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| *[[1888]] - [[Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau]], German film director (d. [[1931]]) | *[[1888]] - [[Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau]], German film director (d. [[1931]]) | ||
| - | *[[1898]] - [[Carl-Gustaf Rossby]], Swedish meteorologist (d. [[1957]]) | ||
| - | * 1898 - [[Shigematsu Sakaibara]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1947]]) | ||
| - | *[[1899]] - [[Eugeniusz Bodo]], Polish actor (d. [[1943]]) | ||
| - | *[[1902]] - [[Mortimer Adler]], American philosopher (d. [[2001]]) | ||
| - | * 1902 - [[Shen Congwen]], Chinese writer (d. [[1988]]) | ||
| - | *[[1903]] - [[Earl Hines]], American musician (d. [[1983]]) | ||
| - | * 1903 - [[John von Neumann]], Hungarian-born mathematician (d. [[1957]]) | ||
| - | *[[1905]] - [[Cliff Arquette]], American actor (d. [[1974]]) | ||
| - | *[[1908]] - [[Lew Ayres]], American actor (d. [[1996]]) | ||
| - | *[[1910]] - [[Billy Williams (singer)|Billy Williams]], American singer (d. [[1972]]) | ||
| - | *[[1913]] - [[Lou Jacobi]], Canadian actor | ||
| - | *[[1915]] - [[Pops Staples]], American musician ([[The Staple Singers]]) (d. [[2000]]) | ||
| - | *[[1922]] - [[Stan Lee]], American comic book writer | ||
| - | *[[1924]] - [[Milton Obote]], [[President of Uganda]] (d. [[2005]]) | ||
| *[[1925]] - [[Hildegard Knef]], German actress (d. [[2002]]) | *[[1925]] - [[Hildegard Knef]], German actress (d. [[2002]]) | ||
| - | *[[1928]] - [[Moe Koffman]], Canadian musician (d. [[2001]]) | ||
| - | *[[1929]] - [[Brian Redhead]], British journalist (d. [[1994]]) | ||
| - | * 1929 - [[Terry Sawchuk]], Canadian hockey player (d. [[1970]]) | ||
| *[[1931]] - [[Guy Debord]], French writer (d. [[1994]]) | *[[1931]] - [[Guy Debord]], French writer (d. [[1994]]) | ||
| - | *[[1932]] - [[Dhirubhai Ambani]], Indian businessman (d. [[2002]]) | + | *[[1932]] - [[Manuel Puig]], Argentine writer (d. [[1990]]) |
| - | * 1932 - [[Dorsey Burnette]], American singer (d. [[1979]]) | + | |
| - | * 1932 - [[Roy Hattersley]], British politician | + | |
| - | * 1932 - [[Harry Howell (ice hockey)|Harry Howell]], Canadian hockey player | + | |
| - | * 1932 - [[Nichelle Nichols]], American actress and singer | + | |
| - | * 1932 - [[Manuel Puig]], Argentine writer (d. [[1990]]) | + | |
| *[[1933]] - [[Nichelle Nichols]], American actress | *[[1933]] - [[Nichelle Nichols]], American actress | ||
| * 1933 - [[John Y. Brown, Jr.]], American politician | * 1933 - [[John Y. Brown, Jr.]], American politician | ||
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Art and culture
- 1895 - The Lumière brothers have their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines marking the debut of the cinema.
Births
- 1888 - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, German film director (d. 1931)
- 1925 - Hildegard Knef, German actress (d. 2002)
- 1931 - Guy Debord, French writer (d. 1994)
- 1932 - Manuel Puig, Argentine writer (d. 1990)
- 1933 - Nichelle Nichols, American actress
- 1933 - John Y. Brown, Jr., American politician
- 1934 - Dame Maggie Smith, British actress
- 1934 - Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (d. 1987)
- 1936 - Jacques Mesrine, French criminal (d. 1979)
- 1937 - Ratan Tata, Indian industrialist
- 1939 - Philip Anschutz, American businessman
- 1940 - Don Francisco, Chilean television host
- 1943 - Richard Whiteley, British television presenter (d. 2005)
- 1943 - David Peterson, Canadian politician
- 1944 - Johnny Isakson, American politician
- 1944 - Kary Mullis, American chemist, Nobel laureate
- 1946 - Edgar Winter, American musician
- 1946 - Pierre Falardeau, Quebec film director
- 1947 - Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican baseball player (d. 2000)
- 1950 - Alex Chilton, American musician (Box Tops)
- 1950 - Øivind Blunck, Norwegian comedian and actor
- 1951 - Ian Buruma, Anglo-Dutch scholar and writer on Japan and the Far East.
