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| *[[1874]] - [[Charles Ives]], American composer (d. [[1954]]) | *[[1874]] - [[Charles Ives]], American composer (d. [[1954]]) | ||
| *[[1882]] - [[Bela Lugosi]], Hungarian-born actor (d. [[1956]]) | *[[1882]] - [[Bela Lugosi]], Hungarian-born actor (d. [[1956]]) | ||
| - | *[[1889]] - [[Margaret Dumont]], American actress (d. [[1965]]) | ||
| - | *[[1890]] - [[Jelly Roll Morton]], American composer (d. [[1941]]) | ||
| - | *[[1891]] - [[James Chadwick]], English physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1974]]) | ||
| - | * 1891 - [[Jomo Kenyatta]], [[President of Kenya]] (d. [[1978]]) | ||
| - | *[[1893]] - [[Charley Chase]], American comedian (d. [[1940]]) | ||
| - | *[[1894]] - [[Olive Thomas]], American actress (d. [[1920]]) | ||
| - | *[[1895]] - [[Rex Ingram (actor)|Rex Ingram]], American actor (d. [[1969]]) | ||
| - | *[[1897]] - Crown Prince [[Yi Un|Eun]] of Korea (d. [[1970]]) | ||
| - | *[[1900]] - [[Wayne Morse]], U.S. Senator from Oregon (d. [[1974]]) | ||
| - | *[[1904]] - [[Anna Neagle]], English actress (d. [[1986]]) | ||
| - | * 1904 - [[Tommy Clement Douglas]], Canadian politician (d. [[1986]]) | ||
| - | *[[1905]] - [[Ellery Queen]], pseudonym of two American writers (d. [[1982]]) | ||
| - | *[[1907]] - [[Arlene Francis]], American television personality (d. [[2001]]) | ||
| - | *[[1909]] - [[Sugiyama Yasushi]], Japanese painter (d. [[1993]]) | ||
| - | *[[1913]] - [[Grandpa Jones]], American banjo player and singer (d. [[1998]]) | ||
| - | *[[1914]] - [[Fayard Nicholas]], American dancer (d. [[2006]]) | ||
| *[[1917]] - [[Jean-Pierre Melville]], French director (d. [[1973]]) | *[[1917]] - [[Jean-Pierre Melville]], French director (d. [[1973]]) | ||
| *[[1918]] - [[Robert Lochner]], German journalist (d. [[2003]]) | *[[1918]] - [[Robert Lochner]], German journalist (d. [[2003]]) | ||
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Births
- 1854 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (d. 1891)
- 1859 - John Dewey, American philosopher (d. 1952)
- 1874 - Charles Ives, American composer (d. 1954)
- 1882 - Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1956)
- 1917 - Jean-Pierre Melville, French director (d. 1973)
- 1918 - Robert Lochner, German journalist (d. 2003)
- 1922 - John Anderson, American actor (d. 1992)
- 1925 - Art Buchwald, American humorist (d. 2007)
- 1925 - Tom Dowd, American recording engineer (d. 2002)
- 1925 - Roger Hanin, French actor
- 1931 - Richard Caliguiri, American politician (d. 1988)
- 1931 - Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (d. 1995)
- 1932 - Rosey Brown, American football player (d. 2004)
- 1932 - William Christopher, American actor (M*A*S*H)
- 1934 - Eddie Harris, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1996)
- 1934 - Michiko, empress of Japan
- 1935 - Jerry Orbach, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1937 - Juan Marichal, Dominican baseball player
- 1937 - Wanda Jackson, American rock and rockabilly singer
- 1938 - Iain MacMillan, Abbey Road photographer (d. 2006)
- 1940 - Kathy Kirby, British singer
- 1940 - Robert Pinsky, American poet and Poet Laureate of the United States
- 1942 - Earl Hindman, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1942 - Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1943 - Dunja Vejzovic, Croatian soprano
- 1944 - David Mancuso, American disc jockey
- 1946 - Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1946 - Lucien Van Impe, Belgian cyclist
- 1949 - Valeri Borzov, Ukrainian athlete
- 1950 - Tom Petty, American musician
- 1951 - Claudio Ranieri, Italian football player and manager
- 1951 - Leif Pagrotsky, Swedish politician
- 1953 - Keith Hernandez, American baseball player
- 1953 - Bill Nunn, American actor
- 1954 - Steve Orich, orchestrator
- 1955 - Aaron Pryor, American boxer
- 1955 - David Profumo, English novelist
- 1956 - Danny Boyle, English film director
- 1957 - Susanna Haavisto, Finnish actress and singer
- 1958 - Dave Finlay, Northern Irish professional wrestler
- 1958 - Lynn Flewelling, American fantasy author
- 1958 - Scott Hall, American professional wrestler
- 1958 - Mark King, English musician
- 1958 - Dave Krieg, American football player
- 1958 - Viggo Mortensen, American actor
- 1958 - Ivo Pogorelic, Croatian pianist
- 1960 - Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (d. 2004)
- 1961 - Ian Rush, Welsh footballer
- 1961 - Michie Tomizawa, Japanese voice actress
- 1962 - Dave Wong, Hong Kong/Taiwanese singer-songwriter
- 1963 - Julie Payette, Canadian astronaut
- 1963 - Nikos Tsiantakis, Greek footballer
- 1965 - Mikhail Shtalenkov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1965 - William Zabka, American actor
