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| * 1987 | Karen Gillan | Scottish actress and former model who is most famous for her role as Amy Pond, the primary traveling companion of the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor in the British television series Doctor Who. |
| * 1957 | Kuruvilla Pandikattu | Indian priest, physicist and philosopher. |
| * 1952 | David Zindell | American science fiction and fantasy author with a degree in mathematics. |
| * 1948 | Alan Lightman | Physicist, novelist and essayist. |
| * 1944 | Rita Mae Brown | Prolific American writer who became famous with her first novel Rubyfruit Jungle; she is also a mystery writer and an Emmy-nominated screenwriter. |
| * 1942 | Eric Shinseki | 7th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs. |
| * 1936 | Philippe Sollers | French writer and critic. |
| * 1907 | Alberto Moravia | Born Alberto Pincherle, was an Italian fiction-writer, screenwriter and essayist. |
| * 1904 | James Eastland | United States Senator from Mississippi in 1941 and from 1943 to 1978. |
| * 1887 | Ernst Rohm | Career German military officer who was the co-founder and commander of the Nazi Sturmabteilung, often called simply the SA The leadership of SA was purged during the "Night of the Long Knives" in June 1934. |
| * 1881 | Stefan Zweig | Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. |
| * 1880 | Alexander Blok | Russian poet and dramatist, generally considered to be the greatest of the Russian Symbolists. |
| * 1864 | James Allen | English author and poet. |
| * 1832 | Leslie Stephen | – 1904-02-22) was an English writer on philosophy and literary history. |
| * 1820 | Friedrich Engels | 19th-century German political philosopher who developed communist theory alongside his better-known collaborator, Karl Marx, co-authoring The Communist Manifesto (1848). |
| * 1757 | William Blake | English poet, Christian mystic, painter, printmaker, and engraver. |
| * 1628 | John Bunyan | Christian writer and preacher, born at Harrowden, in the Parish of Elstow, England. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2012 | Zig Ziglar | American self-help author and speaker. |
| † 1994 | Jeffrey Dahmer | Notorious American serial killer, necrophiliac and cannibal, who murdered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. |
| † 1994 | Ian Serraillier | British novelist and poet, best known for his children's books, especially The Silver Sword (1956). |
| † 1976 | Rosalind Russell | Four-time Academy Award nominated and Tony Award winning American film and stage actress, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday. |
| † 1966 | Boris Podolsky | American physicist of Russian Jewish descent. |
| † 1960 | Richard Wright | African-American author of novels, short stories and non-fiction. |
| † 1954 | Enrico Fermi | Italian physicist, most noted for his work on beta decay, the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for the development of quantum theory. |
| † 1893 | Talbot Baines Reed | English writer who specialised in boys' school stories. |
| † 1878 | Orson Hyde | Leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and an original member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. |
| † 1859 | Washington Irving | American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century. |
| † 1695 | Anthony (or a Wood) Wood | English antiquary and diarist. |
| † 1694 | Matsuo Basho | Major Japanese poet, primarily known for his achievements in the haikai no renga and haiku forms, and his poetic diaries. |
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