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| *[[1930]] - [[Silvana Mangano]], the sexiest actress of Italy's neo-realistic period. | *[[1930]] - [[Silvana Mangano]], the sexiest actress of Italy's neo-realistic period. | ||
| *[[1947]] - [[Iggy Pop]], American musician ([[The Stooges]]) | *[[1947]] - [[Iggy Pop]], American musician ([[The Stooges]]) | ||
| - | + | *[[1963]] – [[John Cameron Mitchell]], American film director | |
| + | *[[1966]] – [[Michael Franti]], American musician | ||
| + | *[[1979]] – [[James McAvoy]], Scottish actor | ||
| == Deaths == | == Deaths == | ||
| + | *[[1142]] – [[Pierre Abélard]], French writer (b. 1079) | ||
| *[[1910]] - [[Mark Twain]], famous and popular American humorist. | *[[1910]] - [[Mark Twain]], famous and popular American humorist. | ||
| *[[2003]] - [[Nina Simone]], an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist. (b. [[1933]]) | *[[2003]] - [[Nina Simone]], an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist. (b. [[1933]]) | ||
| - | *[[1864]] – [[Max Weber]], German economist and sociologist (d. 1920) | ||
| - | *[[1879]] – [[Kartini]], Indonesian national figure (d. 1904) | ||
| - | *[[1882]] – [[Percy Williams Bridgman]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel laureate]] (d. 1961) | ||
| - | *[[1887]] – [[Joe McCarthy (baseball)|Joe McCarthy]], American baseball manager (d. 1978) | ||
| - | *[[1889]] – [[Paul Karrer]], Swiss chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel laureate]] (d. 1971) | ||
| - | *[[1898]] – [[Maurice Wilson]], [[Everest]] climber, [[Yorkshire]] hero (d. 1934) | ||
| - | *[[1904]] – [[Odilo Globocnik]], Austrian Nazi (d. 1945) | ||
| - | *[[1905]] – [[Pat Brown]], American politician (d. 1996) | ||
| - | *[[1911]] – [[Ivan Combe]], American inventor (d. 2000) | ||
| - | *[[1912]] – [[Marcel Camus]], French film director (d. 1982) | ||
| - | *[[1914]] – [[Norman Panama]], American screenwriter (d. 2003) | ||
| - | *[[1915]] – [[Anthony Quinn]], Mexican-born American actor (d. 2001) | ||
| - | * 1915 – [[Garrett Hardin]], American ecologist (d. 2003) | ||
| - | *[[1919]] – [[Don Cornell]], American singer (d. 2004) | ||
| - | *[[1920]] – [[Edmund Adamkiewicz]], German footballer (d. 1991) | ||
| - | * 1920 – [[Ronald Magill]], British actor (d. 2007) | ||
| - | *[[1923]] – [[John Mortimer]], English barrister and writer (d. 2009) | ||
| - | *[[1924]] – [[Ira Louvin]], Country music singer, songwriter, and musician (d. 1965) | ||
| - | *[[1925]] – [[Anthony Mason (judge)|Sir Anthony Mason]], former Chief Justice of Australia | ||
| - | *[[1926]] – [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom]] | ||
| - | *[[1926]] – [[Arthur Rowley]], English Footballer (d. 2002) | ||
| - | *[[1927]] – [[Gerald Flood]], British actor (d. 1989) | ||
| - | *[[1930]] – [[Silvana Mangano]], Italian actress (d. 1989) | ||
| - | *[[1932]] – [[Elaine May]], American comedian | ||
| - | *[[1935]] – [[Charles Grodin]], American actor | ||
| - | * 1935 – [[Thomas Kean]], American politician | ||
| - | *[[1936]] – [[James Dobson]], American evangelist | ||
| - | *[[1938]] – [[Ernie Maresca]], American singer and record executive | ||
| - | *[[1939]] – [[Helen Prejean]], American writer | ||
| - | *[[1944]] – [[Adrian Hurley]], Australian basketball coach | ||
| - | *[[1945]] – [[Diana Darvey]], British actress, singer and dancer (d. 2000) | ||
| - | *[[1947]] – [[Iggy Pop]], American musician ([[The Stooges]]) | ||
| - | * 1947 – [[John Weider]], British rock musician ([[Eric Burdon and the Animals]], [[Family (band)|Family]]) | ||
| - | *[[1948]] – [[Gary Condit]], American politician | ||
| - | * 1948 – [[Paul Davis (singer)|Paul Davis]], American singer | ||
| - | *[[1949]] – [[Patti LuPone]], American singer and actress | ||
| - | *[[1951]] – [[Tony Danza]], American actor and comedian | ||
| - | * 1951 – [[Michael Hartley Freedman]], American mathematician | ||
| - | * 1951 – [[Robert Gotobed]], English drummer ([[Wire (band)|Wire]]) | ||
| - | * 1951 – [[Steve Vickers (ice hockey)|Steve Vickers]], Canadian ice hockey player | ||
| - | *[[1954]] – [[James Morrison (actor)|James Morrison]], American actor | ||
| - | * 1954 – [[Ebiet G. Ade]], Indonesian singer | ||
| - | *[[1956]] – [[Phillip Longman]], American demographer | ||
| - | *[[1957]] – [[Edward Leslie]], American professional wrestler | ||
