| Event | Source | Birth | Death | Name | Description | Image |
|---|
| born | bornToday | 1981 | | Alicia Keys | US singer |  |
| born | bornToday | 1783 | 1857 | William Colgate | English farmer, politician and sympathiser with the American War of Independence and French Revolution. Colgate formed a partnership with Ralph Maher to manufacture soap and candles. |  |
| born | bornToday | 1975 | | Mia Kirshner | Canadian actress, writer and social activist who works in movies and television series. |  |
| born | bornToday | 1969 | | Ashwin Sanghi | Indian Author |  |
| born | bornToday | 1979 | | Christine Lakin | US Actress |  |
| born | bornToday | 1933 | 2009 | Corazon Aquino | Statesman |  |
| born | bornToday | 1938 | 2012 | Etta James | US Musician |  |
| born | bornToday | 1950 | | Gloria Naylor | US Novelist |  |
| born | bornToday | 1950 | | Jean-Marc Ayrault | French Politician |  |
| born | bornToday | 1970 | | Marcus Samuelsson | Ethiopian Chef |  |
| born | bornToday | 1882 | 1941 | Virginia Woolf | Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction Influences James Joyce, George Eliot, Tolstoy, Proust, Shakespeare, Chekov |  |
| born | bornToday | 1874 | 1965 | W. Somerset Maugham | Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Classics |  |
| born | bornToday | 1759 | 1796 | Robert Burns | Scottish poet |  |
