Births [ edit ]

• 1843 - Edvard Grieg , Norwegian composer (d. 1907 )
• 1882 - Ion Antonescu , Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1946 )
• 1914 - Yuri Andropov , General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (d. 1984 )
• 1932 - Mario Cuomo , Governor of New York (d. 2015 )
• 1937 - Waylon Jennings , American singer (d. 2002 )
• 1954 - Paul Rusesabagina , Manager of hotel des diplomates during the Rwandan genocide
• 1964 - Courteney Cox , American actress
• 1969 - Ice Cube , American singer and actor
• 1969 - Oliver Kahn , German footballer
• 1985 - Nadine Coyle , Northern Irish singer ( Girls Aloud )

Deaths [ edit ]

• 1889 - Mihai Eminescu , Romanian poet (b. 1850 )
• 1968 - Wes Montgomery , American jazz guitarist (b. 1925 )
• 1976 - Jimmy Dykes , baseball player and manager (b. 1896 )
• 1996 - Ella Fitzgerald , (pictured) American singer (b. 1917 )

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