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* 1976 | Alicia Silverstone | English actress living in America. |
* 1960 | James MacDonald | Author, speaker, and Protestant minister. |
* 1946 | Susan Sarandon | Academy Award winning American actress and activist. |
* 1946 | Chuck Hagel | 24th and current United States Secretary of Defense, serving since 2013. |
* 1946 | Michael Mullen | 17th and current Chairman of the U S Joint Chiefs of Staff. |
* 1941 | Anne Rice | American novelist, known as the author of the Vampire Chronicles. |
* 1936 | Christopher Alexander | Austrian-born British architect. |
* 1931 | Richard Rorty | American philosopher and pragmatist. |
* 1924 | Charlton Heston | Born John Charles Carter, was an American film actor noted for his heroic roles and for his long involvement in political issues, mainly as five-time president of the National Rifle Association. |
* 1916 | Vitaly Ginzburg | Russian theoretical physicist and astrophysicist and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. |
* 1903 | Ernst Kaltenbrunner | Senior Nazi official during World War II He was Reinhard Heydrich's replacement as the Chief of Security Police and head of the Gestapo and SD. |
* 1895 | Buster Keaton | American actor and filmmaker, often called The Great Stone Face, he was the first person ever called "Buster", acquiring the nickname from Harry Houdini who saw him take a fall down some stairs as an infant. |
* 1891 | Henri Gaudier-Brzeska | French sculptor who developed a rough-hewn, primitive style of direct carving. |
* 1886 | Yehuda Ashlag | Kabbalist who lived in Jerusalem from 1922 until his death in 1954, who received the name Baal HaSulam for his Sulam commentary on The Zohar. |
* 1881 | Walther von Brauchitsch | Aristocratic German field marshal and the Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht Heer in the early years of World War II Brauchitsch was made a field marshal in 1940 and was key in Hitler's "blitzkrieg" war against the West, making modifications to the original plan to overrun France. |
* 1859 | Ravachol | Born Franηois Claudius Koenigstein, was a French anarchist famous for his criminal acts. |
* 1858 | Dorothy Frances Gurney | English poet and hymnwriter. |
* 1848 | Fred Weatherly | English songwriter and poet. |
* 1822 | Rutherford B. Hayes | American politician, lawyer, military leader and 19th President of the United States (18771881). |
* 1813 | William Gilpin | 19th century United States explorer, politician, land speculator, and futurist writer about the American West. |
Deaths | ||
1982 | Glenn Gould | Canadian pianist, noted especially for his recordings of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. |
1982 | The Amazing Criswell | Born Jeron Criswell Konig, and known by his stage-name The Amazing Criswell, was an American psychic who was famous for his wildly inaccurate predictions. |
1974 | Anne Sexton | Born Anne Gray Harvey, was an American poet and writer. |
1970 | Janis Joplin | American singer and songwriter. |
1969 | Leon Brillouin | French physicist. |
1947 | Max Planck | One of the most important German physicists of the late 19th and early 20th century, winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918; he is considered to be the founder of quantum theory. |
1904 | Laurence Hope | Pen-name of the English poet Adela Florence Nicholson. |
1903 | Otto Weininger | Austrian philosopher. |
1902 | Lionel Johnson | English poet, essayist and critic. |
1859 | Karl Baedeker | German publisher whose company Baedeker set the standard for authoritative guidebooks for tourists. |
1669 | Rembrandt | Dutch painter and etcher, generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in history. |
1582 | Teresa of Avila (Teresa de Jesus) | Born Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, was a Spanish mystic philosopher and Catholic saint. |
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