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Art and culture

• 1892 - The first performance of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker is held at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.

Births

• 1870 - Saki, British writer (d. 1916)
• 1879 - Paul Klee, Swiss-born painter (d. 1940)
• 1916 - Betty Grable, American actress (d. 1973)
• 1931 - Allen Klein, American rock and roll business manager
• 1939 - Michael Moorcock, British author
• 1943 - Keith Richards, English guitarist (The Rolling Stones)
• 1946 - Steven Spielberg, American film director
• 1955 - Ray Liotta, American actor
• 1956 - Ron White, American comedian
• 1960 - Kazuhide Uekusa, Japanese economist
• 1961 - Brian Orser, Canadian figure skater
• 1963 - Karl Dorrell, American football coach
• 1963 - Brad Pitt, American actor
• 1963 - Charles Oakley, American basketball player
• 1964 - Stone Cold Steve Austin, American professional wrestler
• 1964 - Don Beebe, American football player
• 1964 - Robson Green, British actor and singer
• 1965 - Mick Collins, American musician (The Gories, The Dirtbombs)
• 1965 - Tommy Davidson, American actor
• 1966 - Mille Petrozza, German singer (Kreator)
• 1966 - Makiko Esumi, Japanese actress
• 1967 - Toine van Peperstraten, Dutch sports journalist
• 1968 - Rachel Griffiths, Australian actress
• 1968 - Casper Van Dien, American actor
• 1968 - Alejandro Sanz, Spanish singer
• 1969 - Santiago Cañizares, Spanish footballer
• 1969 - Justin Edinburgh, English footballer
• 1969 - Akira Iida, Japanese racing driver
• 1970 - DMX, American rapper and actor
• 1970 - Miles Marshall Lewis, American author
• 1970 - Rob Van Dam, American professional wrestler
• 1970 - Cowboy Troy, American rapper
• 1970 - Anthony Catanzaro, American fitness model
• 1970 - Victoria Pratt, Canadian actress and fitness model
• 1970 - Johnny Yeo, British artist
• 1971 - Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Spanish tennis player
• 1971 - Barkha Dutt, Indian journalist
• 1971 - Noriko Matsueda, Japanese composer
• 1972 - DJ Lethal, Latvian DJ (House of Pain & Limp Bizkit)
• 1972 - Raymond Herrera, American drummer Fear Factory and various music projects; Owner of 3volution Productions; Co-owner of Kool Arrow Records, Xon Xon Media, Cocaine Energy Drink and Temple Studios.
• 1974 - Kari Byron, artist and television personality
• 1974 - Peter Boulware, American football player
• 1974 - Euroboy, Norwegian musician (Turbonegro)
• 1975 - Trish Stratus, Canadian professional wrestler
• 1975 - Masaki Sumitani, Japanese comedian
• 1976 - Koyuki, Japanese actress and model
• 1977 - José Acevedo, Dominican baseball player
• 1978 - Katie Holmes, American actress
• 1978 - Ali Curtis, American footballer
• 1978 - Daniel Cleary, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1979 - Carlos Fernandes, Portuguese footballer
• 1980 - Christina Aguilera, American singer
• 1982 - Dave Luetkenhoelter, American bassist (Kutless)
• 1983 - Darren Carter, English footballer
• 1985 - Hana Soukupová, Czech supermodel
• 1985 - Tara Conner, 2006 Miss USA
• 1987 - Ayaka, Japanese singer
• 1987 - Miki Ando, Japanese figure skater
• 1987 - Fernando Jara, Panamanian-American jockey
• 1989 - Ashley Benson, American actress

Deaths

• 821 - Theodulf, Bishop of Orléans
• 1133 - Hildebert, French writer
• 1290 - King Magnus I of Sweden (b. 1240)
• 1442 - Pierre Cauchon, French Catholic bishop (b. 1371)
• 1495 - King Alphonso II of Naples (b. 1448)
• 1692 - Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman (b. 1626)
• 1737 - Antonio Stradivari, Italian violin maker (b. 1644)
• 1787 - Francis William Drake, British Admiral and Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1724)
• 1787 - Soame Jenyns, English writer (b. 1704)
• 1799 - Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (b. 1725)
• 1803 - Johann Gottfried Herder, German writer (b. 1744)
• 1829 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist (b. 1744)
• 1843 - Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, British Viceroy of India (b. 1748)
• 1848 - Bernard Bolzano, Bohemian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1781)
• 1869 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American composer and pianist (b. 1829)
• 1880 - Michel Chasles, French mathematician (b. 1793)
• 1936 - Andrija Mohorovičić, Austro-Hungarian-born Yugoslav seismologist (b. 1857)
• 1966 - Tara Browne, British socialite (b. 1945)
• 1971 - Bobby Jones, American golfer (b. 1902)
• 1971 - Diana Lynn, American actress (b. 1926)
• 1973 - Allama Rasheed Turabi, Pakistani scholar, orator and philosopher (b. 1908)
• 1974 - Harry Hooper, American baseball player (b. 1887)
• 1975 - Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian geneticist (b. 1900)
• 1980 - Alexei Kosygin, Premier of the USSR (b. 1904)
• 1982 - Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German pilot (b. 1916)
• 1985 - Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet (b. 1916)
• 1987 - Konrad "Conny" Plank, German record producer and musician (b. 1940)
• 1990 - Paul Tortelier, French cellist and composer (b. 1914)
• 1990 - Anne Revere, American actress (b. 1903)
• 1991 - George Abecassis, British Formula 1 driver (b. 1913)
• 1992 - Mark Goodson, American game show producer (b. 1915)
• 1993 - Charizma, American rapper (b. 1973)
• 1993 - Sam Wanamaker, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1994 - Roger Apéry, Greek-French mathematician (b. 1916)
• 1995 - Konrad Zuse, German engineer and computing pioneer (b. 1910)
• 1996 - Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist (b. 1904)
• 1997 - Chris Farley, American actor and comedian (b. 1964)
• 1998 - Lev Demin, cosmonaut (b. 1926)
• 1999 - Robert Bresson, French film director (b. 1907)
• 2000 - Randolph Apperson Hearst, son of W. Randolph Hearst and father of Patty (b. 1915)
• 2000 - Kirsty MacColl, British singer and songwriter (b. 1959)
• 2001 - Gilbert Bécaud, French singer (b. 1927)
• 2001 - Dimitris Dragatakis, Greek composer (b. 1914)
• 2002 - Ray Hnatyshyn, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1934)
• 2002 - Wayne Owens, former U.S. Congressman (D-UT) (b. 1937)
• 2004 - Anthony Sampson, British journalist and biographer (b. 1926)
• 2005 - Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (b. 1922)
• 2006 - Joseph Barbera, American cartoonist (b. 1911)
• 2006 - Ruth Bernhard, American photographer (1905)
• 2006 - Mike Dickin, British radio broadcaster (b. 1943)
• 2006 - Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani author, journalist and political activist (b.

Notes

1. Bettina Rheims
2. André S. Labarthe
3. Robert Bresson
4. Joseph Stalin
5. Michael Moorcock
6. Paul Klee
7. Allen Klein
8. Conny Plank
9. Johann Gottfried Herder
10. Frankie Crocker
11. Louis Moreau Gottschalk
12. Saki
13. Betty Grable
14. Brad Pitt

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