Births | ||
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| * 1986 | Megan Fox | American actress and model. |
| * 1979 | Brian Viglione | Drummer for The Dresden Dolls and New York City's swing-punk orchestra, The World/Inferno Friendship Society. |
| * 1969 | David Boreanaz | American actor. |
| * 1966 | Janet Jackson | African-American R&B/pop singer, actress and the younger sister of Michael Jackson. |
| * 1961 | Richard Carlson | Author and motivational speaker who became famous with his best-selling book Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff…and it’s all Small Stuff (1997). |
| * 1931 | Peter Levi | Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. |
| * 1929 | Adrienne Rich | American feminist, poet, teacher, and writer. |
| * 1928 | Billy Martin | MLB second baseman from 1950 to 1961, playing most of his career with the New York Yankees. |
| * 1925 | Bobbejaan Schoepen | Pseudonym of Modest Schoepen, was a Belgian musician. |
| * 1925 | John Ziman | Scientist, and later a philosopher specialising in the philosophy of science. |
| * 1912 | Studs Terkel | American author, historian and broadcaster. |
| * 1909 | Margaret Sullavan | American stage and film actress. |
| * 1905 | Henry Fonda | American film and stage actor best known for his roles in such films as The Grapes of Wrath, 12 Angry Men and On Golden Pond. |
| * 1898 | Jean Fautrier | French painter and sculptor. |
| * 1801 | William H. Seward | Governor of New York, United States Senator and United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2010 | Ronnie James Dio | Better known as Ronnie James Dio, was an Italian-American metal musician, best known as vocalist of 'Rainbow', 'Black Sabbath', 'Dio', and later 'Heaven and Hell'. |
| † 2007 | Mary Douglas | British anthropologist, known for her writings on human culture and symbolism. |
| † 1988 | Charles Keeping | British illustrator, children's book author and lithographer. |
| † 1944 | George Ade | American writer, newspaper columnist, and playwright. |
| † 1928 | Edmund Gosse | English poet, author and critic. |
| † 1906 | Edward (bishop of Exeter) Bickersteth | Bishop in the Church of England. |
| † 1844 | Asahel Nettleton | American theologian and pastor from Connecticut who was highly influential during the Second Great Awakening. |
| † 1835 | Felicia Hemans | English poet. |
| † 1830 | Joseph Fourier | French mathematician and physicist who is best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series and their application to problems of heat flow. |
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