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Births

• 1840 - Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)
• 1906 - Louise Brooks, American dancer, actress, and movie historian (d. 1985)
• 1907 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish writer (d. 2002)
• 1939 - Wendy Carlos, American composer
• 1943 - Peter Norton, American software engineer
• 1945 - Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian First Lady
• 1947 - P. J. O'Rourke, American writer
• 1947 - Bharathan, Malayalam film director (d. 1998)
• 1948 - Charles, Prince of Wales
• 1949 - James Young, American guitarist (Styx)
• 1951 - Zhang Yimou, Chinese film director
• 1951 - Stephen Bishop, American musician
• 1953 - Dominique de Villepin, Prime Minister of France
• 1954 - Bernard Hinault, French cyclist
• 1954 - Condoleezza Rice, United States Secretary of State
• 1954 - Yanni, Greek musician & composer
• 1953 - Phil Baron, American voice actor
• 1955 - Koichi Nakano, Japanese cyclist
• 1956 - Alec John Such, American bassist (Bon Jovi)
• 1959 - Paul McGann, British actor
• 1961 - Gordon Jennison Noice, American actor
• 1961 - D. B. Sweeney, American actor
• 1961 - Antonio Flores, Spanish singer and songwriter (d. 1995)
• 1962 - Laura San Giacomo, American actress
• 1964 - Bill Hemmer, American television news reporter
• 1964 - Patrick Warburton, American actor
• 1964 - Rev Run, American rapper
• 1966 - Curt Schilling, American baseball player
• 1966 - Petra Roßner, German cyclist
• 1967 - Letitia Dean, British actress
• 1967 - Nina Gordon, American singer
• 1968 - Janine Lindemulder, American porn actress
• 1968 - Serge Postigo, Quebec actor
• 1969 - Butch Walker, recording artist
• 1970 - David Wesley, American basketball player
• 1971 - Adam Gilchrist, Australian cricketer
• 1971 - Marco Leonardi, Italian-Australian actor
• 1972 - Matthew Bloom, American professional wrestler
• 1972 - Josh Duhamel, American actor
• 1972 - Edyta Górniak, Polish singer
• 1972 - Martin Pike, Australian rules footballer
• 1972 - Aaron Taylor, American football player
• 1973 - Lawyer Milloy, American football player
• 1973 - Dana Snyder, American voice actor
• 1973 - Moka Only, Canadian musician
• 1974 - Matt Cedeño, Cuban-American actor
• 1974 - Adam Walsh, American murder victim (d. 1981)
• 1975 - Travis Barker, American musician (Blink 182, +44)
• 1977 - Obie Trice, American rapper
• 1978 - Xavier Nady, American baseball player
• 1978 - Mersing Nguyen, American actress
• 1978 - Bobby Allen, American ice hockey player
• 1979 - Mavie Hörbiger, German actress
• 1979 - Tobin Esperance, American musician (Papa Roach)
• 1981 - Tom Ferrier, British racing driver
• 1983 - Lil Boosie, American rapper
• 1984 - Marija Šerifović, Serbian Singer
• 1986 - Berta Grosser, German Actress

Deaths

• 565 - Justinian the Great, Byzantine Emperor (b. 483)
• 1226 - Frederick of Isenberg, German politician (executed) (b. 1193)
• 1263 - Alexander Nevsky, Grand Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir
• 1359 - Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (b. 1296)
• 1522 - Anne of France, Princess and Regent of France (b. 1461)
• 1556 - Giovanni della Casa, Italian poet (b. 1504)
• 1633 - William Ames, English philosopher (b. 1576)
• 1687 - Nell Gwynne, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1650)
• 1691 - Tosa Mitsuoki, Japanese painter (b. 1617)
• 1716 - Gottfried Leibniz, German philosopher and mathematician (b. 1646)
• 1734 - Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, French-born mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1649)
• 1746 - Georg Steller, German naturalist (b. 1709)
• 1817 - Policarpa Salavarrieta, Colombian revolutionary (b. 1795)
• 1825 - Jean Paul, German writer (b. 1763)
• 1829 - Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist (b. 1763)
• 1831 - Georg Hegel, German philosopher (b. 1770)
• 1831 - Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian-born French composer, music publisher and piano manufacturer (b. 1757)
• 1832 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton, American statesman (b. 1737)
• 1844 - John Abercrombie, British physician (b. 1780)
• 1866 - King Miguel of Portugal (b. 1802)
• 1872 - Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (b. 1788)
• 1907 - Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian politician (b. 1848)
• 1908 - The Guangxu Emperor of China, (b. 1871)
• 1914 - Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar, Malayalin journalist (b. 1861)
• 1915 - Booker T. Washington, American inventor (b. 1856)
• 1916 - Henry George, Jr., American politician (b. 1862)
• 1916 - Saki, British writer (b. 1870)
• 1937 - Jack O'Connor, American baseball player (b. 1869)
• 1944 - Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (b. 1873)
• 1946 - Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (b. 1876)
• 1947 - Joseph Allard, French Canadian fiddler (b. 1873)
• 1971 - William Bendeck, Bolivian rally driver (b. 1934)
• 1972 - Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (b. 1900)
• 1974 - Johnny Mack Brown, American actor (b. 1904)
• 1977 - A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acarya of ISKCON (b. 1896)
• 1981 - Robert Bradford, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1941)
• 1991 - Tony Richardson, English film director (b. 1928)
• 1992 - Ernst Happel, Austrian football coach (b. 1925)
• 1994 - Tom Villard, American actor (b. 1953)
• 1996 - John A. Cade, American politician (b. 1929)
• 1997 - Eddie Arcaro, American jockey (b. 1916)
• 1997 - Jack Pickersgill, Canadian politician (b. 1905)
• 2000 - Robert Trout, American journalist (b. 1908)
• 2001 - Charlotte Coleman, British actress (b. 1968)
• 2001 - Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Argentine footballer (b. 1922)
• 2002 - Eddie Bracken, American film actor (b. 1915)
• 2003 - Gene Anthony Ray, American actor (b. 1962)
• 2004 - Michel Colombier, French composer (b. 1939)
• 2005 - Eddie Guerero, Mexican American WWE Wrestler (b. 1967)

Notes

1. Claude Monet
2. Friedrich Hegel
3. Malcolm Muggeridge
4. Tony Richardson
5. Wendy Carlos
6. Jacques Mesnil
7. August
8. Leonid Trauberg
9. Michel Colombier
10. Georg Wilhelm Steller
11. Olga Khokhlova
12. Caza
13. Moby-Dick

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