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Art and culture

Births

• 1895 - Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (d. 1975)
• 1904 - Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor (d. 1988)
• 1937 - Peter Cook, British comedian (d. 1995)
• 1942 - Martin Scorsese, American film director
• 1944 - Danny DeVito, American actor
• 1944 - Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect
• 1944 - Lorne Michaels, Canadian producer
• 1944 - Tom Seaver, baseball player
• 1944 - Gene Clark, American singer and songwriter (The Byrds) (d. 1991)
• 1945 - Elvin Hayes, American basketball player
• 1945 - Roland Joffé, Anglo-French film director
• 1946 - Terry E. Branstad, Governor of Iowa
• 1946 - Martin Barre, English rock musician (Jethro Tull)
• 1947 - Steven E. de Souza, American scriptwriter
• 1947 - Inky Mark, Canadian politician
• 1948 - Howard Dean, American politician
• 1949 - Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, Prime Minister of Vietnam
• 1950 - Tom Walkinshaw, British businessman
• 1951 - Stephen Root, American actor
• 1951 - Dean Paul Martin, American singer and actor (d. 1987)
• 1952 - Ties Kruize, Dutch field hockey player
• 1954 - Mark Brandon Read, Australian criminal
• 1955 - Dennis Maruk, Canadian hockey player
• 1955 - Yolanda King, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 2007)
• 1957 - Debbie Thrower, BBC News Reader
• 1958 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress
• 1960 - Jonathan Ross, British presenter
• 1960 - Kirk Fogg, host of Legends of the Hidden Temple
• 1960 - RuPaul, American drag entertainer
• 1962 - Dédé Fortin, Quebec singer (Les Colocs) (d. 2000)
• 1964 - Ralph Garman, American actor and radio personality
• 1964 - Mitch Williams, Major League Baseball player
• 1965 - Amanda Brown, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens) and composer
• 1966 - Jeff Buckley, American musician (d. 1997)
• 1966 - Sophie Marceau, French actress
• 1966 - Daisy Fuentes, Cuban model and actress
• 1966 - Kate Ceberano, Australian singer
• 1966 - Richard Fortus, American guitarist (Guns N' Roses)
• 1968 - Amber Michaels, German porn actress
• 1969 - Jean-Michel Saive, Belgian table tennis player
• 1969 - Ryotaro Okiayu, Japanese voice actor
• 1970 - Paul Allender, British guitarist (Cradle of Filth)
• 1972 - Leonard Roberts, American actor
• 1973 - Eli Marrero, American baseball player
• 1973 - Bernd Schneider, German footballer
• 1973 - Alexei Urmanov, Russian figure skater
• 1974 - Leslie Bibb, American actress
• 1975 - Lord Infamous, Rapper
• 1975 - Diane Neal, American actress
• 1976 - Brandon Call, American actor
• 1977 - Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer
• 1978 - Reggie Wayne, American football player
• 1979 - Brad Bradley, American professional wrestler
• 1979 - Matthew Spring, English footballer
• 1980 - Isaac Hanson, American musician (Hanson)
• 1980 - Mercedes Martinez, professional wrestler
• 1981 - Sarah Harding, English singer (Girls Aloud)
• 1982 - Katie Feenstra, American basketball player
• 1983 - Yiannis Bourousis, Greek basketball player
• 1983 - Ryan Braun, American baseball player
• 1983 - Nick Markakis, American baseball player
• 1983 - Christopher Paolini, American novelist
• 1986 - Nani, Portuguese football player
• 1990 - Shanica Knowles, American actress
• 1992 - Darian Weiss, American actor
• 1994 - Raquel Castro, American actress