- 1952 - Arun Jaitley, Indian Politician
- 1953 - Richard Clayderman, French pianist
- 1954 - Denzel Washington, American actor
- 1956 - Nigel Kennedy, British violinist
- 1957 - Anne Sargeant, Australian netballer
- 1959 - Ana Torroja, Spanish singer (Mecano)
- 1959 - Phil Abrams, American actor
- 1960 - Raymond Bourque, Canadian hockey player
- 1962 - Rachel Z, American pianist
- 1962 - Michel Petrucciani, French pianist (d. 1999)
- 1962 - Melissa R. Kelly, former Maryland politician
- 1967 - Chris Ware, American cartoonist
- 1969 - Linus Torvalds, Finnish computer programmer
- 1970 - Francesca Le, American porn star
- 1971 - Frank Sepe, American bodybuilder
- 1971 - Benny Agbayani, American baseball player
- 1972 - Patrick Rafter, Australian tennis player
- 1972 - Adam Vinatieri, American football player
- 1973 - Herborg Kråkevik, Norwegian singer and actress
- 1973 - Seth Meyers, American actor
- 1974 - Jason Ridge, American porn actor
- 1975 - B.J. Ryan, American baseball player
- 1977 - Shane Elford, Australian sportsman
- 1978 - John Legend, American musician
- 1979 - James Blake, American tennis player
- 1979 - Bill Hall, American baseball player
- 1980 - Lomana LuaLua, Congo footballer
- 1980 - Vanessa Ferlito, American actress
- 1981 - Sienna Miller, British actress
- 1981 - Mika Väyrynen, Finnish footballer
- 1982 - Cedric Benson, American football player
- 1982 - Kevin Pereira, American television host
- 1982 - Quinton Porter, American football player
- 1983 - Mike He, Taiwanese actor
- 1984 - Leroy Lita, English footballer
- 1984 - Alex Lloyd, British racing driver
- 1986 - Tom Huddlestone, English footballer
- 1987 - Thomas Dekker, American actor
Deaths
- 300 - Theonas, Patriarch of Alexandria
- 1367 - Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (b. 1330)
- 1446 - Antipope Clement VIII
- 1503 - Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1471)
- 1558 - Hermann Finck, German composer (b. 1527)
- 1622 - Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva and saint (b. 1567)
- 1663 - Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1618)
- 1671 - Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (b. 1611)
- 1694 - Queen Mary II of England (b. 1662), of the famed joint monarchy William and Mary.
- 1703 - Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1664)
- 1706 - Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (b. 1647)
- 1708 - Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist (b. 1656)
- 1715 - William Carstares, Scottish minister (b. 1649)
- 1734 - Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (b. 1671)
- 1736 - Antonio Caldara, Italian composer (b. 1670)
- 1795 - Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian scientist (b. 1747)
- 1859 - Thomas Macaulay, British poet (b. 1800)
- 1872 - James Van Ness, Mayor of San Francisco (1855-1856) (b. 1808)
- 1877 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (b. 1821)
- 1900 - Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto, Portuguese explorer (b. 1846)
- 1916 - Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (b. 1835)
- 1917 - Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian World War One flying ace (b. 1892)
- 1918 - Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet (b. 1865)
- 1919 - Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (b. 1854)
- 1924 - Léon Bakst, Russian artist (b. 1866)
- 1925 - Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (b. 1895)
- 1932 - Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer (b. 1854)
- 1937 - Maurice Ravel, French composer (b. 1875)
- 1938 - Florence Lawrence, American actress (b. 1886)
- 1943 - Steve Evans, American baseball player (b. 1885)
- 1945 - Theodore Dreiser, American author (b. 1871)
- 1947 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (b. 1869)
- 1949 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (b. 1910)
- 1952 - Fletcher Henderson, American musician (b. 1897)
- 1962 - Kathleen Clifford, American actress (b. 1887)
- 1963 - Paul Hindemith, German composer (b. 1895)
- 1967 - Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist (b. 1875)
- 1971 - Max Steiner, Austrian-born American film music composer (b. 1888)
- 1976 - Katharine Byron, American politician (b. 1903)
- 1976 - Freddie King, American musician (b. 1934)
- 1981 - Allan Dwan, Canadian-born film director (b. 1885)
- 1983 - William Demarest, American actor (b. 1892)
- 1983 - Jimmy Demaret, American golfer (b. 1910)
- 1983 - Dennis Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1944)
- 1984 - Sam Peckinpah, American film director (b. 1925)
- 1986 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian film director (b. 1932)
- 1989 - Hermann Oberth, German physicist (b. 1894)
- 1991 - Cassandra Harris, Australian actress (b. 1952)
- 1992 - Sal Maglie, American baseball player (b. 1917)
- 1994 - Jean-Louis Lévesque, French Canadian entrepreneur (b. 1911)
- 1999 - Clayton Moore, American actor (b. 1914)
- 2001 - Samuel A. Goldblith, American food scientist (b. 1919)
- 2001 - William X. Kienzle, American novelist (b. 1928)
- 2003 - Benjamin Hacker, American admiral (b. 1935)
- 2004 - Jerry Orbach, American actor (b. 1935)
- 2004 - Susan Sontag, American writer (b. 1933)
- 2006 - Jamal Karimi-Rad, Iranian Minister of Justice (b. 1956)
Notes
Susan Sontag
Guy Debord
A. J. Liebling
Walther Ruttmann
Chris Ware
Max Beckmann
Maurice Ravel
Félix Vallotton
Henri de Régnier
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Ian Buruma
The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station
Sam Peckinpah
Manuel Puig
Precursors of film
Theodore Dreiser
Lonnie Liston Smith
Léon Bakst
Alasdair Gray
Alex Chilton
Pierre Clémenti
Ed van der Elsken
Hori Tatsuo
Sensation (exhibition)
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