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1544 - Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (d. 1595)

1725 - Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1807)

1785 - John McLean, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1861)

1787 - Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (d. 1852)

1863 - Andrew Stoddart, English cricketer (d. 1915)

1873 - David Horsley, English-born film executive (d. 1933)

1876 - Carl Ruggles, American composer (d. 1971)

1880 - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (d. 1943)

1885 - Malcolm Campbell, English race car driver (d. 1948)

1890 - Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (d. 1974)

1892 - Raoul Walsh, American film director (d. 1980)

1898 - Dorothy Gish, American actress (d. 1968)

1899 - King Frederick IX of Denmark (d. 1972)

 
 

1903 - Ronald Syme, New Zealand classicist and historian (d. 1989)

1903 - Lawrence Welk, American musician (d. 1992)

1910 - Robert Havemann, German chemist (d. 1982)

1915 - Hans Peter Keller, German writer (d. 1988)

1916 - Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)

1920 - Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1921 - Frank Harary, American mathematician (d. 2005)

1921 - Astor Piazzolla, Argentine composer (d. 1992)

1926 - Reverend Ralph Abernathy, American civil rights leader (d. 1990)

1927 - Robert Mosbacher, United States Secretary of Commerce

1928 - Albert Salmi, American actor (d. 1990)

1929 - Timothy Carey, American actor (d. 1994)

1931 - Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born publisher and entrepreneur

 
 

1934 - Sam Donaldson, American reporter

1936 - Antonin Scalia, U.S. Supreme Court Justice

1939 - Flaco Jiménez, American musician

1948 - Dominique Sanda, French actress

1950 - Bobby McFerrin, American singer

1950 - Jerry Zucker, American producer, director, and writer

1952 - Douglas Adams, English writer (d. 2001)

1954 - Gale Norton, United States Secretary of the Interior

1955 - Nina Hagen, German singer

1958 - Anissa Jones, American actress (d. 1976)

1958 - Flemming Rose, Danish journalist

1959 - Nina Hartley, American pornographic actress

1960 - Christophe Gans, French film director

1961 - Elias Koteas, Canadian actor

1963 - Alex Kingston, English actress

1964 - Vinnie Paul, American drummer (Pantera)

1964 - Shane Richie, British actor

1965 - Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen, British television presenter

1968 - Lisa Loeb, American singer

1971 - Johnny Knoxville, American television personality

1974 - Russ Haas, professional wrestler and brother of Charlie Haas (d. 2001)

1974 - Bobby Abreu, baseball player

1978 - Didier Drogba, Ivory Coast footballer

1978 - Albert Luque, Spanish footballer

1979 - Benji Madden, American musician (Good Charlotte)

1979 - Joel Madden, American musician (Good Charlotte)

1980 - Paul Scharner, Austrian footballer

1981 - David Anders, American actor

1981 - Lee Evans, American football player

1981 - Russell Lissack, English musician (Bloc Party)

1981 - LeToya Luckett, American singer and former Destiny's Child member

1982 - Thora Birch, American actress

1987 - Marc-Andre Gragnani, Canadian hockey player

1989 - Anton Yelchin, Russian-born actor

 

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