Births | ||
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| * 1965 | Trent Reznor | American musician and the founder of the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. |
| * 1962 | Craig Ferguson | Scottish-born actor/comedian and current host of The Late Late Show. |
| * 1961 | Enya | Birth name Eithne Ní Bhraonáin, is Ireland's best-selling solo musician. |
| * 1956 | Bob Saget | American actor, stand-up comedian, and television host. |
| * 1956 | Dave Sim | Canadian comic book writer and artist, best known as the creator of the 6,000 page graphic novel Cerebus the Aardvark. |
| * 1956 | Sugar Ray Leonard | American former professional boxer. |
| * 1946 | F. Paul Wilson | American author who writes novels and short stories primarily in the science fiction and horror genres. |
| * 1940 | Alan Kay | American computer scientist known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design. |
| * 1935 | Dennis Potter | Controversial English dramatist who is best known for several widely acclaimed television dramas which mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social. |
| * 1931 | Peter (artist) Schmidt | British artist, painter, pioneering multimedia exhibitor, and an influential teacher. |
| * 1929 | Jill Johnston | American feminist author and cultural critic. |
| * 1925 | Idi Amin | Ugandan military officer and the President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. |
| * 1920 | Harriet Van Horne | American newspaper columnist and film/television critic. |
| * 1909 | Julius Sumner Miller | American science popularizer. |
| * 1873 | Henri Barbusse | French novelist, journalist and communist. |
| * 1827 | Ellen Clementine Howarth | Born Ellen Clementine Doran in Cooperstown, New York, was an American poet. |
| * 1805 | Robert Smith Surtees | English journalist, comic novelist and writer on field sports. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2010 | Bobbejaan Schoepen | Pseudonym of Modest Schoepen, was a Belgian musician. |
| † 2007 | Lloyd Alexander | Widely-influential American author of more than forty books, mostly fantasy novels for children and adolescents, as well as several adult books. |
| † 1981 | Jeannette Piccard | American aeronaut who pioneered balloon flight, a teacher, scientist and priest. |
| † 1913 | William Croswell Doane | First Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany in the United States, from 1869 until his death in 1913. |
| † 1838 | Charles Maurice de (a.k.a. Talleyrand) Talleyrand-Perigord | French diplomat. |
| † 1829 | John Jay | American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat and jurist. |
| † 1812 | Matthew Lewis | English novelist, poet, playwright, translator and Member of Parliament. |
| † 1797 | Michel-Jean Sedaine | French dramatist, was born at Paris. |
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