Births | ||
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| * 1981 | Natasha Bedingfield | British pop singer and songwriter. |
| * 1970 | John Amaechi | Retired English NBA basketball player who currently works as a broadcaster and political activist in the United Kingdom. |
| * 1966 | Merlin Mann | Author, speaker, and productivity consultant best known for Inbox Zero and the website 43 Folders. |
| * 1948 | Dennis Ross | American diplomat and author. |
| * 1939 | Abdullah Ahmad Badawi | Has been the prime minister of Malaysia since 2003. |
| * 1935 | Celia Green | British philosopher and author. |
| * 1922 | Charles M. Schulz | American cartoonist, the creator of the comic strip Peanuts. |
| * 1909 | Eugene Ionesco | Born Eugen Ionescu, was a French-Romanian playwright and dramatist, one of the foremost playwrights of Theatre of the Absurd. |
| * 1905 | Emlyn Williams | Known as Emlyn Williams, was a Welsh dramatist and actor. |
| * 1894 | Norbert Wiener | U S mathematician, and a pioneer in the study of stochastic processes and noise especially in the field of electronic communication and control systems. |
| * 1827 | Ellen G. White | Pioneer of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and a prolific writer on religious matters. |
| * 1792 | Sarah Grimke | Abolitionist, attorney, judge, and feminist. |
| * 1731 | William Cowper | English poet and hymnodist. |
| * 1566 | Francesco Bracciolini | Italian poet. |
Deaths | ||
| † 2008 | Edwin Ernest Salpeter | Austrian-Australian-American astrophysicist. |
| † 1999 | Ashley Montagu | British-American anthropologist and humanist who wrote about issues such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development. |
| † 1981 | Max Euwe | Dutch chess player. |
| † 1980 | Rachel Roberts | British actress. |
| † 1974 | Cyril Connolly | English author, editor and critic. |
| † 1896 | Coventry Patmore | English poet and critic. |
| † 1855 | Adam Mickiewicz | Polish writer and poet, considered by many to be the greatest Polish Romantic poet of the 19th century. |
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