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- JANUARY
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- January 1
- J Edgar Hoover, American lawyer and director of the FBI (1895).
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- January 2
- Prof Isaac Asimov, American biochemist and science-fiction author (1920).
- David Bailey, photographer and film director (1938).
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- January 3
- John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, South African academic and novelist (1892).
- Victor Borge, Danish musician and comedian (1909).
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- January 4
- Louis Braille, French inventor the raised alphabet for the blind (1809).
- Sir Isaac Pitman, British inventor and publisher of Pitman's shorthand (1813).
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- January 5
- Alfred Brendel, Austrian concert pianist (1931).
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- January 6
- Joan d'Arc, French national heroine (1412).
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- January 7
- St Bernadette of Lourdes (1844).
- Gerald Durrell, author and naturalist (1925).
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- January 8
- Prof Stephen Hawking, mathematician and author of 'A Brief History Of Time' (1942).
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- January 9
- Richard Milhouse Nixon, 37th US president (1913).
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- January 10
- Alexei Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Russian novelist and playwright (1883).
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- January 11
- Henry Gordon Selfridge, founder of the London store (1864).
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- January 13
- Michael Bond, creator of 'Paddington Bear' (1926).
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- January 14
- Hal Roach, US film producer and director (1892).
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- January 15
- Martin Luther King, black civil rights leader (1929).
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- January 16
- Prof John Enderby, physicist (1932).
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- January 17
- Benjamin Franklin, US statesman and inventor (1706).
- Al Capone, US gangster (1899).
- Muhammed Ali, US former boxing champion (1942).
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- January 18
- A A Milne, English author of stories and poems for children (1882).
- Oliver Norvell Hardy, US comedian (1892).
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- January 19
- James Watt, Scottish engineer (1736).
- Paul Cézanne, French painter (1839).
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- January 20
- Federico Fellini, Italian film director (1920).
- Edwin Aldrin, US astronaut (1930).
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- January 21
- Placido Domingo, Spanish operatic tenor (1941).
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- January 22
- August Strindberg, Swedish playwright (1849).
- David Wark Griffith, silent film producer and director (1875).
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- January 23
- Édouard Manet, French impressionistic painter (1832).
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- January 24
- Dr Desmond Morris, zoologist (1928).
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- January 25
- Robert Burns, national poet of Scotland (1759).
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- January 26
- Stephane Grapelli, jazz violinist (1908).
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- January 27
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (1756).
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- January 28
- Jackson Pollock, US abstract artist (1912).
- Acker Bilk, jazz clarinettist (1930).
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- January 29
- W C Fields, US film comedian (1880).
- Germaine Greer, feminist and author (1939).
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- January 30
- Gene Hackman, US film actor (1932).
- Phil Collins, rock singer and drummer (1951).
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- January 31
- Norman Mailer, US novelist (1923).
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- FEBRUARY
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- February 1
- John Ford, US film director (1895).
- Sir Stanley Matthews, former footballer (1915).
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- February 2
- James Augustine Joyce, Irish author (1882).
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- February 3
- Gertrude Stein, US author and critic (1874).
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- February 5
- Sir Robert Peel, statesman (1788).
- William S Burroughs, US novelist (1914).
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- February 6
- Ronald Reagan, former president of the USA (1911).
- Zsa Zsa Gabor, actress (1920).
- François Truffaut, French film director (1932).
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- February 7
- Charles Dickens, English novelist (1812).
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- February 8
- Jules Verne, French novelist (1828).
- John Williams, US composer and conductor (1932).
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- February 10
- Bertolt Brecht, German playwright and poet (1898).
- Larry Adler, US mouth organist (1914).
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- February 11
- Charles Darwin, naturalist (1809).
- Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the USA (1809).
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- February 15
- Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (1564).
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- February 18
- Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (1784).
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- February 19
- Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer (1473).
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- February 22
- George Washington, American soldier and statesman, first US President (1732).
- Luis Buñuel, Spanish film director (1900).
