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Births

1336 - Emperor Go-Kogon of Japan (d. 1374)

1527 - Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (d. 1598)

1572 - Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1632)

1578 - King Philip III of Spain (d. 1621)

1629 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician & astronomer (d. 1695)

1714 - Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (d. 1788)

1741 - Emperor Momozono of Japan (d. 1762)

1773 - Jean-Baptiste Guillaume Joseph, comte de Villèle, French statesman (d. 1854)

1788 - David G. Burnet, interim president of the Republic of Texas (d. 1870)

1827 - Augustus Pitt-Rivers, English archaeologist (d. 1900)

1866 - Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller's teacher (d. 1936)

1868 - Peter Behrens, German architect and designer (d. 1940)

1870 - Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (d. 1905)

 
 

1872 - Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Islamic scholar and translator (d. 1953)

1886 - Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (d. 1956)

1897 - Claire Windsor, American actress (d. 1972)

1902 - Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Ukrainian rabbi (d. 1994)

1904 - Sir John Gielgud, English actor (d. 2000)

1907 - François Duvalier, Haitian politician (d. 1971)

1917 - Marvin Miller, American labor activist

1921 - Thomas Schelling, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner

1925 - Abel Muzorewa, Prime Minster of Zimbabwe

1925 - Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1974)

1925 - Rod Steiger, American actor (d. 2002)

1926 - Liz Renay, American actress

1927 - Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

 
 

1930 - Bradford Dillman, American actor

1933 - Morton Subotnick, American composer

1935 - Loretta Lynn, American singer

1935 - Erich von Däniken, Swiss writer

1936 - Kenneth Mars, American actor

1936 - Frank Serpico, American policeman

1941 - Julie Christie, British actress

1941 - Pete Rose, baseball player

1942 - Valeriy Brumel, Russian athlete (d. 2003)

1942 - Valentin Lebedev, cosmonaut

1945 - Ritchie Blackmore, English guitarist

1945 - Frank DiLeo, American actor

1949 - John Shea, American actor

1951 - Julian Lloyd Webber, English cellist and composer

1960 - Brad Garrett, American actor

1961 - Robert Carlyle, British actor

1964 - Brian Adams, American professional wrestler

1966 - David Justice, baseball player

1966 - Greg Maddux, baseball player

1967 - Jeff Jarrett, American professional wrestler

1968 - Anthony Michael Hall, American actor

1969 - Martyn LeNoble, Musician

1969 - Brad Ausmus, baseball player

1970 - Shizuka Kudo, Japanese singer

1973 - Adrien Brody, American actor

1974 - Da Brat, American rapper

1975 - Amy Dumas, American professional wrestler

1975 - Veronika Zemanová, Czech model and pornstar

1977 - Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress

1980 - Ben Wells, American actor

1981 - Mary Castro, American model and actress

1983 - Simon Burnett, British swimmer

1983 - James McFadden, Scottish footballer

 

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