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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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