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- February 23
- Samuel Pepys, Englishman made famous by his personal Diary (1633).
- George Frederick Handel, German-born, England resident musical composer (1685).
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- February 25
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French early Impressionist painter (1841).
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- February 26
- Victor Hugo, French poet, novelist, dramatist and author of Les Misérables (1802).
- Fats Domino, US pianist and singer (1928).
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- February 27
- John Ernst Steinbeck, US author (1902).
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- February 29
- Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer of over 30 operas (1792).
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- MARCH
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- March 1
- Frédéric Chopin, Polish composer (1810).
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- March 2
- Sir Thomas Bodley, refounder of the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, England (1545).
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- March 3
- George Pullman, US designer of luxury railway carriages (1831).
- Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone (1847).
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- March 6
- Michaelangelo Buonarotti, Italian painter, sculptor, and poet (1475).
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- March 7
- Joseph-Maurice Ravel, French composer (1875).
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- March 8
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (1714).
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- March 9
- Yuri Gagarin, Russian astronaut (1934).
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- March 10
- Bix Beidebeck, US jazz musician (1903).
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- March 12
- Thomas Arne, composer of 'Rule Britannia' (1710).
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- March 13
- Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, novelist (1884).
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- March 14
- Albert Einstein, German-born, American theoretical physicist (1879).
- Quincy Jones, US bandleader (1933).
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- March 16
- Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian film director (1941).
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- March 17
- Robert Knox-Johnston, first person to sail single-handed around the world (1939).
- Nat 'King' Cole, US singer and pianist (1919).
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- March 18
- Wilfred owen, poet (1893).
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- March 19
- Born, David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer (1813).
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- March 20
- Ovid, full name Puplius Ovidius Naso, Roman Poet (43BC).
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- March 21
- Johann Sebastian Bach, exceptional and prolific German music composer (1685).
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- March 22
- Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, English composer of musicals (1948).
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- March 24
- U B Iweks, US film animator and co-creator of 'Mickey Mouse' (1901).
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- March 25
- Sir David Lean, film director (1908).
- Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (1881).
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- March 26
- Leonard ('Chico') Mark, US comedian (1887).
- Tennessee Williams, American author (1911).
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- March 29
- Sanzio Raffaelle, Italian painter (1520).
- Joseph Ignace Guillotine, French physician who recommended its use for executions (1738).
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- March 30
- Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish painter and etcher (1746).
- Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch painter (1853).
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- March 31
- René Descartes, French philosopher, mathematician and father of modern philosophy (1596).
- Franz Joseph Haydn, Austrian musical composer and teacher of Mozart and Beethoven (1732).
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- APRIL
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- April 1
- William Harvey, English physician who explained the circulation of the blood (1578).
- Sergei Rachmaninov, Russian composer (1873).
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- April 2
- Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author (1805).
- Max Ernst, German suurealist painter and sculptor (1891).
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- April 3
- Marlon Brando, US actor (1924).
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- April 4
- Muddy Waters, US rhythm and blues singer (1915).
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- April 5
- Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (1588).
- Gregory Peck, US film actor (1916).
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- April 6
- Jean-Baptise Rousseau, French playwright and poet (1671).
- Harry Houdini, Hungarian-Erik Weisz, American magician and escape artist (1874).
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- April 7
- William Wordsworth, English poet, namesake of Europe's favourite word processor (1770).
- Francis Ford Coppola, US film director and screenwriter (1939).
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- April 9
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel, engineer (1806).
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- April 10
- William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army (1829).
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- April 13
- Richard Trevithick, engineer and railway pioneer (1771).
- F W Woolworth, American founder of the Woolworth chain stores (1852).
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- April 14
- Sir John Gielgud, English actor and director (1904).
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- April 15
- Henry James, American-born, British novelist (1843).
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- April 16
- Wilbur Wright, American aviator (1867).
- Sir Charles Chaplin, comedian and film actor (1889).
