** Mengistu Haile Mariam, former President of Ethiopia

** Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.

** Ethiopian eunuch ( 8: 26 – 39 )

** Abeluzius ( Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church )

** Timkat, or 20 during Leap Year ( Ethiopian Orthodox )

** Ethiopian Civil War ( 1976 – 1991 )

** War in Somalia ( 2006 – 2009 ) – involved largely Ethiopian and Somali Transitional Federal Government ( TFG ) forces whom fought against the Somali Islamist umbrella group, the Islamic Court Union ( ICU ), and other affiliated militias for control of the country.

** Haile Gerima, Ethiopian filmmaker

** Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.

** Gete Wami, Ethiopian long-distance runner

** Eritrean War of Independence – Battle of Afabet: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on 3 sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front ( EPLF ).

** Derartu Tulu, Ethiopian long-distance runner

** Mulugeta Yeggazu, Ethiopian government official and military leader

** In Ethiopia, the Eritrean Liberation Front kills an Ethiopian general.

** Somalia mobilizes its troops, due to an apparent Ethiopian attack.

** Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian long-distance runner ( d. 1973 )

** Marye of Yejju, Ethiopian Ras

** Sabagadis, Ethiopian warlord

** Ethiopian montane grasslands and woodlands ( Ethiopia )

** Genfo is a thick porridge made by lightly roasting, milling and cooking any combination of Ethiopian oats wheat, barley, sorghum, millet, maize, chickpeas, yellow peas, soybeans or bulla, the starch from the root of the false banana tree ; it is traditionally eaten for breakfast with a dollop of clarified, spiced butter ( kibe ) or oil and chili-spice mix berbere, or with yoghurt.

** Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia was an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian, and did not consider himself divine, but the Rastafari movement in Jamaica saw him as the second coming of Christ.

** Nega Mezlekia, Ethiopian writer

** AT1007 Ethiopian montane grasslands and woodlands

** AT1008 Ethiopian montane moorlands

** 1543 – Battle of Wayna Daga – A combined army of Ethiopian and Portuguese troops defeated a Muslim army led by Ahmed Gragn.

** Sarah Kane, English playwright ( b. 1971 )

** Nathaniel Motte, American songwriter, performer, singer, music producer, film composer, instrumentalist, and playwright ( 3OH! 3 )

** Lillian Hellman, American playwright ( b. 1905 )

** James Leo Herlihy, American novelist and playwright ( b. 1927 )

** Paula Vogel, American playwright

** Tennessee Williams, American playwright ( d. 1983 )

** Sacha Guitry, Russian-born playwright, actor, and director ( b. 1885 )

** Anthony Shaffer, English novelist and playwright ( d. 2001 ), twin brother of:

** Peter Shaffer, English playwright

** Jason Miller, American playwright and actor ( d. 2001 )

** August Strindberg, Swedish playwright and painter ( b. 1849 ).

** Suzanne Lilar, Belgian essayist, novelist, and playwright ( died 1992 )

** Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor

** Edward Sheldon, American playwright ( b. 1886 )

** Diana Morgan, British playwright and screenwriter ( b. 1908 )

** Stark Young, American teacher, playwright, novelist, painter, literary critic, and essayist ( b. 1881 )

** Marcel Achard, French playwright and scriptwriter ( b. 1899 )

** Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite ( b. 1893 )

** Actress Marilyn Monroe marries playwright Arthur Miller.

** Charles MacArthur, American playwright and screenwriter ( b. 1895 )

** Bertolt Brecht, German playwright ( Threepenny Opera ) ( b. 1898 )

** Eric Bentley, British-born American critic and playwright

** Marcel Pagnol, French novelist and playwright ( d. 1974 )

** Ennio Flaiano, Italian screenwriter, playwright, novelist, journalist and drama critic ( d. 1972 )

** Lisa Edelstein, American actress and playwright