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Births
1473 - Richard, Duke of York, one of the Princes in the Tower (d. 1483?)
1562 - Hans Leo Hassler (baptised), German composer (d. 1612)
1578 - Francesco Albani, Italian painter (d. 1660)
1601 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)
1629 - King John III of Poland (d. 1696)
1768 - Louis Charles Antoine Desaix de Veygoux, French general (d. 1800)
1786 - Davy Crockett, American frontiersman and soldier (d. 1836)
1828 - Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist (d. 1897)
1844 - Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia (d. 1913)
1866 - Julia Marlowe, nee Sarah Frost, Shakespearean actress (d. 1950)
1882 - Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood producer (d. 1974)
1887 - Marcus Garvey, Jamaican leader, Rastafari prophet (d. 1940)
1887 - Emperor Charles I of Austria (d. 1922)
1893 - Mae West, American actress and playwright (d. 1980)
1904 - Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist
1911 - Mikhail Botvinnik, chess player (d. 1995)
1913 - W. Mark Felt, FBI associate director and Deep Throat Watergate informant
1913 - Rudy York, baseball player (d. 1970)
1920 - Maureen O'Hara, actress
1926 - Jiang Zemin, former President of the People's Republic of China
1929 - Francis Gary Powers, U-2 pilot (d. 1977)
1930 - Glenn Corbett, actor (d. 1993)
1930 - Ted Hughes, English poet (d. 1998)
1932 - V. S. Naipaul, West Indian-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1933 - Gene Kranz, NASA flight director
1935 - Oleg Tabakov, Russian actor
1939 - Luther Allison, American blues guitarist
1943 - Robert De Niro, American actor
1948 - Rod MacDonald, American musician
1951 - Alan Minter, boxer
1952 - Nelson Piquet, Brazilian formula one driver
1952 - Guillermo Vilas, Argentinian tennis player
1954 - Eric Johnson, guitarist
1955 - Richard Hilton, American heir
1956 - Gail Berman, president of Paramount Pictures
1958 - Belinda Carlisle, American singer
1958 - Kirk Stevens, Canadian snooker player
1959 - David Koresh, American cult leader (d. 1993)
1960 - Sean Penn, American actor, director
1962 - Gilby Clarke, American musician Guns N' Roses
1964 - Colin James, blues musician
1966 - Rodney Mullen, American skateboarder
1966 - William E. Dudley, American poet
1968 - Ed McCaffrey, American football player
1969 - Donnie Wahlberg, American actor and singer
1970 - Jim Courier, American tennis player
1971 - Jorge Posada, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
1977 - Thierry Henry, French footballer
1977 - Tarja Turunen, Finnish singer (Nightwish)
1977 - William Gallas, French footballer
1979 - Antwaan Randle El, American football player
1980 - Lene Marlin, Norwegian singer
1980 - Keith Dabengwa, Zimbabwean cricketer
1986 - Rudy Gay, American basketball player
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