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1822 – Rutherford B. Hayes  [American general, lawyer, and politician] (d. 17 Jan 1893)
      19th President of the United States, 1877-1881

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1160 – Alys, Countess of the Vexin (d. 1220)
1274 – Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1319)
1276 – Margaret of Brabant (d. 1311)
1289 – Louis X of France (d. 1316)
1331 – James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond  (d. 1382)
      Irish politician, Lord Justice of Ireland
1379 – Henry III of Castile (d. 1406)
1515 – Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (d. 1586)
1542 – Robert Bellarmine, Italian cardinal and saint (d. 1621)
1550 – Charles IX of Sweden (d. 1611)
1562 – Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer and author (d. 1647)
1570 – Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal (d. 1637)
1585 – Anna of Tyrol (d. 1618)
1625 – Jacqueline Pascal, French nun and composer (d. 1661)
1626 – Richard Cromwell, English academic and politician (d. 1712)
      Lord Protector of Great Britain
1657 – Francesco Solimena, Italian painter (d. 1747)
1720 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian sculptor and illustrator (d. 1778)
1723 – Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist and author (d. 1798)
1759 – Louis François Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician and academic (d. 1803)
1787:  Francois Guizot  [French historian, orator, and statesman] (d. 12 Sep 1874)

      22nd Prime Minister of France, 1847-1848
1793 – Charles Pearson, English lawyer and politician (d. 1862)
1807 – Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Canadian politician  (d. 1864)
      2nd Premier of Canada East
1814 – Jean-François Millet, French painter and educator (d. 1875)
1835 – Jenny Twitchell Kempton, American contralto opera singer (d. 1921)
1836 – Juliette Adam, French author (d. 1936)
1841 – Prudente de Morais, Brazilian lawyer and politician  (d. 1912)
      3rd President of Brazil
1841 – Maria Sophie of Bavaria (d. 1925)
1858:  Dorothy Frances Gurney  [English poet and hymn writer] (d. 15 Jun 1932)
1858 – Léon Serpollet, French industrialist  (d. 1903)
      pioneer of steam automobiles
1861 – Walter Rauschenbusch, American pastor and theologian (d. 1918)
1861 – Frederic Remington, American painter, sculptor, and illustrator (d. 1909)
1862 – Edward Stratemeyer, American author and publisher (d. 1930)
1868 – Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, Argentinian lawyer and politician (d. 1942)
      20th President of Argentina
1874 – John Ellis, English hairdresser and newsagent (d. 1932)
      served as one of the United Kingdom's executioners
1875 – Bob McKinney, American baseball player (d. 1946)
1876 – Hugh McCrae, Australian actor and author (d. 1958)
1877 – Razor Smith, English cricketer (d. 1946)
1880 – Damon Runyon, American author and playwright (d. 1946)
1881 – Henry Potter, American golfer (d. 1955)
1881 – Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (d. 1948)
1884 – Ramchandra Shukla, Indian historian and author (d. 1941)
1884 – Subramaniya Siva, Indian author and activist (d. 1925)
1886 – Luis Alberni, Spanish-American actor and singer (d. 1962)
1888 – Lucy Tayiah Eads, American tribal chief (d. 1961)
1888 – Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1954)
1890 – Alan L. Hart, American physician and author (d. 1962)
1892 – Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian politician (d. 1934)
      14th Federal Chancellor of Austria
1892 – Hermann Glauert, English aerodynamicist and author (d. 1934)
1892 – Robert Lawson, American author and illustrator (d. 1957
1895 – Buster Keaton, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1966)
1895 – Richard Sorge, German journalist and spy (d. 1944)
1900 – August Mälk, Estonian author and playwright (d. 1987)
1903 – Bona Arsenault, Canadian genealogist, historian, and politician (d. 1993)
1903 – John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist (d. 1995)
      invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer
1903 – Pierre Garbay, French general (d. 1980)
1903 – Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian-German lawyer and general (d. 1946)
1907 – Alain Daniélou, French-Swiss historian and academic (d. 1994)
1910 – Viktor Ader, Estonian footballer (d. 1966)
1910 – Frankie Crosetti, American baseball player and coach (d. 2002)
1913 – Martial Célestin, Haitian lawyer and politician (d. 2011)
      1st Prime Minister of Haiti
1914 – Jim Cairns, Australian economist and politician  (d. 2003)
      4th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
1914 – Brendan Gill, American journalist and author (d. 1997)
1916 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and academic (d. 2009)
      Nobel Prize laureate
1916 – Jan Murray, American comedian, actor, and game show host (d. 2006)
