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Births

1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist (d. 1519)

1489 - Sinan, Ottoman architect (d. 1588)

1552 - Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1626)

1580 - George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, English politician and colonizer

1588 - Claudius Salmasius, French classical scholar (d. 1653)

1641 - Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician and antiquarian (d. 1722)

1642 - Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1691)

1646 - King Christian V of Denmark (d. 1699)

1651 - Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician

1684 - Catherine I of Russia (d. 1727)

1688 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (d. 1758)

1707 - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (d. 1783)

1710 - William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (d. 1790)

 
 

1721 - Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English military leader (d. 1765)

1772 - ÿtienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (d. 1844)

1793 - Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, German astronomer (d. 1864)

1794 - Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist (d. 1867)

1800 - James Clark Ross, English explorer (d. 1862)

1809 - Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1877)

1832 - Wilhelm Busch, German poet and artist (d. 1908)

1843 - Henry James, American author (d. 1916)

1858 - ÿmile Durkheim, French sociologist (d. 1917)

1861 - Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (d. 1929)

1874 - Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)

1878 - Robert Walser, Swiss writer (d. 1956)

1879 - Melville Henry Cane, American lawyer and poet (d. 1980)

 
 

1883 - Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)

1885 - Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Polish general

1886 - Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (d. 1921)

1889 - Thomas Hart Benton, American muralist (d. 1975)

1889 - A. Philip Randolph, American activist (d. 1979)

1892 - Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (d. 1983)

1894 - Bessie Smith, American blues singer (d. 1937)

1895 - Clark McConachy, New Zealand billiards and snooker player (d. 1980)

1896 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)

1901 - Joe Davis, English snooker player (d. 1978)

1902 - Fernando Pessa, Portuguese journalist (d. 2002)

1907 - Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ornithologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1988)

1912 - Kim Il Sung, President of North Korea (d. 1994)

1916 - Alfred S. Bloomingdale, American businessman (d. 1982)

1917 - Hans Conried, American actor (d. 1982)

1920 - Richard von Weizsäcker, President of Germany

1921 - Georgi Beregovoi, cosmonaut (d. 1995)

1922 - Michael Ansara, Syrian-American actor

1922 - Harold Washington, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1987)

1924 - Sir Neville Marriner, English conductor and violinist

1927 - Robert Mills, American physicist (d. 1999)

1930 - Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland

1933 - Roy Clark, American musician

1933 - Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (d. 1995)

1933 - Boris Strugatsky, Russian author

1939 - Claudia Cardinale, Tunisian-born actress

1940 - Jeffrey Archer, British author and Member of Parliament

1940 - Robert Walker Jr., American actor

1942 - Francis X. DiLorenzo, American Catholic prelate

1942 - Walt Hazzard, American basketball player

1942 - Kenneth Lay, American businessman (d. 2006)

1944 - Dzhokhar Dudaev, Chechen leader (d. 1996)

1944 - Dave Edmunds, Welsh musician

1945 - Frank DiLeo, American actor

1947 - Lois Chiles, American actress

1947 - Mike Chapman, songwriter (with Nicky Chinn) and producer (Suzi Quatro, Sweet, Blondie)

1948 - Michael Kamen, American composer (d. 2003)

1949 - Tonio K, American singer

1949 - Alla Pugacheva, Russian singer

1950 - Amy Wright, American actress

1951 - Heloise, American newspaper columnist

1954 - Seka, American pornographic actress

1955 - Dodi Al-Fayed, Egyptian businessman (d. 1997)

1957 - Evelyn Ashford, American athlete

1958 - Benjamin Zephaniah, British writer and musician

1959 - Emma Thompson, English actress

1959 - Thomas F. Wilson, American actor

1960 - Tony Jones (snooker), English snooker player

1962 - Nawal El Moutawakel, Morrocan hurdler

1963 - Bobby Pepper, American journalist

1965 - Linda Perry, American musician

1966 - Samantha Fox, English singer and model

1967 - Frankie Poullain, British bassist (The Darkness)

1967 - Dara Torres, American swimmer

1968 - Ed O'Brien, British musician (Radiohead)

1968 - Stacey Williams, American model

1969 - Jeromy Burnitz, American baseball player

1969 - Milton Bradley, American baseball player

1970 - Flex Alexander, American actor

1972 - Arturo Gatti, Canadian boxer

1974 - Danny Pino, American actor

1974 - Josh Todd, musician and singer (Buckcherry)

1975 - Paul Dana, American race car driver (Indy Racing League) (d. 2006)

1977 - Chandra Levy, American Congressional intern (d. 2001)

1978 - Austin Aries, former ROH World Champion

1980 - Raúl López, Spanish basketball player

1981 - Andrés d'Alessandro, Argentine football player

1983 - Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian hockey player

1986 - Quincy Owusu-Abeyie, Dutch footballer

1990 - Emma Watson, English actress

1992 - Amy Diamond, Swedish pop singer

 

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