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| *[[1809]] - [[Louis Braille]], French inventor of braille | *[[1809]] - [[Louis Braille]], French inventor of braille | ||
| *[[1896]] - [[André Masson]], French artist (d. [[1987]]) | *[[1896]] - [[André Masson]], French artist (d. [[1987]]) | ||
| - | *[[1900]] - [[James Bond (ornithologist)|James Bond]], American ornithologist (d. [[1989]]) | ||
| - | *[[1901]] - [[C. L. R. James]], writer and journalist (d. [[1989]]) | ||
| - | *[[1905]] - [[Sterling Holloway]], American actor (d. [[1992]]) | ||
| - | *[[1910]] - [[Arthur Villeneuve]], Quebec painter (d. [[1990]]) | ||
| - | *[[1913]] - [[Malietoa Tanumafili II]], Sovereign Ruler of [[Samoa]] (d.[[2007]]) | ||
| - | *[[1914]] - [[Herman Franks]], baseball player | ||
| - | *[[1916]] - [[Lionel Newman]], American film music composer (d. [[1989]]) | ||
| - | *[[1920]] - [[William Colby]], American [[CIA]] director (d. [[1996]]) | ||
| - | *[[1924]] - [[Sebastian Kappen]], Indian theologian (d. [[1993]]) | ||
| - | *[[1925]] - [[Veikko Hakulinen]], Finnish cross-country skier (d. [[2003]]) | ||
| - | *[[1927]] - [[Paul Desmarais]], Canadian businessman | ||
| - | * 1927 - [[Barbara Rush]], American actress | ||
| - | *[[1929]] - [[Yayoi Kusama]], Japanese artist, sculptor | ||
| - | *[[1930]] - [[Sorrell Booke]], American actor (d. [[1994]]) | ||
| - | * 1930 - [[Don Shula]], American football coach | ||
| - | *[[1931]] - [[Lala Mara|Adi Lady Lala Mara]], First Lady of [[Fiji]] (d. [[2004]]) | ||
| - | *[[1932]] - [[Carlos Saura]], Spanish director | ||
| - | *[[1933]] - [[Ilia II]] Catholicos-Patriarch of all Georgia. | ||
| - | *[[1934]] - [[Rudolf Schuster]], [[President of Slovakia]] | ||
| - | *[[1935]] - [[Floyd Patterson]], American boxer (d. [[2006]]) | ||
| - | *[[1937]] - [[Grace Bumbry]], American singer | ||
| - | * 1937 - [[Dyan Cannon]], American actress | ||
| - | *[[1940]] - [[Helmut Jahn]], German architect | ||
| - | * 1940 - [[Brian David Josephson]], [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel laureate]] | ||
| - | * 1940 - [[Gao Xingjian]], [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel laureate]] | ||
| - | *[[1941]] - [[George Pan Cosmatos]], Greek film director (d. [[2005]]) | ||
| - | * 1941 - [[John Bennett Perry]], American actor | ||
| - | * 1941 - [[Maureen Reagan]], American political activist (d. [[2001]]) | ||
| - | *[[1942]] - [[John McLaughlin (musician)|John McLaughlin]], English jazz guitarist | ||
| - | *[[1943]] - [[Doris Kearns Goodwin]], American writer | ||
| - | *[[1945]] - [[Vesa-Matti Loiri]], Finnish entertainer | ||
| - | * 1945 - [[Richard R. Schrock]], [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel laureate]] | ||
| - | *[[1946]] - [[Arthur Conley]], American singer (d. [[2003]]) | ||
| - | * 1946 - [[Susannah McCorkle]], American Jazz singer (d. [[2001]]) | ||
| *[[1947]] - [[Chris Cutler]], English musician and composer ([[Henry Cow]], [[Art Bears]]) | *[[1947]] - [[Chris Cutler]], English musician and composer ([[Henry Cow]], [[Art Bears]]) | ||
| - | * 1947 - [[Rick Stein]], English chef and television presenter | + | *[[1956]] - [[Bernard Sumner]], English musician ([[New Order]], [[Joy Division]]) |
| - | *[[1948]] - [[Eugeniusz Wycisło]], Polish politician | + | *[[1958]] - [[Julian Sands]], British actor |
| - | *[[1950]] - [[John Louis Evans]], convicted murderer (d. [[1983]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1951]] - [[Barbara Cochran]], American alpine skier | + | |
| - | *[[1953]] - [[Norberto Alonso]], Argentine footballer | + | |
| - | * 1953 - [[George Tenet]], American CIA director | + | |
| - | *[[1954]] - [[Eugene Chadbourne]], American composer and musician | + | |
| - | *[[1955]] - [[Mark Hollis]], English musician and composer ([[Talk Talk]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1956]] - [[Nels Cline]], American guitarist and composer | + | |