| - | *[[1958]] – [[Andie MacDowell]], American actress | ||
| - | * 1958 – [[Michael Zarnock]], American author and columnist | ||
| - | * 1958 – [[Yoshito Usui]], Japanese [[mangaka|manga artist]] | ||
| - | *[[1959]] – [[Robert Smith (musician)|Robert Smith]], British musician ([[The Cure]]) | ||
| - | * 1959 – [[Jerry Only]], American musician ([[Misfits (band)|The Misfits]]) | ||
| - | * 1959 – [[Michael Timmins]], Canadian musician ([[Cowboy Junkies]]) | ||
| - | *[[1959]] – [[Tim Jacobus]], American artist ([[Goosebumps]]) | ||
| - | *[[1960]] – [[Michel Goulet]], Canadian ice hockey player | ||
| - | *[[1962]] – [[Les Lancaster]], American baseball player | ||
| - | *[[1963]] – [[Ken Caminiti]], American baseball player (d. 2004) | ||
| - | * 1963 – [[Roy Dupuis]], Canadian actor | ||
| - | * 1963 – [[John Cameron Mitchell]], American film director | ||
| - | *[[1964]] – [[Alex Baumann]], Canadian Olympic swimmer | ||
| - | * 1964 – [[Ludmila Engquist]], Russian-born Swedish athlete | ||
| - | *[[1965]] – [[Ed Belfour]], Canadian ice hockey player | ||
| - | * 1965 – [[Karen Foster]], American model ([[Playboy]]) | ||
| - | * 1965 – [[Fiona Kelleghan]], American academic and critic | ||
| - | *[[1966]] – [[Michael Franti]], American musician | ||
| - | *[[1969]] – [[Robin Meade]], American reporter | ||
| - | *[[1970]] – [[Glen Hansard]], Irish songwriter and actor | ||
| - | * 1970 – [[Rob Riggle]], American comedian | ||
| - | * 1970 – [[Nicole Sullivan]], American actress | ||
| - | *[[1971]] – [[Alexander Kravchenko]], Russian professional poker player | ||
| - | * 1971 – [[Hasan Akbar case|Hasan Akbar]], American convicted murderer | ||
| - | * 1971 – [[Michael Turner (artist)|Michael Turner]], American comic book artist | ||
| - | *[[1972]] – [[Gwendal Peizerat]], French ice dancer | ||
| - | * 1972 – [[Severina Vučković]], [[Croatia]]n singer | ||
| - | *[[1973]] – [[Jonathan Nsenga]], Belgian athlete | ||
| - | *[[1976]] – [[Rommel Adducul]], Filipino basketball player | ||
| - | *[[1977]] – [[Jamie Salé]], Canadian figure skater | ||
| - | * 1977 – [[Doseone]], American rapper | ||
| - | *[[1978]] – [[Jacob Burns (footballer)|Jacob Burns]], Australian footballer | ||
| - | * 1978 – [[Jukka Nevalainen]], Finnish drummer ([[Nightwish]]) | ||
| - | * 1978 – [[Branden Steineckert]], American drummer ([[Rancid (band)|Rancid]]), ([[The Used]]) | ||
| - | *[[1979]] – [[James McAvoy]], Scottish actor | ||
| - | *[[1980]] – [[Vincent Lecavalier]], Canadian hockey player | ||
| - | * 1980 – [[Tony Romo]], American football player | ||
| - | * 1980 – [[Jeff Keppinger]], American baseball player | ||
| - | *[[1981]] – [[Stephanie Larimore]], American model | ||
| - | *[[1982]] – [[Carnell Williams|Carnell "Cadillac" Williams]], American football player | ||
| - | *[[1983]] – [[Paweł Brożek]], Polish footballer | ||
| - | *[[1986]] – [[Audra Cohen]], American tennis player | ||
| - | * 1986 – [[Alexander Edler]], Swedish hockey player | ||
| - | *[[1987]] – [[Nadif Chowdhury]], Bangladeshi cricketer | ||
| - | * 1987 – [[Eric Devendorf]], American basketball player | ||
| - | *[[1988]] – [[Robbie Amell]], Canadian actor | ||
| - | * 1988 – [[Pedro Mosquera Parada|Pedro Mosquera]], Spanish footballer | ||
| - | *[[2007]] – [[Princess Isabella of Denmark]] | ||
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| ==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
| *[[1073]] – [[Pope Alexander II]] | *[[1073]] – [[Pope Alexander II]] | ||
| *[[1109]] – [[Anselm of Canterbury]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] | *[[1109]] – [[Anselm of Canterbury]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] | ||
| - | *[[1142]] – [[Pierre Abélard]], French writer (b. 1079) | ||
| *[[1329]] – [[Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine]] (b. 1282) | *[[1329]] – [[Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine]] (b. 1282) | ||
| *[[1509]] – King [[Henry VII of England]] (b. 1457) | *[[1509]] – King [[Henry VII of England]] (b. 1457) | ||
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Events
- 1966 – Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
Births
- 1555 - Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1619)
- 1816 – Charlotte Brontë, English author (d. 1855)
- 1864 - Max Weber, German political economist and sociologist.