Deaths

• 375 - Valentinian I, Roman Emperor (b. 321)
• 594 - Gregory of Tours, bishop and historian (b. c.539)
• 641 - Emperor Jomei of Japan (b. 593)
• 680 - Hilda of Whitby (b. 614)
• 885 - Queen Liutgard
• 1231 - Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1207)
• 1302 - St. Gertrude the Great (b. 1256)
• 1326 - Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285)
• 1494 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)
• 1558 - Mary I of England (b. 1516)
• 1558 - Reginald Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1500)
• 1562 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (b. 1518)
• 1592 - John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
• 1600 - Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (b. 1542)
• 1632 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594)
• 1643 - Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, Marshal of France (b. 1602)
• 1648 - Thomas Ford, English composer
• 1665 - John Earle, English bishop
• 1668 - Joseph Alleine, English preacher (b. 1634)
• 1690 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (b. 1610)
• 1708 - Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch painter (b. 1631)
• 1713 - Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653)
• 1720 - Calico Jack, English pirate
• 1747 - Alain-René Lesage, French writer (b. 1668)
• 1768 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1693)
• 1776 - James Ferguson, British astronomer (b. 1710)
• 1780 - Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter (b. 1720)
• 1794 - Jacques François Dugommier, French general (b. 1738)
• 1796 - Catherine II of Russia, Empress of Russia (b. 1729)
• 1808 - David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (b. 1721)
• 1835 - Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1758)
• 1849 - Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest and miracle-worker (b. 1794)
• 1858 - Robert Owen, British father of the cooperative movement (b. 1771)
• 1897 - George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (b. 1820)
• 1902 - Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist Social Reformer (b. 1847)
• 1905 - Adolphe of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)
• 1910 - Ralph Johnstone, pioneer pilot, 1st 'American' pilot killed in the crash of an airplane, Denver, Colorado.
• 1917 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840)
• 1922 - Robert Comtesse, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1847)
• 1928 - Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author, politician, & freedom fighter (b. 1865)
• 1929 - Herman Hollerith, American statistician (b. 1860)
• 1936 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto (b. 1861)
• 1937 - Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer (b. 1860)
• 1938 - Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician (b. 1864)
• 1940 - Eric Gill, British sculptor (b. 1882)
• 1940 - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879)
• 1942 - Ben Reitman, American anarchist, physician (b. 1879)
• 1947 - Victor Serge, Russian anarchist, novelist, and historian (b. 1890)
• 1955 - James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer (b. 1894)
• 1958 - Mort Cooper, baseball player (b. 1913)
• 1959 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (b. 1887)
• 1968 - Mervyn Peake, British writer (b. 1911)
• 1973 - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (b. 1878)
• 1979 - John Glascock, British bassist (Jethro Tull)
• 1980 - Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha, 41st Sufi master of Oveyssi order (b. 1916)
• 1982 - Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (b. 1905)
• 1982 - Leonid Borisovitch Kogan, Russian violinist (b. 1924)
• 1986 - Georges Besse, French automobile executive (b. 1927)
• 1987 - Paul Derringer, baseball player (b. 1906)
• 1989 - Gus Farace, American gangster (b. 1960)
• 1990 - Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 1993 - Gérard D. Lévesque, Canadian politician (b. 1926)
• 1995 - Alan Hull, English Rock Musician (Lindisfarne)
• 1998 - Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920)
• 2000 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 2001 - Michael Karoli, German guitarist (b. 1948)
• 2002 - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (b. 1915)
• 2003 - Arthur Conley, American singer (b. 1946)
• 2003 - Don Gibson, American singer (b. 1928)
• 2004 - Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (b. 1970)
• 2004 - Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (b. 1941)
• 2005 - Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (b. 1942)
• 2006 - Ruth Brown, American blues singer (b. 1928)
• 2006 - Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927)
• 2006 - Bo Schembechler, American football coach (b. 1929)
• 2006 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (b. 1924)

Notes

Catherine the Great Index Librorum Prohibitorum Mikhail Bakhtin Martin Scorsese Rem Koolhaas Mervyn Peake Isamu Noguchi Jeff Buckley Claudine Beccarie Audre Lorde Auguste Rodin Alain-René Le Sage Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Robert Owen Germaine Dulac Peter Cook