| - | * 1956 - [[Bernard Sumner]], English musician ([[New Order]], [[Joy Division]], [[Electronic (band)|Electronic]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1957]] - [[Patty Loveless]], American singer | + | |
| - | *[[1958]] - [[Matt Frewer]], American actor | + | |
| - | * 1958 - [[Andy Borowitz]], American comedian and satirist | + | |
| - | * 1958 - [[Gary Jones (actor)|Gary Jones]], Welsh-born actor | + | |
| - | * 1958 - [[Julian Sands]], British actor | + | |
| *[[1959]] - [[Yoshitomo Nara]], Japanese pop artist | *[[1959]] - [[Yoshitomo Nara]], Japanese pop artist | ||
| *[[1960]] - [[Michael Stipe]], American singer ([[R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M.]]) | *[[1960]] - [[Michael Stipe]], American singer ([[R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M.]]) | ||
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Births
- 1643 - Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician and natural philosopher (d. 1727)
- 1785 - Jakob Grimm, German philologist and folklorist (d. 1863)
- 1809 - Louis Braille, French inventor of braille
- 1896 - André Masson, French artist (d. 1987)
- 1947 - Chris Cutler, English musician and composer (Henry Cow, Art Bears)
- 1956 - Bernard Sumner, English musician (New Order, Joy Division)
- 1958 - Julian Sands, British actor
- 1959 - Yoshitomo Nara, Japanese pop artist
- 1960 - Michael Stipe, American singer (R.E.M.)
- 1961 - Lee Curreri, American actor
- 1962 - Laila Eloui, Egyptian actress
- 1962 - Robin Guthrie, Scottish guitarist (Cocteau Twins)
- 1962 - Peter Steele, American musician (Type O Negative)
- 1963 - Dave Foley, Canadian comedian and actor
- 1963 - Till Lindemann, German singer (Rammstein)
- 1965 - Yvan Attal, French actor and director
- 1965 - Beth Gibbons, English singer (Portishead)
- 1965 - Cait O'Riordan, British musician (The Pogues)
- 1965 - Julia Ormond, English actress
- 1966 - Deana Carter, American singer
- 1967 - David Berman, American poet and singer/songwriter (Silver Jews)
- 1967 - Johnny Nelson, British former boxer
- 1967 - Marina Orsini, Canadian actress
- 1967 - David Toms, American professional golfer
- 1970 - Chris Kanyon, First Active Openly Homosexual Professional Wrestler
- 1971 - Junichi Kakizaki, Japanese artist, sculptor
- 1973 - Harmony Korine, American film director and artist
- 1973 - Frank Høj, Danish cyclist
- 1974 - Ian Moor, English singer
- 1976 - Benoît Joachim, professional cyclist
- 1976 - Ted Lilly, American baseball player
- 1977 - Irán Castillo, Mexican actress
- 1977 - Tim Wheeler, Irish singer (Ash)
- 1978 - Dominik Hrbatý, Slovakian tennis player
- 1978 - Mai Meneses, Spanish singer
- 1979 - Tristan Gommendy, French racing driver
- 1979 - Jeph Howard, American musician (The Used)
- 1980 - Miguel Monteiro, Portuguese footballer
- 1982 - Kang Hye-jeong, South Korean actress
- 1982 - Richard Logan, English footballer
- 1982 - Paulo Ferrari, Argentinian footballer
- 1983 - Spencer Chamberlain, American vocalist (Underoath)
- 1985 - Fernando Rees, Brazilian race car driver
- 1985 - Al Jefferson, Plays in the NBA for the Minnesota Timberwolves
- 1986 - Steve Slaton , American Football Player
- 1986 - James Milner, English footballer
- 1988 - Nabila Jamshed, Indian Writer
- 1991 - Olivia Tennet, New Zealand actress
- 1995 - María Isabel, Spanish singer
- 2000 - Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, American actress
Deaths
- 1066 - Edward the Confessor, pre-Norman conquest English king (b. ca. 1004) (disputed)
- 1248 - King Sancho II of Portugal (b. 1207)
- 1564 - Hosokawa Ujitsuna, Japanese military commander (b. 1514)
- 1584 - Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter and drawer (b. 1539)
- 1695 - François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg, French general (b. 1628)
- 1752 - Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (b. 1704)
- 1761 - Stephen Hales, English physiologist (b. 1677)
- 1773 - Anton Losenko, Russian painter (b. 1737)
- 1782 - Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (b. 1698)
- 1804 - Charlotte Lennox, English author and poet (bc. 1730)
