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| * 1989 | Corbin Bleu | Primarily known as Corbin Bleu, is an American actor, model, dancer and vocalist, he has acted in High School Musical, Flight 29 Down, Hannah Montana, The Beautiful Life. |
| * 1973 | Jacob M. Appel | American author best known for his short stories, plays, and for his work as a bioethicist. |
| * 1969 | James Dean Bradfield | Singer and guitarist, known for his work in the Manic Street Preachers. |
| * 1962 | David Foster Wallace | American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. |
| * 1962 | Chuck Palahniuk | American satirical novelist and freelance journalist. |
| * 1955 | Kelsey Grammer | American actor, television director, and writer. |
| * 1951 | William McDonough | American architect and founding principal of William McDonough + Partners, whose career is focused on designing environmentally sustainable buildings and transforming industrial manufacturing processes, with the twin goals of eliminating pollution and increasing the profits of his clients. |
| * 1940 | John Lewis | American politician. |
| * 1937 | Harald V of Norway | King of Norway. |
| * 1924 | Robert Mugabe | President of Zimbabwe and the leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union or ZANU-PF He was previously the Prime Minister from 1980 to 1987 and a leader of nationalist forces in the Second Chimurenga from 1964 to 1979. |
| * 1921 | John Rawls | American philosopher, a professor of political philosophy at Harvard University. |
| * 1915 | Evgeny Lifshitz | Leading Soviet physicist from a Jewish origin and the brother of Ilya Mikhailovich Lifshitz. |
| * 1910 | Douglas Bader | Royal Air Force fighter ace during the Second World War. |
| * 1910 | Aron Brand Auraban | Born in Ozorkσw, Poland, was an Israeli paediatric cardiologist. |
| * 1907 | Wystan Hugh Auden | Anglo-American poet noted for his vast poetic work in many forms on many themes. |
| * 1903 | Anais Nin | Born Angela Anais Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, was a French-born author of Spanish, Cuban, and Danish descent who became famous for her published journals, which span more than sixty years, and for her erotica. |
| * 1885 | Sacha Guitry | Russian-born French film actor, director, and screenwriter. |
| * 1801 | John Henry Cardinal Newman | English convert to Catholicism, later made a cardinal. |
| * 1608 | Raimondo Montecuccoli | Italian military general who also served as general for the Austrians, and was also a prince of the Holy Roman Empire and Neapolitan Duke of Melfi. |
Deaths | ||
| 1991 | Margot Fonteyn | British ballet dancer, born Margaret Hookham, and nicknamed "Peggy". |
| 1965 | Malcolm X | American black nationalist leader. |
| 1965 | Malcolm (Malcolm Little) X | American black nationalist leader. |
| 1831 | Robert Hall | English Baptist minister. |
| 1823 | Charles Wolfe | Irish poet. |
| 1677 | Baruch Spinoza | Social and metaphysical philosopher famous for the elaborate development of his monist philosophy, which has become known as Spinozism. |
| 1595 | Robert Southwell | English poet, a Jesuit priest, and a martyr for the Catholic faith. |
| 1437 | James I of Scotland | King of Scots from 1406 until his death. |
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