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Art and culture

Births

• 1887 - Marcus Garvey, Jamaican-born Black rights activist (d. 1940)
• 1893 - Mae West, American actress (d. 1980)
• 1896 - Leslie Groves, American military engineer (d. 1970)
• 1904 - Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (d. 1991)
• 1904 - Mary Cain, American newspaper editor and politician (d. 1984)
• 1909 - Larry Clinton, American trumpeter and bandleader (d. 1985)
• 1911 - Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (d. 1995)
• 1913 - W. Mark Felt, American Watergate informant
• 1913 - Rudy York, American baseball player (d. 1970)
• 1913 - Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Argentine racing driver (d. 1989)
• 1914 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (d. 1988)
• 1919 - Georgia Gibbs, American singer (d. 2006)
• 1920 - Maureen O'Hara, Irish actress
• 1921 - Geoffrey Rudolph Elton, British historian (d. 1994)
• 1926 - Jiang Zemin, Chinese politician
• 1926 - George Melly, British jazz & blues singer (d. 2007)
• 1926 - Jean Poiret, French actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1992)
• 1929 - Francis Gary Powers, American U-2 pilot and POW that was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960 (d. 1977)
• 1930 - Glenn Corbett, American actor (d. 1993)
• 1930 - Ted Hughes, English poet (d. 1998)
• 1932 - V. S. Naipaul, West Indian writer, Nobel Laureate
• 1933 - Eugene F. Kranz, American space exploration executive
• 1933 - Mark Dinning, American singer (d. 1986)
• 1935 - Oleg Tabakov, Russian actor
• 1938 - Abu Bakar Bashir, Indonesian Muslim cleric
• 1939 - Luther Allison, American musician
• 1939 - Anthony Valentine, British actor
• 1940 - Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian film director (d. 2006)
• 1941 - Jean Pierre Lefebvre, French Canadian film director
• 1941 - Boog Powell, American baseball player
• 1943 - Robert De Niro, American actor
• 1943 - Dave "Snaker" Ray, American musician (d. 2002)
• 1944 - Lawrence Joseph Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corporation, Billionaire
• 1946 - Martha Coolidge, American film director
• 1947 - Gary Talley, American guitarist (Box Tops)
• 1948 - Rod MacDonald, American musician
• 1949 - Sib Hashian, American drummer (Boston)
• 1951 - Robert Joy, Canadian actor
• 1951 - Alan Minter, British boxer
• 1952 - Nelson Piquet, Brazilian race car driver
• 1952 - Guillermo Vilas, Argentinian tennis player
• 1953 - Judith Regan, American book publisher
• 1953 - Kevin Rowland, English musician (Dexys Midnight Runners)
• 1954 - Eric Johnson, American guitarist
• 1955 - Richard Hilton, American heir
• 1956 - Gail Berman, American film executive
• 1956 - Álvaro Pino, Spanish cyclist
• 1957 - Robin Cousins, British figure skater
• 1958 - Belinda Carlisle, American singer
• 1958 - Kirk Stevens, Canadian snooker player
• 1959 - David Koresh, American cult leader (d. 1993)
• 1959 - Jonathan Franzen, American author
• 1960 - Sean Penn, American actor and director
• 1960 - Stephan Eicher, Swiss singer
• 1962 - Gilby Clarke, American musician Guns N' Roses
• 1963 - S. Shankar, Indian film director.
• 1964 - Colin James, Canadian musician
• 1966 - Rodney Mullen, American skateboarder
• 1966 - Don Sweeney, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1968 - Ed McCaffrey, American football player
• 1968 - Helen McCrory, English actress
• 1969 - Donnie Wahlberg, American actor and singer
• 1970 - Jim Courier, American tennis player
• 1970 - Rupert Degas, English actor and voice artist
• 1970 - Oyvind Leonhardsen, Norwegian footballer
• 1971 - Jorge Posada, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1971 - Uhm Jung-hwa, South Korean singer and actress
• 1972 - Ken Ryker, American pornographic actor
• 1974 - Tony Hajjar, Lebanese drummer (At the Drive-In, Sparta)
• 1975 - Giuliana DePandi, Italian-born American television personality
• 1976 - Scott Halberstadt, American actor
• 1977 - Thierry Henry, French footballer
• 1977 - Tarja Turunen, Finnish singer
• 1977 - William Gallas, French footballer
• 1978 - Vibeke Stene, Norwegian singer (Tristania)
• 1979 - Antwaan Randle El, American football player
• 1979 - Marcus Patric, British actor
• 1980 - Lene Marlin, Norwegian singer
• 1980 - Keith Dabengwa, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1980 - Jan Kromkamp, Dutch footballer
• 1982 - Melissa Anderson, American professional wrestler
• 1982 - Phil Jagielka, English footballer
• 1983 - Dustin Pedroia, American baseball player
• 1984 - Dee Brown, American basketball player
• 1986 - Rudy Gay, American basketball player
• 1986 - Tyrus Thomas, American basketball player
• 1988 - Erika Toda, Japanese actress
• 1990 - Rachel Hurd-Wood, British actress
• 1990 - Colin Bates, American actor
• 1996 - Ella Cruz, Filipina actress

