Births | ||
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| * 1985 | Ted Ginn | Wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. |
| * 1979 | Claire Danes | American film, television, and theater actress. |
| * 1978 | Guy Berryman | Bass player for the group Coldplay. |
| * 1971 | Nicholas Brendon | Actor best known for playing the character Xander Harris in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. |
| * 1954 | Jon Krakauer | American journalist, author of non-fiction books, and mountaineer. |
| * 1948 | Joschka Fischer | Politician of the German Green Party (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) who was Vice Chancelor and Foreign Minister (1998–2005). |
| * 1947 | Tom Clancy | American author of both fiction and non-fiction, mostly related to the military, terrorism, and international affairs. |
| * 1947 | David Letterman | American late night talk show host, comedian, television producer, Indy Racing League car owner, and philanthropist. |
| * 1944 | Federico Hernandez Denton | Current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. |
| * 1940 | John Hagee | Founder and senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, a non-denominational charismatic church with more than 19,000 active members. |
| * 1939 | Alan Ayckbourn | One of England's most prolific and commercially successful comic playwrights. |
| * 1930 | Bryan Magee | British politician, broadcaster and author whose works are intended to make philosophy accessible to a larger audience. |
| * 1909 | Frederick Franck | Painter, sculptor, and author of many books on Buddhism and human spirituality. |
| * 1904 | Claud Cockburn | Influential left-wing English journalist; also a novelist, short-story writer and autobiographer. |
| * 1902 | Swami Narayanananda | Teacher of the Vedanta philosophy. |
| * 1851 | Edward Walter Maunder | English astronomer best remembered for his study of sunspots and the solar magnetic cycle that led to his identification of the period from 1645 to 1715 that is now known as the Maunder Minimum. |
| * 1822 | Donald Grant Mitchell | American essayist and novelist. |
| * 1777 | Henry Clay | Leading American statesman and orator who served in both the House of Representatives and Senate. |
| * 1550 | Edward de Vere | Elizabethan courtier, playwright, poet, sportsman and patron of numerous writers. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2009 | Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick | American professor of English and an author in gender studies, lesbian and gay studies, queer theory and critical theory. |
| † 2009 | John Maddox | British science writer. |
| † 1989 | Abbie Hoffman | Social and political activist in the United States, co-founder of the Youth International Party, and later, a fugitive from the law, who lived under an alias following a conviction for dealing cocaine. |
| † 1989 | Sugar Ray Robinson | Born Walker Smith Jr, was a professional boxer. |
| † 1971 | Igor Tamm | Soviet physicist, mathematician and a Nobel laureate. |
| † 1902 | Thomas De Witt Talmage | American Presbyterian preacher, clergyman and divine. |
| † 1878 | William Marcy (Boss) Tweed | Known as Boss Tweed and often erroneously referred to as William Marcy Tweed, was an American politician and political boss of Tammany Hall who became an icon of urban political machines. |
| † 1814 | Charles Burney | English organist, travel writer and music historian. |
| † 1782 | Metastasio | Better known by his pseudonym of Metastasio, was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti. |
| † 1777 | Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon | French novelist. |
| † 1704 | Jacques-Benigne Bossuet | French bishop, theologian, and court preacher. |
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