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[edit] Births
- 1745 - William Jessop, canal engineer (d. 1814)
- 1752 - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (d. 1832)
- 1783 - Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842)
- 1786 - Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (d. 1858)
- 1832 - Edouard Manet, French artist (d. 1883)
- 1840 - Ernst Abbe, German physicist (d. 1905)
- 1857 - Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian seismologist (d. 1936)
- 1862 - David Hilbert, mathematician (d. 1943)
- 1872 - Goce Delchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1903)
- 1872 - Joze Plečnik, architect (d. 1957)
- 1878 - Oton Župančič, Slovenian poet (d. 1949)
- 1884 - Ralph DePalma, race car driver (d. 1956)
- 1897 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, architect (d. 2000)
- 1897 - Subhas Chandra Bose
- 1898 - Sergei Eisenstein, Russian film director (d. 1948)
- 1898 - Randolph Scott, American actor (d. 1987)
- 1903 - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (d. 1948)
- 1907 - Dan Duryea, actor (d. 1968)
- 1907 - Hideki Yukawa, physicist (d. 1981)
- 1910 - Django Reinhardt, guitarist (d. 1953)
- 1915 - Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1985)
- 1919 - Hans Hass, zoologist and underwater scientist
- 1919 - Ernie Kovacs, American comedian (d. 1962)
- 1920 - Ray Abrams, saxophonist
- 1920 - Gottfried Böhm, architect
- 1923 - Walter M. Miller Jr., science fiction writer (d. 1996)
- 1928 - Chico Carrasquel, the first Latin American player to appear in a MLB All-Star Game (d. 2005)
- 1928 - Jeanne Moreau, French actress
- 1930 - Derek Walcott, author
- 1933 - Chita Rivera, actress, dancer
- 1936 - Jerry Kramer, American football star
- 1938 - Shohei Baba, professional wrestler, founder of All-Japan Pro Wrestling (d. 1999)
- 1938 - Georg Baselitz, painter and sculptor
- 1939 - Arlene Golonka, American actress
- 1943 - Gil Gerard, actor
- 1944 - Rutger Hauer, actor
- 1947 - Megawati Sukarnoputri, President of Indonesia
- 1948 - Anita Pointer, American singer
- 1950 - Richard Dean Anderson, actor
- 1950 - Danny Federici, American musician (Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band)
- 1954 - Franco De Vita, singer/songwriter
- 1957 - Earl Falconer, bassist
- 1957 - Princess Caroline of Monaco
- 1963 - Gail O'Grady, actress
- 1964 - Mariska Hargitay, actress
- 1967 - Naim Suleymanoglu, Bulgaria-born Turkish weightlifter
- 1974 - Tiffani Thiessen, actress
- 1978 - Tommy <T-Bone> Huntington III- Political Activist,Renaissance Man
- 1984 - Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer
[edit] Deaths
- 1002 - Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980)
- 1199 - Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur (b. 1160)
- 1570 - James Stewart, Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland
- 1789 - John Cleland, novelist (b. 1709)
- 1800 - Edward Rutledge, U.S. statesman (b. 1749)
- 1805 - Claude Chappe, French telecommunications pioneer (b. 1763)
- 1837 - John Field, Irish composer (b. 1782)
- 1875 - Charles Kingsley English writer (b. 1819)
- 1883 - Gustave Doré, French artist, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1832)
- 1893 - Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, United States Supreme Court (b. 1825)
- 1923 - Max Nordau, author, philosopher, and Zionist leader (b. 1849)
- 1931 - Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (b. 1881)
- 1937 - Marie Prevost, French actress (b. 1898)
- 1943 - Alexander Woollcott, actor, author, and bon vivant (b. 1887)
- 1944 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (b. 1863)
- 1973 - Kid Ory, jazz trombonist (b. 1886)
- 1976 - Paul Robeson, actor, singer, social activist (b. 1898)
- 1978 - Jack Oakie, actor (b. 1903)
- 1978 - Terry Kath, musician (Chicago) (b. 1946)
- 1981 - Samuel Barber, American composer (b. 1910)
- 1983 - Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (b. 1908)
- 1989 - Salvador Dalí, Catalan artist (b. 1904)
- 1990 - Allen Collins, American musician
- 1991 - Northrop Frye, literary critic (b. 1912)
- 1992 - Freddie Bartholomew, actor (b. 1924)
- 1993 - Thomas Dorsey, gospel music singer (b. 1899)
- 1994 - Brian Redhead, journalist and broadcaster (b. 1929)
- 1994 - Nikolai Ogarkov, Russian marshal
- 1997 - Richard Berry, American composer, musician
- 1999 - Prince Lincoln Thompson, musician
- 2001 - Francisco "Curro" Rivera, Mexican bullfighter
- 2002 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (b. 1930)
- 2002 - Robert Nozick, philosopher (b. 1938)
- 2003 - Nell Carter, singer, actress (b. 1948)
- 2004 - Bob Keeshan, actor (b. 1927)
- 2004 - Helmut Newton, photographer (b. 1920)
- 2005 - Johnny Carson, television personality (b. 1925)
- 2005 - Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, British politician (b. 1921)
- 2005 - Douglas Knight, university president
- 2005 - Charles Martin, American football player
- 2005 - Mutsuko Sakura (桜むつ子), Japanese actress
[edit] Events
- 1556 - 9.0 earthquake hits Shaanxi and Kansu, China.
