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| *[[1895]] - [[Mikhail Bakhtin]], Russian philosopher (d. [[1975]]) | *[[1895]] - [[Mikhail Bakhtin]], Russian philosopher (d. [[1975]]) | ||
| - | * 1895 - [[Gregorio López y Fuentes]], Mexican author (d. [[1966]]) | ||
| - | *[[1896]] - [[Lev Vygotsky]], Russian psychologist (d. [[1934]]) | ||
| - | *[[1897]] - [[Frank Fay(U.S.-born)|Frank Fay]], American actor (d. [[1961]]) | ||
| - | *[[1899]] - [[Douglas Shearer]], Canadian film sound engineer (d. [[1971]]) | ||
| - | *[[1901]] - [[Walter Hallstein]], German politician (d. [[1982]]) | ||
| - | * 1901 - [[Lee Strasberg]], Austrian director (d. [[1982]]) | ||
| - | *[[1902]] - [[Eugene Wigner]], Hungarian physicist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1995]]) | ||
| *[[1904]] - [[Isamu Noguchi]], American sculptor (d. [[1988]]) | *[[1904]] - [[Isamu Noguchi]], American sculptor (d. [[1988]]) | ||
| - | *[[1905]] - Queen [[Astrid of the Belgians]] (d. [[1935]]) | ||
| - | * 1905 - [[Mischa Auer]], American actor (d. [[1967]]) | ||
| - | *[[1906]] - [[Soichiro Honda]], Japanese automobile pioneer (d. [[1992]]) | ||
| - | * 1906 - [[Rollie Stiles]], American baseball player (d. [[2007]]) | ||
| - | *[[1907]] - [[Israel Regardie]], [[Aleister Crowley]]'s secretary (d. [[1985]]) | ||
| - | *[[1911]] - [[Christian Fouchet]], French diplomat (d. [[1974]]) | ||
| - | *[[1916]] - [[Shelby Foote]], American historian (d. [[2005]]) | ||
| - | *[[1920]] - [[Camillo Felgen]], Luxembourgish singer (d. [[2005]]) | ||
| - | *[[1922]] - [[Stanley Cohen (doctor)|Stanley Cohen]], American biochemist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] | ||
| - | *[[1923]] - [[Bert Sutcliffe]], New Zealand cricketer (d. [[2001]]) | ||
| - | * 1923 - [[Hubertus Brandenburg]], Roman Catholic Bishop of Stockholm | ||
| - | *[[1925]] - [[Rock Hudson]], American actor (d. [[1985]]) | ||
| - | * 1925 - [[Charles Mackerras]], Australian-born conductor | ||
| - | *[[1927]] - [[Robert Brown (US actor)|Robert Brown]], American actor | ||
| - | *[[1928]] - [[Rance Howard]], American actor | ||
| - | *[[1929]] - [[Norm Zauchin]], baseball player (d. [[1999]]) | ||
| - | *[[1930]] - [[Bob Mathias]], American decathlete (d. [[2006]]) | ||
| - | *[[1935]] - [[Bobby Joe Conrad]], American football player | ||
| - | *[[1935]] - [[Toni Sailer]], Austrian skier | ||
| - | *[[1936]] - [[Dahlia Ravikovitch]], Israeli poet (d. [[2005]]) | ||
| *[[1937]] - [[Peter Cook]], British comedian (d. [[1995]]) | *[[1937]] - [[Peter Cook]], British comedian (d. [[1995]]) | ||
| *[[1938]] - [[Gordon Lightfoot]], Canadian singer | *[[1938]] - [[Gordon Lightfoot]], Canadian singer | ||
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Births
- 1895 - Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (d. 1975)
- 1904 - Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor (d. 1988)
- 1937 - Peter Cook, British comedian (d. 1995)
- 1938 - Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer
- 1939 - Auberon Waugh, British author (d. 2001)
- 1940 - Luke Kelly, Irish folk music singer and banjo player
- 1942 - Martin Scorsese, American film director
- 1942 - Khang Khek Leu, Cambodian politician
- 1943 - Lauren Hutton, American actress
- 1944 - Jim Boeheim, Hall of Fame Coach
- 1944 - Danny DeVito, American actor
- 1944 - Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect
- 1944 - Lorne Michaels, Canadian producer
- 1944 - Tom Seaver, baseball player
- 1944 - Gene Clark, American singer and songwriter (The Byrds) (d. 1991)
- 1945 - Elvin Hayes, American basketball player
- 1945 - Roland Joffé, Anglo-French film director
- 1946 - Terry E. Branstad, Governor of Iowa
- 1946 - Martin Barre, English rock musician (Jethro Tull)
- 1947 - Steven E. de Souza, American scriptwriter
- 1947 - Inky Mark, Canadian politician
- 1948 - Howard Dean, American politician
