* 1969 – Jack Canfora, American playwright

* 1985 – Douglass Wallop, American novelist and playwright ( b. 1920 )

* 1978 – John Buffalo Mailer, American author, playwright, actor, producer, and journalist

* 1931 – William Goldman, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter

* 1953 – James Vance, American comic book writer, author and playwright

* 1959 – Steve Monarque, American actor, playwright, musician, and composer

* 1916 – Luther Davis, American playwright ( d. 2008 )

* 2003 – Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress ( b. 1908 )

* 1989 – James Kirkwood, Jr., American playwright, author, and actor ( b. 1924 )

Henry worked as a playwright, administrator, and faculty member during the early years of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, established in New York City in 1884.

* 1956 – Lani Brockman, American actress, director and playwright

* 1884 – Jane Cowl, American actress and playwright ( d. 1950 )

* 2004 – Jerome Lawrence, American playwright ( b. 1915 )

* 1917 – Jane Bowles, American playwright ( d. 1973 )

* 1894 – Ben Hecht, American playwright ( d. 1964 )

* 1915 – Ketti Frings, American playwright and screenwriter ( d. 1981 )

* 1949 – Christopher Durang, American playwright

* 1964 – Peter Braunstein, American journalist, writer, and playwright

* 1864 – Thomas Dixon, American playwright and legislator ( d. 1946 )

* 1927 – Neil Simon, American playwright

* 1900 – Frederica Sagor Maas, American playwright and super-centenarian ( d. 2012 )

* 1956 – Tony Kushner, American playwright

* 1916 – Eve Merriam, American poet and playwright ( d. 1992 )

* 1954 – Mark O ' Donnell, American playwright and author ( d. 2012 )

* 1954 – Steve O ' Donnell, American playwright and author

* 1931 – Ivan Dixon, American actor and director ( d. 2008 )

* 1953 – Ivan Stang, American author, publisher, and director

* 1911 – Ivan Combe, American businessman and entrepreneur, invented Clearasil and founded Combe Incorporated ( d. 2000 )

Banned movies included The Manchurian Candidate, directed by John Frankenheimer in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 1970 by Finnish director Caspar Wrede and Born American by Finnish director Renny Harlin in 1986.

* 1971 – Ivan Sergei, American actor

* 2008 – Ivan Dixon, American actor and director ( b. 1931 )

* 1937 – Ivan Boesky, American stock trader

* Ivan Caesar ( 1967 – 2008 ), American football player

* Ivan Boesky ( born 1937 ), American businessman notable for his role in an insider trading scandal

Out-of-place artifact ( OOPArt ) is a term coined by American naturalist and cryptozoologist Ivan T. Sanderson for an object of historical, archaeological, or paleontological interest found in a very unusual or seemingly impossible context that could challenge conventional historical chronology.

Ivan Edward Sutherland ( born May 16, 1938 ) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer.

Magic realism was later used to describe the uncanny realism by American painters such as Ivan Albright, Paul Cadmus, George Tooker and other artists during the 1940s and 1950s.

Occupying an intermediate place in this line of development, the work of several European and American painters whose most important work dates from the 1930s through to the 1950s, including Bettina Shaw-Lawrence, Paul Cadmus, Ivan Albright, Philip Evergood, George Tooker, Ricco, even Andrew Wyeth, is designated as " magic realist.

Ghostbusters is a 1984 American supernatural comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.

Shapiro also estimates that over 30 % of American billionaires are Jewish, and he cites a 1986 issue of Financial World that listed the top 100 money makers in 1985, and " half the people mentioned " were Jewish, including George Soros, Asher Edelman, Michael Milkin, and Ivan Boesky.

For example, Ivan Illich calculated that, in America in the 1970s, if you add the time spent to work to earn the money to buy a car, the time spent in the car ( including traffic jam ), the time spent in the health care industry because of a car crash, the time spent in the oil industry to fuel cars ... etc., and you divide the number of kilometres traveled per year by that, you obtain the following calculation: 10000 km per year per person divided by 1600 hours per year per American equals 6 km per hour.

* American Educational Research Association Ivan Illich Special Interest Group website

A joint military operation between Russian and American special forces ends with the capture of General Ivan Radek ( Jurgen Prochnow ), the dictator of a rogue terrorist regime in Kazakhstan that had taken possession of an arsenal of former Soviet nuclear weapons.

The NSA intercepts a 911 call made from a technician named Ivan who states that his life is in danger, and he will help the American government in exchange for rescue.

* Ivan Ramen restaurant-a popular ramen shop owned by an American chef.

Gremlins was released into North American theaters on June 8, 1984, the same day as Ivan Reitman's Ghostbusters.

Daniel Ivan Hicks ( born December 9, 1941, in Little Rock, Arkansas ), is an American singer-songwriter who combines cowboy folk, jazz, country, swing, bluegrass, pop, and gypsy music in his sound.

* Ivan M. Niven, Canadian – American mathematician

During that time he also helped Chile in the World Cup qualification as the top scorer along Ivan Zamorano in the South American zone.

Although some note that Bell has coined the term, according to other sources, before Bell, the term was also used routinely by the Latin American social philosopher Ivan Illich in his book Tools for Conviviality.