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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 - VigdÃs 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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