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– 1878: The Swiss German-language writer Robert Walser was born;
posthumously recognized as one of the most outstanding representatives of

Swiss prose (d. 1956)

– 1908 – Jacques Antoine Béchamp, French physician and chemist, died; he
spent his childhood in Wallachia, studying at the "St. Sava" College; studies in
the fields of biology, biological chemistry and toxicology; foreign honorary

member of the Romanian Academy since 1906 (b. 1816)

– 1910 – Miguel Najdorf, Argentine chess grandmaster, famous for his
"Najdorf" variant (d. 1997, in Málaga, Spain) is born in Poland

– 1912 – Kim Ir Sen (Kim Il Sung), North Korean communist politician was
born; president (1949-1966) and general secretary of the Central Committee

(1966-1994) of the Workers' Party of Korea; President of the Korean DPR
(1972-1994); the creator on the basis of the "stupid ideas" of Korean-type

socialism; He encouraged the cult of his personality, to which he gave
paroxysmal dimensions (d. 1994)

– 1920 – Richard von Weizsäcker, German politician affiliated with the
Christian Democratic Union party, mayor of Berlin from 1981 to 1984 and

president of the FRG from 1984 to 1994; during his term of office there was
the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) and the reunification of Germany in 1990; in

the May 1984 elections, he did not have a counter-candidate, a unique fact in
Germany's post-war history (d. 2015)

– 1924 – Sir Neville Marriner, English conductor, violinist and teacher, was

born; founded, in 1959, the chamber orchestra "Academy of St Martin in the
Fields", with which he made over 500 recordings (d. 2016) – 100 years

– 1931: American professor, historian and writer Raymond T. McNally was
born; specialist in horror culture, author of the most famous study on Dracula

(d. 2002)