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Births

* 1985 Ted Ginn Wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League.
* 1979 Claire Danes American film, television, and theater actress.
* 1978 Guy Berryman Bass player for the group Coldplay.
* 1971 Nicholas Brendon Actor best known for playing the character Xander Harris in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
* 1954 Jon Krakauer American journalist, author of non-fiction books, and mountaineer.
* 1948 Joschka Fischer Politician of the German Green Party (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) who was Vice Chancelor and Foreign Minister (1998–2005).
* 1947 Tom Clancy American author of both fiction and non-fiction, mostly related to the military, terrorism, and international affairs.
* 1947 David Letterman American late night talk show host, comedian, television producer, Indy Racing League car owner, and philanthropist.
* 1944 Federico Hernandez Denton Current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico.
* 1940 John Hagee Founder and senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, a non-denominational charismatic church with more than 19,000 active members.
* 1939 Alan Ayckbourn One of England's most prolific and commercially successful comic playwrights.
* 1930 Bryan Magee British politician, broadcaster and author whose works are intended to make philosophy accessible to a larger audience.
* 1909 Frederick Franck Painter, sculptor, and author of many books on Buddhism and human spirituality.
* 1904 Claud Cockburn Influential left-wing English journalist; also a novelist, short-story writer and autobiographer.
* 1902 Swami Narayanananda Teacher of the Vedanta philosophy.
* 1851 Edward Walter Maunder English astronomer best remembered for his study of sunspots and the solar magnetic cycle that led to his identification of the period from 1645 to 1715 that is now known as the Maunder Minimum.
* 1822 Donald Grant Mitchell American essayist and novelist.
* 1777 Henry Clay Leading American statesman and orator who served in both the House of Representatives and Senate.
* 1550 Edward de Vere Elizabethan courtier, playwright, poet, sportsman and patron of numerous writers.

Deaths

† 2009 Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick American professor of English and an author in gender studies, lesbian and gay studies, queer theory and critical theory.
† 2009 John Maddox British science writer.
† 1989 Abbie Hoffman Social and political activist in the United States, co-founder of the Youth International Party, and later, a fugitive from the law, who lived under an alias following a conviction for dealing cocaine.
† 1989 Sugar Ray Robinson Born Walker Smith Jr, was a professional boxer.
† 1971 Igor Tamm Soviet physicist, mathematician and a Nobel laureate.
† 1902 Thomas De Witt Talmage American Presbyterian preacher, clergyman and divine.
† 1878 William Marcy (Boss) Tweed Known as Boss Tweed and often erroneously referred to as William Marcy Tweed, was an American politician and political boss of Tammany Hall who became an icon of urban political machines.
† 1814 Charles Burney English organist, travel writer and music historian.
† 1782 Metastasio Better known by his pseudonym of Metastasio, was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.
† 1777 Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon French novelist.
† 1704 Jacques-Benigne Bossuet French bishop, theologian, and court preacher.
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