Births | ||
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| * 1988 | Bilawal Bhutto Zardari | Son of Benazir Bhutto, is Chairman of the Pakistan People's Party. |
| * 1981 | Nicole Richie | American celebutante, actress, author, and an aspiring singer. |
| * 1973 | Heather Brewer | American writer of young adult fiction. |
| * 1972 | Liam Gallagher | English musician and songwriter best known as the lead singer, and occasional instrumentalist, of English rock band Oasis. |
| * 1970 | Samantha Power | Irish-born journalist, writer, academic and a member of the National Security Council in the Obama administration. |
| * 1957 | Kevin Rudd | 26th Prime Minister of Australia and leader of the federal Australian Labor Party. |
| * 1950 | Charles Clarke | British politician and Member of Parliament for Norwich South since 1997. |
| * 1950 | Bill Murray | American actor. |
| * 1947 | Stephen King | American author, screenwriter, musician, columnist, actor, film producer and director. |
| * 1947 | Marsha Norman | American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist most noted for her play 'night Mother, which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. |
| * 1934 | Leonard Cohen | Canadian poet, songwriter, singer, and novelist. |
| * 1926 | Donald A. Glaser | American physicist, neurobiologist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his invention of the bubble chamber. |
| * 1912 | Chuck Jones | American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. |
| * 1902 | Ruhollah Khomeini | Iranian Islamic cleric, the political and religious leader of the Islamic Revolution which overthrew the Shah of Iran. |
| * 1901 | Learie Constantine | Trinidadian-British cricketer, broadcast journalist, administrator, lawyer, and politician. |
| * 1896 | A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada | Hindu teacher and the founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, commonly known as the Hare Krishna Movement. |
| * 1891 | John Wesley Hardrick | African-American artist. |
| * 1874 | Gustav Holst | English composer and music teacher. |
| * 1867 | Henry L. Stimson | American statesman, who served as Secretary of War, Governor-General of the Philippines, and Secretary of State at various times. |
| * 1866 | H. G. (Herbert George) Wells | British writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, and The Time Machine; also for Kipps, The History of Mr Polly and other social satires. |
| * 1849 | Edmund Gosse | English poet, author and critic. |
| * 1832 | Herrick Johnson | American Presbyterian clergyman and author. |
| * 1452 | Girolamo Savonarola | Italian Dominican priest and leader of Florence from 1494 until his execution in 1498. |
Deaths | ||
| † 1987 | Jaco Pastorius | Jazz bassist and composer remembered for his style and technique on fretless bass. |
| † 1982 | Hovhannes Bagramyan | Also known as Ivan Khristoforovich Bagramyan, was a Soviet Armenian military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union. |
| † 1976 | Benjamin Graham | Influential economist and professional investor. |
| † 1973 | William Plomer | South African poet, novelist and campaigner for racial equality. |
| † 1904 | Joseph (Chief) | Leader of the Nez Perce; most commonly known as Chief Joseph, his Indian name means "Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain". |
| † 1860 | Arthur Schopenhauer | German philosopher, most famous for his work The World as Will and Representation (1819). |
| † 1832 | Walter Scott | Prolific Scottish historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe during his time. |
| † 1820 | Joseph Rodman Drake | Early American poet. |
| † 1576 | Gerolamo Cardano | Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler, applying probability calculus to games of chance,hes a really nice person even doe hes kinda old. |
| † 1558 | Holy Roman Emperor Charles V | Effectively King of Spain from 1516 to 1556 (in principle, he was from 1516 king of Aragon and from 1516 guardian of his insane mother, queen of Castile who died 1555, and the co-king of Castile 1516–55, full king 1555–56), and Holy Roman Emperor from 1519 to 1556. |
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