1916 – George Sidney, American director and producer (d. 2002)
1917 – Violeta Parra, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1967)
1918 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist and academic  (d. 1998)
      Nobel Prize laureate
1922 – Malcolm Baldrige, Jr., American businessman and politician (d. 1987)
      26th United States Secretary of Commerce
1922 – Shin Kyuk-ho, South Korean-Japanese businessman
       founded Lotte Group
1922 – Don Lenhardt, American baseball player and coach (d. 2014)
1923 – Charlton Heston, American actor and director (d. 5 Apr 2008)
1924 – Donald J. Sobol, American soldier and author (d. 2012)
1925 – Roger Wood, Belgian-American journalist (d. 2012)
1926 – Raymond Watson, American businessman (d. 2012)
1927 – Wolf Kahn, American painter
1928 – Alvin Toffler, American journalist and author
1928 – Torben Ulrich, Danish-American tennis player
1929 – Scotty Beckett, American actor and singer (d. 1968)
1929 – John E. Mack, American psychiatrist and author (d. 2004)
1929 – Leroy Van Dyke, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1931 – Terence Conran, English designer and businessman
1931 – Basil D'Oliveira, South African-English cricketer and footballer (d. 2011)
1931 – Richard Rorty, American philosopher and author (d. 2007)
1932 – Milan Chvostek, Canadian director and producer
1933 – Ann Thwaite, English author
1934 – Sam Huff, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
1934 – Dimosthenis Sofianos, Greek journalist and poet
1936:  Christopher Alexander  [Austrian architect]
1936 – Charlie Hurley, Irish footballer and manager
1936 – Giles Radice, Baron Radice, English politician
1937 – Jackie Collins, English-American author and actress (d. 2015)
1937 – David Crocker, American philosopher and academic
1937 – Gail Gilmore, Canadian-American actress and dancer (d. 2014)
1937 – Jim Sillars, Scottish politician
1938 – Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist and biophysicist
      Nobel Prize laureate
1938 – Norman D. Wilson, American actor (d. 2004)
1939 – Ivan Mauger, New Zealand motorcycle racer
1940 – Vic Hadfield, Canadian ice hockey player
1940 – Silvio Marzolini, Argentinian footballer and manager
1940 – Steve Swallow, American bass player and composer
1940 – Alberto Vilar, American businessman and philanthropist
1941 – Roy Blount, Jr., American journalist and author
1941 – Karen Cushman, American author
1941 – Karl Oppitzhauser, Austrian race car driver
1941 – Anne Rice, American author
1941:  Lori Saunders (born Linda Marie Hines) [American actress]
1941 – Robert Wilson, American director and playwright
1942 – Bernice Johnson Reagon, American singer-songwriter
      (Sweet Honey in the Rock)
1942 – Karl W. Richter, American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1967)
1942 – Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (Johanna Siguroardottir)
      [Icelandic politician]
      24th Prime Minister of Iceland
1942 – Christopher Stone, American actor (d. 1995)
1943 – H. Rap Brown, American activist
1943 – Karl-Gustav Kaisla, Finnish ice hockey player and referee (d. 2012)
1943 – Dietmar Mürdter, German footballer
1943 – Florian Pittiș, Romanian actor, singer, director, and producer (d. 2007)
1943 – Jimy Williams, American baseball player and manager
1944 – Colin Bundy, South African-English historian and academic
1944 – Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
1944 – Eddie Gómez, Puerto Rican bass player (Steps Ahead)
1944 – Tony La Russa, American baseball player and manager
1944 – John McFall, Baron McFall of Alcluith, Scottish educator and politician
1945 – Clifton Davis, American singer-songwriter, actor, and minister
1946 – Larry Clapp, American lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
1946 – Chuck Hagel, American sergeant and politician
      24th United States Secretary of Defense
1946 – Michael Mullen  [American admiral]
      17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2007-2011
1946 – Susan Sarandon, American actress, singer, and producer
1946 – Bridget St John, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1947 – Julien Clerc, French singer-songwriter and pianist
1947 – Jim Fielder, American bass player
      (Blood, Sweat & Tears and The Mothers of Invention)
1947:  Barbara Johnson  [American literary critic and translator]
1947:  Stefan Persson  [Swedish business magnate]
1947 – Ann Widdecombe, English politician
      Shadow Secretary of State for Health
1948:  Roy Evans  [English footballer]
1948:  Heidi Hayes Jacobs  [American author]
1948 – Linda McMahon, American businesswoman and politician
1948 – Duke Robillard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
      (The Fabulous Thunderbirds and Roomful of Blues)
1949 – Armand Assante, American actor and producer
1949 – Stephen Gyllenhaal, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1949 – Marion Albert Pruett, American murderer (d. 1999)

