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Art and culture

• 1484 - William Caxton printed his translation of Aesop's Fables.

Births

• 1516 - Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (d. 1565)
• 1911 - Tennessee Williams, American dramatist (d. 1983)
• 1917 - Rufus Thomas, American musician (d. 2001)
• 1925 - Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor
• 1925 - James Moody, American jazz musician, composer, and actor
• 1930 - Gregory Corso, American poet (d. 2001)
• 1934 - Alan Arkin, American actor
• 1941 - Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist
• 1942 - Erica Jong, American author
• 1944 - Diana Ross, American singer (Supremes)
• 1949 - Vicki Lawrence, American actress and singer
• 1949 - Patrick Süskind, German writer
• 1950 - Teddy Pendergrass, American singer
• 1950 - Martin Short, Canadian comedian
• 1950 - Ernest Thomas, American actor
• 1951 - Carl Wieman, American physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1952 - Didier Pironi, French Formula One driver (d. 1987)
• 1953 - Elaine Chao, U.S. Secretary of Labor
• 1953 - Lincoln Chafee, American Senator from Rhode Island
• 1953 - Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian rebel (d. 2002)
• 1954 - Kazuhiko Inoue, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
• 1954 - Curtis Sliwa, American founder of the Guardian Angels
• 1955 - Danny Arndt, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1956 - Charly McClain, American singer
• 1957 - Leeza Gibbons, American television host
• 1957 - Paul Morley, English music journalist and musician
• 1958 - Chris Codiroli, American baseballer
• 1958 - Elio de Angelis, Italian racing driver (d. 1986)
• 1959 - Chris Hansen, American reporter and correspondent
• 1960 - Catherine Keener, American actress
• 1960 - Marcus Allen, American football player
• 1960 - Jennifer Grey, American actress
• 1961 - William Hague, British politician
• 1962 - John Stockton, American basketball player
• 1962 - Paul de Leeuw, Dutch television host
• 1963 - Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Japanese writer
• 1963 - Amparo Larrañaga, Spanish actress
• 1963 - Roch Voisine, Canadian singer and songwriter
• 1964 - Martin Donnelly, Irish racecar driver
• 1964 - Ulf Samuelsson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1966 - Nick Wirth, British engineer
• 1966 - Michael Imperioli, actor on The Sopranos
• 1968 - Kenny Chesney, American singer
• 1968 - James Iha, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle)
• 1968 - Laurent Brochard, French cyclist
• 1971 - Behzad Ghorbani, Iranian zoologist and sociobiologist
• 1972 - Jon Reep, American comedian and actor
• 1973 - Heather Goldenhersh, American actress
• 1973 - Lawrence E. Page, American search engine pioneer
• 1973 - T.R. Knight, American actor
• 1973 - Matt Burke, Australian Rugby Union player

• 1974 - Mike Peca, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1976 - Joachim Alcine, Haitian-born Quebec boxer
• 1976 - Amy Smart, American actress
• 1976 - Natalia Livingston, American Soap actress
• 1976 - Nurgül Yeşilçay, Turkish actress
• 1976 - Ufuk Talay, Australian soccer player
• 1977 - Kevin Davies, English footballer
• 1977 - Sylvain Grenier, Canadian professional wrestler
• 1978 - Anastasia Kostaki, Greek basketball player
• 1979 - Hiromi Uehara, Japanese jazz pianist
• 1979 - Pierre Wome, Cameroonian footballer
• 1981 - Baruch Dego, Israeli football player
• 1981 - Josh Wilson, American baseball player
• 1982 - Mikel Arteta, Spanish footballer
• 1983 - David Bennett, Canadian powerlifter and steamfitter
• 1983 - Michael Brendli, American professional wrestler
• 1984 - Gregory Strydom, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1984 - Stéphanie Lapointe, Canadian artist and singer, 2004 Star Académie winner
• 1984 - Sara Jean Underwood, American model
• 1985 - Keira Knightley, English actress
• 1985 - Prosper Utseya, Zimbabwean cricket captain
• 1985 - Jonathan Groff, American stage actor
• 1987 - Yui, Japanese musician
• 1991 - Brittney Wilson, Canadian actress

