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Births

1419 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471)

1452 - King James III of Scotland (d. 1488)

1509 - John Calvin, French religious reformer (d. 1564)

1592 - Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (d. 1660)

1614 - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686)

1625 - Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (d. 1703)

1638 - David Teniers III, Flemish painter (d. 1685)

1666 - John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (d. 1711)

1682 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician (d. 1716)

1723 - William Blackstone, English jurist (d. 1780)

1809 - Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (d. 1889)

1830 - Camille Pissarro, French painter (d. 1903)

1832 - Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1897)

 
 

1834 - James McNeil Whistler, American painter (d. 1903)

1835 - Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (d. 1880)

1842 - Adolphus Busch, German-born brewer (d. 1913)

1856 - Nikola Tesla, Croatian-born Inventor of Serbian nationality (d. 1943)

1867 - Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)

1871 - Marcel Proust, French writer (d. 1922)

1874 - Sergey Konenkov, Russian painter (d. 1971)

1883 - Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (d. 1948)

1888 - Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter (d. 1978)

1895 - Carl Orff, German composer (d. 1982)

1899 - John Gilbert, American actor (d. 1936)

1902 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)

1903 - John Wyndham, British author (d. 1969)

 
 

1914 - Joe Shuster, Canadian-born cartoonist

1920 - David Brinkley, American television reporter (d. 2003)

1920 - Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1921 - Harvey Ball, American inventor (d. 2001)

1921 - Jake LaMotta, American boxer

1921 - Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist

1923 - Earl Hamner Jr., American author and television producer

1923 - Jean Kerr, American author (d. 2003)

1925 - Mahathir bin Mohamad, fourth Malaysian Prime Minister

1926 - Fred Gwynne, American actor (d. 1993)

1928 - Moshe Greenberg, American-Israeli Bible scholar

1931 - Nick Adams, American actor (d. 1968)

1931 - Alice Munro, Canadian writer

1938 - Paul Andreu, French architect

1939 - Ahmet Taner K??lal?, Turkish politician, journalist, and educator (d. 1999)

1940 - Helen Donath, American soprano

1942 - Ronnie James Dio, American musician

1942 - Pyotr Klimuk, cosmonaut

1943 - Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (d. 1993)

1945 - John Motson, British sports (football) commentator

1945 - Virginia Wade, British tennis player

1946 - Sue Lyon, American actress

1947 - Arlo Guthrie, American musician

1949 - Sunil Gavaskar, Indian cricketer

1951 - Cheryl Wheeler, American singer and songwriter

1952 - Ludmilla Tourischeva, Russian gymnast

1954 - Neil Tennant, British musician

1956 - Tom McClintock, American politician

1959 - Janet Julian, American actress

1968 - Hassiba Boulmerka, Algerian athlete

1969 - Gale Harold, American actor

1970 - Ed Chapman, British artist

1970 - Jason Orange, UK pop singer and dancer

1970 - John Simm, British actor

1972 - Sofia Vergara, Colombian actress

1976 - Ludovic Giuly, French footballer

1978 - Jesse Lacey, American singer

1980 - Thomas Ian Nicholas, American actor

1980 - Adam Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)

1980 - Mark Gonzalez, Chilean footballer

1980 - Jessica Simpson, American singer

1982 - Alex Arrowsmith, American musician

1982 - Sebastian Mila, Polish footballer

 

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