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1276 - Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shogun (d. 1328)

1433 - Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher (d. 1499)

1562 - Archbishop George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1633)

1582 - Dmitry Ivanovich, Tsarevich (d. 1591)

1605 - Thomas Browne, English writer (d. 1682)

1610 - James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English statesman and soldier (d. 1688)

1658 - Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1704)

1688 - William Cheselden, English surgeon and anatomist (d. 1752)

1680 - John Abernethy, Irish Protestant minister (d. 1740)

1718 - Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (d. 1804)

1720 - John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (d. 1772)

1721 - Joseph de Guignes, French orientalist (d. 1800)

1784 - John McLoughlin, Canadian fur trader (d. 1857)

 
 

1858 - George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (d. 1937)

1862 - Auguste Lumière, French inventor (d. 1954)

1873 - Jaap Eden, Dutch skater and cyclist (d. 1925))

1885 - Charles Merrill, American investment banker (d. 1956)

1895 - Lewis Mumford, American historian (d. 1990)

1899 - Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)

1900 - Bill Ponsford, Australian cricketer (d. 1991)

1900 - Roy Worters, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (d. 1957)

1907 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader (d. 1962)

1908 - Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (d. 1981)

1909 - Cozy Cole, American jazz drummer (d. 1981)

1910 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)

1910 - Jean Genet, French author (d. 1986)

 
 

1913 - Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and songwriter (d. 1980)

1916 - Jean Dausset, French immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1916 - Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (d. 1994)

1922 - Jack Anderson, American journalist (d. 2005)

1926 - Joel Feinberg, American moral philosopher (d. 2004)

1926 - Arne Bendiksen, Norwegian singer and songwriter

1931 - John le Carré, English novelist

1932 - Robert Reed, American actor (d. 1992)

1937 - Peter Max, American artist

1940 - Michael Gambon, Irish actor

1942 - Andrew Vachss, American author and attorney

1944 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician, political activist (d. 1987

1945 - Divine, American actor (d. 1988)

1945 - John Lithgow, American actor

1946 - Philip Pullman, English writer

1947 - Giorgio Cavazzano, comics artist and illustrator

1948 - Pat Simmons, American musician (The Doobie Brothers)

1951 - Patricia Ireland, American President of the National Organization for Women

1956 - Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (d. 1993)

1960 - Jonathan FeBland English musician, writer and artist

1962 - Evander Holyfield, American boxer

1964 - Jorge Luis Gonzales, Cuban-born American boxer

1965 - Ty Pennington, American television carpenter

1966 - Jon Favreau, American actor, writer and director

1969 - Trey Parker, American cartoonist, comedian, writer, and actor

1972 - Pras, American musician

1972 - Keith Foulke, American baseball pitcher

1976 - Michael Young, baseball player

1990 - Janet Leon, Swedish singer (Play)

 

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