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Births
1403 - John IV, Duke of Brabant (d. 1427)
1456 - Anne Neville, wife of Richard III of England (d. 1485)
1540 - Barnabe Googe, English poet (d. 1594)
1572 - Ben Jonson, English dramatist (d. 1637)
1588 - George Wither, English writer (d. 1667)
1671 - Colley Cibber, English poet (d. 1757)
1672 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (d. 1749)
1696 - Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (d. 1758)
1704 - Carlos Seixas, Portuguese composer (d. 1742)
1713 - Edward Capell, English critic (d. 1781)
1723 - Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (d. 1788)
1776 - John Constable, English painter (d. 1837)
1842 - Carl von Linde, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1934)
1846 - William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (d. 1920)
1847 - Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist and feminist (d. 1929)
1864 - Richard Strauss, German composer and conductor (d. 1949)
1867 - Charles Fabry, French physicist (d. 1945)
1876 - Alfred L. Kroeber, American anthropologist (d. 1960)
1877 - Renee Vivien, English-born poet (d. 1909)
1879 - Roger Bresnahan, baseball player (d. 1944)
1879 - Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)
1880 - Jeannette Rankin, American politician, feminist, and pacifist (d. 1973)
1888 - Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist and fishmonger. (d. 1927)
1895 - Nikolai Bulganin, Soviet politician (d. 1975)
1903 - Ernie Nevers, American football player (d. 1976)
1910 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer and inventor (d. 1997)
1910 - Carmine Coppola, American composer, director and songwriter (d. 1991)
1913 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach (d. 1970)
1915 - Arnold Johnson, tuba player, a.k.a. Song and Wind (d. 1998)
1919 - Richard Todd, British actor
1920 - Hazel Scott, West Indian-born singer (d. 1981)
1922 - John Bromfield, American actor (d. 2005)
1925 - William Styron, American author
1928 - Fabiola de Mora y Aragón, Queen of the Belgians
1932 - Athol Fugard, South African playwright
1933 - Gene Wilder, American actor
1936 - Jud Strunk, American musician and comedian (d. 1981)
1936 - Chad Everett, American actor
1937 - Robin Warren, Australian pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
1937 - Johnny Brown, American comic
1939 - Jackie Stewart, Scottish race car driver
1945 - Adrienne Barbeau, American actress
1947 - Laloo Prasad Yadav, Indian politician
1947 - Henry Cisneros, American politician, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
1948 - Dave Cash, Major league baseball player
1949 - Frank Beard, member of rock group ZZ Top
1950 - Lynsey De Paul, British singer and songwriter
1952 - Donnie Van Zant, American rock musician
1953 - Peter Bergman, American actor
1956 - Joe Montana. American football player
1957 - Jamaaladeen Tacuma, American musician
1959 - Hugh Laurie, English actor and comedian
1962 - Erika Salumäe, Estonian cyclist, Olympian
1964 - Jean Alesi, French Formula One driver
1965 - Joey Santiago, Filipino guitarist (Pixies)
1969 - Steven Drozd, American drummer
1969 - Bryan Fogarty, Professional ice hockey player (d. 2002)
1978 - Joshua Jackson, Canadian actor
1982 - Diana Taurasi, American basketball player
1982 - Eldar Rønning, Norwegian cross-country skier
1983 - Jose Reyes, American baseball player
1984 - Vagner Love, Brazilian footballer
1986 - Shia LaBeouf, American actor
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