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Born on this day

• 1904Basilea Schlink was born
• 1917Dizzy Gillespie was born
• 1936Joachim Reinelt was born
• 1937Laureano Ruiz was born
• 1945Nikita Mikhalkov was born
• 1958Andre Geim was born
• 1958Pilar Rahola was born
• 1966Sven Salumaa was born
• 1967Dmitry Gordon was born
• 1973Lera Auerbach was born
• 1973Matthias Groote was born
• 1985Marko Car was born
• 1986Almen Abdi was born
• 1988Natalie Wynn was born
• 1990Ricky Rubio was born
• 1992Marzia Kjellberg was born
• 1995Jerry Heil was born

Died on this day

• 1984François Truffaut died
• 1986Fritz Hochwälder died
• 1994Jerome Wiesner died
• 2003Tomáš Pospíchal died
• 2010Loki Schmidt died
• 2012Yash Chopra died
• 2014Gough Whitlam died

Also on this day

• 1879Thomas Edison demonstrated the first practical incandescent lightbulb