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| == Art and culture == | == Art and culture == | ||
| - | + | *[[1980]] - ''[[Remain in Light]]'', Talking Heads album release. | |
| ==Births== | ==Births== | ||
| - | *[[1515]] - [[Margaret Douglas]], Countess of Lennox (d. [[1578]]) | ||
| - | *[[1676]] - [[Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro]], Spanish scholar (d. [[1764]]) | ||
| - | *[[1713]] - [[Yechezkel Landau]], Polish rabbi and Talmudist (d. [[1793]]) | ||
| - | *[[1715]] - [[Michel Benoist]], French Jesuit missionary (d. [[1774]]) | ||
| - | *[[1720]] - [[Jonathan Mayhew]], American minister (d. [[1766]]) | ||
| - | *[[1747]] - [[Jean-François Rewbell]], French politician (d. [[1807]]) | ||
| - | *[[1765]] - [[Harman Blennerhassett]], Irish lawyer (d. [[1831]]) | ||
| - | *[[1789]] - [[John Ruggles]], American politician (d. [[1874]]) | ||
| - | *[[1818]] - [[John Henninger Reagan]], American politician (d. [[1905]]) | ||
| - | *[[1834]] - [[Walter Kittredge]], American musician (d. [[1905]]) | ||
| - | *[[1850]] - [[Henri Louis le Chatelier]], French chemist (d. [[1936]]) | ||
| - | *[[1863]] - [[Edythe Chapman]], American actress (d. [[1948]]) | ||
| - | *[[1864]] - [[Ozias Leduc]], [[Québécois]] painter (d. [[1955]]) | ||
| - | *[[1870]] - [[Louis Vierne]], French organist (d. [[1937]]) | ||
| - | *[[1877]] - [[Hans Heysen]], German-born landscape artist (d. [[1968]]) | ||
| - | *[[1883]] - [[Otto Heinrich Warburg]], German physician, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate]] (d. [[1970]]) | ||
| - | *[[1884]] - [[Walther von Reichenau]], German military officer (d. [[1942]]) | ||
| - | *[[1887]] - [[Huntley Gordon]], Canadian actor (d. [[1956]]) | ||
| - | *[[1888]] - [[Ernst Kretschmer]], German psychiatrist (d. [[1964]]) | ||
| - | *[[1889]] - [[C. E. Woolman]], American airline founder (d. [[1966]]) | ||
| - | *[[1890]] - [[Edward Rickenbacker]], American pilot (d. [[1973]]) | ||
| - | * 1890 - [[Philippe Thys]], Belgian cyclist (d. [[1971]]) | ||
| - | *[[1895]] - [[Juan Peron|Juan Perón]], [[President of Argentina]] (d. [[1974]]) | ||
| - | * 1895 - [[Zog of Albania|Zog I]], [[King of Albania]] (d. [[1961]]) | ||
| - | *[[1896]] - [[Julien Duvivier]], French film director (d. [[1967]]) | ||
| - | *[[1901]] - [[Eivind Groven]], Norwegian composer (d. [[1977]]) | ||
| - | *[[1910]] - [[Kirk Alyn]], American actor (d. [[1999]]) | ||
| - | * 1910 - [[Gus Hall]], American union organizer (d. [[2000]]) | ||
| - | * 1910 - [[Ray Lewis (runner)|Ray Lewis]], Canadian runner (d. [[2003]]) | ||
| - | *[[1917]] - [[Billy Conn]], American boxer (d. [[1993]]) | ||
| - | * 1917 - [[Walter Lord]], American author (d. [[2002]]) | ||
| - | * 1917 - [[Danny Murtaugh]], American baseball player (d. [[1976]]) | ||
| - | * 1917 - [[Rodney Robert Porter]], English biochemist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate]] (d. [[1985]]) | ||
| - | *[[1918]] - [[Ron Randell]], film character actor | ||
| - | * 1918 - [[Jens Christian Skou]], Danish chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel laureate]] | ||
| - | *[[1920]] - [[Frank Herbert]], American writer (d. [[1986]]) | ||
| - | *[[1924]] - [[Alphons Egli]], member of the Swiss Federal Council | ||
| - | *[[1927]] - [[Jim Elliot]], American missionary (d. [[1956]]) | ||
| - | * 1927 - [[César Milstein]], Argentine scientist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate]] (d. [[2002]]) | ||
| - | *[[1928]] - [[Neil Harvey]], Australian cricketer | ||
