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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 Díaz, 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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