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| * 1978 | Brian Clevinger | Author of the webcomic 8-Bit Theater, he comic miniseries Atomic Robo, and the novel Nuklear Age. |
| * 1974 | Christoffer Boe | Danish film director. |
| * 1946 | Michael Rosen | English poet and children's novelist. |
| * 1940 | Angela Carter | English novelist and journalist, known for her post-feminist magical realist and science fiction works. |
| * 1934 | Ronald (born L. Ron Hubbard DeWolfe | Author, former operative in Scientology, eldest son of L Ron Hubbard; born Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, Jr. |
| * 1932 | Jenny Joseph | English poet. |
| * 1931 | Gene Wolfe | American science fiction and fantasy writer. |
| * 1927 | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. |
| * 1924 | Marjorie Boulton | British author and poet writing in both English and Esperanto. |
| * 1909 | Edwin H. Land | American scientist and inventor. |
| * 1892 | Josip Broz Tito | Known as Tito, was a Second World War Yugoslavian resistance leader and charismatic Socialist President of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1943 to 1980. |
| * 1892 | Archibald MacLeish | American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress. |
| * 1861 | Rabindranath Tagore | Also known as Rabi Thakur, was a Bengali philosopher, poet, and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913. |
| * 1847 | Archibald Primrose Rosebery | British Liberal statesman and Prime Minister, also known as Archibald Primrose (1847–1851) and Lord Dalmeny (1851–1868). |
| * 1840 | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | [or 1840-04-25 – 1893-10-25 ] was a Russian Romantic era composer. |
| * 1836 | Joseph Gurney Cannon | American politician from Illinois and leader of the Republican Party. |
| * 1812 | Robert Browning | English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. |
| * 1754 | Joseph Joubert | French moralist and essayist. |
Deaths | ||
| † 1998 | Allan McLeod Cormack | South African-born American physicist who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on x-ray computed tomography. |
| † 1996 | Albert Meltzer | Anarchist activist and writer. |
| † 1994 | Clement Greenberg | American art critic best known as a champion of Abstract Expressionism. |
| † 1966 | Stanislaw Jerzy Lec | Polish poet and aphorist. |
| † 1956 | Josef Hoffmann | Austrian architect, designer of consumer goods and founding member of the Vienna Secession. |
| † 1941 | James Frazer | Scottish social anthropologist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion. |
| † 1915 | Elbert Hubbard | American writer, publisher, artist, businessman, anarchist and libertarian socialist philosopher. |
| † 1915 | Alice Moore Hubbard | Born Alice Luann Moore, was a noted American feminist, writer, and, with her husband, Elbert Hubbard was a leading figure in the Roycroft movement. |
| † 1890 | Joseph Cummings | Fifth president of Northwestern University from 1881 to 1890, served as president of Wesleyan University for 18 years from 1857 to 1875, and also served as the president of the predecessor of Syracuse University from 1854 to 1857. |
| † 1873 | Salmon P. Chase | American politician and jurist in the Civil War era who served as U S Senator from Ohio and Governor of Ohio; as Secretary of the Treasury under President Abraham Lincoln; and as Chief Justice of the United States. |
| † 1868 | Henry Brougham | Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. |
| † 1840 | Caspar David Friedrich | 19th century German romantic painter, considered by many critics to be one of the finest representatives of the movement. |
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