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- April 18
- Bernhard Weber, German pianist, conductor and composer (1764).
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- April 20
- Adolf Hitler, Austrian-Nazi leader, Chancellor of Germany (1889).
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- April 21
- Charlotte Brontë, novelist (1816).
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- April 22
- Julius Robert Oppenheimer, American theoretical physicist (1904).
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- April 23
- William Shakespeare, known as 'the Bard of Avon', English playwright and poet (1564).
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- April 24
- Edmund Cartwright, English engineer and inventor of the power loom (1743).
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- April 25
- Sir Mark Isambard Brunel, French-English (1769).
- Guglielmo Marconi, Italian electrical engineer (1874).
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- April 26
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher (1889).
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- April 27
- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, English feminist author and author of Rights of Women (1749).
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- April 29
- Edward Kennedy 'Duke' Ellingto , US jazz musician and bandleader (1899).
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- MAY
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- May 2
- Baron Manfred von Richthofen, German fighter pilot known as 'the Red Baron' (1892).
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- May 3
- Henry Cooper, heavyweight boxing champion (1934).
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- May 4
- Audrey Hepburn, film actress (1929).
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- May 5
- Karl Heinrich Marx, German political philosopher and economist (1818).
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- May 6
- Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist, psychotherapist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856).
- Robert Peary, American explorer and first person to reach the North Pole (1856).
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- May 7
- Johannes Brahms, German Composer and pianist (1833).
- Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (1840).
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- May 8
- Jean Henri Dunant, founder of the Red Cross (1828).
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- May 9
- J M Barrie, Scottish playwrite of 'Peter Pan' (1860).
- Howard Carter, English archaeologist and discoverer of Tutankhamun's tomb (1873).
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- May 10
- John Booth, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (1838).
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- May 11
- Baron von Munchausen, German soldier (1720).
- Savador Dali, Spanish surrealist (1904).
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- May 12
- Florence Nightingale, English nurse and medical reformer (1820).
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- May 13
- Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (1265).
- Daphne Du Maurier, English novelist (1907).
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- May 14
- Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, German physicist and inventor of the thermometer scale (1686).
- Thomas Gainsborough, English landscape painter (1727).
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- May 15
- Frank Baum, American children's story writer (1856).
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- May 16
- David Hughes, American inventor of the microphone (1831).
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- May 17
- Dr Edward Jenner, English physician and pioneer of the vaccination (1749).
- Erik Satie, French composer (1866).
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- May 18
- Nicholas II, last Czar of Russia (1868).
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- May 19
- Nancy Astor, first woman to sit in the House of Commons (1879).
- Malcolm X, American political activist and leader of the Black Muslims (1925).
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- May 20
- Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (1799).
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- May 21
- Albrecht Dürer, German painter and engraver (1471).
- Henri Rousseau, French naive painter (1844).
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- May 22
- Richard Wagner, German composer (1813).
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish (1859).
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- May 23
- Otto Lilienthal, German pioneer in the design and flying of gliders (1848).
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- May 24
- George Formby, singer and comedian (1904).
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- May 25
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philospher and poet (1803).
- Igor Sikorsky, Russian-American designer of flying boats (1889).
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- May 26
- John Wayne, US film actor (1907).
- Peter Cushing, actor (1913).
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- May 27
- Wild Bill Hickock, American frontiersman and marshal (1837).
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- May 28
- Joseph Guillotin, French physcian (1738).
- Ian Flemming, English novelist and creator of the 'James Bond' spy character (1908).
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- May 29
- G K Chesterton, English author of the Father Brown detective series (1874).
- John F Kennedy, American youngest-ever US president and the first Catholic (1917).
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- JUNE
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- June 1
- Marilyn Monroe, US film actress (1926).
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- June 2
- Marquis de Sade, French writer and revolutionary (1740).
- Sir Edwad Elgar, English composer (1857).
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- June 3
- Dr James Hutton, Scottish, one of the founders of geology (1726).
