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From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

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Art and culture

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
• 1955 - Peter Christopherson, English musician, video director and designer
• 1957 - Timothy Spall, English actor
• 1965 - Joakim Sundström, Swedish sound editor, sound designer and musician
• 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