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| *[[1950]] - [[Brad Dourif]], American actor | *[[1950]] - [[Brad Dourif]], American actor | ||
| *[[1959]] - [[Luc Besson]], French producer, writer, and director | *[[1959]] - [[Luc Besson]], French producer, writer, and director | ||
| - | * 1959 - [[Irene Cara]], American actress and singer | ||
| - | *[[1960]] - [[Richard Biggs]], American actor (d. [[2004]]) | ||
| - | * 1960 - [[Guy Carbonneau]], Canadian ice hockey player and manager | ||
| - | *[[1962]] - [[Thomas Ian Griffith]], American actor | ||
| - | * 1962 - [[James McMurtry]], American folk singer/songwriter | ||
| - | * 1962 - [[Mike Rowe]], American television personality | ||
| - | *[[1963]] - [[Jeff LaBar]], American guitarist | ||
| - | *[[1963]] - [[Vanessa L. Williams]], American beauty queen, actress, and singer | ||
| - | *[[1964]] - [[Bonnie Blair]], American speed skater | ||
| - | * 1964 - [[Courtney Pine]], British jazz saxophonist | ||
| - | * 1964 - [[Rozalla]], [[Zambia]]n singer | ||
| - | * 1964 - [[Alex Caffi]], Italian racecar driver | ||
| - | *[[1966]] - [[Jerry Cantrell]], American musician | ||
| - | *[[1967]] - [[Miki Berenyi]], English singer ([[Lush (band)|Lush]]) | ||
| - | *[[1968]] - [[Shinichiro Miki]], Japanese [[seiyu]] (voice actor) | ||
| - | *[[1969]] - [[Vassily Ivanchuk]], Ukrainian chess player | ||
| - | * 1969 - [[Shaun Udal]], English cricketer | ||
| *[[1970]] - [[Queen Latifah]], American singer and actress | *[[1970]] - [[Queen Latifah]], American singer and actress | ||
| - | *[[1972]] - [[Dane Cook]], American comedian and actor | ||
| - | *[[1973]] - [[Max Barry]], Australian author | ||
| - | *[[1975]] - [[Brian Griese]], American football player | ||
| - | * 1975 - [[Tomas Žvirgždauskas]], Lithuanian footballer | ||
| - | * 1975 - [[Sutton Foster]], American actress, singer, and dancer | ||
| - | *[[1975]] - [[Rodleen Getsic]], American musician, civil servant | ||
| - | *[[1976]] - [[Jovan Kirovski]], American soccer player | ||
| - | * 1976 - [[Tomokazu Ohka]], Japanese baseball player | ||
| - | * 1976 - [[Scott Podsednik]], American baseball player | ||
| - | *[[1977]] - [[Danny Murphy]], English footballer | ||
| - | * 1977 - [[Zdeno Chára]], Slovak ice hockey player | ||
| - | * 1977 - [[Devin Lima]], American singer | ||
| - | * 1977 - [[Willy Sagnol]], French footballer | ||
| - | * 1977 - [[Terrmel Sledge]], American baseball player | ||
| - | * 1977 - [[Fernando Rodney]], Dominican baseball player | ||
| - | *[[1978]] - [[Khalilah Adams]], American actress | ||
| - | * 1978 - [[Yoshie Takeshita]], Japanese volleyball player | ||
| - | * 1978 - [[Jan Bulis]], Czech ice hockey player | ||
| - | *[[1979]] - [[Adam Levine]], American singer ([[Maroon 5]]) | ||
| - | * 1979 - [[Brandon Lee (porn star)|Brandon Lee]], American adult actor | ||
| - | *[[1980]] - [[Alexei Yagudin]], Russian figure skater | ||
| - | * 1980 - [[Sophia Myles]], English actress | ||
| - | *[[1980]] - [[Sebastien Frey]], French footballer | ||
| - | *[[1981]] - [[Jang Nara]], Korean singer and actress | ||
| - | *[[1982]] - [[Chad Cordero]], American baseball player | ||
| - | * 1982 - [[Timo Glock]] German Formula 1 driver | ||
| - | * 1982 - [[Pedro Manuel Torres|Pedro Mantorras]], Angolan footballer | ||
| - | *[[1983]] - [[Andy Sonnanstine]], American baseball player | ||
| - | *[[1984]] - [[Vonzell Solomon]], American Idol Contestant | ||
| - | *[[1985]] - [[ Vince Lia]], Australian Footballer | ||
| - | *[[1986]] - [[Bia Figueiredo]], Brazilian racing driver | ||
| - | *[[1987]] - [[Mauro Zárate]], Argentinian Footballer | ||
| - | *[[1987]] - [[Gabriel Mercado]], Argentinian Footballer | ||
| - | *[[1987]] - [[Ben Waterworth]], Australian Radio Personality | ||
| - | *[[1996]] - [[Madeline Carroll]], American actress | ||
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| ==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
| - | * [[978]] - King [[Edward the Martyr]] of England | ||
| - | *[[1227]] - [[Pope Honorius III]] (b. [[1148]]) | ||
| - | *[[1314]] - [[Jacques DeMolay]], [[Frankish]] [[Nobility|noble]], the 23rd Grand Master of the [[Knights Templar]] (b.[[1244]]) | ||
| - | *[[1583]] - King [[Magnus of Livonia]] (b. [[1540]]) | ||
| - | *[[1584]] - Tsar [[Ivan IV of Russia]] (b. [[1530]]) | ||
| - | *[[1675]] - [[Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall]], Irish soldier (b. [[1606]]) | ||
| - | *[[1689]] - [[John Dixwell]], English judge (b. [[1607]]) | ||
| - | *[[1696]] - [[Robert Charnock]], English conspirator | ||
| - | *[[1745]] - Sir [[Robert Walpole]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1676]]) | ||
| - | *[[1746]] - [[Anna Leopoldovna]], regent of Russia (b. [[1718]]) | ||
| *[[1768]] - [[Laurence Sterne]], Irish writer (b. [[1713]]) | *[[1768]] - [[Laurence Sterne]], Irish writer (b. [[1713]]) | ||
| *[[1781]] - [[Anne Robert Turgot]], French statesman (b. [[1727]]) | *[[1781]] - [[Anne Robert Turgot]], French statesman (b. [[1727]]) | ||
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Art and culture
- 1931 Tabu by F. W. Murnau premieres
- 1990 - In largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 2005 - Terri Schiavo's feeding tube is removed at the request of her husband, fueling a worldwide debate on euthanasia.
