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Births

* 1968 Marcel Desailly Former French footballer and star of the France national football team squad, with whom he won the 1998 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2000.
* 1963 Eazy-E Better known by his stage name Eazy-E, was an American rapper who performed solo and in the hip hop group N W A, Wright was born to Richard and Kathie Wright in Compton, California.
* 1950 Peggy Noonan Author, a columnist for The Wall Street Journal, and a commentator on broadcast and cable television news shows.
* 1950 Julie Kavner Emmy Award-winning American actress.
* 1946 Francisco Varela Chilean biologist and philosopher who, together with his teacher Humberto Maturana, is best known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology.
* 1946 Joe Klein Washington, D C and New York journalist and columnist.
* 1936 Buddy Holly Better known as Buddy Holly, was an American singer, songwriter, and a pioneer of rock and roll.
* 1936 Peter Freund Professor Emeritus of theoretical physics at the Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago.
* 1932 Malcolm Bradbury English comic novelist, screenwriter, literary critic and academic.
* 1925 Robert Jastrow American astronomer, physicist and cosmologist.
* 1924 Daniel Inouye American politician who has served as United States Senator from Hawaii, from 1963 until his death in 2012.
* 1914 James Van Allen Space scientist who was instrumental in the early space program of the United States.
* 1900 Taylor Caldwell Anglo-American novelist and author of popular fiction, also known by the pen names Marcus Holland and Max Reiner, and by her married name of J Miriam Reback.
* 1887 Edith Sitwell English poet and critic.
* 1873 Carl Becker American historian of early American intellectual history and on the Enlightenment.
* 1871 George Hirst Professional cricketer for Yorkshire and England.
* 1860 Grandma born Anna Mary Robertson Moses Better known as "Grandma Moses", was a renowned American folk artist.
* 1836 Henry Campbell-Bannerman British Liberal statesman who served as Prime Minister from December 5, 1905 until resigning due to ill health on April 3, 1908.
* 1805 Samuel Wilberforce English bishop and the son of William Wilberforce.
* 1533 Elizabeth I of England Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death.

Deaths

† 2004 Munir Said Thalib Known simply by his first name Munir, is Indonesia's most famous human rights and anti-corruption activist.
† 2003 Warren Zevon American rock singer-songwriter and musician noted for including his sometimes sardonic opinions of life in his musical lyrics, composing songs that were sometimes humorous and often had political or historical themes.
† 1997 Mobutu Sese Seko President of Zaire from 1965 to 1997.
† 1994 James Clavell Born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell, was a British novelist, screenwriter, director and a World War II hero and POW.
† 1990 A. J. P. Taylor British historian, journalist, broadcaster and scholar.
† 1985 George Polya Hungarian mathematician and professor of mathematics at ETH Zόrich and at Stanford University.
† 1969 Everett Dirksen Illinois Republican Senator and civil rights proponent.
† 1962 Karen Blixen Danish author; born Karen Christence Dinesen, she is also known under her pen name Isak Dinesen.
† 1959 Maurice Duplessis ; controversial Premier of Quιbec from 1936 to 1940 and 1944 to 1959.
† 1951 John Sloan Influential U S painter and teacher, and a leading member of a group of American artists known as The Eight.
† 1933 Edward Grey British Foreign Secretary from 1905 to 1916.
† 1929 Fred Weatherly English songwriter and poet.
† 1892 John Greenleaf Whittier American poet and abolitionist.
† 1833 Hannah More English religious writer and philanthropist.
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