Births | ||
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| * 1980 | Albert Pujols | Better known as Albert Pujols, is a professional baseball player who has played his entire career in Major League Baseball for the St Louis Cardinals. |
| * 1974 | Kate Moss | Known as Kate Moss, is an iconic English supermodel and fashion designer who was once the "Face of Calvin Klein. |
| * 1933 | Susan Sontag | American essayist, literary critic, cultural theorist, and political activist. |
| * 1920 | Jean-Pierre Vigier | French physicist and assistant to Louis de Broglie. |
| * 1918 | Stirling Silliphant | Prolific American screenwriter and producer. |
| * 1910 | Walter Schellenberg | German Nazi who rose through the SS to become, following the abolition of the Abwehr in 1944, head of foreign intelligence. |
| * 1909 | Clement Greenberg | American art critic best known as a champion of Abstract Expressionism. |
| * 1908 | Ethel Merman | Tony Award and Grammy Award-winning star of stage and film musicals. |
| * 1901 | Laura Riding | Controversial modernist American poet and literary critic, associated initially with the Fugitives and later with Robert Graves. |
| * 1874 | Robert Service | Canadian poet. |
| * 1872 | Edward Gordon Craig | Sometimes known as Gordon Craig, was a English modernist theatre practitioner; he worked as an actor, producer, director and scenic designer, as well as developing an influential body of theoretical writings. |
| * 1749 | Vittorio Alfieri | Italian dramatist, considered the "founder of Italian tragedy". |
| * 1741 | Hester Thrale | British literary salonni?re, and a friend and biographer of Dr Johnson. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2009 | John Mortimer | English barrister and writer, most famous for his Rumpole of the Bailey series of books. |
| † 2001 | Auberon Waugh | English author and journalist, son of Evelyn Waugh. |
| † 1942 | Carole Lombard | Born Jane Alice Peters, was an American actress. |
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