Deaths

• 304 - Saint Emmanuel, Christian martyr killed under Diocletian
• 922 - Al-Hallaj, Persian Sufi teacher and writer
• 1130 - King Sigurd I of Norway (b. ca. 1090)
• 1212 - King Sancho I of Portugal (b. 1154)
• 1517 - Heinrich Isaac, Flemish composer
• 1535 - Georg Tannstetter, Austrian scientist (b. 1482)
• 1546 - Thomas Elyot, English diplomat
• 1566 - Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer (b. 1510)
• 1649 - John Winthrop, second governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
• 1679 - Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (b. 1621)
• 1697 - Godfrey McCulloch, Scottish politician and murderer (executed) (b. 1640)
• 1726 - Sir John Vanbrugh, English dramatist (b. 1664)
• 1772 - Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (b. 1704)
• 1776 - Samuel Ward, American politician (b. 1725)
• 1780 - Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1713)
• 1793 - John Mudge, English physician (b. 1721)
• 1797 - James Hutton, Scottish geologist (b. 1726)
• 1814 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, namesake of the guillotine (b. 1738)
• 1827 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (b. 1770)
• 1858 - John Addison Thomas, American soldier (b. 1811)
• 1881 - Roman Sanguszko, Polish aristocrat (b. 1800)
• 1892 - Walt Whitman, American poet (b. 1819)
• 1902 - Cecil Rhodes, English explorer (b. 1853)
• 1905 - Maurice Barrymore, actor; patriarch of the Barrymore family (b. 1849)
• 1910 - Auguste Charlois, French astronomer (b. 1864)
• 1910 - An Jung-geun, Japanese assassin of Ito Hirobumi (executed) (b. 1879)
• 1920 - William Chester Minor, American surgeon and contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary (b. 1834)
• 1923 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (b. 1844)
• 1926 - Konstantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1852)
• 1929 - Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (b. 1859)
• 1933 - Eddie Lang, American musician (b. 1902)
• 1940 - Spiridon Louis, Greek runner, winner of the first modern Olympics marathon (b. 1873)
• 1942 - Jimmy Burke, American baseball player (b. 1874)
• 1945 - David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1863)
• 1951 - James F. Hinkle, American politician, sixth Governor of New Mexico (d. 1864)
• 1957 - Édouard Herriot, French politician (b. 1872)
• 1958 - Phil Mead, English cricketer (b. 1887)
• 1959 - Raymond Chandler, American-born novelist (b. 1888)
• 1969 - John Kennedy Toole, American author (b. 1937)
• 1973 - Noel Coward, English composer and playwright (b. 1899)
• 1973 - Johnny Drake, American football player (b. 1916)
• 1973 - Don Messer, Canadian fiddler (b. 1909)
• 1973 - George Sisler, American baseball player (b. 1893)
• 1976 - Josef Albers, German artist (b. 1888)
• 1976 - Lin Yutang, Chinese writer (b. 1895)
• 1978 - Wilfred Pickles, English actor and broadcaster (b. 1904)
• 1983 - Anthony Blunt, British art historian and spy (b. 1907)
• 1984 - Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (b. 1922)
• 1987 - Eugen Jochum, German conductor (b. 1902)
• 1990 - Halston, American fashion designer (b. 1932)
• 1992 - Barbara Frum, Canadian journalist (b. 1937)
• 1995 - Eazy-E, American rapper (b. 1963)
• 1996 - Edmund Muskie, American politician (b. 1914)
• 1996 - David Packard, American engineer and businessman (b. 1912)
• 1997 - Marshall Applewhite, American cult leader (b. 1931)
• 2000 - Alex Comfort, American author (b. 1920)
• 2002 - Randy Castillo, American drummer (Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe) (b. 1950)
• 2003 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator (b. 1927)
• 2004 - Jan Berry, American musician (Jan and Dean) (b. 1941)
• 2004 - Jan Sterling, American actress (b. 1921)
• 2005 - James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1912)
• 2005 - Gérard Filion, Quebec businessman and journalist (b. 1909)
• 2005 - Paul Hester, Australian drummer (Split Enz and Crowded House) (b. 1959)
• 2005 - Marius Russo, American baseball player (b. 1914)
• 2006 - Anil Biswas, Indian politician (b. 1944)
• 2006 - Paul Dana, American race car driver (b. 1975)
• 2006 - Nikki Sudden, British singer/songwriter (b. 1956)

Notes

Tinto Brass Ludwig van Beethoven Walt Whitman Erica Jong Raymond Chandler Pierre Boulez Gregory Corso Euthanasia Paris Commune Julius Eduard Hitzig Paul Morley Noel Coward Conrad Gessner Richard Dawkins Tennessee Williams John Ford Sarah Bernhardt John Kennedy Toole Josef Albers