Births | ||
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| * 1978 | Phil Brooks | Better known by his ring name, CM Punk, is an American professional wrestler. |
| * 1971 | Jim Butcher | American novelist, most known for his contemporary fantasy book series The Dresden Files. |
| * 1971 | Anthony Rapp | American stage and film actor. |
| * 1963 | Natalie Merchant | American singer, song-writer, musician and poet who first gained fame in the group 10,000 Maniacs which she co-founded in 1981. |
| * 1959 | Paul Farmer | American professor and physician, currently the Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University and an attending physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. |
| * 1959 | Evo Morales | Popularly known as Evo, is the President of Bolivia, the country's first Amerindian president. |
| * 1956 | Mike Godwin | American attorney and author. |
| * 1954 | Stephen L. Carter | American law professor, legal- and social-policy writer, columnist, and novelist. |
| * 1952 | Andrew Motion | English poet, novelist and biographer. |
| * 1947 | Hillary Clinton | 67th United States Secretary of State. |
| * 1942 | Milton Nascimento | Brazilian singer, composer and musician. |
| * 1938 | Peter van Nieuwenhuizen | Dutch physicist, best-known for his discovery of supergravity with Sergio Ferrara and Daniel Z Freedman. |
| * 1919 | Muhammad Reza Pahlavi | Shah of Iran from 1941 until he was deposed in 1979 by the Islamic Revolution. |
| * 1917 | Ithiel de Sola Pool | Pioneer in the development of social science. |
| * 1916 | Francois Mitterrand | French politician. |
| * 1912 | Don Siegel | Influential American film director and producer. |
| * 1893 | Oliver P. Smith | General in the United States Marine Corps and a highly decorated combat veteran of World War II and the Korean War. |
| * 1886 | Vincent Starrett | Co-founder of the Baker Street Irregulars. |
| * 1883 | Napoleon Hill | American author who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature. |
| * 1846 | C. P. Scott | British journalist, publisher and politician. |
| * 1818 | Elizabeth Payson Prentiss | Author, well known for her hymn "More Love to Thee, O Christ" and the didactic story Stepping Heavenward (1869). |
| * 1800 | Helmuth von Moltke | Chief of Staff of the Prussian General Staff from 1857 to 1871 and then of the Great General Staff from 1871 to 1888. |
| * 1759 | Georges Danton | Leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution and the first President of the Committee of Public Safety. |
| * 1697 | John Peter Zenger | Printer, publisher, editor and journalist whose indictment, trial and acquittal on sedition and libel charges in 1734 was an important contributing factor to the development of the freedom of the press in America. |
Deaths | ||
| † 1999 | Abraham Polonsky | American novelist, screenwriter and film director. |
| † 1999 | Eknath Easwaran | Spiritual teacher, an author of books on meditation and ways to lead a fulfilling life, as well as a translator and interpreter of Indian literature. |
| † 1989 | Charles J. Pedersen | American organic chemist best known for describing methods of synthesizing crown ethers. |
| † 1979 | Park Chung-hee | Former president of the Rebublic of Korea. |
| † 1973 | Semyon Budyonny | Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union. |
| † 1957 | Nikos Kazantzakis | Greek novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher. |
| † 1945 | Garrett Fort | American short story writer, playwright, and Hollywood screenwriter. |
| † 1944 | Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom | Youngest daughter of Queen Victoria, was a pianist, author and photographer. |
| † 1923 | Charles Proteus Steinmetz | German-American mathematician and electrical engineer. |
| † 1922 | Cargill Gilston Knott | Scottish physicist and mathematician, who was a pioneer in seismological]] research. |
| † 1913 | Frederick Rolfe | English novelist, short-story writer, eccentric, and would-be Roman Catholic priest. |
| † 1902 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Social activist and a leading figure of the early women's rights movement in the United States. |
| † 1865 | Charles Miner | Member of the U S House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. |
| † 1845 | Carolina Nairne | Also known as Lady Nairne, was a Scottish songwriter, born in the auld hoose of Gask, Perthshire. |
| † 1764 | William Hogarth | Major English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, and editorial cartoonist who has been credited as a pioneer in western sequential art. |
| † 1751 | Philip Doddridge | English Nonconformist leader. |
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