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Births
1886 – Rex Stout, American author (d. 1975)
1935 – Woody Allen, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1940 – Richard Pryor, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2005)
1942 – John Crowley, American author and academic
1944 – Eric Bloom, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Blue Öyster Cult)
1944 – John Densmore, American drummer and songwriter (The Doors and the Butts Band)
1945 – Bette Midler, American singer-songwriter, actress and producer
1964 – Jo Walton, Welsh-Canadian author and poet
1966 – Andrew Adamson, New Zealand director, producer, and screenwriter