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| * 1952 – [[Donald R. McMonagle]], American astronaut | * 1952 – [[Donald R. McMonagle]], American astronaut | ||
| * 1952 – [[Robert Zemeckis]], American film director | * 1952 – [[Robert Zemeckis]], American film director | ||
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| - | *[[1953]] – [[Tom Cochrane]], Canadian musician ([[Red Rider]]) | ||
| - | * 1953 – [[Norodom Sihamoni]], [[King of Cambodia]] | ||
| - | *[[1954]] – [[Jens Sparschuh]], German writer | ||
| - | *[[1955]] – [[Dennis Martínez]], Nicaraguan baseball player | ||
| - | * 1955 – [[Peter Kirsten]], former South African cricketer | ||
| - | *[[1957]] – [[Big Van Vader|Leon White]], American professional wrestler | ||
| - | *[[1958]] – [[Christine Brennan]], American sports columnist | ||
| - | *[[1959]] – [[Patrick Bruel]], French singer | ||
| - | * 1959 – [[Steve Hogarth]], British singer ([[Marillion]]) | ||
| - | * 1959 – [[Rick Vaive]], Canadian ice hockey player | ||
| *[[1960]] – [[Anne Clark]], English singer | *[[1960]] – [[Anne Clark]], English singer | ||
| - | * 1960 – [["Dr. Death" Steve Williams|Steve Williams]], American wrestler | ||
| - | *[[1961]] – [[Ulrike Folkerts]], German actress | ||
| - | * 1961 – [[Jean Leclerc (singer)|Jean Leclerc]], French-Canadian singer and songwriter | ||
| - | *[[1961]] – [[Tim Roth]], English actor | ||
| - | * 1961 – [[Alain Vigneault]], Canadian ice hockey coach | ||
| - | *[[1962]] – [[Ian Astbury]], English singer ([[The Cult]]) | ||
| - | * 1962 – [[C. C. DeVille]], American musician ([[Poison (band)|Poison]]) | ||
| - | *[[1963]] – [[Pat Borders]], American baseball player | ||
| - | *[[1964]] – [[James M. Kelly]], American astronaut | ||
| - | * 1964 – [[Eric Peterson (musician)|Eric Peterson]], American musician ([[Testament (band)|Testament]]) | ||
| - | * 1964 – [[Suzy Kolber]], American sportscaster | ||
| - | *[[1965]] – [[Eoin Colfer]], Irish writer | ||
| - | *[[1966]] – [[Marianne Denicourt]], French actress | ||
| - | * 1966 – [[Mike Inez]], American bassist | ||
| - | * 1966 – [[Fabrice Morvan]], French music artist ([[Milli Vanilli]]) | ||
| - | * 1966 – [[Raphael Saadiq]], American musician ([[Tony! Toni! Toné!]]) | ||
| - | *[[1967]] – [[Tony Siragusa]], American football player | ||
| *[[1969]] – [[Cate Blanchett]], Australian actress | *[[1969]] – [[Cate Blanchett]], Australian actress | ||
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| * 1969 – [[Danny Wood]], American singer ([[New Kids on the Block]]) | * 1969 – [[Danny Wood]], American singer ([[New Kids on the Block]]) | ||
| *[[1971]] – [[Sofia Coppola]], American director | *[[1971]] – [[Sofia Coppola]], American director | ||
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Art and culture
- 1842 - The first issue of the Illustrated London News is published.
- 1910 - Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein begin living together in Paris. --a compleat timeline of alternative sexuality
- 1912 - the Bonnot Gang besieged and apprehended in the Paris suburb of Nogent-sur-Marne
- 1922 - Freud first wrote about the motif of the decapitated Medusa's head in a brief set of notes
- 1962 - The Intruder, a Roger Corman film, has its world premiere in New York.
Births
- 1755 - George Barrington, Irish pickpocket who was mentioned in the 1959 film Pickpocket by Robert Bresson.
- 1868 - Magnus Hirschfeld, German physician, sexologist, and gay rights advocate
Deaths
- 1818 - Matthew Gregory Lewis, British author of gothic novel The Monk
- 1912 - August Strindberg, Swedish writer, playwright, and painter
- 1925 - H. R. Haggard, British writer of the Victorian era
- 1935 - Magnus Hirschfeld, German physician, sexologist, and gay rights advocate
Events
- 1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
Births
- 1265 – Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (d. 1321)
- 1727 – Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (d. 1788)
- 1771 – Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer (d. 1858)
- 1897 – Sidney Bechet, American musician (d. 1959)
- 1917 – Lou Harrison, American composer (d. 2003)
- 1931 – Alvin Lucier, American composer
- 1936 – Bobby Darin, American singer (d. 1973)
- 1944 – George Lucas, American film director
- 1952 – David Byrne, Scottish-born American musician (Talking Heads)
- 1952 – Donald R. McMonagle, American astronaut
- 1952 – Robert Zemeckis, American film director
- 1960 – Anne Clark, English singer
- 1969 – Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
- 1969 – Danny Wood, American singer (New Kids on the Block)
- 1971 – Sofia Coppola, American director
- 1971 – Nasha Aziz, Malaysian actress & model
- 1972 – Gabriel Mann, American actor
- 1972 – Mark Ruskell, England-born Scottish politician
- 1973 – Voshon Lenard, American basketball player
- 1973 – Natalie Appleton, Canadian-born singer
- 1973 – Anais Granofsky, Canadian actress and director
- 1973 – Julian White, English rugby union footballer
- 1973 – Shanice, American singer
- 1974 – Jennifer Allan, American model
- 1974 – Krister Axel, American poet and songwriter
- 1975 – Salim Iles, Algerian swimmer
- 1975 – Nicki Sørensen, Danish road bicycle racer
- 1976 – Hunter Burgan, American musician (AFI)
- 1976 – Brian Lawrence, American baseball player
- 1976 – Martine McCutcheon, British actress
- 1977 – Sophie Anderton, English model and television personality
- 1977 – Roy Halladay, American baseball player
- 1977 – Ada Nicodemou, Australian actress
- 1978 – Eddie House, American basketball player
- 1978 – Brent Harvey, Australian footballer
- 1978 – André Macanga, Angolan footballer
- 1978 – Gustavo Varela, Uruguayan footballer
