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| *[[1844]] - [[Sarah Bernhardt]], French actress (d. [[1923]]) | *[[1844]] - [[Sarah Bernhardt]], French actress (d. [[1923]]) | ||
| *[[1936]] - [[Philip Kaufman]], American film director | *[[1936]] - [[Philip Kaufman]], American film director | ||
| - | *[[1939]] - [[Ellie Greenwich]], American singer | ||
| *[[1940]] - [[Pelé]], Brazilian footballer | *[[1940]] - [[Pelé]], Brazilian footballer | ||
| - | *[[1941]] - [[Igor Smirnov]], Moldovan politician | ||
| - | *[[1942]] - [[Michael Crichton]], American writer | ||
| - | * 1942 - [[Anita Roddick]], founder of The Body Shop (d. [[2007]]) | ||
| - | *[[1944]] - [[Mike Harding]], English singer and comedian | ||
| - | *[[1945]] - [[Kim Larsen]], Danish singer | ||
| - | *[[1946]] - [[Graça Machel]], wife of [[Nelson Mandela]] | ||
| - | * 1946 - [[Mel Martinez]], American politician | ||
| - | *[[1948]] - [[Hermann Hauser]], Austrian-born entrepreneur | ||
| - | *[[1949]] - [[Nick Tosches]], American writer | ||
| - | * 1949 - [[Wurzel|Michael 'Wurzel' Burston]], British musician, Former member of [[Motörhead]] | ||
| - | *[[1951]] - [[Charly Garcia]], Argentine singer | ||
| - | * 1951 - [[Fatmir Sejdiu]], [[President of Kosovo]] | ||
| - | *[[1952]] - [[Pierre Moerlen]], French drummer and percussionist | ||
| *[[1954]] - [[Ang Lee]], Taiwanese-born director | *[[1954]] - [[Ang Lee]], Taiwanese-born director | ||
| - | *[[1956]] - [[Dwight Yoakam]], American singer | ||
| - | *[[1958]] - [[Nancy Grace]], American former prosecutor | ||
| *[[1959]] - [[Sam Raimi]], American film director | *[[1959]] - [[Sam Raimi]], American film director | ||
| * 1959 - [["Weird Al" Yankovic]], American musical parodist | * 1959 - [["Weird Al" Yankovic]], American musical parodist | ||
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Births
- 1844 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (d. 1923)
- 1936 - Philip Kaufman, American film director
- 1940 - Pelé, Brazilian footballer
- 1954 - Ang Lee, Taiwanese-born director
- 1959 - Sam Raimi, American film director
- 1959 - "Weird Al" Yankovic, American musical parodist
- 1960 - Wayne Rainey, American motorcyclist
- 1961 - Laurie Halse Anderson, American writer
- 1961 - Don and Ron Harris, American professional wrestlers
- 1962 - Doug Flutie, American football player
- 1964 - Robert Trujillo, American bassist
- 1965 - Al Leiter, American baseball player
- 1965 - Augusten Burroughs, American writer
- 1966 - Alex Zanardi, Italian race car driver
- 1967 - Dale Crover, American musician (Melvins, The Men of Porn, Altamont)
- 1969 - Trudi Canavan, Australian writer
- 1970 - Jasmin St. Claire, West Indian actress
- 1971 - Christopher Horner, American cyclist
- 1974 - Sander Westerveld, Dutch footballer
- 1975 - Odalys Garcia, Cuban actress
- 1975 - Jessicka, American artist
- 1975 - Keith Van Horn, American basketball player
- 1976 - Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor and comedian
- 1976 - Cat Deeley, English model and television personality
- 1978 - Steve Harmison, English cricketer
- 1978 - Archie Thompson, Australian footballer
- 1979 - Jorge Solis, Mexican professional boxer
- 1979 - Simon Davies, Welsh footballer
- 1980 - Pedro Liriano, Dominican baseball player
- 1981 - Jeroen Bleekemolen, Dutch racing driver
- 1982 - Mirel Radoi, Romanian footballer
- 1982 - Valentin Badea, Romanian footballer
- 1983 - Josh Strickland, American entertainer
- 1983 - Filipos Darlas, Greek footballer
- 1984 - Izabel Goulart, Brazilian model
- 1985 - James Kotecki, American political blogger
- 1986 - Jake Robinson, English footballer
- 1987 - Faye Hamlin, Swedish singer (Play)
- 1988 - Nicolaj Agger, Danish football player
- 1990 - Stevie Brock, American singer
- 1991 - Princess Mako of Akishino of Japan
Deaths
- 42 BC - Marcus Junius Brutus, Roman senator (b. 85 BC)
- 930 - Daigo, Emperor of Japan (b. 885)
- 1456 - Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (b. 1386)
- 1550 - Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (b. 1480)
- 1581 - Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1529)
- 1616 - Leonhard Hutter, German theologian (b. 1563)
- 1688 - Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist (b. 1610)
- 1730 - Anne Oldfield, English actress (b. 1683)
- 1764 - Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, French naval officer (b. 1683)
- 1774 - Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary and scientist (b. 1715)
- 1869 - Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1799)
- 1872 - Théophile Gautier, French writer (b. 1811)
- 1885 - Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician (b. 1829)
- 1910 - Chulalongkorn, King of Thailand (b. 1853)
- 1915 - W. G. Grace, English cricketer (b. 1848)
- 1921 - John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor (b. 1840)
- 1939 - Zane Grey, American author (b. 1872)
- 1942 - Ralph Rainger, American composer (b. 1901)
- 1944 - Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
- 1950 - Al Jolson, American singer and actor (b. 1886)
- 1959 - Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (b. 1871)
- 1978 - Maybelle Carter, American guitarist and musical innovator (b. 1909)
- 1983 - Jessica Savitch, American journalist (b. 1947)
- 1984 - James Petrillo, leader of the U.S. musicians union (b. 1892)
- 1984 - Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (b. 1922)
- 1986 - Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1893)
- 1989 - Armida, Mexican-American stage, vaudeville and film actress (b. 1911)
- 1990 - Louis Althusser, French philosopher (b. 1918)
- 1996 - Bob Grim, baseball player (b. 1930)
- 1997 - Bert Haanstra, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1916)
- 1998 - Barnett Slepian, American physician (b. 1946)
- 2001 - Ronald William Kirby, British artist (b. 1928)
- 2002 - Adolph Green, American lyricist and playwright (b. 1915)
- 2003 - Tony Capstick, English actor, comedian, and musician (b. 1944)
- 2003 - Soong May-ling, wife of the President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek (b. 1897)
- 2004 - Robert Merrill, American baritone (b. 1919)
- 2005 - Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian first lady (b. 1945)
- 2005 - Willaim Hootkins, American actor (b. 1948)
- 2005 - John Muth, American economist (b. 1930)
- 2006 - Lebo Mathosa, South African entertainer (b. 1977)
Notes
- Daniel Wildenstein
- Restif de la Bretonne
- Théophile Gautier
- Catherine Robbe-Grillet
- Al Jolson
- Christian Dior
- Marcel Brion
- Sarah Bernhardt
- Philip Kaufman
- Edward Kienholz
- Zane Grey
- Bert Haanstra
- Alexander Afanasyev
- Adalbert Stifter
Philip Kaufman (1936 - )
Ang Lee (1954 - ) Ang Lee (born October 23, 1954) is an Academy Award-winning Taiwanese film director. Lee won the 2006 Best Director Oscar for Brokeback Mountain (2005).
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