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- June 5
- Socrates, Greek philosopher (BC469).
- Alfred Tennyson, English poet and author of 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' (1809).
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- June 6
- Robert Falcon Scott, English antartic explorer and naval officer (1868).
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- June 7
- Paul Gauguin, French painter (1848).
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- June 8
- Robert Schumann, German romantic composer (1810).
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- June 9
- Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia (1682).
- George Stephenson, English engineer (1781).
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- June 10
- Nicholaus Otto, pioneer of the internal combustion engine, Germany (1832).
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- June 11
- John Constable, English landscape painter (1776).
- Richard Strauss, German music composer (1864).
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- June 13
- Sir Charles Parsons, British engineer (1854).
- W B Yeats, Irish poet, dramatist, Senator of the Irish Free State, Nobel laureate (1923).
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- June 14
- Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Argentinean guerrilla leader and revolutionary (1928).
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- June 15
- Edvard Grieg, Norwegian music composer (1843).
- Harry Langdon, American silent film comedian (1884).
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- June 16
- Stan Laurel, film comedian (1890).
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- June 17
- John Wesley, English preacher and co-founder of Methodism (1703).
- Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (1882).
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- June 19
- Blaise Pascal, French child prodigy, mathematician and religious philosopher (1623).
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- June 20
- Jacques Offenbach, French-resident German composer (1819).
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- June 21
- Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, novelist and playwright (1905).
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- June 22
- Henry Rider Haggard, English novelist (1856).
- Billy Wilder, American director, writer and producer (1906).
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- June 23
- Empress Josephine, wife of Napoleon Bonaparte (1763).
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- June 24
- Sir Fred Hoyle, astronomer and writer of science fiction (1915).
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- June 25
- George Orwell (named Eric Arthur Blair), English novelist (1903).
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- June 26
- Laurie Lee, poet and author (1914).
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- June 27
- Helen Keller, American writer, social reformer, academic (1880).
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- June 28
- Sir Peter Rubens, Flemish artist (1577).
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- JULY
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- July 1
- George Sand, French novelist (1804).
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- July 2
- Sir William Henry Bragg, physicist (1862).
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- July 3
- Robert Adam, Scottish architect (1728).
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- July 4
- Thomas Barnardo, Irish doctor, philanthropist and founder of Dr Barnado's homes (1845).
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- July 5
- Phineas Barnum, American showman (1810).
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- July 7
- Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer, condutor and pianist (1860).
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- July 8
- Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German aviation pioneer and inventor of the dirigible airship (1838).
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- July 9
- Ann Radcliffe, English gothic novelist (1764).
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- July 10
- Camille Pissarro, French impressionist painter and graphic artists (1830).
- James McNeill Whistler, American-born, English painter (1834).
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- July 12
- Julius Caesar, dictator of the Roman Empire (100BC).
- Oscar Hammerstein II, American librettist (1895).
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- July 14
- Gustav Klimt, Austrian art nouveau painter (1862).
- Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film-maker (1918).
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- July 15
- Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Dutch painter, most celebrated work Night Watch (1606).
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- July 16
- Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader and founder of the Christian science Movement (1821).
- Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer and first to reach the South Pole (1872).
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- July 18
- Nelson Mandela, first black president of South Africa (1918).
- John Glen, politician and America's first astronaut (1921).
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- July 19
- Samuel Colt, American inventor of the revolver (1814).
- Edgar Degas, French impressionist painter and sculptor (1834).
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- July 20
- Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer first to climb Everest (1919).
- Jacques Delors, French socilist politician and president of the European Commission (1925).
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- July 21
- Baron Paul von Reuter, German founder of Reuters world news agency (1816).
- Ernest Hemingway, American novelist (1899).
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- July 23
- Raymond Chandler, American novelist and creator of 'Phillip Marlowe' (1888).
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- July 24
- Simon Bolivar, Venezuelan statesman (1783).
- Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and dramatist (1802).
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- July 25
- Louise Brown, first test tube baby (1978).
