Births | ||
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| * 1969 | Jennifer Lopez | Also known as J Lo, is an American actress, singer, fashion designer and dancer. |
| * 1951 | John Burdett | British crime novelist. |
| * 1949 | Michael Richards | American actor, three-time Emmy Award winner, writer, television producer, and comedian, best known for playing Cosmo Kramer on the television show Seinfeld, which aired from 1989-07-05 to 1998-05-14 on NBC. |
| * 1946 | Gallagher (Leo Anthony Gallagher) | American comedian and prop comic, most popularly known for smashing watermelons as part of his act. |
| * 1940 | Stanley Hauerwas | Christian theologian and ethicist. |
| * 1938 | Eugene J. Martin | African American visual artist. |
| * 1923 | Roland W. Schmitt | Physicist, business executive and the nineteenth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. |
| * 1920 | Bella Abzug | Well-known American political figure, a leader of the women's movement, and a member of the United States House of Representatives. |
| * 1916 | John D. MacDonald | Writing as John D MacDonald, was an American writer best known for his series of detective novels featuring protagonist Travis McGee. |
| * 1897 | Amelia Earhart | American aviator and noted early female pilot. |
| * 1895 | Robert Graves | Prolific English poet, scholar and novelist. |
| * 1878 | Edward Plunkett Dunsany | Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist, best known for his works of fantasy. |
| * 1874 | Oswald Chambers | Prominent early twentieth century Scottish Protestant Christian minister and teacher. |
| * 1819 | Josiah Gilbert Holland | Novelist and poet who helped to found and edit Scribner's Monthly, in which appeared his novels, Arthur Bonnicastle, The Story of Sevenoaks, Nicholas Minturn. |
| * 1802 | Alexandre Dumas | French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him the most widely read French author in the world. |
| * 1783 | Simon Bolivar | South American revolutionary leader. |
| * 1725 | John Newton | British slave trader who later became an abolitionist and converted to Christianity. |
Deaths | ||
| † 1991 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | Polish-American writer of short stories and novels in Yiddish; he used his mother's name in devising his penname "Bashevis". |
| † 1980 | Peter Sellers | Most famous under his stage name Peter Sellers, was a British comedian and actor. |
| † 1957 | Sacha Guitry | Russian-born French film actor, director, and screenwriter. |
| † 1862 | Martin Van Buren | Nicknamed Old Kinderhook, was the eighth President of the United States. |
| † 1655 | Friedrich von Logau | German epigrammatist. |
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