Births | ||
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| * 1968 | Campbell Brown | American television news reporter, currently an anchor and political pundit for CNN and a former co-anchor of NBC's Weekend Today. |
| * 1961 | Boy George | English singer-songwriter. |
| * 1953 | Roberto Jefferson | Brazilian politician. |
| * 1950 | Rowan Williams | Formerly the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, metropolitan of the province of Canterbury, Primate of All England, senior archbishop of the Church of England and the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion. |
| * 1949 | Harry Turtledove | Historian and prolific novelist who has written historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction works. |
| * 1946 | Donald Trump | Business executive and the founder of Trump Organization of the USA, mainly involved in the premium American real estate segment. |
| * 1920 | Acharya Mahapragya | Tenth Acharya, supreme head of the Svetambar Terapanth sect of Jainism. |
| * 1908 | Kathleen Raine | British poet, critic, and independent scholar. |
| * 1907 | Rene Char | Born René-Émile Char, was a 20th century French poet, and a member of the French Resistance forces of World War II. |
| * 1899 | Yasunari Kawabata | Japanese short story writer and novelist known for his spare, lyrical, and subtly-shaded prose. |
| * 1834 | Richard Realf | British-born poet who lived in many places throughout the United States, and whose work was informed by these travels. |
| * 1811 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | American abolitionist and writer, most famous as the author of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. |
| * 1801 | Heber C. Kimball | Commonly known as Heber C Kimball, was a leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement. |
| * 1736 | Charles-Augustin de Coulomb | French physicist. |
| * 1713 | John Powell | Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2002 | June Jordan | African-American bisexual political activist, writer, poet, essayist, and teacher, born in Harlem, New York, to Jamaican immigrants. |
| † 1995 | Roger Zelazny | American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels. |
| † 1995 | Rory Gallagher | Singer-songwriter from Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland. |
| † 1986 | Jorge Luis Borges | Argentine writer who is considered one of the foremost literary figures of the 20th century. |
| † 1961 | Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan | Indian physicist. |
| † 1936 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton | British writer whose prolific and diverse output included works of philosophy, ontology, poetry, play writing, journalism, public lecturing and debating, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction. |
| † 1936 | Maxim Gorky | Known primarily by his pen name, Maxim Gorky [?????? ???????], was a Russian writer and political activist. |
| † 1927 | Jerome K. Jerome | English author, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat. |
| † 1923 | Aleksandar Stamboliyski | Prime minister of Bulgaria from 1919 until 1923. |
| † 1920 | Max Weber | German sociologist and political economist. |
| † 1894 | John Coleridge | British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician. |
| † 1883 | Edward FitzGerald | Born Edward Marlborough Purcell, was an English writer, best known as the poet of the first and most famous English translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. |
| † 1837 | Giacomo Leopardi | Italian poet and philosophical writer. |
| † 1801 | Benedict Arnold | Originally fought for American independence from the British Empire as a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War until he obtained command of the American fort at West Point, New York and, switching sides, plotted unsuccessfully to surrender it to the British. |
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