Births | ||
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| * 1972 | Dana Perino | White House Press Secretary for President George W Bush. |
| * 1954 | Thomas Frey | Executive Director and Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute. |
| * 1949 | Billy Joel | Globally-recognized pianist, singer and songwriter. |
| * 1946 | Riley Martin | Author of the book The Coming of Tan, which describes his life and his alleged abduction by aliens, and the host of The Riley Martin Show, broadcast on Sirius Satellite Radio. |
| * 1943 | Vince Cable | British politician, MP for Twickenham, the Liberal Democrats' Deputy Leader, and the Business Secretary under Prime Minister David Cameron. |
| * 1942 | John Ashcroft | 79th Attorney General of the United States; he is now a federal lobbyist. |
| * 1936 | Albert Finney | British actor and director. |
| * 1935 | Halina Poswiatowska | Polish poet and writer, one of the most important figures in modern Polish literature. |
| * 1934 | Alan Bennett | English playwright, screenwriter, memoirist, essayist and actor. |
| * 1927 | Leonard Mandel | Lee DuBridge Professor Emeritus of Physics and Optics at the University of Rochester. |
| * 1921 | Sophie Scholl | Member of the White Rose non-violent resistance movement during the Nazi regime in Germany. |
| * 1921 | Daniel Berrigan | Peace activist and Roman Catholic priest. |
| * 1907 | Baldur von Schirach | Nazi youth leader later convicted of being a war criminal. |
| * 1904 | Gregory Bateson | British anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. |
| * 1883 | Jose Ortega y Gasset | Spanish philosopher. |
| * 1874 | Howard Carter | English archaeologist and Egyptologist. |
| * 1860 | J. M. Barrie | Scottish novelist and dramatist, more commonly known as J M Barrie. |
| * 1800 | John (abolitionist) Brown | First white American abolitionist to advocate and practice insurrection as a means to the abolition of slavery. |
| * 1738 | John Wolcot | English satirist who wrote under the nom-de-plume of "Peter Pindar". |
Deaths | ||
| † 2010 | Acharya Mahapragya | Tenth Acharya, supreme head of the Svetambar Terapanth sect of Jainism. |
| † 2008 | Jack Gibson | Australian rugby league footballer. |
| † 1993 | Freya Stark | British travel writer, born in Paris; her mother, Flora, was an Italian of Polish/German descent, her father, Robert, an English painter from Devon. |
| † 1981 | Nelson Algren | American writer. |
| † 1977 | James Jones | American author, who became famous after the publication of his first novel, From Here to Eternity. |
| † 1976 | Ulrike Meinhof | German radical left-wing militant who started out as a journalist. |
| † 1931 | Albert Abraham Michelson | German-born American physicist known for his work on the measurement of the speed of light and especially for the Michelson-Morley experiment. |
| † 1920 | John Heyl Vincent | American Methodist Episcopal bishop. |
| † 1911 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson | American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier. |
| † 1903 | Paul Gauguin | French Post-Impressionist painter. |
| † 1864 | John Sedgwick | Teacher, a career military officer, and a Union Army general in the American Civil War, killed by a Confederate sharp-shooter at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House. |
| † 1805 | Friedrich von Schiller | Usually known as Friedrich Schiller, was a German poet, historian, dramatist, and playwright. |
| † 1760 | Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf | German religious and social reformer and bishop of the Moravian Church. |
| † 1657 | William Bradford | Leader of the Pilgrim settlers of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, and became Governor of the Plymouth Colony. |
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