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– 1931 – Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet, psychologist and translator was
born; Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011 (d. 2015)
– 1936 – Raymond Poulidor, one of the most beloved cyclists in French history
(d. 2019)
– 1937 – American actor, singer, producer and screenwriter Frank Vincent was
born; collaborator of director Martin Scorsese (d. 2017)
– 1938: His Beatitude Sawa, Archbishop of Warsaw and Metropolitan of All
Poland, and therefore Primate of the Polish Orthodox Church since 1998, the
second largest organized religion in Poland, was born
– 1938 – Claudia Cardinale, Italian actress
– 1938 – César Vallejo (full name: César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza), Peruvian
poet, prose writer, playwright and journalist, died; considered an innovator of
twentieth-century poetry (b. 1892)
– 1945: Liam O'Flynn, Irish musician, performer of the "uilleann pipes" (Irish
bagpipes) was born; Revived the traditional Irish song (d. 2018)
– 1955 – American jazz guitarist Jeff Golub was born (d. 2015)
– 1959 – Emma Thompson, British film actress and screenwriter – 65 years
old
– 1960 – Philippe Léopold Louis Marie, Duke of Brabant, King of Belgium,
member of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, was born; ascended the
throne on 21 July 2013, following the abdication of his father, Albert II
– 1961 – Carol Greider, American biologist of Australian origin, winner of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009, together with Jack Sztostak and
Elizabeth Blackburn, was born for discovering how chromosomes are protected
by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase