Births | ||
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| * 1984 | Kid Cudi | Better known by his stage name Kid Cudi, sometimes stylized as KiD CuDi, is an American rapper, singer and actor. |
| * 1970 | Brian Vaszily | Author, public speaker, and columnist. |
| * 1951 | Phil Collins | Better known as Phil Collins, is a British rock/pop musician. |
| * 1949 | Peter Agre | American biologist and winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, shared with Roderick MacKinnon. |
| * 1941 | Dick Cheney | 46th Vice President of the United States, serving under President George W Bush. |
| * 1941 | Gregory Benford | American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. |
| * 1937 | Boris Spassky | Chess grandmaster and tenth World Chess Champion (1969–1972). |
| * 1937 | Vanessa Redgrave | Oscar, Tony and Emmy Award winning English actress of stage, film and television and political activist. |
| * 1935 | Richard Brautigan | American novelist and poet associated with the Beat Generation. |
| * 1934 | Asher Peres | Israeli physicist, considered a pioneer in quantum information theory. |
| * 1933 | Louis Rukeyser | American financial columnist and television commentator. |
| * 1931 | Ernie Banks | Better known as Ernie Banks, is an American former Major League Baseball player who played with the Chicago Cubs (1953–1971). |
| * 1927 | Olof Palme | Swedish Social Democratic politician. |
| * 1925 | Douglas Engelbart | American inventor of Norwegian descent, and winner of the 1997 Turing Award. |
| * 1924 | Lloyd Alexander | Widely-influential American author of more than forty books, mostly fantasy novels for children and adolescents, as well as several adult books. |
| * 1915 | Joachim Peiper | More often known as Jochen Peiper from the common German nickname for Joachim, was a senior Waffen-SS officer in World War II and a convicted war criminal. |
| * 1912 | Barbara Tuchman | Award-winning American historian and author. |
| * 1912 | Francis Schaeffer | American Evangelical Christian theologian, philosopher, and Presbyterian pastor. |
| * 1909 | Saul Alinsky | American activist and writer. |
| * 1902 | Nikolaus Pevsner | German-born historian of art and architecture. |
| * 1894 | Boris III of Bulgaria | Bulgarian tsar and the last monarch to rule Bulgaria (from 1918 to 1943; his son was tsar from 1943 to 1946 but was a child). |
| * 1866 | Gelett Burgess | American artist, art critic, poet, author and humourist. |
| * 1846 | F. H. Bradley | British idealist philosopher. |
| * 1799 | Thomas Cogswell Upham | American philosopher, psychologist, pacifist, poet, author, and educator who became an important figure in the holiness movement. |
| * 1775 | Walter Savage Landor | English prose-writer on themes drawn from literary history, a verse-dramatist, and a poet. |
| * 1772 | Godfrey Higgins | Archaeologist, Freemason, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, humanist, social reformer, and author of various now-esoteric and rare books, most famously the religious study, the Anacalypsis. |
| * 1628 | George Villiers | English dramatist, poet, politician, wit and rake. |
| * 1628 | George Villiers Buckingham | English dramatist, poet, politician, wit and rake. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2006 | Wendy Wasserstein | Award-winning American playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. |
| † 2005 | Margaret Hughes | Sportswriter. |
| † 1998 | Lesslie Newbigin | Christian theologian and bishop involved in missiology and the Gospel & Our Culture Movement. |
| † 1995 | Gerald Durrell | Naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter, most famous for founding what is know called the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust on the Channel Island of Jersey and for writing a number of books based on his animal-collecting and conservation expeditions. |
| † 1991 | John Bardeen | American physicist. |
| † 1982 | Stanley Holloway | English stage and film actor, comedian, singer, poet and monologist. |
| † 1961 | Dorothy Thompson | American journalist. |
| † 1948 | Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi | Commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi. |
| † 1891 | Charles Bradlaugh | Political activist and one of the most famous English atheists of the 19th century. |
| † 1888 | Mary Howitt | English poet, and author of the famous poem The Spider and the Fly. |
| † 1649 | Charles I of England | King of England, Scotland and Ireland from March 27, 1625 until his execution in 1649. |
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