Births | ||
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| * 1980 | Danish Kaneria | Leg-spin bowler in the Pakistani cricket team. |
| * 1973 | Mindaugas Murza | Radical Lithuanian nationalist, the leader of the United National Workers party, famous for supporting nationalsocialist and far-right ideas. |
| * 1961 | Bill Hicks | American stand-up comedian, satirist and social critic. |
| * 1951 | Mark Heard | Record producer, folk-rock singer and songwriter. |
| * 1946 | Benny Andersson | Former member of ABBA and is composer of "Chess", "Kristina fr?n Duvem?la", "Mamma Mia!,". |
| * 1944 | Jim Gibbons | 28th Governor of the U S state of Nevada. |
| * 1938 | Frank Deford | American writer for Sports Illustrated, author and commentator. |
| * 1929 | Bernard Crick | British political theorist and democratic socialist whose views were often summarised as "politics is ethics done in public". |
| * 1928 | Philip Kindred - a.k.a. PKD Dick | American science fiction writer. |
| * 1917 | Arthur C. Clarke | British author, inventor and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World. |
| * 1905 | Piet Hein | Danish mathematician, scientist, inventor, and poet. |
| * 1901 | Margaret Mead | American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s. |
| * 1900 | V. S Pritchett | British short story writer, novelist, memoirist and critic. |
| * 1899 | Noel Coward | English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music. |
| * 1863 | George Santayana | Philosopher, essayist, poet and novelist. |
| * 1775 | Jane Austen | English novelist who recorded the domestic manners of the landed gentry. |
| * 1714 | George Whitefield | Also known as George Whitfield, was an Anglican itinerant Protestant minister who helped spread the Great Awakening in the Kingdom of Great Britain and, especially, in the British North American colonies. |
| * 1584 | John Selden | English jurist, legal antiquary and oriental scholar. |
| * 1485 | Catherine of Aragon | Also known as Katherine or Katharine;, was the Queen of England as the first wife of Henry VIII of England, and Princess of Wales by her first marriage to Arthur, Prince of Wales. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2009 | Manto Tshabalala-Msimang | Minister of Health for South Africa 1999–2008. |
| † 2007 | Dan Fogelberg | American singer-songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist, whose music was inspired by sources as diverse as folk, pop, rock, classical, jazz, and bluegrass music. |
| † 1993 | Maurice Davis | American Rabbi and human rights activist. |
| † 1980 | Harland Sanders | Also known as Colonel Sanders, was an American entrepreneur who founded Kentucky Fried Chicken. |
| † 1965 | William Somerset Maugham | English playwright, novelist, and short story writer; often published as simply W Somerset Maugham. |
| † 1897 | Alphonse Daudet | French novelist, short-story writer and dramatist. |
| † 0 | Wassily Kandinsky | – December 13, 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. |
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