Births | ||
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| * 1981 | Alessandra Ambrosio | Brazilian supermodel. |
| * 1968 | Sergei Lukyanenko | Science fiction and fantasy author, writing in Russian, and is arguably the most popular contemporary Russian Sci-Fi writer. |
| * 1962 | Vincent Gallo | American film actor, director, producer, screenwriter, singer-songwriter, and painter. |
| * 1960 | Jeremy Clarkson | English broadcaster and journalist who specialises in motoring. |
| * 1953 | Andrew Wiles | English mathematician at Oxford University in number theory. |
| * 1949 | Dorothy Allison | American lesbian writer, speaker, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. |
| * 1945 | Winston Peters | New Zealand politician and then was a Minister. |
| * 1941 | Ellen Goodman | American journalist and Pulitzer prize winner for Distinguished Commentary (1980). |
| * 1935 | Richard Kuklinski | Convicted murderer and notorious contract killer. |
| * 1930 | Anton LaVey | Satanist author and the founder of Church of Satan. |
| * 1908 | Leo Rosten | American teacher, academic and humorist best remembered for his stories about the night-school "prodigy" Hyman Kaplan and for The Joys of Yiddish (1968). |
| * 1893 | Dean Acheson | United States Secretary of State under President Harry S Truman. |
| * 1893 | John Nash | English painter, illustrator, and engraver. |
| * 1872 | Aleksander Stavre Drenova | Best known under his pen name Asdreni, was one of the most well-known Albanian poets. |
| * 1862 | Charles Evans Hughes | Republican politician and jurist who served as Governor of New York, United States Secretary of State, Associate Justice and Chief Justice of the United States. |
| * 1857 | John Davidson | Scottish journalist, playwright, fiction-writer and translator, but is best remembered as a poet. |
| * 1794 | Edward Everett | As an American politician and orator, who served as a US Congressman, US Senator, Governor of Massachusetts, US Secretary of State, and as President of Harvard University. |
| * 1770 | George Canning | British statesman and politician who served as Foreign Secretary and, briefly, Prime Minister. |
| * 1722 | Christopher Smart | Otherwise known as "Kit Smart", "Kitty Smart", and "Jack Smart", was an English poet. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2009 | Judith Krug | American librarian, supporter of freedom of speech, and prominent critic against censorship. |
| † 2007 | Kurt Vonnegut | American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction. |
| † 2003 | Cecil Howard Green | British-born American geophysicist, founder of Texas Instruments. |
| † 2001 | Harry Secombe | Welsh comedian and singer, most famous for his role as Neddy Seagoon, the pivotal character in the Goon Show. |
| † 1987 | Primo Levi | Italian chemist and author of memoirs, short stories, poems and novels. |
| † 1985 | Enver Hoxha | Communist leader of Albania from the end of World War II until his death in 1985. |
| † 1985 | Susan Ertz | English fiction writer and novelist. |
| † 1977 | Jacques Prevert | French poet and screenwriter. |
| † 1959 | Eric Blom | Swiss-born British music critic and lexicographer. |
| † 1939 | S. S. Van Dine | American art critic and author. |
| † 1906 | Francis Pharcellus Church | American publisher and editor, most famous for his editorial reply to 8 year old Virginia O'Hanlon, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus". |
| † 1890 | Joseph Merrick | English entertainer, who became famous as "The Elephant Man". |
| † 1884 | Charles Reade | English novelist and dramatist. |
| † 1839 | John Galt | Scottish writer, businessman and colonial administrator. |
| † 1828 | Edward Coote Pinkney | American poet, lawyer, sailor, professor, and editor. |
| † 0 | Jessica Dubroff | Seven-year-old pilot trainee who died attempting to become the youngest person to fly an airplane across the United States. |
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