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[edit] Births
- 1941 - Paul Anka
- 1963 - Lisa Kudrow
[edit] Deaths
- 578 - Jacob Baradaeus, bishop of Edessa
- 1652 - Charles Amédée de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier (b. 1624)
- 1680 - Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (b. 1634)
- 1683 - Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
- 1691 - Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (b. 1639)
- 1715 - Nahum Tate, Irish poet (b. 1652)
- 1718 - William Penn, English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)
- 1771 - Thomas Gray, English poet and letter-writer (b. 1716)
- 1875 - George Pickett, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
- 1898 - Otto von Bismarck, German chancellor (b. 1815)
- 1900 - Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)
- 1912 - Emperor Meiji, Japanese emperor (b. 1852
- 1918 - Joyce Kilmer, American poet (b. 1886)
- 1947 - Joseph Cook, sixth Prime Minister of Australia
- 1971 - Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet
- 1983 - Lynn Fontanne, stage and film actress (b. 1887)
- 1985 - Julia Hall Bowman Robinson, American mathematician (b. 1919)
- 1996 - Claudette Colbert, French-American actress (b. 1903)
- 2003 - Sam Phillips, American record producer (b. 1923)
