Births | ||
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| * 1979 | Carson Cistulli | American poet and journalist. |
| * 1978 | Jodie Marsh | English media personality, bodybuilder and glamour model. |
| * 1971 | Corey Haim | Canadian actor, best known for a 1980s Hollywood career as a teen idol. |
| * 1968 | Manuel Rivera-Ortiz | Social documentary photographer whose work follows in the tradition of "concerned photography". |
| * 1955 | Carol Ann Duffy | Scottish poet, playwright, freelance writer and current Poet Laureate, the first woman to hold that title. |
| * 1952 | William Bill Kristol | American neoconservative commentator. |
| * 1944 | Wesley Clark | American politician, a retired four-star general of the U S Army, and a former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO. |
| * 1921 | John H. Disher | American aeronautical engineer and NASA manager. |
| * 1899 | Aldo Capitini | Italian philosopher, poet, political activist, anti-Fascist and educator. |
| * 1896 | Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa | Italian novelist, short-story writer and critic. |
| * 1874 | Harry Graham | English writer. |
| * 1804 | Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve | French literary critic, poet and novelist. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2000 | Victor Borge | Born B?rge Rosenbaum, was a Danish comedian, conductor and pianist, affectionately known as The Clown Prince of Denmark, The Unmelancholy Dane, and The Great Dane. |
| † 1999 | John P. (diplomat) Davies | American diplomat and Medal of Freedom recipient. |
| † 1999 | John Paton Davies | American diplomat and Medal of Freedom recipient. |
| † 1992 | Vincent Fourcade | French-American interior designer and the business and life partner of Robert Denning. |
| † 1972 | Abraham Joshua Heschel | Polish-born American rabbi, considered by many to be one of the most significant Jewish theologians of the 20th century. |
| † 1959 | E. F. L. Wood | Known as The Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and as The Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was a British Conservative politician. |
| † 1953 | Lavrentiy Beria | Soviet politician, and chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus under Stalin. |
| † 1948 | Hideki Tojo | General in the Imperial Japanese Army, a nationalist thinker, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan. |
| † 1948 | Koki Hirota | Japanese diplomat, politician and the 32nd Prime Minister of Japan from March 9, 1936 to February 2, 1937. |
| † 1948 | Iwane Matsui | General of the Japanese Imperial Army and the commander of the expeditionary forces sent to China in World War II He was sentenced to death by hanging by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East for being responsible for the Nanking Massacre. |
| † 1948 | Seishiro Itagaki | General in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II and a War Minister. |
| † 1940 | Eddie August Schneider | Set three transcontinental airspeed records for pilots under the age of twenty-one in 1930. |
| † 1901 | William Ellery (poet) Channing | Transcendentalist poet and nephew of the Unitarian preacher William Ellery Channing. |
| † 1873 | Sarah Grimke | Abolitionist, attorney, judge, and feminist. |
| † 1834 | Thomas Malthus | English demographer and political economist best known for his pessimistic but highly influential views on population growth. |
| † 1802 | Camillo Federici | Italian dramatist and actor. |
| † 1631 | Michael Drayton | English poet who came to prominence in the Elizabethan era. |
| † 1568 | Roger Ascham | English humanist scholar and a writer on education and archery. |
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