Births
- 1634 - Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer (d. 1693)
- 1842 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (d. 1898)
- 1844 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (d. 1908)
- 1915 - Richard Condon, American novelist (d. 1996)
- 1932 - John Updike, American author
- 1950 - Brad Dourif, American actor
- 1959 - Luc Besson, French producer, writer, and director
- 1970 - Queen Latifah, American singer and actress
Deaths
- 1768 - Laurence Sterne, Irish writer (b. 1713)
- 1781 - Anne Robert Turgot, French statesman (b. 1727)
- 1823 - Jean-Baptiste Breval, French composer (b. 1753)
- 1835 - Christian Gunther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian statesman and diplomat (b. 1769)
- 1871 - Augustus De Morgan, Indian-born British mathematician and logician (b. 1806)
- 1898 - Matilda Joslyn Gage, American suffragist (b. 1826)
- 1907 - Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician (b. 1827)
- 1913 - King George I of Greece (b. 1845)
- 1936 - Eleftherios Venizelos, Former Prime minister of Greece
- 1939 - Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian and religious leader (b. 1859)
- 1941 - Henri Cornet, French cyclist (b. 1884)
- 1945 - William Grover-Williams, British racing driver
- 1947 - William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (b. 1861)
- 1962 - Walter W. Bacon, Governor of Delaware (b. 1880)
- 1963 - Wanda Hawley, American actress (b. 1895)
- 1964 - Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports official (b. 1870)
- 1965 - King Farouk I of Egypt (b. 1920)
- 1969 - Barbara Bates, American film actress (b. 1925)
- 1973 - Lauritz Melchior, Danish-born American opera singer (b. 1890)
- 1975 - Alain Grandbois, Quebec poet (b. 1900)
- 1976 - Giuseppe Genco Russo, Sicilian mafioso (b. 1893)
- 1977 - Marien Ngouabi, President of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1938)
- 1977 - José Carlos Pace, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1944)
- 1978 - Leigh Brackett, American author (b. 1915)
- 1978 - Peggy Wood, American actress (b. 1892)
- 1980 - Erich Fromm, German-born psychologist and philosopher (b. 1900)
- 1983 - King Umberto II of Italy, (b. 1904)
- 1983 - Kenneth E. Boulding, English economist (b. 1910)
- 1984 - Charlie Lau, American baseball player (b. 1933)
- 1986 - Bernard Malamud, American writer (b. 1914)
- 1988 - Billy Butterfield, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1917)
- 1990 - Robin Harris, American actor and comedian (b. 1953)
- 1995 - Robin Jacques, illustrator of children's books (b. 1920)
- 1996 - Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
- 1999 - Elizabeth Huckaby, American educator (b. 1905)
- 2000 - Eberhard Bethge, German theologian (b. 1909)
- 2001 - John Phillips, American musician (The Mamas and the Papas) (b. 1935)
- 2002 - R.A. Lafferty, American science fiction writer (b. 1914)
- 2002 - Gösta Winbergh, Swedish tenor (b. 1943)
- 2003 - Karl Kling, German race car driver (b. 1910)
- 2003 - Adam Osborne, British computer pioneer (b. 1939)
- 2004 - Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman (b. 1927)
- 2006 - Bill Beutel, American journalist (b. 1930)
- 2006 - Dan Gibson, musician (b. 1922)
- 2007 - Bob Woolmer, English cricketer and Pakistan national coach (b. 1948)
Notes
Stéphane Mallarmé Laurence Sterne Tamara de Lempicka Paris Commune Giulio Questi Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stefan Jarl Paul van Ostaijen Madame de La Fayette Richard Condon Erich Fromm Félix Alcan Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov John Updike Luc Besson Brad Dourif Charles Morice
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