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Births
973 - Al-Biruni, mathematician (d. 1048)
1254 - Marco Polo, Italian explorer (d. 1324)
1580 - Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (d. 1659)
1613 - François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (d. 1680)
1649 - Titus Oates, English minister and plotter (d. 1705)
1715 - Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery specialist (d. 1789)
1789 - James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist (d. 1851)
1828 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov, Russian chemist (d. 1886)
1830 - Porfirio DÃaz, President of Mexico (d. 1915)
1852 - Edward Bouchet, American physicist (d. 1918)
1857 - William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (d. 1930)
1858 - Jen? Hubay, Hungarian violinist (d. 1937)
1860 - Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya, Indian engineer
1867 - Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1920)
1876 - Bruno Walter, German conductor (d. 1962)
1879 - Joseph Lyons, tenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1939)
1881 - Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile engineer and designer (d. 1947)
1883 - Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist, and engineer (d. 1950)
1887 - Carlos Dávila, President of Chile and Secretary General of the Organization of American States (d. 1955)
1889 - Robert Benchley, American author (d. 1945)
1890 - Agatha Christie, English writer (d. 1976)
1890 - Frank Martin, Swiss composer (d. 1974)
1894 - Jean Renoir, French film director (d. 1979)
1894 - Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (d. 1977)
1898 - J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist (d. 1936)
1901 - Sir Donald Bailey, British engineer (d. 1985)
1903 - Roy Acuff, American musician (d. 1992)
1904 - King Umberto II of Italy (d. 1983)
1907 - Fay Wray, Canadian-born actress (d. 2004)
1908 - Penny Singleton, American actress (d. 2003)
1913 - John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal (d. 1988)
1914 - Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
1922 - Jackie Cooper, American actor and director
1923 - Anton Heiller, Austrian organist (d. 1979)
1924 - Bobby Short, American musician (d. 2005)
1926 - Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
1928 - Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1975)
1929 - Eva Burrows, the 13th General of The Salvation Army
1929 - Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1933 - Henry Darrow, American actor
1933 - Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor
1937 - Robert Lucas, Jr., American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1938 - Gaylord Perry, baseball player
1940 - Merlin Olsen, American football player and actor
1941 - Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer
1946 - Tommy Lee Jones, American actor
1946 - Oliver Stone, American film director
1949 - Joe Barton, American politician
1951 - Johan Neeskens, Dutch football player
1961 - Dan Marino, American football player
1961 - Terry Lamb, Australian rugby league player
1969 - Jim Curtiss, American writer
1971 - Nathan Astle, New Zealand cricket player
1975 - Jamie Stevens, German pop singer
1976 - Paul Thomson, Scottish drummer (Franz Ferdinand)
1978 - Eidur Gudjohnsen, Icelandic footballer
1979 - Sophie Dahl, British model
1979 - Amy Davidson, American actress
1980 - Jolin Tsai, Taiwanese pop singer
1984 - Prince Harry of Wales
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