Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1985 | Sasha Pivovarova | Russian supermodel and artist. |
| * 1979 | Johann Hari | Award-winning British journalist and writer. |
| * 1972 | Rickard Falkvinge | Founder and current leader of the Pirate Party of Sweden. |
| * 1972 | Cat Power | Stage name of American singer/songwriter "Chan" Marshall, known for her minimalist style, sparse guitar and piano playing, and breathy vocals. |
| * 1963 | Hakeem Olajuwon | Former professional basketball player whose best seasons were with the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association. |
| * 1959 | Gunter Nooke | German politician, former civil rights activist, and Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid. |
| * 1951 | Eric Holder | 82nd and current Attorney General of the United States and the first African-American to hold the position. |
| * 1947 | Jill Eikenberry | American actress. |
| * 1944 | Jack Abbot | American author and prisoner. |
| * 1940 | Jack Nicklaus | Also known as "The Golden Bear", is generally regarded as one of the greatest golfers of all time. |
| * 1924 | Benny Hill | English comedian and actor, notable for his long-running television program The Benny Hill Show. |
| * 1922 | Paul Scofield | Award-winning English actor of stage and screen. |
| * 1899 | John Bodkin Adams | Irish-born British physician widely believed to have been a serial killer. |
| * 1889 | Pitirim Sorokin | Russian-born American sociologist. |
| * 1885 | Seishiro Itagaki | General in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II and a War Minister. |
| * 1884 | Roger Nash Baldwin | Civil libertarian, founding member of American Civil Liberties Union, and its first executive director. |
| * 1824 | Thomas Stonewall Jackson | American teacher and soldier. |
| * 0 | Ethan Allen | Early American revolutionary and guerrilla leader during the era of the Vermont Republic. |
| * 0 | Junius | Junius was the pseudonym of a writer who contributed a series of letters to the London Public Advertiser from January 21, 1769 to January 21, 1772. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2006 | John James Cowperthwaite | British civil servant and the Financial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1961 to 1971. |
| † 1950 | George Orwell | Pen name of British novelist, essayist, and journalist Eric Arthur Blair. |
| † 1933 | George Moore | Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. |
| † 1932 | Lytton Strachey | English biographer, critic and leading light of the Bloomsbury group. |
| † 1922 | John Kendrick Bangs | American author and satirist, and the creator of modern Bangsian fantasy, the school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially in the afterlife. |
| † 1911 | James (Irish Land League) Daly | Irish nationalist activist best known for his work in support of tenant farmers' rights and the formation of the Irish National Land League. |
| † 1872 | Franz Grillparzer | Austrian dramatic poet. |
| † 1795 | Charles (bishop) Dodgson | Bishop, first of Ossory and then of Elphin. |
| † 1733 | Bernard Mandeville | Dutch physician, poet and social philosopher who settled in England. |
| † 1683 | Anthony Ashley Cooper | Known as Sir Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 2nd Baronet, from 1631 to 1661 and as The Lord Ashley from 1661 to 1672, was a prominent English politician of the Interregnum and during the reign of King Charles II. |
| † 0 | Junius | Junius was the pseudonym of a writer who contributed a series of letters to the London Public Advertiser from January 21, 1769 to January 21, 1772. |
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