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Art and culture

• 1991 - Tim Berners-Lee introduces WorldWideWeb, the first web browser.

Births

• 1564 - Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist (d. 1593)
• 1749 - Jeremy Bentham, English jurist (d. 1832)
• 1802 - Victor Hugo, French writer (d. 1885)
• 1808 - Honoré Daumier, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor (d. 1879)
• 1893 - I. A. Richards, English literary critic (d. 1979)
• 1899 - Max Petitpierre, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1994)
• 1902 - Jean Bruller, alias Vercors, French writer and illustrator (d. 1991)
• 1903 - Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
• 1906 - Madeleine Carroll, English actress (d. 1987)
• 1907 - Dub Taylor, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1908 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (d. 1980)
• 1908 - Leela Majumdar, Bengali writer (d. 2007)
• 1908 - Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (d. 1949)
• 1909 - King Talal of Jordan (d. 1972)
• 1909 - Fanny Cradock, English food writer and broadcaster (d. 1994)
• 1911 - Tarō Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist (d. 1996)
• 1912 - Dane Clark, American actor (d. 1998)
• 1913 - George Barker, English poet (d. 1991)
• 1914 - Robert Alda, American actor (d. 1986)
• 1916 - Jackie Gleason, American actor, writer, composer, and comedian (d. 1987)
• 1918 - Otis Ray Bowen, American politician (Indiana Governor) and physician
• 1918 - Theodore Sturgeon, American writer (d. 1985)
• 1919 - Mason Adams, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1919 - Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (d. 2003)
• 1920 - Danny Gardella, American baseball player (d. 2005)
• 1920 - Tony Randall, American actor (d. 2004)
• 1920 - Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveller (d. 2006)
• 1921 - Betty Hutton, American actress and singer (d. 2007)
• 1922 - Margaret Leighton, British actress (d. 1976)
• 1926 - Miroslava Stern, Mexican actress (d. 1955)
• 1927 - Tom Kennedy, American game show host
• 1928 - Fats Domino, American musician
• 1928 - Anatoli Filipchenko, Soviet cosmonaut
• 1928 - Monique Leyrac, French Canadian singer and actress
• 1930 - Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (d. 2005)
• 1931 - Ally MacLeod, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2004)
• 1932 - Johnny Cash, American singer (d. 2003)
• 1934 - Robert Novak, American political columnist
• 1937 - Hagood Hardy, Canadian musician and composer (d. 1997)
• 1938 - Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot freedom fighter (d. 1957)
• 1939 - Josephine Tewson, English actress
• 1941 - Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (d. 1972)
• 1943 - Bill Duke, American actor and director
• 1945 - Peter Brock, Australian motorsports champion (d. 2006)
• 1945 - Bob Hite, American singer and harmonicist (Canned Heat) (d. 1981)
• 1945 - Giannis Ioannidis, Greek basketball coach and politician
• 1945 - Marta Kristen, Norwegian actress
• 1945 - Mitch Ryder, American musician (The Detroit Wheels)
• 1946 - Ahmed H. Zewail, Egyptian chemist, Nobel laureate
• 1947 - Sandie Shaw, English singer
• 1949 - Elizabeth George, American novelist
• 1949 - Emma Kirkby, British early music singer
• 1950 - Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand
• 1951 - Lee Atwater, American political operative (d. 1991)
• 1953 - Michael Bolton, American singer
• 1954 - Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of Turkey
• 1956 - Keisuke Kuwata, Japanese singer
• 1957 - David Muldrow Beasley, American politician
• 1957 - Joe Mullen, American ice hockey player
• 1958 - Michel Houellebecq, French novelist
• 1958 - Greg Germann, American actor
• 1959 - Rolando Blackman, American basketball player
• 1960 - Jaz Coleman, British musician
• 1962 - Kelly Gruber, former Major League Baseball player
• 1966 - Najwa Karam, Lebanese singer
• 1957 - Currie Graham, Canadian actor
• 1968 - Ed Quinn, American Actor
• 1968 - J.T. Snow, American baseball player
• 1969 - Hitoshi Sakimoto, Japanese composer
• 1971 - Erykah Badu, American singer
• 1971 - Max Martin, Swedish composer and producer
• 1971 - Hélène Ségara, French singer
• 1973 - Marshall Faulk, American football player
• 1973 - Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Norwegian footballer
• 1973 - Jenny Thompson, American swimmer
• 1974 - Sébastien Loeb, French rally driver
• 1976 - Nikolaos Siranidis, Greek diver
• 1977 - Marty Reasoner, American ice hockey player
• 1977 - Shane Williams, Welsh International Rugby Player
• 1977 - Josh Towers, Major League Baseball player
• 1978 - Abdoulaye Diagne-Faye, Senegalese footballer
• 1978 - Marc Hynes, British racing driver
• 1978 - John Tartaglia, Broadway performer and "Muppeteer"
• 1979 - Corinne Bailey Rae, English singer
• 1979 - Mariano Bainotti, Argentine racing driver
• 1979 - Pedro Mendes, Portuguese footballer
• 1980 - Alex Fong, Hong Kong singer
• 1980 - Gary Majewski, Major League Baseball player
• 1981 - Kertus Davis, American NASCAR driver
• 1981 - Johnathan Wendel, American professional video gamer
• 1982 - Song Hye Kyo, South Korean model and actress
• 1983 - Kara Monaco, American model
• 1983 - Varick Pyr, Hip-Hop artist
• 1984 - Emmanuel Adebayor, Togolese footballer
• 1984 - Natalia Lafourcade, Mexican singer
• 1985 - Alexandria Hilfiger, American actress, daughter of Tommy Hilfiger
• 1986 - Crystal Kay, Japanese singer
• 1987 - Julia Bond, American porn star
• 1993 - Taylor Dooley, American actress