- 1979 – Clinton Morrison, English-born Irish footballer
- 1979 – Carlos Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1980 – Zdeněk Grygera, Czech footballer
- 1980 – Eugene Martineau, Dutch decathlete
- 1980 – Júlia Sebestyén, Hungarian figure skater
- 1980 – Hugo Southwell, Scottish rugby union footballer
- 1981 – Sarbel, Greek-born singer
- 1982 – BeardyMan, English beatboxer
- 1982 – Ai Shibata, Japanese swimmer
- 1983 – Anahí, Mexican actress and singer (RBD)
- 1983 – Uroš Slokar, Slovenian basketball player
- 1983 – Amber Tamblyn, American actress
- 1983 – Tom Welham, British musician (Thirteen Senses)
- 1984 – Gary Ablett, Jr., Australian rules footballer
- 1984 – Michael Rensing, German footballer
- 1984 – Nigel Reo-Coker, English footballer
- 1984 – Mark Zuckerberg, American internet entrepreneur
- 1985 – Sally Martin, American actress
- 1986 – Camila Sodi, Mexican actress
- 1987 – Franck Songo'o, Cameroonian footballer
- 1987 – Francois Steyn, South African rugby union footballer
- 1990 – Emily Samuelson, American ice dancer
- 1993 – Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and singer
Deaths
- 964 – Pope John XII
- 1470 – Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
- 1574 – Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479)
- 1608 – Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1543)
- 1610 – Henry IV of France (b. 1553)
- 1643 – Louis XIII of France (b. 1601)
- 1649 – Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (b. 1600)
- 1669 – Georges de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1601)
- 1688 – Antoine Furetière, French writer (b. 1619)
- 1754 – Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (b. 1692)
- 1761 – Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (b. 1710)
- 1818 – Matthew Gregory Lewis, English novelist (b. 1775)
- 1847 – Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (b. 1805)
- 1860 – Ludwig Bechstein, German writer (b. 1801)
- 1873 – Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and writer (b. 1797)
- 1878 – Ookubo Toshimichi, Japanese statesman, samurai, and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration (b. 1830)
- 1887 – Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (b. 1808)
- 1889 – Volney E. Howard, American politician (b. 1809)
- 1893 – Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (b. 1810)
- 1906 – Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and statesman (b. 1829)
- 1907 – Katharine Hepburn , American actress (d. 2003)
- 1912 – Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1843)
- 1912 – August Strindberg, Swedish author (b. 1849)
- 1918 – James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1841)
- 1919 – Henry John Heinz, founder of the H. J. Heinz Company (b. 1844)
- 1923 – Charles de Freycinet, French prime minister (b. 1828)
- 1925 – H. Rider Haggard, English author (b. 1856)
- 1931 – David Belasco, American theatrical producer (b. 1853)
- 1931 – Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (b. 1887)
- 1934 – Lou Criger, American baseball player (b. 1872)
- 1936 – Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, British general (b. 1861)
- 1940 – Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist (b. 1869)
- 1943 – Henri La Fontaine, Belgian Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1854)
- 1945 – Heber J. Grant, seventh president of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1856)
- 1954 – Heinz Guderian, German General (b. 1888)
- 1957 – Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (b. 1884)
- 1959 – Sidney Bechet, American musician (b. 1897)
- 1962 – Florence Auer, American actress (b. 1880)
- 1968 – Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (b. 1882)
- 1969 – Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b. 1888)
- 1970 – Billie Burke, American actress (b. 1884)
- 1973 – Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (b. 1905)
- 1976 – Keith Relf, British singer and musician (The Yardbirds) (b. 1943)
- 1978 – Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
- 1980 – Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (b. 1912)
- 1982 – Hugh Beaumont, American actor (b. 1909)
- 1983 – Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b. 1900)
- 1983 – Miguel Alemán Valdés, President of Mexico (b. 1900)
- 1984 – Walter Rauff, German colonel (b. 1906)
- 1985 – Mei Ling Barbara Yung, Hong Kong actress (b. 1959)
- 1987 – Rita Hayworth, American actress (b. 1918)
- 1988 – Willem Drees, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1886)
- 1991 – Jiang Qing, wife of Mao Zedong (b. 1914)
- 1992 – Lyle Alzado, American football player (b. 1949)
- 1992 – Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader (b. 1899)
- 1993 – Patrick Haemers, Belgian criminal (b. 1953)
- 1993 – William Randolph Hearst Jr., American newspaper magnate (b. 1908)
- 1995 – Christian B. Anfinsen, American Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
- 1997 – Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician (b. 1934)
- 1998 – Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (b. 1915)
- 1998 – Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist (b. 1890)
- 2000 – Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
- 2003 – Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (b. 1940)
- 2003 – Wendy Hiller, British actress (b. 1912)
- 2003 – Robert Stack, American actor (b. 1919)
- 2004 – Anna Lee, British actress (b. 1913)
- 2006 – Lew Anderson, American actor and bandleader (b. 1922)
- 2006 – Stanley Kunitz, American poet (b. 1905)
- 2006 – Eva Norvind, Mexican actress (b. 1944)
- 2007 – Mary Goldsmith, American ceramist (b. 1908)
- 2007 – Ülo Jõgi, Estonian freedom fighter (b. 1921)
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