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| *[[1899]] - [[Miguel Ángel Asturias]], Guatemalan writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1974]])*[[1931]] - [[John le Carré]], English novelist | *[[1899]] - [[Miguel Ángel Asturias]], Guatemalan writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1974]])*[[1931]] - [[John le Carré]], English novelist | ||
| - | *[[1932]] - [[Robert Reed]], American actor (d. [[1992]]) | ||
| - | *[[1937]] - [[Peter Max]], American artist | ||
| - | * 1937 - [[Marilyn Bell]], Canadian long distance swimmer | ||
| - | *[[1940]] - [[Michael Gambon]], Irish actor | ||
| - | *[[1941]] - [[Simon Ward]], British actor | ||
| - | *[[1942]] - [[Andrew Vachss]], American author and attorney | ||
| - | *[[1943]] - [[Robin Holloway]], British composer | ||
| - | * 1943 - [[Takis Ikonomopoulos]], Greek footballer | ||
| *[[1944]] - [[Peter Tosh]], Jamaican musician, political activist (d. [[1987]]) | *[[1944]] - [[Peter Tosh]], Jamaican musician, political activist (d. [[1987]]) | ||
| * 1944 - [[George McCrae]], American soul singer | * 1944 - [[George McCrae]], American soul singer | ||
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Art and culture
- 2007 - Un roman sentimental, novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Births
- 1899 - Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)*1931 - John le Carré, English novelist
- 1944 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician, political activist (d. 1987)
- 1944 - George McCrae, American soul singer
- 1945 - Divine, American actor (d. 1988)
- 1945 - Patricia Ireland, President of the NOW
- 1945 - John Lithgow, American actor
- 1945 - Jeannie C. Riley American country and gospel singer
- 1946 - Philip Pullman, English writer
- 1947 - Giorgio Cavazzano, comics artist and illustrator
- 1948 - Patrick Simmons, American musician (The Doobie Brothers)
- 1949 - Jamie McGrigor, British politician
- 1951 - Demetrios Christodoulou, Greek mathematical physicist, recipient of the Bôcher Memorial Prize
- 1952 - Verónica Castro, Mexican actress and singer
- 1954 - Sam Allardyce, English football manager
- 1954 - Deborah Blum, American writer
- 1956 - Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (d. 1993)
- 1956 - Sunny Deol, Indian actor
- 1956 - Didier Theys, Belgian racing driver
- 1957 - Ray Richmond, entertainment/media columnist
- 1958 - Tiriel Mora, Australian actor
- 1960 - Jonathan FeBland, English musician, writer and artist
- 1962 - Tracy Chevalier, American author
- 1962 - Evander Holyfield, American boxer
- 1963 - Prince Laurent of Belgium
- 1964 - Jorge Luis Gonzales, Cuban-born American boxer
- 1965 - Brad Daugherty, American basketball player
- 1965 - Ty Pennington, American television carpenter
- 1966 - Jon Favreau, American actor, writer and director
- 1967 - Yoko Shimomura, Japanese composer
- 1969 - Trey Parker, American cartoonist, comedian, writer, and actor
- 1970 - Chris Kattan, American comedian and actor
- 1972 - Pras, American musician
- 1972 - Keith Foulke, American baseball pitcher
- 1973 - Joaquin Gage, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1974 - Kevin Sullivan, American Automation Engineer
- 1976 - Michael Young, baseball player
- 1976 - Dan Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1976 - Desmond Harrington, American actor
- 1977 - Louis-José Houde, Québec stand-up comic
- 1978 - Enrique Bernoldi, Brazilian Formula One driver
- 1978 - Zakhar Dubenskiy, Russian footballer
- 1980 - Benjamin Salisbury, American actor
- 1981 - Heikki Kovalainen, Finnish Formula One driver
- 1991 - Jennifer Miller, Scottish Model
Deaths
- 727 - Saint Frideswide
- 1187 - Pope Urban III
- 1216 - King John
- 1432 - John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1392)
- 1587 - Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)
- 1608 - Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (b. 1551)
- 1636 - Marcin Kazanowski, Polish politician
- 1682 - Thomas Browne, English writer (b. 1605)
- 1723 - Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (b. 1646)
- 1745 - Jonathan Swift, Irish author (b. 1667)
- 1790 - Lyman Hall, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1724)
- 1813 - Józef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish prince and Marshal of France (friendly fire) (b. 1763)
- 1842 - Aleksey Koltsov, Russian poet (b. 1808)
- 1851 - Marie Thérèse Charlotte (b. 1778)
- 1889 - King Louis of Portugal (b. 1838)
- 1897 - George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (b. 1831)
- 1901 - Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (b. 1829)
- 1918 - Harold Lockwood, American actor (b. 1887)
- 1936 - Lu Xun, Chinese writer (b. 1881)
- 1937 - Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1871)
- 1943 - Camille Claudel, French sculptor (b. 1864)
- 1950 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet (b. 1892)
- 1956 - Isham Jones, American musician (b. 1894)
- 1960 - George Wallace, Australian vaudevillian and film comedian (b. 1895)
- 1973 - Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (b. 1913)
- 1978 - Gig Young, American actor (b. 1913)
- 1983 - Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1944)
- 1985 - Alfred Rouleau, French Canadian businessman (b. 1915)
- 1986 - Dele Giwa, Nigerian journalist
- 1986 - Samora Machel, President of Mozambique (b. 1933)
- 1987 - Jacqueline Du Pré, English cellist (b. 1945)
- 1987 - Hermann Lang, German race car driver (b. 1909)
- 1988 - Son House, American musician (b. 1902)
- 1991 - Jennifer Miller, Scottish Model (b. 1920)
- 1994 - Martha Raye, American comedian and actress (b. 1916)
- 1995 - Don Cherry, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1936)
- 1997 - Glen Buxton, American guitarist (b. 1947)
- 1999 - Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-born French writer (b. 1900)
- 1999 - James C. Murray, American politician (b. 1917)
- 2003 - Alija Izetbegović, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (b. 1925)
- 2003 - Margaret Murie, American conservationist (b. 1902)
- 2003 - Michael Hegstrand, American professional wrestler (b. 1957)
- 2004 - Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist (b. 1920)
- 2005 - Dallas Cook, American musician (Suburban Legends) (b. 1982)
- 2005 - Corinne Lévesque, wife of quebec premier René Lévesque (b. 1943)
- 2006 - James Glennon, American cinematographer (b. 1942)
Notes
Jonathan Swift
Pierre Alechinsky
Sir Charles Wheatstone
Cesare Lombroso
Harry Alan Towers
Expo '58
Sharon Redd
Miguel Ángel Asturias
Patrick Cowley
Un roman sentimental
John le Carré
Don Cherry
Umberto Boccioni
Auguste and Louis Lumière
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