December 11th, 1973...

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TIME Magazine: U.S. Energy Crisis

(TIME Cover: December the 3rd, 1973)

1452 - Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1531)
1750 - Tipu Sultan, ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore (d. 1799)
1830 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886)
1870 - Pierre Louÿs, French author (d. 1925)
1908 - Olivier Messiaen, French composer and ornithologist (d. 1992)
1917 - Sultan Yahya Petra, King of Malaysia (d. 1979)
1948 - Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (d. 2004)
1972 - Brian Molko, Belgian-born singer and songwriter (Placebo)
1974 - Meg White, American drummer (The White Stripes)
1465 - Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (d. 1489)
1475 - Pope Leo X (d. 1521)
1803 - Hector Berlioz, French composer (d. 1869)
1863 - Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (d. 1941)
1882 - Subramanya Bharathy, Indian poet (d. 1921)
1911 - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
1913 - Jean Marais, French actor (d. 1998)
1918 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1943 - John Kerry, American politician
1954 - Jermaine Jackson, American musician

Brian David Josephson
1940-

for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effects

United Kingdom
University of Cambridge - Cambridge, United Kingdom

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