Births | ||
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| * 1966 | Kiefer Sutherland | Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning Canadian television and film actor, best known for his role of Jack Bauer on the series 24. |
| * 1965 | Anke Engelke | German comedian and actress. |
| * 1957 | Ray Romano | Actor and comedian. |
| * 1949 | Thomas Sankara | Leader of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. |
| * 1943 | Albert Lee | English guitarist known for his finger style and hybrid picking technique. |
| * 1942 | Hu Jintao | Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (2002–2012) and President of the People's Republic of China (2003–2013). |
| * 1940 | Frank Zappa | American musician, composer and satirist. |
| * 1937 | Jane Fonda | Academy Award-winning American actress, model, writer, producer and political activist. |
| * 1936 | Barbara Roberts | Democratic politician. |
| * 1917 | Heinrich Boll | German novelist, short-story writer and playwright. |
| * 1905 | Anthony Powell | One of the most respected English novelists of his time. |
| * 1896 | Konstantin Rokossovsky | Soviet military commander and Polish Defence Minister. |
| * 1892 | Rebecca West | Pseudonym of Cecily Isabel Fairfield, an Anglo-Irish feminist and author. |
| * 1843 | Thomas Bracken | Born at Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland, was a late 19th century poet who wrote the New Zealand National Anthem and who was the first person to publish the phrase God's Own Country. |
| * 1804 | Benjamin Disraeli | British politician, novelist, and essayist, serving twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
| * 1603 | Roger Williams | Anglo-American clergyman, a pioneering advocate for freedom of conscience in religious matters, and the separation of church and state. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2000 | Stephen A. Mitchell | Clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst whose writings helped to clarify many disparate psychoanalytic theories and theoreticians. |
| † 2000 | Adrian Henri | English poet and painter from Liverpool, best known as one of three poets in the best-selling anthology The Mersey Sound. |
| † 1980 | Nelson Rodrigues | Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist. |
| † 1980 | Marc Connelly | American playwright who received the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for his drama Green Pastures. |
| † 1945 | George S. Patton | U S General during World War II; he was known in his time as "America's Fightingest General". |
| † 1940 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Irish-American novelist and short story writer. |
| † 1935 | Kurt Tucholsky | German journalist, satirist and lyricist. |
| † 1923 | Frank I. Cobb | American journalist. |
| † 1807 | John Newton | British slave trader who later became an abolitionist and converted to Christianity. |
| † 1375 | Giovanni Boccaccio | Florentine poet and story-writer who helped to initiate the humanist movement. |
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