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| * 1980 | Jennifer Shahade | American chess Woman Grandmaster and writer. |
| * 1953 | Trevor Phillips | British broadcaster, politician, and civil servant. |
| * 1945 | Connie Willis | American science fiction writer. |
| * 1941 | Alex Ferguson | Popularly known as "Sir Alex" or "Fergie", is a Scottish football manager and former player, former manager of Manchester United, where he had been in charge since 1986. |
| * 1911 | Dal Stivens | Australian writer. |
| * 1908 | Simon Wiesenthal | Jewish survivor of the Nazi concentration camps who became an Austrian Nazi-hunter. |
| * 1881 | Max Pechstein | German Expressionist painter and graphic artist, born in Zwickau. |
| * 1880 | George Marshall | American military leader and statesman most famous for his leadership in the Allied victory in World War II and for his work establishing the post-war reconstruction effort for Europe, which became known as the Marshall Plan. |
| * 1869 | Henri Matisse | Major French artist of the 20th century. |
| * 1830 | Alexander Smith | Scottish poet, and labelled as one of the Spasmodic School. |
| * 1817 | James Thomas Fields | American publisher and author. |
| * 1779 | Horace Smith | English poet and novelist, perhaps best known for his participation in a sonnet-writing competition with Percy Bysshe Shelley. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2008 | Donald E. Westlake | American novelist and screenplay author best known for his "comic caper" novels. |
| † 2000 | Alan Cranston | United States Senator from California and anti-nuclear weapons activist. |
| † 1996 | D.M. Turner | Author and researcher on the effects of psychoactive substances. |
| † 1980 | Marshall McLuhan | Canadian philosopher, futurist, and communications theorist. |
| † 1972 | Roberto Clemente | Major League Baseball right fielder. |
| † 1936 | Miguel de Unamuno | Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher. |
| † 1888 | Samson Raphael Hirsch | Intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism. |
| † 1877 | Gustave Courbet | French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. |
| † 1872 | Aleksis Kivi | Born Alexis Stenvall, was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, Seven Brothers. |
| † 1775 | Richard Montgomery | Brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. |
| † 1384 | John Wycliffe | English theologian and early proponent of reform in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century. |
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