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Art and culture

Births

• 1770 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (d. 1831)
• 1871 - Theodore Dreiser, American author (d. 1945)
• 1890 - Man Ray, photographer and artist (d. 1976)
• 1906 - Ed Gein, American serial killer (d. 1984)
• 1929 - Ira Levin, American author
• 1937 - Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (d. 2007)
• 1940 - Sonny Sharrock, American jazz guitarist (d. 1994)
• 1942 - Daryl Dragon, American keyboardist (Captain & Tennille)
• 1942 - Brian Peckford, Canadian politician
• 1943 - Tuesday Weld, American actress
• 1945 - G. W. Bailey, American actor
• 1947 - Barbara Bach, American actress
• 1947 - Harry Reems, American actor
• 1948 - Sgt. Slaughter, American professional wrestler
• 1948 - Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Greek musician (d. 1990)
• 1950 - Charles Fleischer, American actor
• 1951 - Mack Brown, University of Texas Head Football Coach
• 1951 - Buddy Bell, American baseball player-manager
• 1952 - Paul "Pee-Wee Herman" Reubens, American actor
• 1953 - Alex Lifeson, Canadian guitarist (Rush)
• 1953 - Peter Stormare, Swedish-born actor
• 1954 - John Lloyd, British former tennis player
• 1954 - Derek Warwick, British race car driver
• 1955 - Diana Scarwid, American actress
• 1955 - Robert Richardson, American cinematographer
• 1955 - Laura Fygi, Dutch singer
• 1957 - Bernhard Langer, German golfer
• 1958 - Sergei Krikalev, Russian cosmonaut
• 1958 - Tom Lanoye, Belgian author
• 1959 - Gerhard Berger, Austrian race car driver
• 1959 - Juan Fernando Cobo, Colombian artist
• 1961 - Tom Ford, American fashion designer
• 1961 - Yolanda Adams, American gospel singer
• 1962 - Adam Oates, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1962 - Vic Mignogna, American voice actor
• 1963 - Downtown Julie Brown, Welsh TV personality and former MTV VJ
• 1965 - Wayne James, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1966 - Juhan Parts, Prime Minister of Estonia
• 1967 - Bob Nastanovich, American musician (Pavement, Silver Jews)
• 1969 - Reece Shearsmith, British actor and comedian
• 1969 - Chandra Wilson, American actress
• 1970 - Peter Ebdon, English snooker player
• 1970 - Tony Kanal, English-born musician (No Doubt)
• 1970 - Jim Thome, American baseball player
• 1970 - Jeff Kenna, Irish footballer
• 1971 - Julian Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer
• 1972 - Mike Smith, Canadian actor
• 1972 - Dalip Singh, Indian professional wrestler
• 1973 - Dietmar Hamann, German footballer
• 1973 - Carlene Begnaud, American professional wrestler
• 1973 - Cory Bowles, Canadian actor
• 1973 - Danny Coyne, Welsh footballer
• 1974 - José Vidro, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1975 - Jonny Moseley, American skier
• 1975 - Mark Rudan, Australian footballer
• 1976 - Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress
• 1976 - Carlos Moyà, Spanish tennis player
• 1976 - Steve Taylor, British writer
• 1976 - Milano Collection Akihito Terui, Japanese professional wrestler
• 1976 - Mark Webber, Australian race car driver
• 1977 - Deco, Portuguese footballer
• 1978 - Ma$e, American rapper
• 1979 - Tian Liang, Chinese diver
• 1979 - Sarah Neufeld, Canadian musician (Arcade Fire)
• 1983 - Wilson Chen, Taiwanese actor
• 1984 - David Bentley, English footballer
• 1984 - Sulley Muntari, Ghanaian footballer
• 1985 - Alexandra Nechita, Artist
• 1986 - Mario, American R&B singer
• 1988 - Alexa Vega, American actress

Deaths

• 542 - Saint Caesarius of Arles
• 1312 - Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1262)
• 1394 - Chokei, Emperor of Japan (b. 1343)
• 1450 - Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (b. 1395)
• 1521 - Josquin Des Prez, Flemish composer
• 1545 - Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (b. 1487)
• 1572 - Claude Goudimel, French composer
• 1577 - Titian, Italian artist
• 1590 - Pope Sixtus V (b. 1521)
• 1635 - Félix Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1562)
• 1664 - Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (b. 1598)
• 1748 - James Thomson, Scottish poet (b. 1700)
• 1773 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (b. 1721)
• 1871 - William Whiting Boardman, American politician (b. 1794)
• 1875 - William Chapman Ralston, American banker (b. 1826)
• 1909 - Emil Christian Hansen, Danish fermentation physiologist (b. 1842)
• 1929 - Herman Potočnik Noordung, Slovenian rocket scientist (b. 1892)
• 1931 - Frank Harris, Irish author and editor (b. 1856)
• 1931 - Francis Marion Smith, American borax magnate (b. 1846)
• 1944 - Georg von Boeselager, German nobleman (b. 1915)
• 1948 - Charles Evans Hughes, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1862)
• 1949 - Leaders of Second East Turkestan Republic die in a plane crash.
• 1958 - Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1963 - Garrett Morgan, American inventor (b. 1877)
• 1963 - W.E.B. DuBois, American civil rights activist and scholar (b. 1868)
• 1963 - Allama Mashriqi, Pakistani scholar and politician (b. 1888)
• 1964 - Gracie Allen, American actress and comedienne (b. 1895)
• 1965 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (b. 1887)
• 1967 - Brian Epstein, English manager of The Beatles (b. 1934)
• 1968 - Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (b. 1906)
• 1969 - Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist (b. 1884)
• 1969 - Erika Mann, German writer and daughter of Thomas Mann (b. 1905)
• 1971 - Bennett Cerf, American publisher and television personality (b. 1898)
• 1971 - Margaret Bourke-White, American photo-journalist (b. 1906)
• 1975 - Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1892)
• 1976 - Mukesh, Indian playback singer (b. 1923)
• 1979 - Earl Mountbatten, British admiral and statesman (assassinated) (b. 1900)
• 1980 - Douglas Kenney, American humorist (b. 1947)
• 1981 - Valery Kharlamov, Soviet Union ice hockey player (b. 1948)
• 1988 - William Sargant, British psychiatrist (b. 1907)
• 1990 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, American guitarist (b. 1954)
• 1996 - Greg Morris, American actor (b. 1933)
• 1999 - Hélder Câmara, Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1909)
• 2001 - Abu Ali Mustafa, leader of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (assassinated) (b. 1938)
• 2001 - Michael Dertouzos, Greek internet pioneer, Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science (b. 1936)
• 2003 - Pierre Poujade, French politician (b. 1920)
• 2004 - Willie Crawford, American baseball player (b. 1946)
• 2005 - Seán Purcell, Gaelic footballer (b. 1929)
• 2006 - Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian film director (b. 1922)
• 2006 - Maria Capovilla, oldest woman alive from 2004-2006 (b. 1889)
• 2006 - Jesse Pintado, Mexican-born guitarist (Napalm Death) (b. 1969)
• 2007 - Emma Penella, Spanish actress (b. 1930)

Notes

1. Carlo Mollino
2. Le Corbusier
3. Friedrich Hegel
4. Man Ray
5. Sonny Sharrock
6. Ira Levin
7. Gordon Matta-Clark
8. Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
9. Louis Marie de Sade
10. Ed Gein

• Ivy Compton-Burnett

1. Titian
2. Theodore Dreiser
3. Glen Matlock
4. 120 minutes dédiées au divin Marquis