- 1966 - Allan Donald, South African cricketer
- 1966 - Stefan Raab, German entertainer
- 1966 - Patrick J. Volkerding, Founder and maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution
- 1966 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al-Qaeda leader (d. 2006)
- 1967 - Luck Mervil, Québécois actor and singer
- 1967 - Marco Ngai, Hong Kong actor
- 1969 - Juan González, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1969 - Laurie Daley, Australian rugby league footballer
- 1969 - Lambros Papakostas, Greek high jumper
- 1970 - Chavo Guerrero, Jr., American professional wrestler
- 1970 - Michelle Malkin, American political commentator and author
- 1971 - Dannii Minogue, Australian singer
- 1971 - Snoop Dogg, American rapper
- 1972 - Will Greenwood, England rugby union player
- 1976 - Tom Wisniewski, American guitarist (MxPx)
- 1977 - Matt Jansen, English footballer
- 1978 - Virender Sehwag, Indian cricketer
- 1978 - Paul Wilson, Irish bass player (Snow Patrol)
- 1979 - John Krasinski, American actor
- 1979 - Paul O'Connell, Irish rugby player
- 1980 - Jose Veras, Dominican baseball player
- 1981 - Willis McGahee, American football player
- 1981 - Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
- 1982 - Becky Brewerton, Welsh golfer
- 1982 - Yasser Al-Qahtani, Saudi football player
- 1983 - Alex Nackman, musician
- 1983 - Takayuki Yamada, Japanese actor
- 1983 - Luis Saritama, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1984 - Florent Sinama-Pongolle, French footballer
- 1984 - Andrew Trimble, Northern Irish rugby player for Irish rugby team
- 1985 - Jennifer Nicole Freeman, American actress
- 1985 - James Sutton, British racing driver
- 1988 - Risa Niigaki, Japanese singer
Deaths
- 460 - Aelia Eudocia, Byzantine Empress
- 1139 - Henry X, Duke of Bavaria
- 1570 - João de Barros, Portuguese historian (b. 1496)
- 1631 - Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1550)
- 1640 - John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1585)
- 1652 - Antonio Coello, Spanish writer (b. 1611)
- 1713 - Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (b. 1652)
- 1740 - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1685)
- 1842 - Grace Darling, English heroine (b. 1815)
- 1865 - Champ Ferguson, Confederate guerilla (b. 1821)
- 1890 - Sir Richard Burton, British explorer and writer (b. 1821)
- 1900 - Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet (b. 1846)
- 1907 - Said Pasha Kurd, Kurdish statesman (b. 1834)
- 1910 - David B. Hill, Governor of New York (b. 1843)
- 1926 - Eugene Debs, American labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate (b. 1855)
- 1935 - Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1863)
- 1936 - Anne Sullivan, American teacher (b. 1866)
- 1964 - Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (b. 1874)
- 1967 - Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
- 1968 - Bud Flanagan, British wartime entertainer (b. 1896)
- 1972 - Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (b. 1885)
- 1977 - Members of the American rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd killed in a plane crash:
- Cassie Gaines (b. 1948)
- Steve Gaines (b. 1949)
- Ronnie Van Zant (b. 1948)
- 1983 - Peter Dudley, British actor
- 1983 - Yves Thériault, French Canadian author (b. 1915)
- 1984 - Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
- 1984 - Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
- 1987 - Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1903)
- 1988 - Sheila Scott, English aviatrix (b. 1922)
- 1989 - Anthony Quayle, English actor (b. 1913)
- 1990 - Joel McCrea, American actor (b. 1905)
- 1993 - Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (b. 1909)
- 1994 - Burt Lancaster, American actor (b. 1913)
- 1995 - Christopher Stone, American actor (b. 1942)
- 2001 - Ted Ammon, American financier (b. 1949)
- 2002 - Barbara Berjer, American actress (b. 1920)
- 2002 - Bernard Fresson, French actor (b. 1931)
- 2003 - Jack Elam, American actor (b. 1918)
- 2004 - Anthony Hecht, American poet (b. 1923)
- 2004 - Chuck Hiller, American baseball player (b. 1934)
- 2005 - Shirley Horn, American singer (b. 1934)
- 2005 - Endon Mahmood, First Lady of Malaysia (breast cancer) (b. 1941)
- 2005 - Eva Svankmajerova, Czech artist (b. 1940)
- 2006 - Jane Wyatt, American actress (b. 1910)
Notes
Arthur Rimbaud
Alphonse Allais
Richard Francis Burton
Elodie Lauten
Charleville-Mézières
Wet Dream Film Festival
Slavko Vorkapich
Jean-Pierre Melville
Charles Ives
John Dewey
Jean-Michel Folon
Snoop Dogg
Marnix Gijsen
Elfriede Jelinek
Danny Boyle
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