Deaths

• 1153 - Eustace IV of Boulogne, son of Stephen of England (b. 1130)
• 1304 - Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (b. 1243)
• 1510 - Edmund Dudley, English statesman (b. 1462)
• 1657 - Robert Blake, British admiral (b. 1599)
• 1673 - Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1641)
• 1676 - Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen, German novelist (b. 1621)
• 1720 - Anne Lefèvre, French scholar (b. 1654)
• 1723 - Joseph Bingham, English scholar (b. 1668)
• 1768 (N. S.) - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (b. 1703)
• 1785 - Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (b. 1710)
• 1786 - King Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1712)
• 1834 - Husein Gradaščević, Bosnian rebel leader (b. 1802)
• 1850 - Don José de San Martín, Argentine general (b. 1778)
• 1861 - Alcée Louis la Branche, American Politician (b. 1806)
• 1875 - Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (b. 1827)
• 1880 - Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (b. 1810)
• 1896 - Bridget Driscoll, world's first automobile fatality
• 1901 - Edmond Audran, French composer (b. 1842)
• 1918 - Moisei Uritsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1873)
• 1920 - Ray Chapman, American baseball player (b. 1891)
• 1925 - Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer of Romanian origin (b. 1848)
• 1940 - Billy Fiske, American aviator and Olympic athlete (b. 1911)
• 1954 - Billy Murray, American recording artist (b. 1877)
• 1962 - Peter Fechter trying to cross the Berlin Wall (b. 1944)
• 1969 - Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
• 1970 - Rattana Pestonji, Thai filmmaker (b. 1908)
• 1971 - Wilhelm List, German field marshal (b. 1880)
• 1973 - Jean Barraqué, French composer (b. 1928)
• 1973 - Paul Williams, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1939)
• 1973 - Conrad Aiken, American author (b. 1889)
• 1979 - Vivian Vance, American actress (b. 1909)
• 1983 - Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (b. 1896)
• 1987 - Rudolf Hess, Nazi deputy (b. 1894)
• 1988 - Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, 6th President of Pakistan (b. 1924)
• 1988 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (b. 1914)
• 1988 - Victoria Shaw, Australian-born American actress (b. 1935)
• 1990 - Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (b. 1918)
• 1992 - Al Parker, American adult film actor (b. 1952)
• 1993 - Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (b. 1920)
• 1994 - Jack Sharkey, American boxer (b. 1902)
• 1995 - Howard Koch, American screenwriter (b. 1902)
• 1995 - Ted Whitten, Australian rules footballer (b. 1933)
• 2004 - Thea Astley, Australian writer (b. 1925)
• 2004 - Gérard Souzay, French baritone (b. 1918)
• 2005 - John Bahcall, American astrophysicist (b. 1934)
• 2007 - Bill Deedes, British journalist and politician (b. 1913)
• 2007 - Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (b. 1982)

Notes

1. Mae West
2. Christian Heinrich Spiess
3. John Hawkes
4. Michèle Bernstein
5. Fernand Léger
6. Johannes Theodor Baargeld
7. Barbara Rosenthal
8. Marcus Garvey
9. Conrad Aiken
10. Yves Tanguy
11. Émile Cohl
12. Fantasmagorie
13. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
14. Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
15. Anthony Earnshaw
16. Sean Penn
17. Jean-Jacques Sempé
18. Jonathan Franzen