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| * 1982 | Michael Cammalleri | Professional ice hockey player currently playing for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League. |
| * 1977 | Kanye West | American record producer and hip-hop artist based in Chicago, Illinois. |
| * 1971 | Mark Feuerstein | American film and television actor. |
| * 1970 | Gabrielle Giffords | American politician, serving as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Arizona's 8th congressional district from 2007 to 2012. |
| * 1957 | Scott Adams | American cartoonist and satirist, best known for his Dilbert series of comic strips and books. |
| * 1955 | Tim Berners-Lee | Inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees its continued development. |
| * 1947 | Eric F. Wieschaus | American developmental biologist, 1995 Nobel Laureate for Medicine. |
| * 1936 | Robert W Floyd | American computer scientist, and winner of the 1978 Turing Award. |
| * 1928 | Gustavo Gutierrez | Peruvian theologian and Dominican priest regarded as the founder of Liberation Theology. |
| * 1925 | Barbara Bush | Wife of 41st U S President George H W Bush and mother of 43rd U S President George W Bush. |
| * 1917 | Byron White | Won fame both as a football running back and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. |
| * 1916 | Francis Crick | British physicist, molecular biologist and neuroscientist, most noted for being one of the co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953. |
| * 1910 | John W. Campbell | Influential American science fiction editor and writer, known for his challenges to writers. |
| * 1903 | Marguerite Yourcenar | Belgian-born French novelist who wrote under the pseudonym Marguerite Yourcenar. |
| * 1867 | Frank Lloyd Wright | American architect. |
| * 1859 | Smith Wigglesworth | British Pentecostal preacher and faith healer. |
| * 1814 | Charles Reade | English novelist and dramatist. |
| * 1810 | Robert Schumann | German composer and pianist. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2007 | Richard Rorty | American philosopher and pragmatist. |
| † 2000 | Jeff MacNelly | Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and the creator of the popular comic strip Shoe. |
| † 1982 | Satchel Paige | American baseball player whose pitching in the Negro leagues and in Major League Baseball made him a legend in his own lifetime. |
| † 1975 | Murray Leinster | Nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history. |
| † 1970 | Abraham Maslow | American psychologist who pioneered humanistic psychology and developed ideas related to a hierarchy of needs. |
| † 1951 | Paul Blobel | SS-Standartenführer and a member of the SD Blobel was primarily responsible for the Babi Yar massacre at Kiev. |
| † 1929 | Bliss Carman | Preeminent Canadian poet. |
| † 1889 | Gerard Manley Hopkins | Jesuit priest and English poet whose posthumous, 20th-century fame established him among the finest Victorian poets. |
| † 1888 | James Freeman Clarke | American preacher and author. |
| † 1884 | Henry Clay Work | American composer and songwriter. |
| † 1876 | George Sand | Most famous under her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist and a pioneer of feminism. |
| † 1874 | Patrick Matthew | Scottish landowner and fruit farmer. |
| † 1857 | Douglas William Jerrold | English dramatist and writer. |
| † 1845 | Andrew Jackson | Seventh President of the United States (1829-1837), hero of the Battle of New Orleans (1815), a founder of the Democratic Party, and the eponym of the era of Jacksonian democracy. |
| † 1809 | Thomas Paine | English-American political writer, theorist, and activist who had a great influence on the thoughts and ideas which led to the American Revolution and the United States Declaration of Independence. |
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