1950 – Meg Bennett, American actress and screenwriter
1950:  Alan Rosenberg  [American actor]
      President of the Screen Actors Guild, 2005-2009
1951 – Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov, Kazakh poet and author
1952 – Jody Stephens, American drummer
      (Big Star and Golden Smog)
1953 – Tchéky Karyo, Turkish-French actor and singer
1953 – Gil Moore, Canadian singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer
      (Triumph)
1953 – Andreas Vollenweider, Swiss harp player
1955 – John Rutherford, Scottish rugby player
1955 – Jorge Valdano, Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager
1956 – Lesley Glaister, English author and playwright
1956 – Christoph Waltz, Austrian-German actor
1957 – Bill Fagerbakke, American actor and singer
1957 – Yngve Moe, Norwegian bass player and songwriter  (d. 2013)
      (Dance with a Stranger)
1957 – Russell Simmons, American businessman
      founded Def Jam Recordings and Phat Farm
1958 – Ned Luke, American actor

1958 – Anneka Rice, Welsh radio and television host
1958:  Silvan Shalom  [Israeli politician]
1959 – Chris Lowe, English singer and keyboard player
      (Pet Shop Boys)
1959 – Tony Meo, English snooker player
1959 – Hitonari Tsuji, Japanese writer, composer, and director
1960 – Joe Boever, American baseball player
1961 – David W. Harper, American actor
1961 – Philippe Russo, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
1961 – Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese author and illustrator
      created Yu-Gi-Oh!
1962 – Carlos Carsolio, Mexican mountaineer
1962 – Jon Secada, Cuban-American singer-songwriter
1963 – A. C. Green, American basketball player
1963 – Koji Ishikawa, Japanese author and illustrator
1964 – Peter Florence, English actor
      founded the Hay Festival
1964 – Sarah Lancashire, English actress and director
1964 – Francis Magalona, Filipino rapper, producer, actor, and director (d. 2009)
1964 – Yvonne Murray, Scottish runner
1965 – Olaf Backasch, German footballer
1965 – Skip Heller, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1965 – Micky Ward, American boxer
1966:  James Heywood  [American mechanical engineer]
      founded ALS Therapy Development Institute
1967 – Marcus Bentley, English voice actor
1967 – Ekin Cheng, Hong Kong actor and singer
1967 – Tsuyoshi Koyama, Japanese actor and voice actor
1967 – Liev Schreiber, American actor and director

1968 – Richard Hancox, English footballer and manager
1968 – Anzela Voronova, Estonian target shooter
1968 – Tim Wise, American activist and author
1969 – Abraham Benrubi, American actor
1970:  Geoffrey S. Fletcher  [American screenwriter, director, and professor]
1971 – Friderika Bayer, Hungarian singer
1971 – Darren Middleton, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
      (Powderfinger and Drag)
1972 – Kurt Thomas, American basketball player
1973 – Abyss, American wrestler
1973:  M. Ward  [American musician]
1974 – Paco León, Spanish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1975 – Daniella Deutscher, American actress
1975 – Panos Kiamos, Greek singer
1975 – Cristiano Lucarelli, Italian footballer and manager
1975 – Mohamed Jameel, Maldivian footballer
1976 – Mauro Camoranesi, Argentinian-Italian footballer
1976 – Elisandro Naressi Roos, Brazilian footballer
1976 – Alicia Silverstone, American actress, producer, and author
1976 – Ueli Steck, Swiss mountaineer
1976 – Craig Robert Young, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1977 – Cabral Ibacka, Romanian actor and kick-boxer
1977 – Richard Reed Parry, Canadian guitarist, songwriter, and producer
      (Arcade Fire and Bell Orchestre)
1978:  Garrett Camp  [Canadian businessman]
1978:  Dana Davis  [American actress]
1978 – Phillip Glasser, American actor and producer
1978 – Kei Horie, Japanese actor, writer, producer, and director
1978 – Kyle Lohse, American baseball player
1978 – Go Soo, South Korean actor and singer
1979:  Caitriona Balfe  [Irish actress and model]
1979 – Brandon Barash, American actor
1979 – Stefan Booth, English actor and singer
1979 – Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress and producer
1979 – Björn Phau, German tennis player
1979 – Adam Voges, Australian cricketer
1980 – Me'Lisa Barber, American sprinter
1980 – Sarah Fisher, American race car driver
1980 – Mellisa Hollingsworth, Canadian skeleton racer
1980 – James Jones, American basketball player