- 1949 - Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, Prime Minister of Vietnam
- 1950 - Tom Walkinshaw, British businessman
- 1951 - Stephen Root, American actor
- 1951 - Dean Paul Martin, American singer and actor (d. 1987)
- 1952 - Ties Kruize, Dutch field hockey player
- 1954 - Mark Brandon Read, Australian criminal
- 1955 - Dennis Maruk, Canadian hockey player
- 1955 - Yolanda King, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 2007)
- 1957 - Debbie Thrower, BBC News Reader
- 1958 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress
- 1960 - Jonathan Ross, British presenter
- 1960 - Kirk Fogg, host of Legends of the Hidden Temple
- 1960 - RuPaul, American drag entertainer
- 1962 - Dédé Fortin, Quebec singer (Les Colocs) (d. 2000)
- 1964 - Ralph Garman, American actor and radio personality
- 1964 - Mitch Williams, Major League Baseball player
- 1965 - Amanda Brown, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens) and composer
- 1966 - Jeff Buckley, American musician (d. 1997)
- 1966 - Sophie Marceau, French actress
- 1966 - Daisy Fuentes, Cuban model and actress
- 1966 - Kate Ceberano, Australian singer
- 1966 - Richard Fortus, American guitarist (Guns N' Roses)
- 1968 - Amber Michaels, German porn actress
- 1969 - Jean-Michel Saive, Belgian table tennis player
- 1969 - Ryotaro Okiayu, Japanese voice actor
- 1970 - Paul Allender, British guitarist (Cradle of Filth)
- 1972 - Leonard Roberts, American actor
- 1973 - Eli Marrero, American baseball player
- 1973 - Bernd Schneider, German footballer
- 1973 - Alexei Urmanov, Russian figure skater
- 1974 - Leslie Bibb, American actress
- 1975 - Lord Infamous, Rapper
- 1975 - Diane Neal, American actress
- 1976 - Brandon Call, American actor
- 1977 - Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer
- 1978 - Reggie Wayne, American football player
- 1979 - Brad Bradley, American professional wrestler
- 1979 - Matthew Spring, English footballer
- 1980 - Isaac Hanson, American musician (Hanson)
- 1980 - Mercedes Martinez, professional wrestler
- 1981 - Sarah Harding, English singer (Girls Aloud)
- 1982 - Katie Feenstra, American basketball player
- 1983 - Yiannis Bourousis, Greek basketball player
- 1983 - Ryan Braun, American baseball player
- 1983 - Nick Markakis, American baseball player
- 1983 - Christopher Paolini, American novelist
- 1986 - Nani, Portuguese football player
- 1990 - Shanica Knowles, American actress
- 1992 - Darian Weiss, American actor
- 1994 - Raquel Castro, American actress
Deaths
- 375 - Valentinian I, Roman Emperor (b. 321)
- 594 - Gregory of Tours, bishop and historian (b. c.539)
- 641 - Emperor Jomei of Japan (b. 593)
- 680 - Hilda of Whitby (b. 614)
- 885 - Queen Liutgard
- 1231 - Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1207)
- 1302 - St. Gertrude the Great (b. 1256)
- 1326 - Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285)
- 1494 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)
- 1558 - Mary I of England (b. 1516)
- 1558 - Reginald Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1500)
- 1562 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (b. 1518)
- 1592 - John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
- 1600 - Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (b. 1542)
- 1632 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594)
- 1643 - Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, Marshal of France (b. 1602)
- 1648 - Thomas Ford, English composer
- 1665 - John Earle, English bishop
- 1668 - Joseph Alleine, English preacher (b. 1634)
- 1690 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (b. 1610)
- 1708 - Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch painter (b. 1631)
- 1713 - Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653)
- 1720 - Calico Jack, English pirate
- 1747 - Alain-René Lesage, French writer (b. 1668)
