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the second Shia Imam
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Louis VI
French king
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Anna Komnene
Byzantine physician and scholar
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Jan Długosz
Polish historian
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Peter II
Duke of Bourbon, son of Charles I
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Magdalena of France
French princess
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Takeda Shingen
Japanese daimyō
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Tadeáš Hájek
Czech physician and astronomer
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Bernardino Realino
Italian Jesuit
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Sophie Hedwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Duchess consort of Pomerania-Wolgast
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Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc
French astronomer and historian
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Philip Yorke
1st Earl of Hardwicke, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom
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Franz Xaver Richter
Czech composer, violinist, and conductor
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Étienne Maurice Falconet
French sculptor
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Martin Heinrich Klaproth
German chemist and academic
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Marie Tussaud
French-English sculptor, founded Madame Tussauds Wax Museum
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Nikolai Lobachevsky
Russian mathematician and geometer
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Mihály Vörösmarty
Hungarian poet
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9th Dalai Lama
Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader
(d. 1815)
Ledi Sayadaw
Burmese monk and philosopher
(d. 1923)
Julia A. Moore
American poet
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John Evans
English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania
(d. 1943)
Eligiusz Niewiadomski
Polish painter and critic
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Archie MacLaren
English cricketer
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Henry Cadbury
American historian, scholar, and academic
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
German painter and etcher
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Rex Stout
American detective novelist
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Zhu De
Chinese general and politician, 1st Vice Chairman of the People's Republic of China
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Afrânio Pompílio Gastos do Amaral
Brazilian herpetologist
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Henry Williamson
English farmer, soldier, and author
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Georgy Zhukov
Russian general and politician, 2nd Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union
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Stuart Garson
Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Manitoba
(d. 1977)
Cyril Ritchard
Australian-American actor and singer
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Karna Maria Birmingham
Australian artist, illustrator and print maker
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Ilona Fehér
Hungarian-Israeli violinist and educator
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Nikolai Voznesensky
Soviet economic planner, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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Alex Wilson
Canadian sprinter and coach
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Alicia Markova
English ballerina and choreographer
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Walter Alston
American baseball player and manager
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Calvin Griffith
Canadian-American businessman
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Billy Raimondi
American baseball player
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Minoru Yamasaki
American architect, designed the World Trade Center
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Mary Martin
American actress and singer
