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| * 1981 | Justin Timberlake | American pop singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor. |
| * 1979 | Daniel Tammet | British high-functioning autistic savant gifted with a facility for mathematical and natural language learning. |
| * 1975 | Preity Zinta | Indian actress who appears in Bollywood movies. |
| * 1969 | Dov Charney | CEO of the garment company American Apparel, which employed about 5,000 people in 2005. |
| * 1962 | Nick DiPaolo | Stand-up comedian and writer. |
| * 1960 | Grant Morrison | Scottish comics writer whose writing includes The Invisibles (1994–2000) and The Filth (2003). |
| * 1956 | John Lydon | English rock musician also known as Johnny Rotten, the name he used when lead singer of seminal punk group the Sex Pistols. |
| * 1949 | Ken Wilber | American author who writes on psychology, philosophy, mysticism, ecology, and spiritual evolution. |
| * 1949 | Johan Derksen | Dutch sports journalist and TV football pundit for the RTL7. |
| * 1942 | Derek Jarman | British film director, stage designer, artist, and writer. |
| * 1941 | Dick Gephardt | Served as a U S Representative from Missouri from January 3, 1977, until January 3, 2005. |
| * 1938 | James G. Watt | 43rd United States Secretary of the Interior; he served from January 23, 1981 to November 8, 1983. |
| * 1935 | Kenzaburo Oe | Japanese author and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. |
| * 1929 | Jean Simmons | English actress. |
| * 1925 | Isidore Isou | Born Ioan-Isidor Goldstein, was a Romanian-born French poet, film critic and visual artist. |
| * 1923 | Norman Mailer | American novelist, journalist, playwright, screenwriter and film director who is considered to have been innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism. |
| * 1919 | Jackie Robinson | Baseball player who became the first African-American Major League Baseball player of the modern era in 1947. |
| * 1915 | Thomas Merton | One of the most influential Catholic authors of the 20th century. |
| * 1902 | Tallulah Bankhead | American actress, talk-show host and bon vivant. |
| * 1893 | Freya Stark | British travel writer, born in Paris; her mother, Flora, was an Italian of Polish/German descent, her father, Robert, an English painter from Devon. |
| * 1881 | Irving Langmuir | American chemist and physicist. |
| * 1845 | John Henry Boner | American editor and poet. |
| * 1830 | James G. Blaine | U S Representative, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, U S Senator from Maine, two-time United States Secretary of State, and champion of the Half-Breeds. |
| * 1797 | Franz Schubert | Austrian composer. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2007 | Molly Ivins | American journalist specializing in Texas politics and culture, and in national politics. |
| † 2006 | Coretta Scott King | Civil rights activist, author, and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| † 2005 | Kenny Young | Noted American Ufologist and television producer, most famous for his research into police UFO sightings in the state of Ohio. |
| † 1974 | Samuel Goldwyn | Major producer of motion pictures. |
| † 1972 | Matvei Zakharov | Marshal of the Soviet Union, Chief General Staff, and Deputy Defense Minister, served under Kliment Voroshilov during the Russian Civil War. |
| † 1969 | Meher Baba | Indian mystic who publicly declared in 1954 that he was the Avatar of the age. |
| † 1967 | Poul Henningsen | Danish author, architect and critic, was one of the leading figures of the cultural life of Denmark between the World Wars. |
| † 1956 | A. A. Milne | English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems. |
| † 1944 | Jean Giraudoux | French dramatist. |
| † 1933 | John Galsworthy | English novelist and playwright. |
| † 1892 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | British Baptist minister and writer. |
| † 1606 | Guy Fawkes | English soldier and a member of a group of Roman Catholic conspirators who attempted to carry out the Gunpowder Plot to assassinate King James I of England and the members of both houses of the Parliament of England with a huge explosion, which was prevented by his arrest on 5 November 1605. |
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