| - | * 1928 - [[Bill Maynard]], British actor | ||
| - | *[[1929]] - [[Valdir Pereira]], Brazilian footballer (d. [[2001]]) | ||
| - | *[[1932]] - [[Ray Reardon]], Welsh snooker player | ||
| - | *[[1936]] - [[Rona Barrett]], American gossip columnist | ||
| - | *[[1938]] - [[Fred Stolle]], Australian tennis player | ||
| - | * 1938 - [[Walter Gretzky]], father of [[Wayne Gretzky]] | ||
| - | *[[1939]] - [[Paul Hogan (actor)|Paul Hogan]], Australian actor | ||
| - | *[[1940]] - [[Fred Cash]], American singer ([[The Impressions (American band)|The Impressions]]) | ||
| - | *[[1941]] - [[Jesse Jackson]], American clergyman and civil rights activist | ||
| - | *[[1943]] - [[Chevy Chase]], American comedian and actor | ||
| - | * 1943 - [[R. L. Stine]], American author | ||
| - | *[[1944]] - [[Susan Raye]], American singer | ||
| - | *[[1946]] - [[Jean-Jacques Beineix]], French film director | ||
| - | * 1946 - [[Dennis Kucinich]], American politician | ||
| - | *[[1948]] - [[Benjamin Cheever]], American novelist and editor | ||
| - | * 1948 - [[Sarah Purcell]], American television host | ||
| - | * 1948 - [[Johnny Ramone]], American musician ([[The Ramones]]) (d. [[2004]]) | ||
| - | * 1948 - [[Pedro López]], Colombian serial killer | ||
| - | * 1948 - [[Claude Jade]], French actress (d. [[2006]]) | ||
| - | *[[1949]] - [[Sigourney Weaver]], American actress | ||
| - | *[[1950]] - [[Robert Kool Bell]], American musician ([[Kool & the Gang]]) | ||
| - | *[[1951]] - [[Jack O'Connell]], American politician | ||
| - | *[[1952]] - [[Jan Marijnissen]], Dutch politician | ||
| - | * 1952 - [[Edward Zwick]], American film director | ||
| - | *[[1954]] - [[Michael Dudikoff]], American actor | ||
| - | * 1954 - [[Huub Rothengatter]], Dutch racecar driver | ||
| - | *[[1955]] - [[Bill Elliott]], American racecar driver | ||
| - | *[[1956]] - [[Stephanie Zimbalist]], American actress | ||
| - | * 1956 - [[Jeff Lahti]], American baseball player | ||
| - | *[[1957]] - [[Joe Castiglione (athletic director)|Joe Castiglione]], American college athletic director | ||
| - | *[[1958]] - [[Steve Coll]], American journalist | ||
| - | *[[1959]] - [[Nick Bakay]], American actor | ||
| - | * 1959 - [[Mike Morgan]], American baseball player | ||
| - | *[[1960]] - [[François Pérusse]], Quebec humorist | ||
| - | *[[1962]] - [[Bruno Thiry]], Belgian rally driver | ||
| - | *[[1964]] - [[CeCe Winans]], American singer | ||
| - | *[[1965]] - [[Ardal O'Hanlon]], Irish comedian and actor | ||
| - | * 1965 - [[C-Jay Ramone]], American musician ([[The Ramones]]) | ||
| - | *[[1966]] - [[Art Barr]], American wrestler (d. [[1994]]) | ||
| - | *[[1968]] - [[Leeroy Thornhill]], British musician ([[The Prodigy]]) | ||
| - | * 1968 - [[Zvonimir Boban]], Croatian football player | ||
| - | *[[1969]] - [[Julia Ann]], American actress | ||
| - | * 1969 - [[Dylan Neal]], Canadian actor | ||
| - | *[[1970]] - [[Matt Damon]], American actor | ||
| - | * 1970 - [[Gauri Khan]], wife of Indian actor [[Shahrukh Khan]] | ||
| - | * 1970 - [[Tetsuya Nomura]], Japanese video-game designer | ||
| - | * 1970 - [[Soon-Yi Previn]], Korean American actress | ||
| - | * 1972 - [[Stanislav Varga]], Slovakian footballer | ||
| - | *[[1974]] - [[Fredrik Modin]], Swedish hockey player | ||
| - | *[[1976]] - [[Renate Groenewold]], Dutch speed skater | ||
| - | *[[1977]] - [[Anne-Caroline Chausson]], French mountain-bike rider | ||
| - | *[[1980]] - [[Mike Mizanin]], American wrestler | ||