- 1768 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1693)
- 1776 - James Ferguson, British astronomer (b. 1710)
- 1780 - Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter (b. 1720)
- 1794 - Jacques François Dugommier, French general (b. 1738)
- 1796 - Catherine II of Russia, Empress of Russia (b. 1729)
- 1808 - David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (b. 1721)
- 1835 - Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1758)
- 1849 - Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest and miracle-worker (b. 1794)
- 1858 - Robert Owen, British father of the cooperative movement (b. 1771)
- 1897 - George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (b. 1820)
- 1902 - Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist Social Reformer (b. 1847)
- 1905 - Adolphe of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)
- 1910 - Ralph Johnstone, pioneer pilot, 1st 'American' pilot killed in the crash of an airplane, Denver, Colorado.
- 1917 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840)
- 1922 - Robert Comtesse, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1847)
- 1928 - Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author, politician, & freedom fighter (b. 1865)
- 1929 - Herman Hollerith, American statistician (b. 1860)
- 1936 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto (b. 1861)
- 1937 - Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer (b. 1860)
- 1938 - Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician (b. 1864)
- 1940 - Eric Gill, British sculptor (b. 1882)
- 1940 - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879)
- 1942 - Ben Reitman, American anarchist, physician (b. 1879)
- 1947 - Victor Serge, Russian anarchist, novelist, and historian (b. 1890)
- 1955 - James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer (b. 1894)
- 1958 - Mort Cooper, baseball player (b. 1913)
- 1959 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (b. 1887)
- 1968 - Mervyn Peake, British writer (b. 1911)
- 1973 - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (b. 1878)
- 1979 - John Glascock, British bassist (Jethro Tull)
- 1980 - Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha, 41st Sufi master of Oveyssi order (b. 1916)
- 1982 - Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (b. 1905)
- 1982 - Leonid Borisovitch Kogan, Russian violinist (b. 1924)
- 1986 - Georges Besse, French automobile executive (b. 1927)
- 1987 - Paul Derringer, baseball player (b. 1906)
- 1989 - Gus Farace, American gangster (b. 1960)
- 1990 - Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
- 1993 - Gérard D. Lévesque, Canadian politician (b. 1926)
- 1995 - Alan Hull, English Rock Musician (Lindisfarne)
- 1998 - Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920)
- 2000 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
- 2001 - Michael Karoli, German guitarist (b. 1948)
- 2002 - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (b. 1915)
- 2003 - Arthur Conley, American singer (b. 1946)
- 2003 - Don Gibson, American singer (b. 1928)
- 2004 - Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (b. 1970)
- 2004 - Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (b. 1941)
- 2005 - Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (b. 1942)
- 2006 - Ruth Brown, American blues singer (b. 1928)
- 2006 - Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927)
- 2006 - Bo Schembechler, American football coach (b. 1929)
- 2006 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (b. 1924)
Notes
Catherine the Great
Index Librorum Prohibitorum
Mikhail Bakhtin
Martin Scorsese
Rem Koolhaas
Mervyn Peake
Isamu Noguchi
Jeff Buckley
Claudine Beccarie
Audre Lorde
Auguste Rodin
Alain-René Le Sage
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Robert Owen
Germaine Dulac
Peter Cook
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