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Wan Li
Chinese educator and politician, 4th Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China
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Thomas Hayward
American tenor and actor
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Marty Marion
American baseball player and manager
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Peter Baptist Tadamaro Ishigami
Japanese priest, 1st Bishop of Naha
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Vernon McGarity
American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient
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Vsevolod Bobrov
Russian ice hockey player, footballer, and manager
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Dick Shawn
American actor
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Stansfield Turner
American admiral and academic, 12th Director of Central Intelligence
(d. 2018)
Masao Horiba
Japanese businessman, founded Horiba
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Martin Rodbell
American biochemist and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate
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Mother Antonia
American-Mexican nun and activist
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Allyn Ann McLerie
Canadian-American actress, singer, and dancer
(d. 2018)
Keith Michell
Australian actor
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Robert Symonds
American actor
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Colin Tennant
3rd Baron Glenconner, Scottish businessman
(d. 2010)
Micheline Bernardini
French dancer and mode
l
Emily McLaughlin
American actress
(d. 1991)
Malachi Throne
American actor
(d. 2013)
David Doyle
American actor
(d. 1997)
Marie Bashir
Australian psychiatrist, academic, and politician, 37th Governor of New South Wale
s
Joachim Hoffmann
German historian and author
(d. 2002)
Jimmy Lyons
American saxophonist
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Jim Nesbitt
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
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George Maxwell Richards
Trinidadian politician, 4th President of Trinidad and Tobago
(d. 2018)
Lou Rawls
American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
(d. 2006)
Violette Verdy
French ballerina
(d. 2016)
Billy Paul
American soul singer
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Sola Sierra
Chilean human rights activist
(d. 1999)
Igor Rodionov
Russian general and politician, 3rd Russian Minister of Defence
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Muriel Costa-Greenspon
American soprano and actress
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Gordon Crosse
English composer and academic
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Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
Latvian psychologist and politician, President of Latvi
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Sandy Nelson
American rock and roll drummer
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Lee Trevino
American golfer and sportscaste
r
Mike Denness
Scottish cricketer and referee
(d. 2013)
Jerry Lawson
American electronic engineer and inventor
(d. 2011)
Richard Pryor
American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
(d. 2005)
Tasso Wild
German footballe
r
Mohamed Kamel Amr
Egyptian politician, Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affair
s
John Crowley
American author and academi
c
Ross Edwards
Australian crickete
r
Kenny Moore
American runner and journalist
(d. 2022)
Eric Bloom
American singer-songwriter and guitaris
t
John Densmore
American drummer and songwrite
r
Michael Hagee
American genera
l
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Moroccan author and poe
t
Ásta B. Þorsteinsdóttir
Icelandic politicia
n
Lyle Bien
American vice admiral in the United States Nav
y
Bette Midler
American singer-songwriter, actress and produce
r
Jonathan Katz
American comedian and acto
r
Kemal Kurspahić
Bosnian journalist and author
(d. 2021)
Gilbert O'Sullivan
Irish singer-songwriter and pianis
t
Alain Bashung
French singer-songwriter and actor
(d. 2009)
Bob Fulton
English-Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster
(d. 2021)
George Foster
American baseball player and radio hos
t
Sarfraz Nawaz
Pakistani cricketer and politicia
n
John Roskelley
