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| * 1973 | Neil Patrick Harris | American actor of the stage and screen, singer and dancer. |
| * 1964 | Courteney Cox | American actress, best known for her role in the long-running television series Friends. |
| * 1953 | Xi Jinping | Current General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, President of the People's Republic of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, serving as the Paramount leader of the People's Republic of China. |
| * 1947 | Alain Aspect | French physicist who performed the crucial "Bell test experiments" that showed that Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen's "spooky action at a distance", did in fact appear to be realised when two particles were separated by an arbitrarily large distance. |
| * 1937 | Waylon Jennings | American country music singer, songwriter, and musician. |
| * 1935 | David Hull | Philosopher with a particular interest in the Philosophy of biology. |
| * 1932 | Mario Cuomo | American lawyer and New York State Democratic Party politician. |
| * 1931 | Budd Hopkins | Central figure in abduction phenomenon and related UFO research. |
| * 1922 | Morris Udall | Better known as "Mo", was an American politician. |
| * 1916 | Herbert Simon | American political scientist whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, computer science, public administration, economics, management, philosophy of science and sociology and was a professor, most notably, at Carnegie Mellon University. |
| * 1902 | Erik Erikson | Danish-German-American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on social development of human beings, and for coining the phrase identity crisis. |
| * 1881 | William McFee | British writer. |
| * 1860 | Charles Monro | British Army General during World War I and Governor of Gibraltar from 1923 to 1929. |
| * 1835 | Adah Isaacs Menken | American actress, painter and poet. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2004 | Richard Davisson | American physicist. |
| † 2003 | Pierre Bourgault | Politician and essayist in Quebec, Canada, and a public speaker who advocated Quebec independence. |
| † 1938 | Ernst Ludwig Kirchner | German expressionist painter and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke. |
| † 1932 | Dorothy Frances Gurney | English poet and hymnwriter. |
| † 1849 | James K. Polk | Eleventh President of the United States. |
| † 1844 | Thomas Campbell | Scottish poet, who served as Lord Rector of Glasgow University (1826–1829). |
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