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- July 26
- George Bernard Shaw, Irish journalist, critic and playwright (1856).
- Stanley Kubrick, American film director (1928).
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- July 28
- Beatrix Potter, English writer for children known for her series of illustrated animal stories
- which began with 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit' (1866).
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- July 30
- Emily Bronte, English author of 'Wuthering Heights' (1818).
- Sir Henry Moore, English sculptor (1898).
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- AUGUST
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- August 1
- Claudius, Roman emperor (10BC).
- Herman Melville, American novelist and short-story writer (1819).
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- August 2
- James Baldwin, US author (1924).
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- August 3
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (1792).
- Stanley Baldwin, former Conservative Prime Minister (1867).
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- August 4
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Romantic poet (1792).
- Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, The Queen Mother (1900).
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- August 5
- Guy De Maupassant, French novelist and short-story writer (1850).
- Neil Armstrong, American astronaut (1930).
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- August 6
- Lord Alfred Tennyson, English poet laureate (1809).
- Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist (1881).
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- August 7
- Greg Chappell, cricketer and former captain of Australia (1948).
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- August 8
- Princess Beatrice, first child of Prince Andrew and the Duchess of York (1988).
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- August 9
- John Dryden, first official Poet Laureate (1631).
- Philip Larkin, English poet (1922).
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- August 10
- Herbert Hoover, 31st American President (1874).
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- August 12
- Cecil B. De Mille, US film producer and director (1881).
- Norris McWhirter, founder with his twin brother of the 'Guiness Book of Records' (1925).
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- August 13
- John Logie Baird, Scottish pioneer of television (1888).
- Alfred Hitchcock, English-film director (1899).
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- August 15
- Napoleon Bonaparte, French emperor, Corsica (1769).
- T E Lawrence (known as Lawrence of Arabia), Welsh-soldier and writer (1888).
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- August 16
- Ted Hughes, English Poet Laureate (1930).
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- August 17
- David Crockett ('Davy'), US frontiersman and politician (1786).
- Alan Minter, English boxer and former world middleweight champion (1951).
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- August 18
- Antonio Salieri, composer (1750).
- Roman Polanski, Polish-film director.
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- August 19
- John Flamsteed, first Astronomer Royal (1646).
- Orville Wright, US aviation pioneer (1871).
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- August 20
- Thomas Corneille, prolific French dramatist (1625).
- H P Lovecraft, US author of the macabre (1890).
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- August 21
- King William IV (1765).
- Count (William) Basie, US jazz pianist and bandleader (1904).
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- August 22
- Claude Debussy, French composer (1862).
- Henri Cartier-Bresson, renowned French photographer (1908).
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- August 23
- King Louis XVI, King of France (1754).
- Gene Kelly, US dancer and choreographer (1912).
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- August 24
- Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian writer (1899).
- Sam Torrance, Scottish golfer (1953).
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- August 25
- Ivan IV ('The Terrible'), Tsar of Russia (1530).
- Leonard Bernstein, US composer and conductor (1918).
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- August 26
- Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, statesman (1676).
- Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, considered the father of modern chemistry (1743).
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- August 27
- Confucius, Kong the Master, Chinese philosopher (551BC).
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910).
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- August 28
- Count Leo Tolstoy, Russian author of 'War and Peace' (1828).
- Emlyn Hughes, former Liverpool, Wolves and England football captain (1947).
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- August 29
- Charlie Parker, US jazz musician known as Bird (1920).
- Lord (Richard) Attenborough, English actor, producer and director (1923).
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- August 30
- Mary Shelley, English novelist and author of Frankenstein (1797).
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- August 31
- Buddy Hackett, American comedian (1924).
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- SEPTEMBER
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- September 1
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, US novelist and creator of Tarzan (1875).
- Rocky Marciano, legendary US world champion boxer (1923).
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- September 2
- Jimmy Connors, US tennis player (1952).
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- September 3
- Alan Ladd, US actor (1913).
