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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)
• 1857 - Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (d. 1904)
• 1885 - Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972)
• 1932 - Louis Malle, French film director (d. 1995)
• 1935 - Michael Winner, British film director
• 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

1. Odilon Redon
2. Louis Malle
3. Orson Welles
4. Max Reinhardt (theatre director)
5. Ezra Pound
6. Charles Maturin
7. Paul Valéry
8. Camillo Boito
9. Georges Gilles de la Tourette
10. Samuel Fuller
11. Poggio
12. Claude Lelouch
13. Teo Macero
14. Alfred Sisley

   * Charles Maturin
   * Michael Winner