Births | ||
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| * 1982 | Kristin Kreuk | Canadian-born actress and model of Dutch and Indonesian Chinese descent known for her roles on the Canadian television series teen soap Edgemont and on the American television series Smallville. |
| * 1980 | Eliza Dushku | American actress and star of the television series Tru Calling. |
| * 1975 | Tiger Woods | Better known as Tiger Woods, is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. |
| * 1961 | Douglas Coupland | Canadian fiction writer and cultural commentator. |
| * 1961 | Sean Hannity | Irish American, conservative talk radio host, host of Fox News Channel's program Hannity, and author of two books. |
| * 1961 | Ben Johnson | Canadian former sprinter who enjoyed a high-profile career during much of the 1980s and won two Olympic Bronze medals. |
| * 1960 | Heather Wilson | Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New Mexico. |
| * 1959 | Tracey Ullman | British comedian, actress, singer, dancer, screenwriter and author, who is most famous for being the host of her eponymous variety television show. |
| * 1959 | Susan (Australian) Johnson | Australian novelist and author. |
| * 1950 | Bjarne Stroustrup | Computer scientist and creator of the C++ programming language. |
| * 1947 | Jeff Lynne | British singer-songwriter and record producer. |
| * 1946 | Marc Forne Molne | Head of Government of Andorra from 7 December 1994 to May 27, 2005. |
| * 1946 | Patti Smith | American singer-songwriter and poet. |
| * 1935 | Sandy Koufax | American left-handed former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers, from 1955 to 1966. |
| * 1934 | John N. Bahcall | American astrophysicist, best known for his contributions to the solar neutrino problem, the development of the Hubble Space Telescope and for his leadership and development of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. |
| * 1910 | Paul Bowles | Composer, author, and traveler. |
| * 1895 | L. P. Hartley | British writer. |
| * 1887 | C. D. Broad | English epistemologist, historian of philosophy, philosopher of science, moral philosopher, and writer on the philosophical aspects of psychical research. |
| * 1884 | Hideki Tojo | General in the Imperial Japanese Army, a nationalist thinker, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan. |
| * 1879 | Ramana Maharshi | Hindu sage, and a proponent of Advaita Vedanta. |
| * 1869 | Stephen Leacock | Canadian writer and economist. |
| * 1865 | Rudyard Kipling | British author and poet, born in India. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2004 | Artie Shaw | Considered to be one of the best jazz musicians of his time. |
| † 1967 | Vincent Massey | Canadian lawyer and diplomat who served as Governor General of Canada, the 18th since Canadian Confederation. |
| † 1947 | Alfred North Whitehead | British mathematician who became an American philosopher. |
| † 1944 | Romain Rolland | French writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 after the publication of his major work, Jean-Christophe. |
| † 1941 | El Lissitsky | More famous as El Lissitzky [??? ????????], was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer, and architect. |
| † 1896 | Jose Rizal | Filipino nationalist, doctor, writer, and polymath whose works and martyred death made him a hero of the Philippine Revolution. |
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