- Geoff Arnold, Sussex cricketer (1944).
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- September 4
- Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (1824).
- Tom Watson, US golfer, five-times winner of the British Open (1949).
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- September 5
- Jesse James, notorious US outlaw of the wild west (1831).
- Bob Newhart, US comedian (1929).
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- September 6
- J R C Young, former England rugby international (1937).
- Britt Ekland, Swedish actress (1942).
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- September 7
- Sir Anthony Quayle, English actor who specialised in Shakespearian roles (1913).
- Sonny Rollins, US saxophonist and composer (1929).
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- September 8
- King Richard I, King of England known as Richard the Lionheart (1157).
- Geoff Miller, Essex cricketer who also has over 30 test caps for England (1952).
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- September 9
- William Bligh, English captain of the (1754).
- Max Reinhardt, leading Austrian director (1873).
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- September 10
- Arnold Palmer, US golfer who was sport's first millionaire (1929).
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- September 11
- D H Lawrence, English novelist, poet and essayist (1885).
- Barry Sheene, former British motor cycling champion (1950).
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- September 12
- Maurice Chevalier, legendary French actor (1888).
- Jesse Owens, US athlete, in 1935 he equalled or broke six world records in 45 minutes (1913).
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- September 13
- J B Priestley, English novelist (1894).
- Roald Dahl, British author of children's stories, as well as stories of the supernatural (1916).
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- September 14
- Nicol Williamson, leading man of the British stage and screen (1938).
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- September 15
- Titus Oates, English clergyman and conspirator (1649).
- Jean Renoir, French film director and son of the famous painter (1894).
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- September 16
- Henry V, King of England (1387).
- Lauren Bacall, leading Hollywood actress of the 40s and 50s (1924).
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- September 17
- Sir Francis Chichester, English solo round-the-world yachtsman (1901).
- Stirling Moss, English grand prix driver (1929).
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- September 18
- Died Dr Samuel Johnson, English lexicographer, writer and critic (1709).
- Peter Shilton, former English international goalkeeper (1949).
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- September 20
- Alexander the Great, Greek commander (356BC).
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- September 21
- Gustav Holst, composer (1874).
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- September 22
- Michael Faraday, physicist and chemist (1791).
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- September 24
- F Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist (1896).
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- September 26
- George Gershwin, US composer (1898).
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- September 28
- Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian painter (1573).
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- September 29
- Horatio Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronte, British admiral (1758).
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- September 30
- Euripides, Greek tragic dramatist (480BC).
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- OCTOBER
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- October 2
- Julius ('Groucho') Marx, US comedian (1890).
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- October 4
- Buster Keaton, US film comedian (1895).
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- October 7
- Desmond Tutu, Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa (1931).
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- October 9
- Jacques Tati, French actor and film director (1908).
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- October 10
- Harold Pinter, playwright (1930).
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- October 11
- Richard Burton, actor (1925).
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- October 12
- Ralph Vaughan Williams, composer (1872).
- Luciano Pavarotti, operatic tenor (1935).
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- October 13
- Margaret Thatcher, former prime minister (1925).
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- October 15
- Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro, Roman poet (70BC).
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- October 17
- Arthur Miller, US playwright (1915).
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- October 18
- Canaletto, Giovanni Antonio Canale, Italian painter (1697).
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- October 20
- Christopher Wren, English architect of over 40 London buildings (1632).
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- October 21
- Dizzy Gillespie, jazz trumpeter (1917).
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- October 22
- Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer (1811).
- Catherine Deneuve, French film actress (1943).
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- October 23
- Pelé, Brazilian footballer (1940).
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- October 25
- Georges Bizet, French composer (1838).
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- October 27
- Captain James Cook, English naval explorer (1728).
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- October 29
- Edmond Halley, English astronomer and mathematician (1656).
- John Keats, English poet (1795).
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- October 30
- Louis Malle, French film director (1932).