American mountaineer and autho
r
Neil Warnock
English footballer and manage
r
N. T. Wright
English bishop and schola
r
Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa
Nigerian civil servant and politician, Governor of Kaduna State
(d. 2012)
Jan Brett
American author and illustrato
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Pablo Escobar
Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist
(d. 1993)
Sebastián Piñera
Chilean businessman and politician, 35th President of Chile
(d. 2024)
Manju Bansal
Indian biologist and academi
c
Ross Hannaford
Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
(d. 2016)
Richard Keith
American actor and drumme
r
Gary Panter
American illustrator and painte
r
Filippos Petsalnikos
Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Justice
(d. 2020)
Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov
Bulgarian cosmonau
t
Obba Babatundé
American actor, director, and produce
r
Doug Mulray
Australian radio and television host
(d. 2023)
Jaco Pastorius
American bass player, songwriter, and producer
(d. 1987)
Nozipho Schroeder
South African lawn bowle
r
Treat Williams
American actor
(d. 2023)
Stephen Poliakoff
English director, producer, and playwrigh
t
Alan Dedicoat
English journalis
t
Judith Hackitt
English chemist and enginee
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François Van der Elst
Belgian footballer
(d. 2017)
Veikko Aaltonen
Finnish actor, director, and screenwrite
r
Verónica Forqué
Spanish actress
(d. 2021)
Udit Narayan
Indian playback singe
r
Pat Spillane
Irish footballer and sportscaste
r
Karen Tumulty
American journalis
t
Julee Cruise
American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress
(d. 2022)
Chris Poland
American guitarist and songwrite
r
Deep Roy
Kenyan-British acto
r
Vesta Williams
American singer-songwriter and actress
(d. 2011)
Javier Aguirre
Mexican footballer and manage
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Candace Bushnell
American journalist and autho
r
Alberto Cova
Italian runne
r
Gary Peters
American politicia
n
Charlene Tilton
American actress and singe
r
Billy Childish
English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and painte
r
Wally Lewis
Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaste
r
Carol Alt
American model and actres
s
Shirin M. Rai
Indian-English political scientist and academi
c
Jane Turner
Australian actress and produce
r
Safra Catz
Israeli-American businesswoma
n
Raymond E. Goldstein
American biophysicist and academi
c
Jeremy Northam
English acto
r
Sylvie Daigle
Canadian speed skate
r
Pamela McGee
American basketball player and coac
h
Marco Greco
Brazilian race car drive
r
Nathalie Lambert
Canadian speed skate
r
Arjuna Ranatunga
Sri Lankan cricketer and politicia
n
Salvatore Schillaci
Italian footballer
(d. 2024)
Jo Walton
Welsh-Canadian author and poe
t
Henry Honiball
South African rugby playe
r
Magnifico
Slovenian singe
r
Andrew Adamson
New Zealand director, producer, and screenwrite
r
Katherine LaNasa
American actress, ballet dancer, and choreographe
r
Larry Walker
Canadian baseball player and coac
h
Nestor Carbonell
American acto
r
Reggie Sanders
American baseball playe
r
Justin Chadwick
English actor and directo
r
Sarah Fitzgerald
Australian squash playe
r
Anders Holmertz
Swedish swimme
r
Richard Carrier
American author and blogge
r
Golden Brooks
American actres
s
Jonathan Coulton
American singer-songwriter and guitaris
t
Kirk Rueter
American baseball playe
r
Sarah Silverman
American comedian, actress, and singe
r
Tisha Waller
American high jumper and educato
r
Christian Pescatori
Italian race car drive
r
Mika Pohjola
Finnish-American pianist and compose
r
John Schlimm
American author and educato
r
Stanton Barrett
American race car driver and stuntma
n
Bart Millard
American singer-songwrite
r
Steve Gibb
English singer-songwriter and guitaris
t
Costinha
Portuguese footballer and manage
r
Matt Fraction
American autho
r
Isaiah "Ikey" Owens
American keyboard player and producer
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Thomas Schie
Norwegian racing driver and sportscaste
r
Farah Shah
Pakistani actress and hos
t
Sophia Skou
Danish swimme
r
Tomasz Adamek
Polish boxe
r
Laura Ling
American journalist and autho
r
Dean O'Gorman
New Zealand actor, artist, and photographe
r
Matthew Shepard
American hate crime victim
(d. 1998)
Evangelos Sklavos
Greek basketball playe
r
Brad Delson
