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| *[[1862]] - [[Claude Debussy]], French composer (d. [[1918]]) | *[[1862]] - [[Claude Debussy]], French composer (d. [[1918]]) | ||
| *[[1893]] - [[Dorothy Parker]], American writer (d. [[1967]]) | *[[1893]] - [[Dorothy Parker]], American writer (d. [[1967]]) | ||
| - | * 1893 - [[Wilfred Kitching]], British Salvation Army general (d. [[1977]]) | ||
| - | *[[1895]] - [[Paul Comtois]], French Canadian politician (d. [[1966]]) | ||
| - | *[[1900]] - [[Sergei Ozhegov]], Russian lexicographer (d. [[1964]]) | ||
| *[[1902]] - [[Leni Riefenstahl]], German film director (d. [[2003]]) | *[[1902]] - [[Leni Riefenstahl]], German film director (d. [[2003]]) | ||
| * 1902 - [[Thomas Pelly]], American politician (d. [[1973]]) | * 1902 - [[Thomas Pelly]], American politician (d. [[1973]]) | ||
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Art and culture
- 1911 - Theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered.
- 2004 - A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
Births
- 1822 - Virginia Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe (d. 1847)
- 1862 - Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918)
- 1893 - Dorothy Parker, American writer (d. 1967)
- 1902 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003)
- 1902 - Thomas Pelly, American politician (d. 1973)
- 1904 - Deng Xiaoping, Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1997)
- 1908 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004)
- 1909 - Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
- 1909 - Mel Hein, American football player (d. 1992)
- 1909 - Lucille Ricksen, American actress (d. 1925)
- 1913 - Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (d. 1993)
- 1915 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000)
- 1915 - James Hillier, Co-inventor of the electron microscope (d. 2007)
- 1915 - Edward Szczepanik, former Polish Prime Minister (d. 2005)
- 1917 - John Lee Hooker, American guitarist and singer (d. 2001)
- 1918 - Mary McGrory, American journalist (d. 2004)
- 1920 - Ray Bradbury, American writer
- 1920 - Denton Cooley, American heart surgeon
- 1922 - Micheline Presle, French actress
- 1925 - James Kirkwood, Jr., American playwright and author (d. 1989)
- 1928 - Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer
- 1930 - Gilmar, Brazilian football player
- 1932 - Gerald P. Carr, American astronaut
- 1934 - Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. general
- 1934 - Sir Donald McIntyre, English bass-baritone
- 1935 - E. Annie Proulx, American author
- 1936 - Dale Hawkins, American singer and songwriter
- 1938 - Paul Maguire, American football commentator
- 1939 - George Reinholt, American actor
- 1939 - Carl Yastrzemski, baseball player
- 1940 - Valerie Harper, American actress
- 1940 - Bill McCartney, former college football coach
- 1941 - Bill Parcells, American football coach
- 1943 - Masatoshi Shima, Japanese computer scientist
- 1945 - Ron Dante, American songwriter and record producer (The Archies)
- 1945 - Erol Gelenbe, Turkish computer scientist, electrical engineer and applied mathematician
- 1947 - Cindy Williams, American actress
- 1947 - Donna Godchaux, singer (Grateful Dead)
- 1948 - Eleonora Brown, Italian actress
- 1949 - Diana Nyad, American swimmer, world record holder
- 1949 - Doug Bair, baseball player
- 1949 - Þórarinn Eldjárn, an Icelandic writer
- 1949 - Alfred Musema, Rwandan genocidaire
- 1950 - Ray Burris, baseball player
- 1952 - Peter Laughner, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (Rocket From the Tombs, Pere Ubu) (d. 1977)
- 1953 - Paul Ellering, American wrestling manager
- 1955 - Will Shetterly, writer
- 1955 - Chiranjeevi, Telugu film actor
- 1956 - Paul Molitor, baseball player
- 1957 - Steve Davis, English snooker player
- 1958 - Colm Feore, American-born actor
- 1958 - Lane Huffman, American professional wrestler
- 1958 - Vernon Reid, American musician (Living Colour)
- 1959 - Juan Croucier, American musician
- 1959 - Pia Gjellerup, Danish politician
- 1961 - Roland Orzabal, British musician (Tears for Fears)
- 1961 - Debbi Peterson, American singer (The Bangles)
- 1963 - Tori Amos, American singer/songwriter
- 1963 - Terry Catledge, American basketball player
- 1964 - Mats Wilander, Swedish tennis player
- 1965 - Tom Gibis, American voice actor
- 1966 - GZA, American rapper
- 1966 - Eric Andolsek, American football player (d. 1992)
- 1967 - Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains) (d. 2002)
- 1967 - Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, British actor
- 1967 - Ant, American comedian
- 1967 - Ty Burrell, American actor
- 1967 - Alfred Gough, American screenwriter
- 1967 - Yukiko Okada, Japanese singer (d. 1986)
- 1968 - Paul Colman, Australian guitarist (Newsboys)
- 1968 - Alexander Mostovoi, Russian footballer
- 1968 - Horst Skoff, Austrian tennis player
- 1970 - Charlie Connelly, English writer
- 1970 - Giada De Laurentiis, chef and television host
- 1971 - Richard Armitage, English actor
- 1971 - Rick Yune, Korean American actor
- 1972 - Steve Kline, baseball player
- 1972 - Okkert Brits, South African pole vaulter
- 1972 - Max Wilson, Brazilian racing driver
