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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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