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*[[1965]] - [[Joakim Sundström]], Swedish sound editor, sound designer and musician | *[[1965]] - [[Joakim Sundström]], Swedish sound editor, sound designer and musician | ||
*[[1971]] - [[Derren Brown]], British psychological illusionist | *[[1971]] - [[Derren Brown]], British psychological illusionist | ||
- | * 1971 - [[Rozonda Thomas|Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas]], American singer ([[TLC (music)|TLC]]) | ||
- | *[[1973]] - [[Ali Tabatabaee]], American Iranian rapper ([[Zebrahead]]) | ||
- | * 1973 - [[Mark Taylor (rugby player)|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 (football player)|Tony Gonzalez]], American football player | ||
- | *[[1977]] - [[Lance Hoyt]], American professional wrestler | ||
- | * 1977 - [[Ji Sung]], South Korean actor | ||
- | *[[1978]] - [[James Beattie (footballer)|James Beattie]], English footballer | ||
- | *[[1980]] - [[Bobby Valentino]], American singer | ||
- | * 1980 - [[Chelsea Clinton]], daughter of [[Bill Clinton|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 | ||
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==Deaths== | ==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 (1786-1844)|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]] - [[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]]) | * 1936 - [[Joshua W. Alexander]], U.S. Secretary of Commerce under [[Woodrow Wilson]] (b. [[1852]]) |
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- 1902 - John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
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- 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
Deaths
- 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)
notes
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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