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| == Births == | == Births == | ||
| - | *[[1218]] - [[Emperor Chukyo]] of Japan (d. [[1234]]) | ||
| - | *[[1513]] - [[Jacques Amyot]], French writer (d. [[1593]]) | ||
| - | *[[1624]] - [[Paul Pellisson]], French writer (d. [[1693]]) | ||
| - | *[[1735]] - [[John Adams]], [[President of the United States]] (d. [[1826]]) | ||
| - | *[[1751]] - [[Richard Sheridan]], Irish playwright (d. [[1816]]) | ||
| - | *[[1762]] - [[André Chénier]], French writer (d. [[1794]]) | ||
| - | *[[1786]] - [[Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé]], French Canadian writer (d. [[1871]]) | ||
| - | *[[1799]] - [[Ignace Bourget]], [[Roman Catholic Bishops of Montreal|bishop of Montreal]] (d. [[1885]]) | ||
| *[[1821]] - [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]], Russian writer (d. [[1881]]) | *[[1821]] - [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]], Russian writer (d. [[1881]]) | ||
| *[[1839]] - [[Alfred Sisley]], French artist (d. [[1899]]) | *[[1839]] - [[Alfred Sisley]], French artist (d. [[1899]]) | ||
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Art and culture
- 1938 - Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a nationwide panic.
Births
- 1821 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer (d. 1881)
- 1839 - Alfred Sisley, French artist (d. 1899)
- 1844 - Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist (d. 1930)
- 1847 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (d. 1897)
- 1857 - Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (d. 1904)
- 1861 - Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (d. 1929)
- 1871 - Paul Valery, French poet (d. 1945)
- 1871 - Buck Freeman, American baseball player (d. 1949)
- 1881 - Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and author (d. 1941)
- 1882 - William Halsey, Jr, American admiral (d. 1959)
- 1882 - Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (d. 1944)
- 1885 - Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972)
- 1886 - Zoe Akins, American playwright (d. 1958)
- 1888 - Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek athlete and Olympic champion (d. 1913)
- 1893 - Charles Atlas, Italian-born bodybuilder (d. 1972)
- 1893 - Roland Freisler, German Nazi politician (d. 1945)
- 1894 - Jean Rostand, French biologist (d. 1977)
- 1895 - Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (d. 1964)
- 1895 - Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
- 1896 - Ruth Gordon, American actress (d. 1985)
- 1896 - Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (d. 1928)
- 1897 - Rex Cherryman, American actor (d. 1928)
- 1898 - Bill Terry, baseball player (d. 1989)
- 1900 - Ragnar Granit Finnish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
- 1906 - Alexander Gode, German-American linguist (d. 1970)
- 1906 - Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver (d. 1966)
- 1907 - Sol Tax, American anthropologist (d. 1995)
- 1909 - Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (d. 1966)
- 1911 - Ruth Hussey, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1914 - Richard E Holz, American composer
- 1915 - Fred Friendly, American journalist (d. 1998)
- 1916 - Leon Day, American baseball player (d. 1995)
- 1917 - Bobby Bragan, American baseball player
- 1917 - Nikolai Vasilievich Ogarkov, Soviet field marshal (d. 1994)
- 1917 - Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (d. 2005)
- 1926 - Jacques Swaters, Belgian racing driver
- 1927 - Joe Adcock, American baseball player (d. 1999)
- 1928 - Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999)
- 1930 - Nestor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (d. 1992)
- 1930 - Clifford Brown, American musician (d. 1956)
- 1931 - Vince Callahan, Representative of the 34th district in the House of Delegates
- 1932 - Louis Malle, French film director (d. 1995)
- 1934 - Frans Brüggen, Dutch musician
- 1935 - Agota Kristof, Hungarian writer
- 1935 - Michael Winner, British film director
- 1935 - Jim Perry, American baseball player
- 1935 - Robert Caro, American biographer
- 1936 - Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast (d. 2005)
- 1937 - Claude Lelouch, French film director
- 1939 - Leland H. Hartwell, American scientist, Nobel laureate
- 1939 - Grace Slick, American singer (Jefferson Airplane)
- 1939 - Edward Holland, Jr., American singer
- 1940 - Ed Lauter, American actor
- 1941 - Theodor W. Hänsch, German physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1941 - Otis Williams, American singer
- 1943 - Joanna Shimkus, Canadian actress
- 1945 - Henry Winkler, American actor
- 1947 - Timothy B. Schmit, American musician (Eagles)
- 1948 - Rusty Goffe, British actor
- 1951 - Harry Hamlin, American actor
- 1953 - Charles Martin Smith, American actor
