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*[[1807]] - [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], American poet (d. [[1882]]) | *[[1807]] - [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], American poet (d. [[1882]]) | ||
*[[1902]] - [[John Steinbeck]], American writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel laureate]] (d. [[1968]]) | *[[1902]] - [[John Steinbeck]], American writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel laureate]] (d. [[1968]]) | ||
- | *[[1903]] - [[Grethe Weiser]], German actress (d. [[1970]]) | ||
- | *[[1904]] - [[James T. Farrell]], American writer (d. [[1979]]) | ||
- | * 1904 - [[Yulii Borisovich Khariton]], Russian physicist (d. [[1996]]) | ||
- | * 1904 - [[André Leducq]], French cyclist (d. [[1980]]) | ||
- | * 1904 - [[Chick Fullis]], American baseball player (d. [[1946]]) | ||
- | *[[1905]] - [[Franchot Tone]], American actor (d. [[1968]]) | ||
- | *[[1907]] - [[Mildred Bailey]], American singer (d. [[1951]]) | ||
- | *[[1910]] - [[Joan Bennett]], American actress (d. [[1990]]) | ||
- | * 1910 - [[Peter De Vries]], American writer (d. [[1993]]) | ||
- | * 1910 - [[Ted Horn]], American race car driver (d. [[1948]]) | ||
- | * 1910 - [[Clarence Johnson|Clarence "Kelly" Johnson]], American aircraft engineer ([[Lockheed]] [[Skunk Works]]; d. [[1990]]) | ||
*[[1912]] - [[Lawrence Durrell]], British writer (d. [[1990]]) | *[[1912]] - [[Lawrence Durrell]], British writer (d. [[1990]]) | ||
- | *[[1913]] - [[Irwin Shaw]], American writer (d. [[1984]]) | ||
- | *[[1913]] - [[Kazimierz Sabbat]], Polish president (d. [[1989]]) | ||
- | *[[1917]] - [[John Connally]], Governor of Texas (d. [[1993]]) | ||
- | *[[1922]] - [[Hans Rookmaaker]], Dutch professor and art historian (d. [[1977]]) | ||
- | *[[1923]] - [[Dexter Gordon]], American jazz saxophonist (d. [[1990]]) | ||
- | *[[1925]] - [[Samuel Dash]], American Congressional counsel (d. [[2004]]) | ||
- | *[[1926]] - [[David H. Hubel]], Canadian neuroscientist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate | ||
- | *[[1927]] - [[Lynn Cartwright]], American actress (d. [[2004]]) | ||
- | * 1927 - [[Guy Mitchell]], American singer (d. [[1999]]) | ||
- | *[[1928]] - [[Ariel Sharon]], former Prime Minister of Israel | ||
- | *[[1929]] - [[Djalma Santos]], Brazilian footballer | ||
- | *[[1930]] - [[Paul von Rague Schleyer|Paul von Ragué Schleyer]], American chemist | ||
- | * 1930 - [[Peter Stone]], American writer (d. [[2003]]) | ||
- | * 1930 - [[Joanne Woodward]], American actress | ||
*[[1932]] - [[Elizabeth Taylor]], British-American actress | *[[1932]] - [[Elizabeth Taylor]], British-American actress | ||
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*[[1933]] - [[Raymond Berry]], American football player | *[[1933]] - [[Raymond Berry]], American football player | ||
*[[1934]] - [[Vincent Fourcade]], French interior designer (d. [[1992]]) | *[[1934]] - [[Vincent Fourcade]], French interior designer (d. [[1992]]) |
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Births
- 1807 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d. 1882)
- 1902 - John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
- 1912 - Lawrence Durrell, British writer (d. 1990)
- 1932 - Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress
- 1933 - Raymond Berry, American football player
- 1934 - Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (d. 1992)
- 1934 - N. Scott Momaday, American writer
- 1934 - Ralph Nader, American consumer activist
- 1934 - Van Williams, American actor
- 1935 - Mirella Freni, Italian soprano
- 1936 - Ron Barassi, Australian rules footballer
- 1936 - Roger Mahony, fourth Archbishop of Los Angeles
- 1937 - David Ackles, American singer songwriter (d. 1999)
- 1937 - Barbara Babcock, American actress
- 1939 - Peter Revson, American racecar driver (d. 1974)
- 1940 - Howard Hesseman, American actor
- 1940 - Bill Hunter, Australian actor
- 1941 - Paddy Ashdown, British politician
- 1942 - Robert H. Grubbs, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1942 - Charlayne Hunter-Gault, American journalist
- 1942 - Michel Forget, French Canadian actor
- 1943 - Mary Frann, American actress (d. 1998)
- 1943 - Morten Lauridsen, American composer
- 1944 - Ken Grimwood, American writer (d. 2003)
- 1945 - Carl Anderson, American singer and actor (d. 2004)
- 1947 - Gidon Kremer, Latvian violinist
- 1951 - Steve Harley, British rock musician (Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel)
- 1952 - Stathis Psaltis, Greek actor
- 1953 - Gabriela Svobodová, Czech cross country skier
- 1954 - Neal Schon, American musician (Journey)
- 1955 - Peter Christopherson, English musician, video director and designer
- 1957 - Viktor Markin, Russian athlete
- 1957 - Timothy Spall, English actor
- 1957 - Danny Antonucci, Canadian animator
- 1957 - Adrian Smith, English musician (Iron Maiden)
- 1958 - Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sid Vicious (d. 1978)
- 1959 - Johnny Van Zant, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
- 1960 - Andrés Gómez, Ecuadorian tennis player
