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Births
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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