American guitarist and produce
r
Sophie Guillemin
French actres
s
Lee McKenzie
Scottish journalis
t
Nate Torrence
American actor and comedia
n
Mat Kearney
American musicia
n
Stephanie Brown Trafton
American discus throwe
r
Ryan Malone
American ice hockey playe
r
Iftikhar Anjum
Pakistani crickete
r
Mohammad Kaif
Indian cricketer and politicia
n
Mubarak Hassan Shami
Kenyan-Qatari runne
r
Gianna Terzi
Greek singe
r
Park Hyo-shin
South Korean singer-songwriter and acto
r
Luke McPharlin
Australian footballe
r
I Made Wirawan
Indonesian footballe
r
Riz Ahmed
English actor and rappe
r
Christos Kalantzis
Greek footballe
r
Christos Melissis
Greek footballe
r
Charles Michael Davis
American acto
r
Yolandi Visser
South African rapper and actres
s
Ilfenesh Hadera
American actres
s
Janelle Monáe
American singer-songwriter, producer, and actres
s
Emiliano Viviano
Italian footballe
r
DeSean Jackson
American football playe
r
Simon Dawkins
English footballe
r
Tabarie Henry
Virgin Islander sprinte
r
Vance Joy
Australian singer-songwrite
r
Brett Williams
English footballe
r
Tyler Joseph
American musician and singe
r
Zoë Kravitz
American actress, singer, and mode
l
Dan Mavraides
Greek-American basketball playe
r
Michael Raffl
Austrian ice hockey playe
r
Sotelúm
Mexican trumpet player, composer, and produce
r
Tomáš Tatar
Slovak ice hockey playe
r
Rakeem Christmas
American basketball playe
r
Hilda Melander
Swedish tennis playe
r
Sun Yang
Chinese swimme
r
Masahudu Alhassan
Ghanaian footballe
r
Javier Báez
Puerto Rican baseball playe
r
Linos Chrysikopoulos
Greek basketball playe
r
Gary Payton II
American basketball playe
r
Marco van Ginkel
Dutch footballe
r
Reena Pärnat
Estonian arche
r
Beau Webster
Australian crickete
r
Seedy Njie
English footballe
r
Agnė Čepelytė
Lithuanian tennis playe
r
Jenna Fife
Scottish footballe
r
James Wilson
English footballe
r
Sada Williams
Barbadian sprinte
r
Nico Schlotterbeck
German footballe
r
Carole Monnet
French tennis playe
r
Yehudah HaNasi
'Nasi', Rabbi and editor of the Mishnah
(b. 135)
Eligius
Frankish bishop and saint
(b. 588)
Gao Conghui
Chinese governor and prince
(b. 891)
Fujiwara no Morotada
Japanese statesman
(b. 920)
Thietmar of Merseburg
German bishop
(b. 975)
Henry I
king of England
(b. 1068)
Isabella of England
Holy Roman Empress
(b. 1214)
Muhammad III of Alamut
Nizari Ismaili Ima
m
Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan
Mongol ruler of the Ilkhanate
(b. 1305)
Magnus Eriksson
king of Sweden
(b. 1316)
Go-Komatsu
emperor of Japan
(b. 1377)
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Italian goldsmith and sculptor
(b. 1378)
Leo X
pope of the Catholic Church
(b. 1475)
Margaret of Austria
duchess of Savoy
(b. 1480)
Giovanni Morone
Italian cardinal
(b. 1509)
Alexander Briant
English Roman Catholic priest, martyr and saint
(b. 1556)
Edmund Campion
English Roman Catholic priest, martyr, and saint
(b. 1540)
Ralph Sherwin
English Roman Catholic priest, martyr, and saint
(b. 1550)
Isabella Clara Eugenia
infanta of Spain
(b. 1566)
Miguel de Vasconcelos
Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal
(b. 1590)
Pierre d'Hozier
French genealogist and historian
(b. 1592)
Giacomo F. Maraldi
French-Italian astronomer and mathematician
(b. 1665)
Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr
German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer
(b. 1671)
Maurice Greene
English organist and composer
(b. 1696)
Henry Erskine
10th Earl of Buchan, Scottish politician
(b. 1710)
Alexander I
emperor and autocrat of Russia
(b. 1777)
Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich
Swiss pastor, poet, and educator
(b. 1796)
George Everest
Welsh geographer and surveyor
(b. 1790)
Charles Gray Round
English lawyer and politician
(b. 1797)
William Swainson
English-New Zealand lawyer and politician, Attorney-General of the Crown Colony of New Zealand
(b. 1809)
Juhan Liiv
Estonian poet and author
(b. 1864)
Alfred Thayer Mahan
American captain and historian
(b. 1840)
Charles de Foucauld
French priest and martyr
(b. 1858)
Virginie Loveling
Belgian author and poet
(b. 1836)
José Eustasio Rivera
Colombian-American lawyer and poet
(b. 1888)
Pekka Halonen
Finnish painter
(b. 1865)
Sergey Kirov
Russian engineer and politician
(b. 1886)
Bernhard Schmidt
Estonian-German optician, invented the Schmidt camera
(b. 1879)
Leon Wachholz
Polish scientist and medical examiner
(b. 1867)
Damrong Rajanubhab
