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| *[[1771]] - [[Johann August Apel]], German jurist and writer (d. [[1816]]) | *[[1771]] - [[Johann August Apel]], German jurist and writer (d. [[1816]]) | ||
| - | *[[1820]] - [[Émile Augier]], French dramatist (d. [[1889]]) | ||
| - | *[[1826]] - [[Bernhard Riemann]], German mathematician (d. [[1866]]) | ||
| - | *[[1854]] - [[David Dunbar Buick]], American automobile pioneer (d.[[1929]]) | ||
| - | *[[1857]] - [[Konstantin Tsiolkovsky]], Russian rocket scientist (d. [[1935]]) | ||
| - | *[[1868]] - [[James Alexander Calder]], Canadian politician (d. [[1956]]) | ||
| - | *[[1869]] - [[Christian Lous Lange]], Norwegian [[Nobel Peace Prize]] recipient (d. [[1938]]) | ||
| - | *[[1879]] - [[Rube Foster]], American baseball player, manager and executive (d. [[1930]]) | ||
| - | *[[1881]] - [[Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter]], English soldier (d. [[1955]]) | ||
| *[[1883]] - [[William Carlos Williams]], American writer (d. [[1963]]) | *[[1883]] - [[William Carlos Williams]], American writer (d. [[1963]]) | ||
| *[[1884]] - [[Charles Tomlinson Griffes]], American composer (d. [[1920]]) | *[[1884]] - [[Charles Tomlinson Griffes]], American composer (d. [[1920]]) | ||
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Art and culture
- 1967 - Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Births
- 1771 - Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (d. 1816)
- 1883 - William Carlos Williams, American writer (d. 1963)
- 1884 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (d. 1920)
- 1890 - Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (d. 1972)
- 1897 - Earl Webb, baseball player (d. 1965)
- 1900 - John Willard Marriott, American hotelier (d. 1985)
- 1900 - Hughie Critz, baseball player (d. 1980)
- 1901 - Francis Chichester, English adventurer (d. 1972)
- 1903 - Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (d. 1984)
- 1903 - Frank O'Connor, Irish-American short-story writer (d. 1966)
- 1906 - Edgar Wayburn, American environmentalist
- 1907 - Warren Burger, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995)
- 1912 - Irena Kwiatkowska, Polish actress and comedian
- 1918 - Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (d. 1997)
- 1922 - Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (d. 1979)
- 1923 - Hank Williams, American musician (d. 1953)
- 1926 - Bill Black, American musician (d. 1965)
- 1926 - Curtis Harrington, American film director (d. 2007)
- 1927 - George Blanda, American football player
- 1928 - Roddy McDowall, English actor (d. 1998)
- 1929 - Sir Stirling Moss, English race car driver
- 1929 - Pat Crowley, American actress
- 1930 - Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut
- 1930 - Thomas Stafford, American astronaut
- 1930 - Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian violinist
- 1931 - Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1933 - Chuck Grassley, American politician
- 1933 - Dorothy Loudon, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1933 - Claude Provost, National Hockey League player (d. 1984)
- 1934 - Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (d. 1969)
- 1935 - Ken Kesey, American author (d. 2001)
- 1937 - Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
- 1938 - Bobby Wine, American Major League Baseball player
- 1939 - Shelby Flint, American singer
- 1939 - David Souter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- 1941 - Bob Matsui, U.S. Congressman (d. 2005)
- 1942 - Des Lynam, English television presenter
- 1942 - Robert Graysmith, Zodiac killer researcher
- 1944 - Reinhold Messner, Austrian mountain climber
- 1945 - David Emerson, Canadian politician
- 1945 - Phil Jackson, NBA coach
- 1945 - Bruce Spence, New Zealand actor
- 1946 - Billy Bonds, English footballer
- 1947 - Tessa Jowell, British politician
- 1948 - Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist (d. 2000)
- 1948 - John Ritter, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1949 - Cassandra Peterson, American actress
- 1950 - Narendra Modi, Indian politician
- 1950 - Chris Heister, Swedish politician
- 1953 - Altaf Hussain, Pakistani politician and founder of MQM
- 1954 - Joël-François Durand, French composer
- 1955 - Charles Martinet, American actor
- 1956 - Rita Rudner, American comedian
- 1959 - Charles Lawson, Northern Irish actor
- 1960 - Damon Hill, English race car driver
- 1960 - John Franco, American baseball player
- 1961 - Ty Tabor, American guitarist and singer (King's X)
- 1962 - Baz Luhrmann, Australian film director
- 1962 - Dustin Nguyen, Vietnamese American actor
- 1963 - Masahiro Chono, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1963 - Michael Adler, American businessman
- 1963 - Amy Roloff, American reality star
- 1963 - Rami Saari, Israeli poet and translator
- 1963 - Andy "Beegs" Biegel, American icon
- 1965 - Bryan Singer, American director
