Births | ||
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| * 1988 | Keshia Chante | Canadian singer-songwriter, actress, model and executive producer. |
| * 1971 | Tupac Shakur | American rapper and actor. |
| * 1969 | Robert Hurt | Republican politician who is the U S Congressional Representative for Virginia's 5th congressional district, serving since January 2011. |
| * 1966 | Phil Vischer | Writer, actor, animator, puppeteer, and the founder of Big Idea Productions, the company best known for bringing computer-animated vegetables to life in the popular VeggieTales series. |
| * 1951 | Roberto Duran | Professional boxer from Panama, and is generally regarded as one of the greatest lightweight boxers of all-time. |
| * 1938 | Joyce Carol Oates | American author and the Roger S Berlind Professor in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University, where she has taught since 1978. |
| * 1937 | Erich Segal | American author, screenwriter, and professor of Greek and Latin literature at Harvard University. |
| * 1927 | Robert (astronomer) Kraft | American astronomer who served as president of the American Astronomical Society (1974–1976) and of the International Astronomical Union (1997–2000). |
| * 1915 | John Tukey | American statistician. |
| * 1912 | Enoch Powell | British politician and Conservative Party MP between 1950 and February 1974, and an Ulster Unionist MP between October 1974 and 1987. |
| * 1896 | Murray Leinster | Nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history. |
| * 1880 | Alice Bailey | Born Alice LaTrobe Bateman, was a writer on spiritual, occult and religious themes. |
| * 1829 | Geronimo | Chiricahua Apache leader; usually known as Geronimo. |
| * 1723 | Adam Smith | Scottish born economist and philosopher, widely considered the father of modern economics. |
| * 1514 | John Cheke | English classical scholar and statesman, notable as the first Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge University. |
| * 1313 | Giovanni Boccaccio | Florentine poet and story-writer who helped to initiate the humanist movement. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2012 | Nayef bin Abdul Aziz | Interior minister of Saudi Arabia from 1975 to 2012. |
| † 1997 | Dal Stivens | Australian writer. |
| † 1986 | Diana (Lady Diana Manners) Cooper | British actress and author, wife of Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich, becoming Diana, Viscountess Norwich in 1951 — a title she is said to have abhorred, publicly declaring that she declined to be called "Lady Norwich" and would continue to use "Lady Diana Cooper". |
| † 1977 | Wernher von Braun | German rocket scientist and astronautics engineer who was one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Germany and the United States. |
| † 1977 | Benjamin W. Lee | Or Ben Lee, was a Korean-American theoretical physicist. |
| † 1960 | Francis Parker Yockey | American philosopher and polemicist, best known for his neo-Spenglerian book Imperium. |
| † 1925 | Chittaranjan Das | Indian lawyer and politician. |
| † 1886 | Edwin Percy Whipple | Literary critic and essayist from Massachusetts. |
| † 1872 | Norman (1812-1872) MacLeod | Scottish divine and miscellaneous writer, son of the Rev. |
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