- 1821 - Elizabeth Ann Seton, American saint (b. 1774)
- 1825 - King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1751)
- 1863 - Roger Hanson, Confederate general (b.1827)
- 1877 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (b. 1794)
- 1883 - Antoine Eugène Alfred Chanzy, French general (b. 1823)
- 1891 - Antoine Labelle, Quebec catholic priest (b. 1833)
- 1896 - Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop (b. 1821)
- 1903 - Gulstan Ropert, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1839)
- 1919 - Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1843)
- 1920 - Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (b. 1843)
- 1931 - Art Acord, American actor (b. 1890)
- 1941 - Henri Bergson, French philosopher, Nobel laureate (b. 1859)
- 1960 - Albert Camus, Algerian-born French philosopher and writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1913)
- 1961 - Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1887)
- 1962 - Hans Lammers, German SS officer (b. 1879)
- 1965 - T. S. Eliot, American-born writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
- 1967 - Donald Campbell, British motorboat racer (b. 1921)
- 1970 - Jean-Étienne Valluy, French general (b. 1899)
- 1971 - Arthur Ford, American clairaudient (b. 1896)
- 1981 - Ruth Lowe, Canadian pianist and composer (I'll Never Smile Again) (b. 1914)
- 1985 - Brian Horrocks, British general (b. 1895)
- 1986 - Christopher Isherwood, English writer (b. 1904)
- 1986 - Phil Lynott, Irish musician (Thin Lizzy) (b. 1949)
- 1988 - Lily Laskine, French harpist (b. 1893)
- 1990 - Doc Edgerton, American electrical engineer (b. 1903)
- 1994 - RD Burman, Indian musician (b. 1939)
- 1995 - Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor and composer (b. 1942)
- 1995 - Sol Tax, American anthropologist (b. 1907)
- 1997 - Harry Helmsley, American real estate mogul (b. 1909)
- 1998 - Mae Questel, American actress (b. 1908)
- 1999 - Iron Eyes Cody, American actor (b. 1904)
- 2003 - Conrad Hall, American cinematographer (b. 1927)
- 2003 - Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese-born violinist (b. 1923)
- 2003 - Sabine Ulibarri, Mexican American writer (b. 1919)
- 2004 - Joan Aiken, English author (b. 1924)
- 2004 - Brian Gibson (director), English film director (b. 1944)
- 2004 - Jake Hess, American singer (b. 1927)
- 2004 - Jeff Nuttall, English writer (b. 1933)
- 2004 - John Toland, American historian (b. 1912)
- 2005 - Humphrey Carpenter, English author (b. 1946)
- 2005 - Guy Davenport, American author, artist, and scholar (b. 1927)
- 2005 - Ali al-Haidri, Iraqi governor of Baghdad (assassinated)
- 2005 - Frank Harary, American mathematician (b. 1921)
- 2005 - Robert Heilbroner, American economist (b. 1919)
- 2005 - Bud Poile, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
- 2005 - Alton Tobey, American artist (b. 1914)
- 2006 - Irving Layton, Canadian poet (b. 1912)
- 2006 - Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai (b. 1946)
- 2006 - Robert Howard White, Mayor of Papatoetoe, New Zealand (b. 1914)
- 2007 - Ben Gannon, Australian theatre film and television producer (b. 1952)
- 2007 - Helen Hill, American independent film-maker (b. 1970)
- 2007 - Sir Lewis Hodges, British Air Chief Marshal (b. 1918)
- 2007 - Grenfell (Gren) Jones, Welsh newspaper cartoonist (b. 1934)
- 2007 - Steve Krantz, American film and TV producer (Fritz the Cat) (b. 1923)
- 2007 - Gáspár Nagy, Hungarian poet and writer (b. 1949)
- 2007 - Sandro Salvadore, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
- 2007 - Jan Schröder, Dutch cyclist (b. 1941)
- 2007 - Marais Viljoen, former State President of South Africa (b. 1915)
- 2007 - Osman Waqialla, Sudanese artist and calligrapher (b. 1925)
Births
Deaths
Notes
Paul Virilio André Masson Henri Bergson Albert Camus Timeline of surrealism and dada T. S. Eliot Jeff Nuttall Olivier Theyskens Émile Cohl Ramsey Campbell Christopher Isherwood
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