Deaths

• 1154 - King Roger II of Sicily (b. 1093)
• 1200 - Symeon, former Serbian ruler and saint
• 1266 - King Manfred of Sicily
• 1360 - Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, English military leader (b. 1328)
• 1552 - Heinrich Faber, German composer
• 1561 - Jorge de Montemayor, Spanish writer
• 1577 - King Eric XIV of Sweden (b. 1533)
• 1608 - John Still, English bishop
• 1630 - William Brade, English composer (b. 1560)
• 1638 - Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (b. 1681)
• 1723 - Thomas d'Urfey, English writer (b. 1653)
• 1726 - Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1662)
• 1770 - Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer (b. 1692)
• 1802 - Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral (b. 1718)
• 1813 - Robert Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1746)
• 1815 - Prince Josias of Coburg, Austrian general (b. 1737)
• 1821 - Joseph de Maistre, Savoyard diplomat and writer (b. 1753)
• 1864 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, French Canadian politician (b. 1807)
• 1883 - Alexandros Koumoundouros, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1817)
• 1889 - Karl Davydov, Russian cellist (b. 1838)
• 1903 - Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor (b. 1818)
• 1913 - Felix Draeseke, German composer (b. 1835)
• 1921 - Carl Menger, Austrian economist (b. 1840)
• 1931 - Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1847)
• 1933 - Princess Thyra, daughter of Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1853)
• 1943 - Theodor Eicke, Nazi official (b. 1892)
• 1947 - Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss politician, member of the Federal Council (b. 1868)
• 1950 - Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish Music Hall Entertainer, Knighted for WWI War Work (b. 1870)
• 1961 - King Mohammed V of Morocco (b. 1909)
• 1966 - Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian freedom fighter and writer (b. 1883)
• 1969 - Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895)
• 1969 - Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist (b. 1883)
• 1971 - Fernandel, French actor (b. 1903)
• 1981 - Howard Hanson, American composer (b. 1896)
• 1981 - Robert Aickman, English writer and conservationist (b. 1914)
• 1985 - Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
• 1989 - Roy Eldridge, American musician (b. 1911)
• 1990 - Cornell Gunter, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1938)
• 1993 - Constance Ford, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1994 - Bill Hicks, American comedian (b. 1961)
• 1995 - Jack Clayton, British film director (b. 1921)
• 1997 - David Doyle, American actor (b. 1929)
• 1998 - Theodore Schultz, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
• 2000 - George L. Street III American Navy Submariner (b. 1913)
• 2001 - Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan writer (b. 1906)
• 2002 - Lawrence Tierney, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2003 - Christian Goethals, Belgian racing driver (b. 1928)
• 2004 - Shankarrao Chavan, Indian politician (b. 1920)
• 2004 - Adolf Ehrnrooth, Finnish general (b. 1905)
• 2004 - Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (b. 1956)
• 2005 - Jef Raskin, American computer scientist (b. 1943)

notes

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