- 1965 - Yuji Naka, Japanese video game programmer
- 1966 - Doug E. Fresh, American rapper, record producer, and beatboxer
- 1967 - Malik Yoba, American actor
- 1968 - Anastacia, American singer
- 1968 - Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece
- 1969 - Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player
- 1969 - Keith Flint, Member of the British hard dance/rave band The Prodigy
- 1970 - Mark Brunell, American football player
- 1971 - Adriana Sklenaříková, Slovak supermodel
- 1971 - Mike Catt, English rugby player
- 1971 - Ian Whyte (actor), Welsh actor and basketball player
- 1973 - Ada Choi, Hong Kong actress
- 1973 - Demis Nikolaidis, Greek footballer
- 1974 - Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player
- 1974 - Mirah, American musician
- 1974 - Tormod Granheim, Norwegian adventurer
- 1975 - Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver
- 1975 - Austin St. John, American actor
- 1975 - Constantine Maroulis, American singer
- 1976 - Daniella Rush, Czech pornographic actress
- 1977 - Simone Perrotta, Italian football player
- 1978 - Shawn Horcoff, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1979 - Akin Ayodele, American football player
- 1979 - Chuck Comeau, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
- 1980 - Danny Haren, American baseball player
- 1981 - Bakari Koné, Ivory Coast footballer
- 1981 - Casey Janssen, American baseball player
- 1982 - Garth Murray, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1983 - Jennifer Peña, American singer
- 1984 - Eugenia Volodina, Russian supermodel
- 1985 - Alexander Ovechkin, Russian hockey player
- 1985 - Jon Walker, American musician (Panic! at the Disco)
- 1986 - Dimitrios Regas, Greek sprinter
- 1987 - Paul Huntington, English footballer
- 1991 - Jordan McCoy, American entertainer
- 1994 - Taylor Ware, American yodeler
- 1994 - Ivo Daniel DC Ferreira, Young Star Portuguese, Barreiro
- 1989 - Emil Shamim, Next big thing in Bangladesh, Rising Stars of the Daily Star
Deaths
- 1179 - Hildegard of Bingen, German abbess and composer (b. 1098)
- 1322 - Robert III of Flanders (b. 1249)
- 1422 - Constantine II of Bulgaria
- 1563 - Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier
- 1574 - Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Spanish Governor of Florida (b. 1519)
- 1575 - Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1504)
- 1621 - Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (b. 1542)
- 1630 - Thomas Lake, English statesman (b. 1567)
- 1665 - Philip IV of Spain (b. 1605)
- 1679 - John of Austria the Younger, Spanish general (b. 1629)
- 1727 - Glückel of Hameln, German businesswoman (b. 1647)
- 1762 - Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist (b. 1687)
- 1771 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (b. 1721)
- 1803 - Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Austrian composer (b. 1766)
- 1808 - Benjamin Bourne, American politician (b. 1755)
- 1836 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1748)
- 1863 - Alfred de Vigny, French author (b. 1797)
- 1873 - Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer (b. 1781)
- 1879 - Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (b. 1814)
- 1894 - Deng Shichang, Chinese admiral (b. 1849)
- 1899 - Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (b. 1842)
- 1907 - Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist (b. 1846)
- 1933 - Joseph De Piro, Maltese missionary (b. 1877)
- 1936 - Ettie Annie Rout, New Zealand activist (b. 1877)
- 1938 - Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (b. 1901)
- 1951 - Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (b. 1898)
- 1966 - Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (b. 1930)
- 1972 - Akim Tamiroff, Georgian actor (b. 1899)
- 1973 - Hugo Winterhalter, American bandleader (b. 1909)
- 1980 - Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (b. 1925)
- 1982 - Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (b. 1937)
- 1984 - Richard Basehart, American actor (b. 1914)
- 1987 - Harry Locke, British character actor (b. 1913)
- 1991 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902)
- 1993 - Christian Nyby, American film and television director (b. 1913)
- 1996 - Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)
- 1997 - Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (b. 1913)
- 2000 - Nicole Reinhart, American cyclist (b. 1976)
- 2000 - Paula Yates, English TV personality (b. 1960)
- 2001 - Louie Dog, Dalmatian for the band Sublime (b. 1989 )
- 2003 - Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)
- 2005 - Alfred Reed, American composer (b. 1921)
- 2006 - Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (b. 1924)
Notes
- Ken Kesey
- Jean Ray
- I, a Woman
- Julian Beck
- William Carlos Williams
- Henri Storck
- Karl Popper
- Johann August Apel
- Gioviano Pontano
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