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[edit] Births
- 1509 - Étienne Dolet, scholar and printer (d. 1546)
- 1645 - August Kuhnel, composer
- 1692 - John Henley, clergyman (d. 1759)
- 1748 - Carl Ludwig Junker, composer
- 1753 - Charles Stanhope, inventor of the calculator
- 1770 - King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia (d. 1840)
- 1801 - Joseph Paxton, landscape gardener (d. 1865)
- 1808 - Hamilton Fish, politician (d. 1893)
- 1811 - Elisha Graves Otis, inventor (safe elevator)
- 1817 - Archduke Albert, Austrian general
- 1823 - Thomas F. Meagher, Irish rebel, convict and escapee in Australia, US Union general
- 1833 - Auguste Schmidt, feminist and teacher (d. 1902)
- 1856 - Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1919)
- 1860 - W.K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (d. 1935)
- 1867 - Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister (d. 1947)
- 1872 - King Haakon VII of Norway (d. 1957)
- 1887 - Rupert Brooke, poet (d. 1915)
- 1894 - Harry Heilmann, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1951)
- 1900 - Ernie Pyle, war correspondent (d. 1945)
- 1900 - John T. Scopes, defendant in the Monkey Trial (d. 1970)
- 1901 - Stefan Wyszynski, primate of Poland (d. 1981)
- 1904 - Clifford D. Simak, science fiction author, (d. 1988)
- 1905 - Franz König, Roman Catholic archbishop of Vienna, important thinker at Vatican II and ultimately last surviving cardinal of John XXIII (d. 2004).
- 1918 - Sidney Gottlieb, Director of the CIA's Technical Services Staff. (d. 1999)
- 1918 - Les Elgart, musician, bandleader
- 1920 - P.D. James, novelist
- 1923 - Shenouda III of Alexandria, Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church
- 1924 - Leon Uris, novelist (d. 2003)
- 1926 - Tony Bennett, singer
- 1935 - Georgi Shonin, cosmonaut (d. 1997)
- 1936 - Edward Petherbridge, actor
- 1937 - Diane Wakoski, poet
- 1937 - Steven Berkoff, British actor
- 1938 - Terry Wogan, presenter
- 1940 - Martin Sheen, American actor
- 1940 - Lance Alworth, American football player
- 1941 - Beverly Lee, singer (Shirelles)
- 1941 - Martha Stewart, home economist
- 1946 - Jack Straw, British politician
- 1948 - Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister of France
- 1950 - John Landis, film director
- 1951 - Marcel Dionne, hockey player
- 1951 - Jay North, actor
- 1952 - Osvaldo Ardiles, footballer
- 1959 - Martin Atkins, drummer
- 1959 - Koichi Tanaka, Japanese scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1963 - James Hetfield, musician (Metallica)
- 1970 - Gina G, Australian singer
- 1977 - Tom Brady, American football player
- 1977 - Angela Beesley, British Internet entrepreneur
- 1986 - Prince Louis Xavier Marie Guillaume, Prince of Luxembourg and of Nassau
[edit] Deaths
- 1181 - Pope Alexander III
- 1546 - Étienne Dolet, scholar and printer (b. 1509)
- 1604 - Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander (b. circa 1540)
- 1667 - Francesco Borromini, Swiss architect (b. 1599)
- 1712 - Joshua Barnes, English scholar (b. 1654)
- 1721 - Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born woodcarver (b. 1648)
- 1761 - Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (b. 1691)
- 1780 - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, philosopher (b. 1715)
- 1792 - Richard Arkwright, industrialist, and inventor of the Water Frame (b. 1732)
- 1797 - Jeffrey Amherst, British military commander (b. 1717)
- 1857 - Eugène Sue, French novelist (b. 1804)
- 1867 - Philipp August Böckh, scholar and antiquarian (b. 1785)
- 1877 - William Butler Ogden, first mayor of Chicago (b.1805)
- 1879 - Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)
- 1916 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish rebel (hanged)
- 1924 - Joseph Conrad, Polish-born writer (b. 1857)
- 1929 - Emil Berliner, telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851)
- 1929 - Thorstein Veblen, economist (b. 1857)
- 1942 - Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)
- 1954 - Colette, French writer (b. 1873)
- 1964 - Flannery O'Connor, American writer (b. 1925)
- 1966 - Lenny Bruce, comedian (b. 1925)
- 1973 - Richard Marshall, general (b. 1895)
- 1977 - Alfred Lunt, actor (b. 1892)
- 1977 - Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus (b. 1913)
- 1979 - Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist (b. 1899)
- 1983 - Carolyn Jones, actress (b. 1929)
- 1995 - Ida Lupino, actress, director (b. 1914)
- 1995 - Edward Whittemore, writer (b. 1933)
- 1998 - Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer (b. 1934)
- 2001 - Christopher Hewett, British actor
- 2003 - Roger Voudouris, American singer and songwriter
- 2004 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (b. 1908)
- 2005 - Steven Vincent, journalist (b. unknown)