1980:  Joseph P. Kennedy III  [American Politician]
      U.S. Representative, D. MA, 2013-present

1980 – Tim Peper, American actor
1980 – Tomáš Rosický, Czech footballer
1981 – Shaura, Japanese singer (Moi dix Mois)
1981 – Justin Williams, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 – Tony Gwynn, Jr., American baseball player
1982 – Jered Weaver, American baseball player
1983 – Dan Clarke, English race car driver
1983 – Risa Kudō, Japanese model and actress
1983 – Matet de Leon, Filipino actress
1983 – Ai Maeda, Japanese actress, singer, and model
1983 – Marios Nicolaou, Cypriot footballer
1983 – Chansi Stuckey, American football player
1983 – Kurt Suzuki, American baseball player
1983 – Tatsuya Ueda, Japanese singer and actor
      (KAT-TUN)
1984 – Lena Katina, Russian singer-songwriter
      (t.A.T.u. and Neposedi)
1984 – Álvaro Parente, Portuguese race car driver
1984 – Karolina Tymińska, Polish heptathlete
1985 – Shontelle, Barbadian singer-songwriter
1985 – Thorsten Wiedemann, German rugby player
1986 – Yuridia, Mexican singer
1986:  Kali Hawk  [American actress, comedian, and model]
1987 – Marina Weisband, German politician
1988 – Joseph Marco, Filipino actor and model
1988 – Melissa Benoist, American actress and singer
1988 – Evgeni Krasnopolski, Israeli figure skater
1988 – Derrick Rose, American basketball player
1989 – Dakota Johnson, American model and actress
1989 – Lil Mama, American rapper, dancer, and actress
1989 – Stacey Solomon, English singer
1989 – Rich Homie Quan, American rapper
1996:  Ryan Lee  [American Actor]
1997 – Michelle Vito, Filipino actress
2005 – Prince Emmanuel of Belgium