| - | * 1980 - [[Nick Cannon]], American actor | ||
| - | *[[1981]] - [[Raffi Torres]], Canadian ice hockey player | ||
| - | *[[1983]] - [[Michael Fraser]], Scottish football goalkeeper | ||
| - | * 1983 - [[Travis Pastrana]], American motorsports competitor | ||
| - | *[[1985]] - [[Eiji Wentz]], German-Japanese entertainer | ||
| - | *[[1989]] - [[Armand Traore]], French footballer | ||
| - | *[[1993]] - [[Angus T. Jones]], American actor | ||
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| + | *[[1873]] - [[Ma Barker]], American criminal (d. [[1935]]) | ||
| + | *[[1903]] - [[Colette Peignot]], French author (d. [[1938]]) | ||
| + | *[[1930]] - [[Tōru Takemitsu]], Japanese composer, (d. [[1996]]) | ||
| + | *[[1948]] - [[Claude Jade]], French actress (d. [[2006]]) | ||
| + | *[[1948]] - [[Gottfried Helnwein]], Austrian-Irish visual artist | ||
| ==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
| - | * [[976]] - [[Jelena of Zadar]], Croatian queen | ||
| - | *[[1286]] - [[John I, Duke of Brittany|John I of Dreux]], [[Duke of Brittany]] (b. [[1217]]) | ||
| - | *[[1317]] - [[Fushimi]], Emperor of Japan (b. [[1265]]) | ||
| - | *[[1621]] - [[Antoine de Montchrétien]], French dramatist | ||
| - | *[[1647]] - [[Christian Sørensen Longomontanus]], Danish astronomer (b. [[1562]]) | ||
| - | *[[1652]] - [[John Greaves]], English mathematician (b. [[1602]]) | ||
| - | *[[1656]] - [[John George I, Elector of Saxony]] (b. [[1585]]) | ||
| - | *[[1659]] - [[Jean de Quen]], French Jesuit missionary | ||
| - | *[[1735]] - [[Yongzheng Emperor]] of China (b. [[1678]]) | ||
| *[[1754]] - [[Henry Fielding]], English author (b. [[1707]]) | *[[1754]] - [[Henry Fielding]], English author (b. [[1707]]) | ||
| - | *[[1772]] - [[Jean Joseph de Mondonville]], French composer (b. [[1711]]) | + | *[[1896]] - [[George du Maurier]], British author (b. [[1834]]) |
| - | *[[1793]] - [[John Hancock]], American revolutionary (b. [[1737]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1795]] - [[Andrew Kippis]], English non-conformist clergyman (b. [[1725]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1809]] - [[James Elphinston]], Scottish philologist (b. [[1721]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1834]] - [[François-Adrien Boïeldieu]], French composer (b. [[1775]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1847]] - [[Rose Scott]], Social Reformer | + | |
| - | *[[1869]] - [[Franklin Pierce]], 14th [[President of the United States]] (b. [[1804]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1886]] - [[Austin F. Pike]], American politician from New Hampshire (b. [[1819]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1894]] - [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.]], American physician (b. [[1809]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1897]] - [[Alexei Savrasov]], Russian painter (b. [[1830]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1928]] - [[Larry Semon]], comedian (b. [[1889]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1931]] - Sir [[John Monash]], Australian soldier general (b. [[1865]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1936]] - [[William Henry Stark]], American business leader (b. [[1851]]) | + | |
| - | * 1936 - [[Red Ames]], American baseball player (b. [[1882]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1942]] - [[Sergei Chaplygin]], Soviet engineer | + | |
