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| * 1980 | Ronaldinho | Commonly known as Ronaldinho, is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays as an attacking midfielder for Atletico Mineiro and the Brazilian national team. |
| * 1978 | Rani Mukerji | Indian actress who works in Bollywood movies. |
| * 1975 | Bethany Kennedy Scanlon | Author of Christian fiction, and public lecturer. |
| * 1963 | Shawn Lane | American musician. |
| * 1962 | Mark Waid | Eisner Award-winning American comic book writer. |
| * 1960 | Ayrton Senna | Brazilian racing driver and three-time Formula One world champion. |
| * 1958 | Gary Oldman | English actor, born in London. |
| * 1956 | Teresa Nielsen Hayden | American science fiction editor, fanzine writer, essayist, and teacher. |
| * 1949 | Slavoj Zizek | Slovenian sociologist, philosopher and cultural critic. |
| * 1947 | Terry Dowling | Sydney, New South Wales), is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor,. |
| * 1946 | Timothy Dalton | Welsh-born British actor of stage and screen, famous for being chosen as the fourth official James Bond. |
| * 1946 | Ali Abdullah Saleh | Has been the president of Yemen since 1990. |
| * 1943 | Vivian Stanshall | Born Victor Anthony Stanshall, was an English singer-songwriter, painter, musician, author, poet and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, for his surreal exploration of the British upper classes in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, and for narrating Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells. |
| * 1932 | Walter Gilbert | American physicist, biochemist, entrepreneur, and molecular biology pioneer. |
| * 1925 | Peter Brook | British theatre and film director and innovator. |
| * 1923 | Mataji Nirmala Srivastava | Founder of Sahaja Yoga. |
| * 1887 | Lajos Kassak | Hungarian poet, novelist and painter. |
| * 1880 | Hans Hofmann | One of the older abstract expressionist painters working in New York. |
| * 1865 | Herbert Fisher | English historian, educator, and Liberal politician. |
| * 1861 | Albert Chevalier | English comedian, actor and songwriter. |
| * 1806 | Benito Juarez | Known primarily as Benito Juαrez, was a Mexican politician; a full-blooded Zapotec, he became the first indigenous national to serve as President of Mexico, from 1861 to 1863 and from 1867 to 1872. |
| * 1768 | Joseph Fourier | French mathematician and physicist who is best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series and their application to problems of heat flow. |
| * 1763 | Jean Paul | Influential German novelist and short-story writer. |
| * 0 | Modest Mussorgsky | Russian composer who, along with the other members of the Five, created a Russian nationalist form of classical music. |
Deaths | ||
| 2013 | Chinua Achebe | Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic. |
| 1928 | Edward Walter Maunder | English astronomer best remembered for his study of sunspots and the solar magnetic cycle that led to his identification of the period from 1645 to 1715 that is now known as the Maunder Minimum. |
| 1901 | William (minister) Arthur | Wesleyan Methodist minister. |
| 1883 | George Jessel | British judge. |
| 1870 | Edward Thomson | American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1864. |
| 1866 | Nadezhda Durova | Also known as Alexander Durov, Alexander Sokolov and Alexander Andreevich Alexandrov, was a woman who became a decorated soldier in the Russian cavalry during the Napoleonic wars. |
| 1843 | Robert Southey | English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called Lake Poets, and Poet Laureate. |
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