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Births
1483 - Henry III of Nassau-Breda, German nobleman (d. 1538)
1562 - Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1630)
1576 - Petrus Scriverius, Dutch writer (d. 1660)
1591 - Giuseppe Ribera, Spanish painter (d. 1652)
1597 - François Duquesnoy, French sculptor (d. 1643)
1628 - Charles Perrault, French folklorist (d. 1703)
1715 - Jacques Duphly, French composer (d. 1789)
1716 - Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (d. 1795)
1723 - Samuel Langdon, American President of Harvard University (d. 1797)
1729 - Edmund Burke, Irish statesman and philosopher (d. 1797)
1737 - John Hancock, American statesman (d. 1793)
1746 - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss pedagogue (d. 1827)
1751 - King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1825)
1786 - Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (d. 1855)
1797 - Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and writer (d. 1873)
1849 - Jean Béraud, French painter (d. 1935)
1856 - John Singer Sargent, American artist (d. 1925)
1863 - Swami Vivekananda, Indian philosopher (d. 1902)
1873 - Spiridon Louis, Greek runner (d. 1940)
1876 - Jack London, American author (d. 1916)
1876 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer (d. 1948)
1877 - Frank J. Corr, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1934)
1878 - Ferenc Molnár, Hungarian writer (d. 1952)
1879 - Ray Harroun, American race car driver (d. 1968)
1882 - Milton Sills, American actor (d. 1930)
1884 - Texas Guinan, American actress (d. 1933)
1892 - Mikhail Gurevich, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1976)
1893 - Hermann Göring, Nazi official (d. 1946)
1893 - Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi official (d. 1946)
1896 - Rex Ingram, Irish director and actor (d. 1950)
1899 - Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1965)
1902 - King Saud of Saudi Arabia (d. 1969)
1905 - Tex Ritter, American actor and singer (d. 1974)
1905 - James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist (d. 1997)
1906 - Daniil Kharms, Russian playwright (d. 1942)
1907 - Patsy Kelly, American actress (d. 1981)
1907 - Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1966)
1908 - Jean Delannoy, French film director
1908 - Clement Hurd, American children's book illustrator (d. 1988)
1910 - Luise Rainer, German actress
1915 - Paul Jarrico, American writer (d. 1997)
1916 - Pieter Willem Botha, President of South Africa
1916 - Jay McShann, American musician
1917 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the TM Movement and the Global Country of World Peace
1920 - James L. Farmer, Jr., American civil rights activist (d. 1999)
1923 - Ira Hayes, American soldier (d. 1955)
1925 - Scottie MacGregor, American actress
1926 - Ray Price, American singer
1928 - Ruth Brown, American singer
1928 - Lloyd Ruby, American race car driver
1930 - Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player and entrepreneur (d. 1974)
1930 - Glenn Yarborough, American singer and songwriter
1932 - Des O'Connor, British television presenter
1935 - Kreskin, mentalist
1937 - Shirley Eaton, British actress
1944 - Hans Henning Atrott, German philosopher, critic of Christianity
1944 - Joe Frazier, American boxer
1944 - Vlastimil Hort, Czechoslovakian chess player
1946 - George Duke, American musician
1948 - Khalid Abdul Muhammed, American Nation of Islam spokesman (d. 2001)
1948 - Kenny Allen, English footballer
1949 - Haruki Murakami, Japanese novelist
1949 - Wayne Wang, Hong Kong-born film director
1950 - Sheila Jackson Lee, American politician
1950 - Bob McEwen, American politician
1951 - Kirstie Alley, American actress
1951 - Rush Limbaugh, American radio personality
1952 - Walter Mosley, American author
1954 - Howard Stern, American radio host
1955 - Rockne O'Bannon, writer and television producer
1957 - John Lasseter, American director, writer, and animator
1959 - Blixa Bargeld, German singer (Einstürzende Neubauten)
1959 - Per Gessle, Swedish songwriter
1960 - Oliver Platt, Canadian actor
1960 - Dominique Wilkins, American basketball player
1964 - Jeff Bezos, American entrepreneur
1966 - Rob Zombie, American musician, artist, and writer
1966 - Olivier Martinez, French actor
1967 - Vendela Kirsebom, Swedish supermodel
1968 - Heather Mills McCartney, estranged wife of Beatles' pop star Paul McCartney
1969 - Robert Prosine?ki, Croatian footballer
1970 - Zack de la Rocha, American musician (Rage Against the Machine)
1970 - Raekwon, American rapper
1972 - Espen Knutsen, Norwegian hockey player
1974 - Melanie Chisholm, British singer
1974 - Tor Arne Hetland, Norwegian cross-country skiier
1978 - Kris Roe, American rock singer and guitarist (The Ataris)
1979 - Marián Hossa, Slovak ice hockey player
1979 - Grzegorz Rasiak, Polish footballer
1980 - Amerie, American singer and songwriter
1980 - Bobby Crosby, American baseball player, Oakland Athletics
1982 - Dontrelle Willis, American baseball player
1982 - Justin Daniel Drummond, American humorist
1984 - Scott Olsen, American baseball player
1988 - Chris Casement, Irish footballer
1990 - Sergey Karjakin, Ukrainian chess player
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