- 1962 - Adam Baldwin, American actor
- 1962 - Grant Show, American actor
- 1963 - Pär Nuder, Swedish politician
- 1964 - Todd Bodine, American race car driver
- 1965 - Noah Emmerich, American actor
- 1965 - Frank Peter Zimmermann, German violinist
- 1965 - Joakim Sundström, Swedish sound editor, sound designer and musician
- 1966 - Donal Logue, Canadian actor
- 1968 - Matt Stairs, Canadian baseball player
- 1969 - Brad Vander Ark, American musician
- 1970 - Michael A. Burstein, American writer
- 1970 - Patricia Petibon, French opera singer
- 1971 - Derren Brown, British psychological illusionist
- 1971 - Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas, American singer (TLC)
- 1973 - Ali Tabatabaee, American Iranian rapper (Zebrahead)
- 1973 - Mark Taylor, Welsh rugby union footballer
- 1973 - Peter André, English singer - Husband to Katie Price, Glamour model
- 1975 - Prodromos Korkizoglou, Greek decathlete
- 1975 - Shelby Walker, American mixed martial artist (d. 2006)
- 1976 - Tony Gonzalez, American football player
- 1977 - Lance Hoyt, American professional wrestler
- 1977 - Ji Sung, South Korean actor
- 1978 - James Beattie, English footballer
- 1980 - Bobby Valentino, American singer
- 1980 - Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton
- 1981 - Josh Groban, American singer
- 1983 - Hayley Angel Wardle, English actress
- 1984 - Juliana Imai, Brazilian model
- 1984 - David Noel, American basketball player
- 1984 - Antti Tuisku, Finnish singer
- 1984 - Lotta Schelin, Swedish female footballer
- 1986 - Nicole Linkletter, America's Next Top Model
- 1989 - Kelly Breeding, American singer from B5
- 1991 - Azeem Rafiq, Yorkshire CCC & English U15 captain
Deaths
- 1659 - Henry Dunster, first President of Harvard College (b. 1609)
- 1699 - Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, English politician (b. c. 1625)
- 1706 - John Evelyn, English diarist (b. 1620)
- 1720 - Samuel Parris, English-born Puritan minister (b. 1653)
- 1735 - John Arbuthnot, English physician and writer (b. 1667)
- 1844 - Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States (b. 1786)
- 1887 - Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist (b. 1833)
- 1892 - Louis Vuitton, French luggage maker (b. 1821)
- 1902 - Breaker Morant, Anglo-Australian soldier executed in Boer War under controversial circumstances (b. 1864)
- 1921 - Schofield Haigh, English cricketer (b. 1871)
- 1932 - William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (b. 1843)
- 1936 - Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1849)
- 1936 - Joshua W. Alexander, U.S. Secretary of Commerce under Woodrow Wilson (b. 1852)
- 1941 - William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (b. 1895)
- 1943 - Kostis Palamas, Greek poet, twice nominated for the Nobel prize (b. 1859)
- 1964 - Orry-Kelly, Australian costume designer (b. 1897)
- 1968 - Frankie Lymon, American singer (b. 1942)
- 1969 - Marius Barbeau, French Canadian folklorist (b. 1883)
- 1970 - Marie Dionne, one of the French Canadian Dionne quintuplets (b. 1934)
- 1972 - Pat Brady, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
- 1977 - John Dickson Carr, American author (b. 1905)
- 1978 - Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer (b. 1912)
- 1980 - George Tobias, American actor (b. 1901)
- 1981 - Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician (b. 1920)
- 1985 - Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician (b. 1902)
- 1986 - Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
- 1987 - Joan Greenwood, English actress and director (b. 1921)
- 1989 - Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (b. 1897)
- 1989 - Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)
- 1990 - Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (b. 1903)
- 1992 - S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American linguist and politician (b. 1906)
- 1993 - Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)
- 1998 - George H. Hitchings, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1905)
- 1998 - J. T. Walsh, American actor (b. 1943)
- 2002 - Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (b. 1918)
- 2003 - John Lanchbery, English composer (b. 1923)
- 2003 - Fred Rogers, American children's television actor (b. 1928)
- 2004 - Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (b. 1910)
- 2004 - Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historians (b. 1928)
- 2006 - Otis Chandler, American newspaper publisher (b. 1927)
- 2006 - Robert Lee Scott, Jr., U.S. General, Flying Tiger, and author (b. 1908)
- 2006 - Linda Smith, British comedian (b. 1958)
- 2007 - Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz drummer (b. 1924)
- 2007 - Bernd von Freytag-Loringhoven, German soldier (b. 1914)
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Derren Brown
Joakim Sundström
Lawrence Durrell
John Steinbeck
Peter Christopherson
Ivan Pavlov
Fernando Ribeiro
James Planché
Yvan Goll
Lillian Gish
James Avati
Spike Milligan
Edward Lucie-Smith
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