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- NOVEMBER
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- November 1
- Laurence Stephen Lowry, painter (1887).
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- November 3
- John Barry, popular musician and composer (1933).
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- November 5
- Roy Rogers, US singing cowboy actor (1912).
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- November 7
- Marie Curie, Polish-French physicist who pioneered radioactivity (1867).
- Leon Trotsky, Russian Communist leader (1879).
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- November 8
- Christiaan Neethling Barnard, South African surgeon (1922).
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- November 10
- Muhammad, Arab prophet and founder of Islam, Mecca, Saudi Arabia (AD570).
- Oliver Goldsmith, Irish playwright, poet and novelist (1728).
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- November 11
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian author (1821).
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- November 14
- Claude Monet, French impressionistic painter (1840).
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- November 15
- Sir William Herschel, astronomer (1738).
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- November 16
- George Simon Kaufman, US playwright (1889).
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- November 19
- Calvin Klein, US fashion designer (1942).
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- November 20
- Edwin Powell Hubble, American astronomer (1899).
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- November 21
- Voltaire, French philosopher and writer (1694).
- Adolph ('Harpo') Marx, US comedian (1888).
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- November 22
- Thomas Cook, travel agent and temperance advocate (1808).
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- November 24
- Scott Joplin, US ragtime pianist and composer (1868).
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- November 26
- Charles Schultz, US cartoonist, creater of 'Peanuts' (1922).
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- November 28
- William Blake, poet and painter (1757).
- Anton Rubenstein, Russian pianist and composer (1829).
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- November 29
- C S Lewis, English scholar, religious writer and novelist (1898).
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- November 30
- Mark Twain, US author (1835).
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- December 1
- Woody Allen, US film actor, writer, director and former stand-up comedian (1935).
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- December 2
- Anthony Huxley, author and photographer (1920).
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- December 3
- Samuel Crompton, English inventor of the spinning mule (1753).
- Jean-Luc Godard, French film director (1930).
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- December 5
- Walter Elias Disney, American film maker and animator (1901).
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- December 6
- Dave Brubeck, US jazz musician (1920).
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- December 7
- Prof Noam Chomsky, US linguist (1922).
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- December 8
- Georges Méliès, French cinema pioneer (1861).
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- December 9
- Clarence Birdseye, American inventor of the deep-freezing process (1886).
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- December 11
- Sir David Brewster, physicist and inventor of the kaleidoscope (1781).
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- December 12
- Gustav Flaubert, French novelist (1821).
- Frank Sinatra, US singer and actor (1915).
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- December 13
- Dick Van Dyke, US TV and film actor (1925).
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- December 14
- Michel Nostradamus, French physician and astrologer (1503).
- Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and mathematician (1546).
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- December 15
- Nero, Roman emperor (37)
- Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, French engineer (1832).
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- December 16
- Jane Austen, English (1775).
- Arthur C Clarke, science fact and fiction writer (1917).
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- December 17
- Ludwig van Beethoven, prolific German music composer (1770).
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- December 18
- Saki (Hector Hugh Monro), short-story writer (1870).
- Steven Spielberg, US film producer and director (1947).
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- December 19
- Edith Piaf, French singer (1915).
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- December 21
- Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader (1879).
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- December 23
- Alexander I, Tsar of Russia (1777).
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- December 24
- James Prescott Joule, physicist (1818).
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- December 25
- Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, the central figure in Christian religion, Palestine (OBC).
- Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician and physicist (1642).
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- December 26
- Charles Babbage, computer pioneer (1792).
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- December 27
- Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (1571).
- Louis Pasteur, French chemist and bacteriologist (1822).
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- December 28
- Earl 'Fatha' Hines, jazz pianist (1905).
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- December 29
- Dr Magnus Pyke, TV nutritionist (1908).
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- December 30
- Joseph Rudyard Kipling, author and poet (1865).
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- December 31
- Jacques Cartier, French explorer and navigator (1494).
- Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse, French painter (1869).
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