* Stone Cold Steve Austin ( born 1964 ), American wrestler and actor

* 1970 – Roy Mayorga, American drummer ( Stone Sour, Soulfly, Amebix, Black President, and Nausea )

* 1818 – Lucy Stone, American activist ( d. 1893 )

* 1999 – Jesse Stone, American musician and songwriter ( b. 1901 )

* 1946 – Larry Graham, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer ( Sly and the Family Stone and Graham Central Station )

* 1873 – Fred Stone, American actor ( d. 1959 )

* 1937 – Robert Stone, American novelist

Because of its classical Greco-Roman style, the ruins of Mission San Juan Capistrano's Great Stone Church in California, United States has been called the " American Acropolis ".

* 1961 – Dean DeLeo, American guitarist ( Stone Temple Pilots, Talk Show, and Army of Anyone )

As early American Indians lacked the proper pottery that could be used directly over a fire, they developed a technique which has caused many anthropologists to call them " Stone Boilers ".

Stone ( 1847 – 1938 ), a leading American silversmith, was born, trained and worked in Sheffield, England, and Edinburgh, Scotland, before travelling to the United States in 1884.

Salinger, Upton Sinclair, and the journalist Hunter S. Thompson, who was primarily known for his works in the American magazine Rolling Stone.

* 1973 – Corey Taylor, American singer ( Slipknot, Stone Sour )

* 1954 – Stone Phillips, American television journalist

* 1907 – I. F. Stone, American journalist ( d. 1989 )

Theodor Seuss Geisel (; March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991 ) was an American writer, poet, and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books written under the pen names Dr. Seuss, Theo LeSieg and, in one case, Rosetta Stone.

* 1930 – Peter Stone, American writer ( d. 2003 )

* 1966 – Robert DeLeo, American musician ( Stone Temple Pilots )

* 1980 – Milburn Stone, American actor ( b. 1904 )

* 1904 – Milburn Stone, American actor ( d. 1980 )

* 1946 – Linda Ronstadt, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress ( Stone Poneys and Free Creek )

* 1971 – Matt Stone, American actor, animator, screenwriter, producer, and composer

* 1958 – Sharon Stone, American actress

* 1974 – Biz Stone, American businessman, co-founded Twitter

In 1892, Stone was convinced to sit for a portrait in sculpture, rendered by Anne Whitney, sculptor and poet.

Stone, Studs Terkel, Leon Trotsky, George Orwell, Henry Miller, Franklin D. Roosevelt, James K. Galbraith, John Steinbeck, Barbara Tuchman, T. S. Eliot, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Frost, Frank Lloyd Wright, Hannah Arendt, Ezra Pound, Henry James, Charles Sanders Peirce, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Maynard Keynes, Naomi Klein, Alexander Cockburn, Tariq Ali, Michael Naumann, Stuart Chase, and poet John Beecher.

* Nega Mezlekia's non-fiction win for Notes from the Hyena's Belly becomes a subject of controversy when poet Anne Stone alleges that she ghostwrote the majority of the book.

Corris received his baccalaureate and masters degrees in the United States, studying studio art and art history at Brooklyn College under Harry Holtzman, Jimmy Ernst, Walter Rosenblum, Sylvia Stone, Philip Pearlstein and Carl Holty ; and later, painting and art theory at the Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art under Grace Hartigan and the poet, Emmanuel Navaretta.

In the book The Doors, Manzarek says, " That Oliver Stone thing did real damage to the guy I knew: Jim Morrison, the poet.

One 19th century attempt to attach a warning buoy to the Runnel Stone was led by the naval Lieutenant Hugh Goldsmith ( nephew of the famous poet Oliver Goldsmith ) aboard the cutter HMS Nimble.

Travel literature authors such as Fan Chengda ( 1126 – 1193 ) and Xu Xiake ( 1587 – 1641 ) incorporated a wealth of geographical and topographical information into their writing, while the ' daytrip essay ' Record of Stone Bell Mountain by the noted poet and statesman Su Shi ( 1037 – 1101 ) presented a philosophical and moral argument as its central purpose.

While in college, Sandom helped launch a literary magazine called Writing at Amherst, won both the Corbin prize and the Academy of American Poets prize, and studied under a variety of visiting writers, including Robert Stone, Julian Symons and the Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney.

Ruth Stone ( June 8, 1915 – November 19, 2011 ) was an American poet, author, and teacher.

* 1913 – Richard Stone, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1991 )

His son Chris Lemmon ( b. 1954 ), was his first child by his first wife, actress Cynthia Stone ( b. February 26, 1926, Peoria, Illinois, d. December 26, 1988 ).

* 1872 – Harlan Fiske Stone, 12th Chief Justice of the United States ( d. 1946 )

* 1942 – Christopher Stone, American actor ( d. 1995 )

* 1900 – Bill Stone, English soldier ( d. 2009 )

* 1944 – Leslie Harvey, Scottish guitarist ( Stone the Crows ) ( d. 1972 )

* 1882 – Christopher Stone, English broadcaster ( d. 1965 )

* August 30 – Richard Stone, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1991 )

* October 4 – Christopher Stone, American actor ( d. 1995 )

* September 22 – Witmer Stone, American ornithologist and botanist ( d. 1939 )

* April 14 – Philip Stone, English actor ( d. 2003 )

* October 11 – Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States ( d. 1946 )

** Elmer Fowler Stone, American aviator, the first United States Coast Guard aviator ( d. 1936 )

* May 20 – John Stone Stone, American physicist and inventor ( d. 1943 )

** Peter Stone, American writer ( d. 2003 )

* August 22 – Frank Stone, English painter ( d. 1859 )

* November 15 – Lewis Stone, American stage & film actor Judge Hardy ( d. 1953 )

West has recorded over fifty audiobooks, among which are the Shakespeare plays All's Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing and Richard II, the Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson ( The Wind Singer, Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong ), the Arthur trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland ( The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing Places and King of the Middle March ), five books by Sebastian Faulks ( Charlotte Gray, Birdsong, The Girl at the Lion d ' Or, Human Traces and A Possible Life ), four by Michael Ridpath ( Trading Reality, Final Venture, Free to Trade, and The Marketmaker ), two by George Orwell ( Nineteen Eighty-Four and Homage to Catalonia ), two by Mary Wesley ( An Imaginative Experience and Part of the Furniture ), two by Robert Goddard ( Closed Circle and In Pale Battalions ) and several compilations of poetry ( Realms of Gold: Letters and Poems of John Keats, Bright Star, The Collected Works of Shelley, Seven Ages, Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age and A Shropshire Lad ).