Births | ||
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| * 1976 | Ali Larter | American actress and former fashion model best known for her role on Heroes. |
| * 1970 | Daniel Handler | American author, screenwriter and accordionist. |
| * 1965 | Colum McCann | Irish writer of literary fiction. |
| * 1961 | Mark Latham | Australian writer and former politician, who was leader of the Australian Labor Party from early 2004 to early 2005. |
| * 1961 | Barry McGuigan | Nicknamed The Clones Cyclone, is a former professional boxer who became a world Featherweight champion. |
| * 1953 | Paul Krugman | Nobel Prize winning, New Keynesian economist. |
| * 1948 | Steven Chu | Nobel Prize laureate and American Secretary of Energy. |
| * 1941 | Suzanne Mubarak | Married to the former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and was the first lady of Egypt. |
| * 1940 | Mario Andretti | American racing driver, arguably the most successful US citizen in auto racing. |
| * 1915 | Peter Medawar | Brazilian-born English scientist best known for his work on how the immune system rejects or accepts organ transplants. |
| * 1915 | Zero Mostel | Brooklyn-born stage and film actor best known for his portrayal of comic characters such as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Max Bialystock in The Producers. |
| * 1909 | Stephen Spender | English poet and essayist who focused on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work. |
| * 1901 | Linus Pauling | American quantum chemist and biochemist, a pioneer in the application of quantum mechanics to chemistry, and one of the founders of molecular biology. |
| * 1865 | Arthur Symons | British poet and critic. |
| * 1860 | George Lyman Kittredge | Scholar of English literature and a professor at Harvard University. |
| * 1823 | Ernest Renan | French philosopher, playwright, and writer. |
| * 1820 | John Tenniel | British illustrator, graphic humorist and political cartoonist, most famous for his association with Lewis Carroll and his works. |
| * 1606 | William Davenant | Also spelled D'Avenant, was an English poet and playwright. |
| * 1533 | Michel de Montaigne | Influential French Renaissance writer, generally considered to be the inventor of the personal essay. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2013 | Donald A. Glaser | American physicist, neurobiologist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his invention of the bubble chamber. |
| † 2009 | Paul Harvey | American radio broadcaster, famous for his idiosyncratic delivery of news stories with dramatic pauses, quirky intonations, and many of his standard lead-ins and sign offs. |
| † 2004 | Daniel J. Boorstin | American historian, professor, attorney and author. |
| † 1986 | Olof Palme | Swedish Social Democratic politician. |
| † 1975 | Neville Cardus | Celebrated British journalist. |
| † 1960 | F. S. Flint | English poet and translator who was a prominent member of the Imagist group. |
| † 1916 | Henry James | Brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James, was an American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. |
| † 1869 | Alphonse de Lamartine | French writer, poet, and politician. |
| † 1626 | Cyril Tourneur | English dramatist who enjoyed his greatest success during the reign of King James I of England. |
| † 0 | Benedict XVI (Pope) | Pope Benedict XVI, born Joseph Ratzinger, was the 265th Pope Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. |
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