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| *[[1898]] - [[Bertolt Brecht]], German author (d. [[1956]]) | *[[1898]] - [[Bertolt Brecht]], German author (d. [[1956]]) | ||
| * 1898 - [[Joseph Kessel]], French journalist and novelist (d. [[1979]]) | * 1898 - [[Joseph Kessel]], French journalist and novelist (d. [[1979]]) | ||
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| - | *[[1901]] - [[Stella Adler]], American actress (d. [[1992]]) | ||
| - | *[[1902]] - [[Walter Houser Brattain]], [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize Laureate]] (d. [[1987]]) | ||
| - | *[[1903]] - [[Waldemar Hoven]], German physician (d. [[1948]]) | ||
| - | * 1903 - [[Matthias Sindelar]], Austrian footballer (d. [[1939]]) | ||
| - | *[[1904]] - [[John Farrow]], American film director (d. [[1963]]) | ||
| - | *[[1906]] - [[Lon Chaney Jr.]], American actor (d. [[1973]]) | ||
| - | * 1906 - [[Erik Rhodes (actor)|Erik Rhodes]], American actor (d. [[1990]]) | ||
| - | *[[1910]] - [[Georges Pire]], [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize Laureate]] (d. [[1969]]) | ||
| - | *[[1914]] - [[Larry Adler]], American musician (d. [[2001]]) | ||
| - | *[[1920]] - [[Alex Comfort]], physician and writer (d. [[2000]]) | ||
| - | *[[1924]] - [[Bud Poile]], [[National Hockey League]] player, coach, manager and executive (d. [[2005]]) | ||
| - | *[[1926]] - [[Danny Blanchflower]], Northern Irish footballer (d. [[1993]]) | ||
| - | *[[1927]] - [[Leontyne Price]], American soprano | ||
| - | * 1927 - [[Brian Priestman]], British conductor | ||
| - | *[[1929]] - [[Jerry Goldsmith]], American composer (d. [[2004]]) | ||
| - | *[[1930]] - [[Robert Wagner]], American actor | ||
| *[[1931]] - [[Thomas Bernhard]], Austrian author (d. [[1989]]) | *[[1931]] - [[Thomas Bernhard]], Austrian author (d. [[1989]]) | ||
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| *[[1933]] - [[Richard Schickel]], American film critic | *[[1933]] - [[Richard Schickel]], American film critic | ||
| *[[1934]] - [[Fleur Adcock]], New Zealand poet | *[[1934]] - [[Fleur Adcock]], New Zealand poet | ||
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Births
- 1609 - John Suckling, English poet (d. 1642)
- 1795 - Ary Scheffer, French painter (d. 1858)
- 1890 - Boris Pasternak, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1960)
- 1898 - Bertolt Brecht, German author (d. 1956)
- 1898 - Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist (d. 1979)
- 1931 - Thomas Bernhard, Austrian author (d. 1989)
- 1933 - Richard Schickel, American film critic
- 1934 - Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet
- 1935 - John Alcorn (artist), American designer and illustrator (d. 1992)
- 1937 - Roberta Flack, American singer
- 1939 - Adrienne Clarkson, 26th Governor General of Canada
- 1940 - Mary Rand, British athlete
- 1941 - Michael Apted, British director
- 1944 - Peter Allen, Australian singer and actor (d. 1992)
- 1944 - Frank Keating, American politician
- 1944 - Rufus Reid, American musician
- 1944 - Vernor Vinge, American novelist
- 1947 - Louise Arbour, Canadian judge
- 1947 - Butch Morris, American jazz cornetist, composer and conductor
- 1947 - Nicholas Owen, English newsreader
- 1948 - Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (d. 1994)
- 1949 - Jim Corcoran, Quebec singer and songwriter
- 1949 - Maxime Le Forestier, French singer
- 1949 - Nigel Olsson, drummer
- 1949 - Harold Sylvester, American actor
- 1950 - Mark Spitz, American swimmer
- 1951 - Robert Iger, President/CEO of The Walt Disney Company
- 1952 - Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore
- 1954 - Larry McWilliams, baseball player
- 1955 - Chris Adams, British pro wrestler and judoka (d. 2001)
- 1955 - Jim Cramer, American television personality
- 1955 - Greg Norman, Australian golfer
- 1958 - Michael Weiss, American musician
- 1959 - Dennis Gentry, American football player
- 1960 - Robert Addie, British actor (d. 2003)
- 1961 - Alexander Payne, American film director
- 1961 - George Stephanopoulos, American political commentator
- 1962 - Cliff Burton, American musician (d. 1986)
- 1962 - Bobby Czyz, American boxer
- 1962 - Piero Pelù, Italian singer and song-writer, leader of Litfiba from 1980 to 1999
- 1963 - Lenny Dykstra, baseball player
- 1964 - Glenn Beck, radio and television host
- 1964 - Victor Davis, Canadian Olympic swimmer (d. 1989)
- 1964 - Arthur Lenk, Israeli diplomat
- 1964 - Francesca Neri, Italian actress
- 1965 - Mario Jean, Quebec stand up comedian and television actor
- 1967 - Laura Dern, American actress
- 1967 - Jacky Durand, French cyclist
- 1967 - Armand Serrano, Filipino Animator
- 1968 - Atika Suri, Indonesian television newscaster
- 1969 - Joe Mangrum, American artist
- 1970 - Alberto Castillo, Dominican baseball player
- 1970 - Nobushige Kumakubo, Japanese racing driver
- 1970 - Noureddine Naybet, Moroccan footballer
- 1970 - Myrea Pettit, British illustrator
- 1970 - Åsne Seierstad, Norwegian journalist
- 1971 - Louie Spicolli, American wrestler (d. 1998)
- 1971 - Lisa Marie Varon, American professional wrestler
- 1974 - Ty Law, American football player
- 1975 - Amber Frey, American witness