- 1956 - Juliet Stevenson, English actress
- 1957 - Kevin Pollak, American actor
- 1958 - Joe Delaney, American football player (d. 1983)
- 1958 - Stefan Dennis, Australian actor
- 1960 - Diego Armando Maradona, Argentine footballer
- 1961 - Scott Garrelts, American baseball player
- 1962 - Courtney Walsh, West Indian cricketer
- 1963 - Kristina Wagner, American actress
- 1964 - Howard Lederer, American poker player
- 1965 - Gavin Rossdale, English musician
- 1966 - Scott Innes, American voice actor
- 1967 - Brad Aitken, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1969 - Masanori Hikichi, Japanese composer
- 1970 - Maja Tatic, Bosnia singer
- 1970 - Nia Long, American actress
- 1970 - Ekaterini Voggoli, Greek discus thrower
- 1971 - Ahn Jae Wook, South Korean actor and singer
- 1973 - Adam "Edge" Copeland, Canadian wrestler
- 1973 - Silvia Corzo, Colombian newscaster
- 1976 - Stern John, Trinidadian footballer
- 1976 - Maurice Taylor, American Basketball Player
- 1977 - Jason Adelman, American actor
- 1978 - Martin Dossett, American football player
- 1979 - Yukie Nakama, Japanese actress
- 1980 - Sarah Carter, Canadian actress
- 1980 - Choi Hong-man, South Korean kickboxer
- 1981 - Ivanka Trump, American model
- 1981 - Jun Ji-hyun, South Korean actress
- 1981 - Ian Snell, American baseball player
- 1982 - Andy Greene, American ice hockey player
- 1982 - Manny Parra, American baseball player
- 1983 - Iain Hume, Canadian footballer
- 1984 - Eva Pigford, American model
- 1989 - Nastia Liukin, American gymnast
Deaths
- 1459 - Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (b. 1380)
- 1522 - Jean Mouton, French composer
- 1553 - Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (b. 1489)
- 1602 - Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet (b. 1528)
- 1611 - King Charles IX of Sweden (b. 1550)
- 1626 - Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1580)
- 1632 - Henri II de Montmorency, French naval officer and Governor of Languedoc (b. 1595)
- 1654 - Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (b. 1633)
- 1680 - Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (b. 1616)
- 1685 - Michel le Tellier, French statesman (b. 1603)
- 1809 - William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
- 1816 - Frederick I of Württemberg (b. 1754)
- 1842 - Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet and author (b. 1784)
- 1853 - Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (b. 1786)
- 1883 - Robert Volkmann, German composer (b. 1815)
- 1893 - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, third Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
- 1894 - Honoré Mercier, politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
- 1899 - William Henry Webb, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1816)
- 1910 - Henry Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1828)
- 1912 - James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (b. 1855)
- 1915 - Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
- 1923 - Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1858)
- 1957 - Fred Beebe, baseball player (b. 1880)
- 1966 - Yórgos Theotokás, Greek novelist (b. 1906)
- 1968 - Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and author (b. 1886)
- 1968 - Ramón Novarro, Mexican actor (b. 1899)
- 1968 - Conrad Richter, American writer (b. 1890)
- 1969 - Pops Foster, American musician (b. 1892)
- 1975 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
- 1978 - Edgar Bergen, American ventriloquist (b. 1903)
- 1979 - Barnes Wallis, British aeronautical engineer (b. 1887)
- 1979 - Donna Rachele Mussolini, Italian, wife of Benito Mussolini (b. 1890)
- 1985 - Kirby Grant, American actor (b. 1911)
- 1988 - T. Hee, American animator (b. 1911)
- 1989 - Adam Mitchell Australian Drummer
- 1993 - Paul Grégoire, Archbishop of Montreal (b. 1911)
- 1997 - Samuel Fuller, American film director (b. 1912)
- 2000 - Steve Allen, American comedian, author, and composer (b. 1921)
- 2002 - Jam Master Jay, American rapper and musician (Run DMC) (murdered) (b. 1965)
- 2002 - Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
- 2004 - Peggy Ryan, American actress (b. 1924)
- 2005 - Al Lopez, baseball player and manager (b. 1908)
- 2005 - Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian communist leader (b. 1942)
- 2006 - Junji Kinoshita, Japanese playwright (b. 1914)
- 2006 - Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (b. 1926)
Notes
- Odilon Redon
- Louis Malle
- Orson Welles
- Max Reinhardt (theatre director)
- Ezra Pound
- Charles Maturin
- Paul Valéry
- Camillo Boito
- Georges Gilles de la Tourette
- Samuel Fuller
- Poggio
- Claude Lelouch
- Teo Macero
- Alfred Sisley
* Charles Maturin * Michael Winner
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