology, though they are best remembered by the general reading public for their Kinder- und Hausmärchen.
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