- 1870 – Edwin S. Porter, American film pioneer (d. 1941)
- 1930 - Silvana Mangano, the sexiest actress of Italy's neo-realistic period.
- 1947 - Iggy Pop, American musician (The Stooges)
- 1963 – John Cameron Mitchell, American film director
- 1966 – Michael Franti, American musician
- 1979 – James McAvoy, Scottish actor
Deaths
- 1142 – Pierre Abélard, French writer (b. 1079)
- 1910 - Mark Twain, famous and popular American humorist.
- 2003 - Nina Simone, an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist. (b. 1933)
Deaths
- 1073 – Pope Alexander II
- 1109 – Anselm of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1329 – Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1282)
- 1509 – King Henry VII of England (b. 1457)
- 1551 – Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
- 1557 – Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (b. 1495)
- 1574 – Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1519)
- 1699 – Jean Racine, French dramatist (b. 1639)
- 1701 – Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (b. 1667)
- 1719 – Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and historian (b. 1640)
- 1720 – Antoine Hamilton, French writer (b. 1646)
- 1722 – Robert Beverley, Jr., historian of Colonial Virginia (b. 1673)
- 1792 – Tiradentes, Brazilian revolutionary (b. 1746)
- 1793 – John Michell, English seismologist (b. 1724)
- 1815 – Joseph Winston, U.S. Congressman from North Carolina (b. 1746)
- 1825 – Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathemattician (b. 1765)
- 1852 – Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (b. 1787)
- 1868 – Henry James O'Farrell, Australian would-be assassin of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh
- 1910 – Mark Twain, American author and humorist (b. 1835)
- 1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, German pilot (b. 1892)
- 1922 – Alessandro Moreschi, Italian castrato (b. 1858)
- 1924 – Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (b. 1858)
- 1930 – Robert Bridges, English poet (b. 1844)
- 1938 – Allama Iqbal, Indian philosopher and poet (b. 1877)
- 1945 – Walter Model, German field marshal (b. 1891)
- 1946 – John Maynard Keynes, English economist (b. 1883)
- 1956 – Charles MacArthur, American writer (b. 1895)
- 1965 – Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
- 1971 – François "Papa Doc" Duvalier, Haitian dictator (b. 1907)
- 1973 – Arthur Fadden, thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
- 1974 – Charles "Chic" Harley, American football player (b. 1895)
- 1977 – Gummo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1892)
- 1978 – Sandy Denny, British vocalist (b. 1947)
- 1978 – Thomas Wyatt Turner, American civil rights advocate and agricultural engineer (b. 1877)
- 1980 – Aleksandr Oparin, Russian biochemist (b. 1894)
- 1980 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (b. 1928)
- 1983 – Walter Slezak, Austrian actor (b. 1902)
- 1985 – Rudi Gernreich, Austrian fashion designer (b. 1922)
- 1985 – Foster Hewitt, Canadian radio pioneer (b. 1902)
- 1985 – Tancredo de Almeida Neves, Brazil banker and elected president (b. 1910)
- 1986 – Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (b. 1930)
- 1989 – Princess Dukhye of Korea (b. 1912)
- 1990 – Erté, French artist (b. 1892)
- 1991 – Willi Boskovsky, Austrian violinist and conductor (b. 1909)
- 1996 – Dzhokhar Dudaev, Chechen leader (b. 1944)
- 1998 – Jean Francois Lyotard, French philosopher and sociologist (b. 1924)
- 1996 – Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder, American bookie and sports broadcaster (b. 1919)
- 1999 – Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, American actor and musician (b. 1904)
- 2000 – Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer (b. 1929)
- 2003 – Nina Simone, American singer and pianist (b. 1933)
- 2004 – Mary McGrory, American journalist (b. 1918)
- 2005 – Gerry Marshall, British racing driver (b. 1941)
- 2006 – T.K. Ramakrishnan, Indian politician (b. 1922)
- 2006 – Telê Santana, Brazilian football manager and former player (b. 1931)
- 2007 – Lobby Loyde, Australian guitarist and songwriter (b. 1941)
- 2008 – Al Wilson, American singer (b. 1939)
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