Births
1834 - Roman Catholic Cardinal James Gibbons, champion of labor and advocate of the separation of church and state.
1892 - Haile Selassie I, emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74).
1894 - Vincent Sardi, American restaurateur.
1894 - Arthur Treacher, English character actor.
1921 - Calvert DeForest, American comedic actor, best known for his appearances on Late Night with David Letterman and the Late Show with David Letterman, as the character Larry "Bud" Melman.
1935 - Jim Hall, race car driver and race car innovator, born in Abilene, Texas.
1940 - Don Imus, American talk radio host.
1965 - Slash (born Saul Hudson), English guitarist.
1973 - Monica Lewinsky, White House intern, born in San Francisco, California.
1981 - Steve Jocz, Canadian drummer for the pop punk band Sum 41.
1983 - Aaron Peirsol, competitive swimmer born in Irvine, California.
1989 - Daniel Radcliffe, film, television, and stage actor, born in West London, England.
Deaths
1875 - Isaac Singer, American inventor who developed and brought into general use the domestic sewing machine.
1885 - Ulysses Grant, American Civil War general and 18th President of the United States of America.
1923 - Pancho Villa (born Doroteo Arango Arámbula), Mexican Revolutionary leader.
1930 - Glenn Curtiss, American aviation pioneer.
1948 - D. W. Griffith, pioneering film director, born in La Grange, Kentucky.
1973 - Eddie Rickenbacker, celebrated American World War I fighter pilot.
2001 - Eudora Welty, American Pulitzer Prize-winning writer.
2007 - Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan.
1816 - Paul Julius von Reuter, German news agency founder.
1899 - Ernest Hemingway, American Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize-winning author.
1899 - Hart Crane, American poet.
1911 - Marshall McLuhan, Canadian-born university professor and author.
1920 - Isaac Stern, American concert violin impresario.
1951 - Robin Williams, American actor/comedian
1957 - Jon Lovitz, American actor
1978 - Josh Hartnett, American actor
1926 - Norman Jewison, Canadian director
Deaths
1796 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet.
1967 - Basil Rathbone, British character actor.
2006 - Mako, AMrican (Japanese born) actor.
2004 - Jerry Goldsmith, American composer
William Jeffries, art director
Some truths we just don't want to know. It's so much easier to be on the dark, to walk blindly, ignoring our own darkness. Because sometimes it's not the world that's cruel, it's we who can't accept how the world is. We close our eyes, so we don't have to see our mistakes, we can pass over their consequences. Bur, for how long does it work? How much longer can we keep lying to ourselves? And when we finally wake up, will we still be who we used to?
Thalita Carvalho
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