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[change] Births
- 1567 - Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (d. 1643)
- 1859 - Pierre Curie, French physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1906)
- 1860 - Ellen Louise Wilson, American First Lady, wife of Woodrow Wilson (d. 1914)
- 1908 - Joe Grant, American writer and animator (d. 2005)
- 1948 - Brian Eno, English musician and record producer
- 1979 - Dominic Scott, Irish guitarist
- 1980 - Josh Beckett, American baseball player
- 1987 - Andy Murray, Scottish tennis player
[change] Deaths
- 1036 - Emperor Go-Ichijo of Japan (d. 1036)
- 1470 - Charles VIII of Sweden
- 1585 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese retainer, samurai, and daimyo (b. 1535)
- 1634 - Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (b. 1585)
- 1740 - Ephraim Chambers, English encyclopaedist (b. 1680)
- 1782 - Marquis of Pombal, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1699)
- 1886 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (b. 1830)
- 1937 - Phillip Snowden, British politician (b. 1864)
- 1948 - Father Edward Flanagan, priest, founder of Boys Town
- 1956 - Austin Osman Spare, magician (b. 1886)
- 1967 - Edward Hopper, painter (b. 1882)
- 1971 - Sir Tyrone Guthrie, director, producer, and writer (b. 1900)
- 1986 - Theodore H. White, writer (b. 1915)
- 1994 - Gilbert Roland, Mexican actor (b. 1904)
- 1995 - Eric Porter, British actor (b. 1928)
- 1996 - Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (b. 1910)
- 1998 - Earl Manigault, basketball player
- 2003 - June Carter Cash, American musician and singer (b. 1929)
- 2003 - George Francis, British mobster
- 2003 - Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist
- 2005 - Les Bartley, National Lacrosse League coach (b. 1954)