Births | ||
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| * 1972 | Rob Thomas | American recording artist. |
| * 1972 | Morgan (journalist) Murphy | Award-winning American journalist and the author of "Off the Eaten Path" by Time Warner. |
| * 1968 | Scott McClellan | White House Press Secretary to President George W Bush. |
| * 1952 | Christopher Monckton | Former British policy advisor and journalist. |
| * 1951 | Kevin Keegan | Former English football player and manager of various clubs. |
| * 1944 | Carl Bernstein | American journalist who, as a reporter for The Washington Post along with Bob Woodward, broke the story of the Watergate break-in and consequently helped bring about the resignation of US president Richard Nixon. |
| * 1942 | Michael Bloomberg | Elected Mayor of New York City in 2001. |
| * 1941 | Paul Tsongas | United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the United States Democratic Party. |
| * 1921 | Hugh Downs | Retired American actor and television host. |
| * 1913 | Jimmy Hoffa | American labor union leader and author. |
| * 1909 | A.M. Klein | Canadian author. |
| * 1898 | Fritz Zwicky | Swiss astronomer. |
| * 1895 | Max Horkheimer | German-Jewish philosopher-sociologist, famous for his work in critical theory as a member of the "Frankfurt School" of social research. |
| * 1894 | Jack Benny | Born Benjamin Kubelsky, was an American comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and film actor. |
| * 1878 | Koki Hirota | Japanese diplomat, politician and the 32nd Prime Minister of Japan from March 9, 1936 to February 2, 1937. |
| * 1864 | Israel Zangwill | English humorist and writer. |
| * 1856 | Frank Harris | Controversial journalist, biographer and fiction-writer, born James Thomas Harris in Ireland, who took US citizenship in 1921. |
| * 1763 | Johann Martin Usteri | Swiss poet, noted for has narrative poetry and his idyls. |
| * 1483 | Babur | Descendant of Genghis Khan and Timur; Babur was a military adventurer, a soldier of distinction, a poet, diarist and statesman. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2010 | Dick Francis | British jockey and horse racing crime writer. |
| † 1979 | Reginald Maudling | Barrister and British politician. |
| † 1975 | P. G. Wodehouse | English comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years. |
| † 1975 | Julian Huxley | English evolutionary biologist, author, humanist and internationalist, known for his popularisations of science in books and lectures. |
| † 1943 | David Hilbert | German mathematician recognized as one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. |
| † 1891 | William Tecumseh Sherman | Union general during the Civil War. |
| † 1808 | John Dickinson | American lawyer and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware. |
| † 1780 | William Blackstone | English jurist and professor who produced the historical treatise on the common law called Commentaries on the Laws of England. |
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