Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1972 | Eyal Berkovic | Former Israeli footballer who captained the Israeli national team. |
| * 1969 | Mark Jason Dominus | Computer programmer. |
| * 1965 | Rodney King | African-American resident of Los Angeles who was violently arrested by officers of the L A Police Department. |
| * 1947 | Camille Paglia | American author, scholar and critic, most notable for writing Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, a monumental survey of Western art and literature from earliest recorded history to the 20th Century. |
| * 1939 | Marvin Gaye | American pop, soul and R&B singer and songwriter. |
| * 1927 | Ferenc Puskas | Hungarian football forward and coach. |
| * 1923 | G. Spencer-Brown | Polymath best known as the author of Laws of Form. |
| * 1914 | Alec Guinness | British actor and diarist, most famous for his appearances in Ealing comedies and the original Star Wars trilogy. |
| * 1902 | Jan Tschichold | Typographer, book designer, teacher and writer. |
| * 1891 | Max Ernst | German painter and sculptor who worked in the styles of Dadaism, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism. |
| * 1889 | Neville Cardus | Celebrated British journalist. |
| * 1884 | Sir John Squire | British poet, writer, historian, and influential literary editor of the post-World War I period. |
| * 1840 | Emile Zola | French writer and social activist. |
| * 1806 | Eligius Franz Joseph Von Munch-Bellinghausen | Austrian dramatist, poet and short-story writer, born at Cracow, the son of a district judge. |
| * 1805 | Hans Christian Andersen | Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales. |
| * 1725 | Giacomo (Jacques Casanova de Seingal) Casanova | Italian adventurer and author; also known as Jacques Casanova de Seingalt. |
| * 1688 | Lewis Theobald | British textual editor and author, was a landmark figure both in the history of Shakespearean editing and in literary satire. |
| * 1618 | Francesco Maria Grimaldi | Italian mathematician and physicist who taught at the Jesuit college in Bologna. |
Deaths | ||
| † 1995 | Hannes Alfven | Swedish plasma physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1970 for his work developing magnetohydrodynamics theory. |
| † 1972 | Franz Halder | German General and the head of the Army General Staff from 1938 until September, 1942, when he was dismissed after frequent disagreements with Adolf Hitler. |
| † 1966 | C. S. Forester | English novelist. |
| † 1952 | Bernard Lyot | French astronomer. |
| † 1933 | K. S. Ranjitsinhji | Indian prince and Test cricketer who played for the English cricket team. |
| † 1931 | Katharine Tynan | Irish-born writer, known mainly for her novels and poetry. |
| † 1891 | Albert Pike | American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason, who is the only Confederate military officer or figure to be honored with an outdoor statue in Washington, D C. |
| † 1872 | Samuel F. B. Morse | American inventor, and painter of portraits and historic scenes. |
| † 1872 | Thomas Cogswell Upham | American philosopher, psychologist, pacifist, poet, author, and educator who became an important figure in the holiness movement. |
| † 1865 | Richard Cobden | British manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with John Bright in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League. |
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