Births | ||
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| * 1988 | Adele (singer) | Better known simply as Adele, is an English singer-songwriter. |
| * 1981 | Craig David | British R&B singer. |
| * 1980 | Hank Green | Professional blogger and the founder of the environmental technology blog EcoGeek. |
| * 1972 | Devin Townsend | Progressive metal musician influenced by death metal, jazz, blues, progressive rock, industrial, ambient, traditional metal and classical music. |
| * 1970 | Will Arnett | Emmy Award-nominated Canadian-American comedic actor, best known for his portrayal G O B Bluth on the cult favorite Fox series Arrested Development. |
| * 1967 | Max Tegmark | Swedish-American cosmologist and Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he belongs to the scientific directorate of the Foundational Questions Institute. |
| * 1959 | Ian McCulloch | English singer-songwriter who is the lead singer of the post-punk band Echo & the Bunnymen. |
| * 1943 | Michael Palin | English comedian, actor and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python, as well as for his travel documentaries. |
| * 1925 | Leo J. Ryan | United States Representative from the 11th Congressional District of California. |
| * 1923 | Sergei Akhromeyev | Russian military figure, Hero of the Soviet Union (1982), Marshal of the Soviet Union (1983), who was Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces 1984-1988, and committed suicide after the 1991 August Coup. |
| * 1921 | Arthur Leonard Schawlow | American physicist. |
| * 1894 | August Dvorak | Educational psychologist and professor of education at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. |
| * 1890 | Christopher Morley | American journalist, novelist, poet, and playwright. |
| * 1882 | Douglas Mawson | English-born Australian explorer and professor of geology. |
| * 1846 | Henryk Sienkiewicz | Nobel Prize-winning Polish novelist, most famous for his novel Quo Vadis. |
| * 1830 | Thomas Edward Brown | Manx poet, scholar and theologian. |
| * 1818 | Karl Marx | German political philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. |
| * 1813 | Soren Aabye Kierkegaard | Danish Christian philosopher and theologian, considered to be a founder of Existentialist thought and Absurdist traditions. |
| * 1811 | John William Draper | U S English-born chemist, botanist, historian and photographer. |
| * 1711 | David Hume | Scottish philosopher, historian, economist and essayist. |
| * 0 | Jessica Dubroff | Seven-year-old pilot trainee who died attempting to become the youngest person to fly an airplane across the United States. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2004 | Ritsuko Okazaki | Japanese singer-songwriter and author, known for her contribution to various anime series such as Fruits Basket. |
| † 1998 | Frithjof Schuon | Swiss philosopher and author of numerous books on religion and spirituality. |
| † 1995 | Mikhail Botvinnik | Russian International Grandmaster and long-time World Champion of chess. |
| † 1981 | Bobby Sands | Irish Republican who died on hunger strike whilst in prison for the possession of firearms. |
| † 1958 | James Branch Cabell | American author of satirical fantasy works, most notably the series known as Biography of the Life of Manuel. |
| † 1951 | Marriott Edgar | British writer and comedian, best remembered for his comic monologues about Lancashire working-class characters and about figures from English history. |
| † 1881 | William Ross Wallace | American poet best known for writing "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Is The Hand That Rules The World". |
| † 1821 | Napoleon Bonaparte | French military general who rose to prominence in the French Revolution, becoming the ruler of France as First Consul of the French Republic (11 November 1799 - 18 May 1804), and then Emperor of the French and King of Italy under the name Napoleon I (18 May 1804 - 6 April 1814, and again briefly from 20 March - 22 June 1815). |
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