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| * 1977 | Chris Martin | Lead singer, pianist and occasional rhythm guitarist of the popular rock band Coldplay. |
| * 1971 | Dave Gorman | English author, humorist, filmmaker and radio presenter. |
| * 1970 | Matt Taibbi | American journalist. |
| * 1962 | Jon Bon Jovi | American singer, musician, businessman and actor. |
| * 1953 | Russ Feingold | US politician, Senator from Wisconsin. |
| * 1952 | David Blanchflower | Former member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee. |
| * 1949 | JPR Williams | Known universally as J P R Williams, played rugby union for Wales between 1969 and 1981. |
| * 1948 | Rory Gallagher | Singer-songwriter from Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland. |
| * 1943 | Jackson C. Frank | American singer/songwriter. |
| * 1942 | Lou Reed | Influential American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. |
| * 1942 | John Irving | American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. |
| * 1942 | Mir-Hossein Mousavi | Iranian reformist politician, painter and architect who served as the fifth and last Prime Minister of the Islamic republic of Iran from 1981 to 1989. |
| * 1931 | Mikhail Gorbachev | Leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. |
| * 1931 | Tom Wolfe | Known as Tom Wolfe, is a best-selling American author and journalist. |
| * 1926 | Murray Rothbard | American economist and political author. |
| * 1904 | Dr. Seuss | Better known by his pen name, Dr Seuss, was an American writer and cartoonist most famous for his children's books. |
| * 1902 | Edward Condon | Distinguished nuclear physicist, a pioneer in quantum mechanics, a participant in the development of radar and nuclear weapons in World War II, research director of Corning Glass, director of the National Bureau of Standards, and president of the American Physical Society (as well as, late in his life, professor of physics at the University of Colorado. |
| * 1880 | Mitsumasa Yonai | Admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and politician. |
| * 1876 | Pope Pius XII | Pope from March 1939 until his death. |
| * 1832 | William Croswell Doane | First Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany in the United States, from 1869 until his death in 1913. |
| * 1829 | Carl Schurz | German revolutionist, American statesman and reformer, and Union Army general in the American Civil War. |
| * 1817 | Janos Arany | Hungarian writer and poet. |
| * 1705 | William Murray Mansfield | Better known as Lord Mansfield, was a British barrister, politician and judge noted for his reform of English law. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2008 | Frederick Seitz | American physicist and a pioneer of solid state physics. |
| † 1998 | Henry Steele Commager | American historian and teacher. |
| † 1982 | Philip Kindred - a.k.a. PKD Dick | American science fiction writer. |
| † 1946 | Logan Pearsall Smith | American essayist and critic. |
| † 1945 | Emily Carr | Canadian artist and writer. |
| † 1939 | Howard Carter | English archaeologist and Egyptologist. |
| † 1930 | D. H. Lawrence | One of the most important English writers of the 20th century. |
| † 1895 | John Stuart Blackie | Scottish scholar and man of letters. |
| † 1895 | Berthe Morisot | Painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. |
| † 1877 | 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. |
| † 1840 | Heinrich Wilhelm Matthaus Olbers | German physician and astronomer. |
| † 1797 | Horace Walpole | More commonly known as Horace Walpole, was a British politician and writer, noted for his collected letters and for having written the first Gothic horror novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764). |
| † 1791 | John Wesley | English preacher, and founder of the Methodist movement. |
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