- 1973 - Howie Dorough, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
- 1974 - William Kucmierowski, American professional wrestler
- 1974 - Agustín Pichot, Argentine rugby player
- 1974 - Stefano Verderi, Italian guitarman
- 1975 - Clint Bolton, Australian footballer
- 1975 - Sheree Murphy, British actress
- 1975 - Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor
- 1977 - Heiðar Helguson, Icelandic footballer
- 1977 - Keren Cytter, artist, filmmaker, and writer
- 1978 - Jeff Stinco, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
- 1980 - Christi Shake, American model and actress
- 1980 - Roland Benschneider, German footballer
- 1980 - Nicolas Macrozonaris, Quebec 100m sprinter
- 1981 - Alex Holmes, American football player
- 1983 - Theo Bos, Dutch cyclist
- 1983 - Laura Breckenridge, American actress
Deaths
- 408 - Stilicho, Roman general (b. 359)
- 1155 - Konoe, Emperor of Japan (b. 1139)
- 1188 - Ferdinand II, King of Leon (b. 1137)
- 1241 - Gregory IX, Italian religious leader, 178th Pope (b. c. 1143)
- 1280 - Nicholas III, Italian religious leader, 188th Pope (b. c. 1216)
- 1304 - John II, Count of Hainaut (b. 1247)
- 1350 - Philip VI, King of France (b. 1293)
- 1485 - Richard III, King of England (b. 1452)
- 1553 - John Dudley, English admiral and politician (b. 1501)
- 1572 - Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland (b. 1528)
- 1584 - Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (b. 1530)
- 1599 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman (b. 1577)
- 1599 - Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (b. c. 1553)
- 1607 - Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (b. 1572)
- 1609 - Maharal of Prague, Jewish mystic and philosopher (b. 1525)
- 1652 - Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1583)
- 1680 - John George II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1613)
- 1701 - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (b. 1628)
- 1711 - Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (b. 1644)
- 1752 - William Whiston, English mathematician (b. 1667)
- 1773 - George Lyttelton, English writer and politician (b. 1709)
- 1793 - Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France (b. 1713)
- 1797 - Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (b. 1724)
- 1806 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (b. 1732)
- 1818 - Warren Hastings, British Governor-General of India (b. 1732)
- 1828 - Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroscientist (b. 1758)
- 1850 - Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (b. 1802)
- 1861 - Xianfeng, Emperor of China (b. 1831)
- 1891 - Jan Neruda, Czech author (b. 1834)
- 1903 - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830)
- 1914 - Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi bishop of Bergamo
- 1918 - Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (b. 1868)
- 1922 - Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary (b. 1890)
- 1926 - Charles W. Eliot, American President of Harvard University (b. 1834)
- 1940 - Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist, spiritualist, pioneer in wireless telegraphy (b. 1851)
- 1942 - Michel Fokine, Russian choreographer and dancer (b. 1880)
- 1950 - Kirk Bryan, American geologist (b. 1888)
- 1953 - Jim Tabor, baseball player (b. 1916)
- 1958 - Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
- 1965 - Ellen Church, First American airline stewardess (b. 1904)
- 1967 - Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American endocrinologist (b. 1903)
- 1970 - Vladimir Propp, Russian structuralist scholar (b. 1895)
- 1974 - Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician & TV presenter (b. 1908)
- 1976 - Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (b. 1902)
- 1976 - Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (b. 1913)
- 1977 - Sebastian Cabot, English-born actor (b. 1918)
- 1978 - Jomo Kenyatta, first Prime Minister of Kenya (b. c. 1892)
- 1979 - James T. Farrell, American novelist (b. 1904)
- 1980 - James Smith McDonnell, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1899)
- 1989 - Huey P. Newton, American activist (b. 1942)
- 1991 - Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (b. 1924)
- 1994 - Gilles Groulx, French Canadian film director (b. 1931)
- 2003 - Arnold Gerschwiler, Swiss-born figure skating trainer (b. 1914)
- 2003 - Generosa Ammon, widow of Ted Ammon (b. 1956)
- 2003 - Imperio Argentina, Argentinian singer and actress (b. 1906)
- 2004 - Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (b. 1960)
- 2004 - Daniel Petrie, Canadian-born television and movie director (b. 1920)
- 2004 - Al Dvorin, American announcer on Elvis Presley's shows (b. c.1923)
- 2005 - Luc Ferrari, French composer (b. 1929)
- 2006 - Bruce Gary, American rock drummer, producer (The Knack) (b. 1951)
Notes
- David Reimer
- Kate Chopin
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe
- Claude Debussy
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Glauber Rocha
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Vladimir Propp
- René Wellek
- Huey P. Newton
- Nikolaus Lenau
- Anders Zorn
- Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps
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