| - | *[[1944]] - [[Wendell Willkie]], American politician (b. [[1892]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1945]] - [[Felix Salten]], Austrian author (b. [[1869]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1952]] - [[Joe Adams (baseball)|Joe Adams]], American baseball player (b. [[1877]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1953]] - [[Nigel Bruce]], British actor (b. [[1895]]) | + | |
| - | * 1953 - [[Kathleen Ferrier]], British contralto (b. [[1912]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1958]] - [[Ran Bosilek]], Bulgarian author (b. [[1886]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1967]] - [[Clement Attlee]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1883]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1970]] - [[Mitr Chaibancha]], Thai film actor (b. [[1934]]) | + | |
| - | * 1970 - [[Jean Giono]], French author (b. [[1895]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1973]] - [[Gabriel Marcel]], French philosopher (b. [[1889]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1977]] - [[Giorgos Papasideris]], [[Greeks|Greek]] [[country singer]] , [[composer]] , [[lyricist]] (b. [[1902]] ) | + | |
| - | *[[1982]] - [[Fernando Lamas]], Argentine actor (b. [[1915]]) | + | |
| - | * 1982 - [[Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker]], Canadian-born peace activist, [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel laureate]] (b. [[1889]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1983]] - [[Joan Hackett]], American actress (b. [[1934]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1990]] - [[B.J. Wilson]], English musician ([[Procol Harum]]) (b. [[1947]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1992]] - [[Willy Brandt]], [[Chancellor of Germany]], [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel laureate]] (b. [[1913]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1997]] - [[Bertrand Goldberg]], American architect (b. [[1913]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1999]] - [[John McLendon]], American basketball coach (b. [[1915]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2002]] - [[Jacques Richard]], French Canadian ice hockey player (b. [[1952]]) | + | |
| *[[2004]] - [[Jacques Derrida]], French philosopher (b. [[1930]]) | *[[2004]] - [[Jacques Derrida]], French philosopher (b. [[1930]]) | ||
| - | * 2004 - [[James Chace]], American historian (b. [[1931]]) | ||
| - | *[[2006]] - [[Mark Porter (driver)|Mark Porter]], New Zealand racing driver (b. [[1975]]) | ||
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| - | == Notes == | ||
| - | # Colette Peignot | ||
| - | # Jacques Derrida | ||
| - | # Ma Barker | ||
| - | # Gottfried Helnwein | ||
| - | # Henry Fielding | ||
| - | # Tōru Takemitsu | ||
| - | # Remain in Light | ||
| - | * George du Maurier | ||
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Art and culture
- 1980 - Remain in Light, Talking Heads album release.
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Births
- 1873 - Ma Barker, American criminal (d. 1935)
- 1903 - Colette Peignot, French author (d. 1938)
- 1930 - Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer, (d. 1996)
- 1948 - Claude Jade, French actress (d. 2006)
- 1948 - Gottfried Helnwein, Austrian-Irish visual artist
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Deaths
- 1754 - Henry Fielding, English author (b. 1707)
- 1896 - George du Maurier, British author (b. 1834)
- 2004 - Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (b. 1930)
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