Births | ||
|---|---|---|
| * 1978 | Alesha Dixon | British singer and dancer, former member of girl group Mis-Teeq. |
| * 1968 | Thom Yorke | Musician and the lead singer of the English rock band Radiohead. |
| * 1967 | Luke Haines | English musician, who has released music under a variety of names, notably The Auteurs and Black Box Recorder. |
| * 1966 | Sherman Alexie | Award-winning and prolific writer and occasional comedian who lives in Seattle, Washington. |
| * 1964 | Dan Savage | American journalist and author. |
| * 1963 | Ha-Joon Chang | Korean development economist. |
| * 1962 | Kano Sisters | And Mika Kano (? ??, Kan? Mika, born 23 September 1967 in Saij?, Ehime), known collectively as the Kano Sisters, are Japanese celebrities. |
| * 1959 | Steven Erikson | Pseudonym of Steve Rune Lundin, a Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist and novelist. |
| * 1959 | Simon Cowell | British A & R executive for BMG Records. |
| * 1955 | Yo-Yo Ma | Cellist of world renown and the winner of multiple Grammy Awards. |
| * 1952 | Vladimir Putin | President of Russia. |
| * 1950 | Jakaya Kikwete | Fourth and current President of Tanzania. |
| * 1948 | Diane Ackerman | American author, poet, and naturalist most famous for her work A Natural History of the Senses. |
| * 1946 | Catharine MacKinnon | American feminist, scholar, lawyer, teacher, and activist. |
| * 1943 | Joy Behar | Italian-American comedian, writer, actress and co-host of the talk show The View. |
| * 1942 | Paul Weyrich | American conservative political activist and commentator, most notable for co-founding the Heritage Foundation and the Free Congress Foundation, both conservative think tanks. |
| * 1939 | Clive James | Expatriate Australian writer, poet, essayist, critic, and commentator on popular culture. |
| * 1935 | Thomas Keneally | Australian novelist and non-fiction writer. |
| * 1934 | Ulrike Meinhof | German radical left-wing militant who started out as a journalist. |
| * 1931 | Desmond Tutu | South African cleric and activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. |
| * 1927 | Ronald David Laing | Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness and particularly the experience of psychosis. |
| * 1919 | Henriette Avram | Computer programmer and systems analyst who developed the MARC format, which is the national and international data standard for bibliographic and holdings information in libraries. |
| * 1900 | Heinrich Himmler | Commander of the German Schutzstaffel and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany. |
| * 1900 | Herbert Butterfield | British historian and philosopher of history who is remembered chiefly for a slim volume entitled The Whig Interpretation of History (1931). |
| * 1888 | Henry A. Wallace | Thirty-third Vice President of the United States (1941–45), the eleventh Secretary of Agriculture (1933–40), and the tenth Secretary of Commerce (1945–46). |
| * 1885 | Niels Bohr | Jewish Danish physicist. |
| * 1879 | Joe Hill | Born Joel Emmanuel Hägglund, and also known as Joseph Hillström, was a radical songwriter, labor activist and member of the Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the Wobblies. |
| * 1849 | James Whitcomb Riley | American writer and poet. |
| * 1836 | Bruno de Souza | Indian Konkani language writer and novelist from Goa. |
| * 1810 | Henry Alford | English churchman, theologian, textual critic, scholar, poet, hymnodist, and writer. |
| * 1807 | George Abernethy | American pioneer, notable entrepreneur, and first governor of Oregon under the provisional government in what would become the state of Oregon in the United States. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2006 | Anna Politkovskaya | Russian journalist, author and human rights activist well known for her opposition to the Chechen conflict and then-Russian President Putin. |
| † 1969 | Ture Nerman | Swedish communist politician. |
| † 1967 | Norman Angell | British economist, lecturer, writer, Member of Parliament for the Labour Party, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1933; born Ralph Norman Angell Lane. |
| † 1895 | William Wetmore Story | American sculptor, art critic, poet and editor. |
| † 1886 | William Barnes | English writer, poet, minister, and philologist. |
| † 1867 | Henry Timrod | American poet from South Carolina, often called the Poet Laureate of the Confederacy. |
| † 1859 | Robert Holmes | One of the best known defenders of the Nationalist Leaders in Ireland. |
| † 1849 | Edgar Allan Poe | American poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, editor, critic and a leading American Romanticist. |
| † 1792 | George Mason | United States patriot, statesman and delegate from Virginia to the U S Constitutional Convention. |
| † 1612 | Giovanni Battista Guarini | Italian poet, dramatist, and diplomat. |
| † 1577 | George Gascoigne | English poet, playwright, translator and prose writer. |
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