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1052 – Vladimir of Novgorod (b. 1020)
1250 – Herman VI, Margrave of Baden (b. 1226)
1305 – Emperor Kameyama of Japan (b. 1249)
1582 – Teresa of Ávila, Spanish nun and saint (b. 1515)
1597 – Sarsa Dengel, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1550)
1646 – Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel (b. 1586)
      English courtier and politician
      Earl Marshal of the United Kingdom
1660 – Francesco Albani, Italian painter (b. 1578)
1661 – Jacqueline Pascal, French nun and composer (b. 1625)
1669 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1606)
1680 – Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer (b. 1609)
      designed the Canal du Midi
1743 – John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll  (b. 1678)
      Scottish commander and politician
1749 – Baron Franz von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (b. 1711)
1754 – Tanacharison, American tribal chief (b. 1700)
1821 – John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer  (b. 1761)
      designed the Waterloo Bridge
1827 – Grigorios Zalykis, Greek-French lexicographer and scholar (b. 1785)
1851 – Manuel Godoy, Prince of the Peace (b. 1767)
1852 – James Whitcomb, American lawyer and politician  (b. 1795)
      8th Governor of Indiana
1859 – Karl Baedeker, German publisher, founded Baedeker (b. 1801)
1864 – Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman (b. 1802)
1867 – Francis Xavier Seelos, German-American priest and missionary (b. 1819)
1871 – Sarel Cilliers, South African spiritual leader and preacher (b. 1801)
1890 – Catherine Booth, English theologian and saint (b. 1829)
      co-founded The Salvation Army
1903 – Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher and author (b. 1880)
1904 – Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor (b. 1834)
      designed the Statue of Liberty
1904 – Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist and academic (b. 1847)
1910 – Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1850)
1935 – Jean Béraud, French painter (b. 1849)
1935 – Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano (b. 1874)
1943 – Irena Iłłakowicz, German-Polish lieutenant (b. 1906)
1944 – Al Smith, American politician  (b. 1873)
      42nd Governor of New York
1946 – Barney Oldfield, American race car driver (b. 1878)
1947 – Max Planck, German physicist and academic (b. 1858)
      Nobel Prize laureate
1951 – Henrietta Lacks, American medical patient (b. 1920)
1951 – Willie Moretti, Italian-American gangster (b. 1894)
1955 – Alexander Papagos, Greek general and politician (b. 1883)
      152nd Prime Minister of Greece
1958 – Ida Wüst, German actress and screenwriter (b. 1884)
1961 – Benjamin, Russian metropolitan (b. 1880)
1963 – Alar Kotli, Estonian architect (b. 1904)
1969 – Natalino Otto, Italian singer and actor (b. 1912)
1970 – Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
      (Big Brother and the Holding Company)
1974 – Anne Sexton, American poet and author (b. 1928)
1975 – Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman (b. 1903)
1977 – José Ber Gelbard, Argentinian activist and politician (b. 1917)
1981 – Freddie Lindstrom, American baseball player and coach (b. 1905)
1982 – The Amazing Criswell, American psychic and actor (b. 1907)
1982 – Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1932)
1982 – Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician (b. 1898)
      165th Prime Minister of Greece
1989 – Secretariat, American race horse (b. 1970)
1989 – Graham Chapman, English actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1941)
1990 – Alyn Ainsworth, English singer-songwriter and conductor (b. 1924)
1990 – Avis Bunnage, English actress (b. 1923)
1990 – Mārtiņš Zīverts, Latvian playwright (b. 1903)
1991 – J. Frank Wilson, American singer  (b. 1941)
      (J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers)
1992 – Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1936)
1994 – Danny Gatton, American guitarist (b. 1945)
1996 – Larry Gene Bell, American murderer (b. 1949)
1997 – Otto Ernst Remer, German general (b. 1912)
1997 – Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese game designer (b. 1941)
      created Game Boy
1998 – S. Arasaratnam, Sri Lankan historian and academic (b. 1930)
1999 – Erik Brødreskift, Norwegian drummer (b. 1969)
      (Immortal and Borknagar)
1999 – Bernard Buffet, French painter and illustrator (b. 1928)
1999 – Art Farmer, American trumpet player and composer  (b. 1928)
      (The Jazztet)
2000 – Yu Kuo-hwa, Chinese politician  (b. 1914)
      32nd Premier of the Republic of China
2000 – Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist  (b. 1932)
      Nobel Prize laureate
2001 – Blaise Alexander, American race car driver (b. 1976)
2001 – George Claydon, English actor (b. 1933)
2001 – John Collins, American guitarist (b. 1913)
2001 – Ahron Soloveichik, Russian rabbi and scholar (b. 1917)
2002 – André Delvaux, Belgian-Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2003 – Sid McMath, American lawyer and politician (b. 1912)
      34th Governor of Arkansas
2004 – Gordon Cooper, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1927)
2004 – Rio Diaz, Filipino model, actress, and politician (b. 1959)
2005 – Stanley K. Hathaway, American lawyer and politician  (b. 1924)
      40th United States Secretary of the Interior
2006 – Tom Bell, English actor (b. 1933)
2007 – Qassem Al-Nasser, Jordanian general (b. 1925)
2009 – Gerhard Kaufhold, German footballer (b. 1928)
2009 – Günther Rall, German general and pilot (b. 1918)
2009 – Mercedes Sosa, Argentinian singer and activist (b. 1935)
2010 – Norman Wisdom, English singer-songwriter, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1915)
2011 – Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, American son of Anwar al-Awlaki (b. 1995)
2011 – Doris Belack, American actress (b. 1926)
2012 – David Atkinson, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1921)
2012 – Stan Mudenge, Zimbabwean politician  (b. 1941)
      Minister of Foreign Affairs for Zimbabwe
2012 – Daphne Slater, English actress (b. 1928)
2012 – Tom Stannage, Australian footballer, historian, and academic (b. 1944)
2012 – Gloria Taylor, Canadian activist (b. 1948)
2012 – Pramote Teerawiwatana, Thai badminton player (b. 1967)
2012 – Erhard Wunderlich, German handball player (b. 1956)
2013 – John Cloudsley-Thompson, Pakistani-English commander (b. 1921)
2013 – Ulric Cross, Trinidadian navigator, judge, and diplomat (b. 1917)
2013 – Akira Miyoshi, Japanese composer (b. 1933)
2013 – Võ Nguyên Giáp, Vietnamese general and politician  (b. 1911)
      3rd Minister of Defence for Vietnam
2013 – Nicholas Oresko, American sergeant  (b. 1917)
      Medal of Honor recipient
2014 – Konrad Boehmer, German-Dutch composer and educator (b. 1941)
2014 – Hugo Carvana, Brazilian actor (b. 1937)
2014 – Fyodor Cherenkov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1959)
2014 – Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian politician  (b. 1951)
      41st President of Haiti
2014 – Paul Revere, American musician  (b. 7 Jan 1938)
      (Paul Revere & the Raiders)

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