- 1975 - Kool Savas, German rapper
- 1975 - Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese born baseball player
- 1976 - Lance Berkman, baseball player
- 1976 - Kev Brown, American rapper/producer
- 1977 - Salif Diao, Senegalese footballer
- 1978 - Lorna Bailey, English ceramic designer
- 1978 - Don Omar, Puerto Rican singer
- 1979 - Daryl Palumbo, American musician
- 1979 - Ross Powers, American snowboarder
- 1980 - César Izturis, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1980 - Mike Ribeiro, National Hockey League player
- 1980 - Steve Tully, English footballer
- 1981 - Natasha St-Pier, Canadian singer
- 1981 - The Reverend Tholomew Plague, drummer from Avenged Sevenfold
- 1981 - Andrew Johnson, English footballer
- 1982 - Keith Dunne, Irish footballer
- 1982 - Justin Gatlin, American sprinter
- 1982 - Iafeta Paleaaesina, New Zealand rugby league player
- 1984 - Alex Gordon, American baseball player
- 1984 - Kim Hyo-jin, South Korean actress
- 1985 - Anette Sagen, Norwegian ski jumper
- 1987 - Choi Si Won, actor/singer, member of Korean boyband Super Junior
- 1991 - Emma Roberts, American actress
- 1994 - Makenzie Vega, American actress
- 1995 - Taha Noman, Pakistani footballer
- 1997 - Chloe Moretz, American actress
Deaths
- 1126 - William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, poet (b. 1071)
- 1162 - King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
- 1242 - Emperor Shijō of Japan (b. 1231)
- 1278 - Margaret II of Flanders (b. 1202)
- 1576 - Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (b. 1532)
- 1686 - William Dugdale, English antiquarian (b. 1605)
- 1722 - Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (b. 1682)
- 1755 - Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689)
- 1758 - Thomas Ripley, English architect
- 1782 - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (b. 1702)
- 1829 - Pope Leo XII (b. 1760)
- 1837 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and novelist (b. 1799)
- 1857 - David Thompson, Canadian explorer (b. 1770)
- 1865 - Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804)
- 1891 - Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)
- 1904 - John A. Roche, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1844)
- 1906 - Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman (E.B. Eddy Company) and politician (b. 1827)
- 1912 - Joseph Lister, British surgeon (b. 1827)
- 1917 - John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849)
- 1918 - Abdul Hamid II Ottoman Sultan (b. 1842)
- 1918 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1833)
- 1923 - Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1845)
- 1932 - Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1875)
- 1939 - Pope Pius XI (b. 1857)
- 1944 - Eugène Michel Antoniadi, Greek astronomer, a crater on Mars and the Antoniadi crater on the Moon were named in his honor (b. 1870)
- 1950 - Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (b. 1872)
- 1952 - Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1880)
- 1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)
- 1960 - Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
- 1964 - Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905)
- 1966 - Billy Rose, American composer and band leader (b. 1899)
- 1975 - Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (b. 1910)
- 1984 - David Von Erich, professional wrestler (b. 1958)
- 1985 - Johnny Mokan, baseball player (b. 1895)
- 1987 - Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi, Pakistani painter, calligrapher and artist (b. 1930)
- 1992 - Alex Haley, American author (b. 1921)
- 1993 - Fred Hollows, New Zealand ophthalmologist (b. 1929)
- 1997 - Matthew Eappen of Newton Massachusetts (b. 1996)
- 2000 - Jim Varney, American actor (b. 1949)
- 2001 - Abraham Beame, Mayor of New York City (b. 1906)
- 2001 - George Holmes Tate, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (b. 1913)
- 2002 - Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler's secretary (b. 1920)
- 2002 - Dave Van Ronk, American folk singer/songwriter (b. 1936)
- 2003 - Edgar de Evia, American photographer (b. 1910)
- 2003 - Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (b. 1959)
- 2003 - Clark MacGregor, United States Congressman from Minnesota (b. 1922)
- 2003 - Al Ruffo, Mayor of San Jose, California (b. 1908)
- 2003 - Ron Ziegler, press secretary to Richard Nixon (b. 1939)
- 2004 - Guy Provost, Quebec actor (b. 1925)
- 2005 - Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)
- 2006 - J Dilla, American rapper/producer (b. 1974)
- 2006 - Dick Harmon, American golf instructor (b. 1947)
- 2007 - Jung Da Bin, South Korean actress (b. 1980)
- 2007 - Ned Austin, American character actor (b. 1925)
notes
Honoré Daumier
Lon Chaney, Jr.
Marcel Mauss
Bertolt Brecht
List of Belgian painters
Charles Henri Ford
King Kong
Edgar Wallace
Alexander Pushkin
Boris Pasternak
Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu
John Suckling
Thomas Ruff
Atsuko Tanaka (artist)
Jørgen Nash
Ary Scheffer
Joseph Kessel
Francesco Hayez
Arthur Miller
Max Pécas
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