Births | ||
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| * 1982 | Duchess of Cambridge Catherine | Often called Kate, is the wife of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, their marriage having occured on 29 April 2011. |
| * 1978 | Chad Ocho Cinco | American football wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League. |
| * 1971 | Daniel Dumile | American hip hop artist who has taken on several stage names in his career - originally Zev Love X, most famously MF DOOM, and in side projects as King Geedorah, Metal Fingers and Viktor Vaughn. |
| * 1967 | Dave Matthews | South African-American musician, and actor. |
| * 1953 | Javad Alizadeh | Iranian professional cartoonist best known for his caricatures of politicians, comic actors, footballers, and a scientific philosophical humor on Relativity theory who has titled it 4D Humor. |
| * 1945 | Levon Ter-Petrossian | Sometimes transliterated Levon Ter-Petrosyan, was the President of Armenia from 1991 to 1998. |
| * 1941 | Joan Baez | American folk singer and songwriter, known for her distinctive vocal style as well as her outspoken political views. |
| * 1916 | Vic Mizzy | American songwriter for television and movies. |
| * 1913 | Richard Nixon | 37th U S President. |
| * 1908 | Simone De Beauvoir | French author and existentialist philosopher. |
| * 1900 | Richard Halliburton | American author. |
| * 1895 | Lucian Truscott | Successful U S Army General during World War II and CIA's Deputy Director for Coordination after the war. |
| * 1890 | Kurt Tucholsky | German journalist, satirist and lyricist. |
| * 1881 | Lascelles Abercrombie | Also known as the Georgian Laureate, was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets", a community which included Rupert Brooke and Robert Frost. |
| * 1728 | Thomas Warton | British Poet Laureate from 1785 until his death. |
Deaths | ||
| † 1996 | Walter M. (Jr.) Miller | American science fiction writer, most famous for his novel A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for best novel. |
| † 1995 | Peter Cook | English satirist, writer and comedian who is widely regarded as the father of the British satire boom of the 1960s. |
| † 1990 | Northern Calloway | Played David on Sesame Street from 1971 through 1989, and also voiced Muppet characters such as Same Sound Brown. |
| † 1947 | Karl Mannheim | Hungarian-born social philosopher and sociologist, influential with his development of the sociology of knowledge. |
| † 1927 | Houston Stewart Chamberlain | British author, cultural critic, racial theorist, and philosopher of science. |
| † 1923 | Katherine Mansfield | Born Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp, was a New Zealand poet and writer of short fiction, who wrote under the name Katherine Mansfield. |
| † 1873 | Napoleon III | President of the French Republic (1849–1852) and Emperor of the French (1852–1870). |
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