Thai historian and educator
(b. 1862)
Charlie Kerins
Executed Irish Republican
(b. 1918)
Aleister Crowley
English magician, poet, and mountaineer
(b. 1875)
G. H. Hardy
English mathematician and theorist
(b. 1877)
Ernest John Moeran
English pianist and composer
(b. 1894)
Fred Rose
American pianist, composer, and publisher
(b. 1898)
Elizabeth Peratrovich
Alaskan-American civil rights activist
(b. 1911)
J. B. S. Haldane
English-Indian geneticist and biologist
(b. 1892)
Charilaos Vasilakos
Greek runner
(b. 1877)
Nicolae Bretan
Romanian opera singer, composer, and conductor
(b. 1887)
Darío Moreno
Turkish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
(b. 1921)
David Ben-Gurion
Israeli politician, 1st Prime Minister of Israel
(b. 1886)
Nellie Fox
American baseball player and coach
(b. 1927)
Ernesto Maserati
Italian race car driver and engineer
(b. 1898)
Anna Roosevelt Halsted
American journalist
(b. 1906)
Russ Manning
American author and illustrator
(b. 1929)
Roelof Frankot
Dutch painter and photographer
(b. 1911)
Frank McCarthy
American general and film producer
(b. 1912)
James Baldwin
American novelist, poet, and critic
(b. 1924)
Punch Imlach
Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
(b. 1918)
J. Vernon McGee
American pastor and theologian
(b. 1904)
Alvin Ailey
American dancer and choreographer
(b. 1931)
Carla Lehmann
Canadian-English actress
(b. 1917)
Pat O'Callaghan
Irish athlete
(b. 1906)
George Stigler
American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1911)
Ray Gillen
American singer-songwriter
(b. 1959)
Hopper Levett
English cricketer
(b. 1908)
Colin Tapley
New Zealand-English actor
(b. 1907)
Maxwell R. Thurman
American general
(b. 1931)
Peter Bronfman
Canadian businessman
(b. 1928)
Michel Bélanger
Canadian banker and businessman
(b. 1929)
Stéphane Grappelli
French violinist
(b. 1908)
Endicott Peabody
American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 62nd Governor of Massachusetts
(b. 1920)
Janet Lewis
American poet and novelist
(b. 1899)
Ellis R. Dungan
American director and producer
(b. 1909)
Edward L. Beach Jr.
American captain and author
(b. 1918)
Dave McNally
American baseball player
(b. 1942)
Clark Kerr
American economist and academic
(b. 1911)
Eugenio Monti
Italian bobsledder
(b. 1928)
Bill Brown
Scottish footballer
(b. 1931)
Gust Avrakotos
American CIA officer
(b. 1938)
Mary Hayley Bell
English actress and playwright
(b. 1911)
Freeman V. Horner
American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient
(b. 1922)
Claude Jade
French actress
(b. 1948)
Bruce Trigger
Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist, and historian
(b. 1937)
Ken McGregor
Australian tennis player and footballer
(b. 1929)
Anton Rodgers
British actor
(b. 1933)
Ivo Rojnica
Croatian-Argentine war crimes suspect, businessman, diplomat, and intelligence agent
(b. 1915)
Paul Benedict
American actor
(b. 1938)
Joseph B. Wirthlin
American businessman and religious leader
(b. 1917)
Adriaan Blaauw
Dutch astronomer and academic
(b. 1914)
Hillard Elkins
American actor and producer
(b. 1929)
Christa Wolf
German author and critic
(b. 1929)
Jovan Belcher
American football player
(b. 1987)
Arthur Chaskalson
South African lawyer and judge, 18th Chief Justice of South Africa
(b. 1931)
Rick Majerus
American basketball player and coach
(b. 1948)
Ed Price
American soldier, pilot, and politician
(b. 1918)
Richard Coughlan
English drummer
(b. 1947)
Stirling Colgate
American physicist and academic
(b. 1925)
Edward Heffron
American soldier
(b. 1923)
Martin Sharp
Australian cartoonist and songwriter
(b. 1942)
Mario Abramovich
Argentinian violinist and composer
(b. 1926)
Dimitrios Trichopoulos
Greek epidemiologist, oncologist, and academic
(b. 1938)
Rocky Wood
New Zealand-Australian author
(b. 1959)
Rob Blokzijl
Dutch physicist and computer scientist
(b. 1943)
Joseph Engelberger
American physicist and engineer
(b. 1925)
John F. Kurtzke
American neurologist and academic
(b. 1926)
Jim Loscutoff
American basketball player
(b. 1930)
Trevor Obst
Australian footballer and coach
(b. 1940)
Vivian Lynn
New Zealand artist
(b. 1931)
Ken Berry
American actor, dancer, and singer
(b. 1933)
Paula Tilbrook
English actress
(b. 1930)
Arnie Robinson
American athlete
(b. 1948)
Gaylord Perry
American baseball player and coach
(b. 1938)
Sandra Day O'Connor
first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice
(1981–2006) (b. 1930)