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Births
1463 - Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (d. 1512)
1469 - Guru Nanak Dev, first Sikh Guru (d. 1539)
1496 - Claude, Duke of Guise, French soldier (d. 1550)
1616 - Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. 1680)
1620 - Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (d. 1691)
1632 - Sir Christopher Wren, English architect (d. 1723)
1656 - Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (d. 1746)
1660 - Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (d. 1723)
1677 - Stanislaus I Leszczy?ski, King of Poland (d. 1766)
1711 - Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (d. 1795)
1719 - Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (d. 1772)
1759 - Chauncey Goodrich, U.S. Senator from Connecticut (d. 1815)
1808 - Karl Andree, German geographer (d. 1875)
1819 - The Báb, Persian founder of the Bábà Faith (d. 1850)
1819 - Carl Mikuli, Polish pianist (d. 1897)
1822 - Thomas Hughes, English novelist (d. 1896)
1854 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (d. 1891)
1858 - John Burns, English politician (d. 1943)
1859 - John Dewey, American philosopher (d. 1952)
1874 - Charles Ives, American composer (d. 1954)
1882 - Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1956)
1889 - Margaret Dumont, American actress (d. 1965)
1890 - Jelly Roll Morton, American composer (d. 1941)
1891 - James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
1891 - Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya (d. 1978)
1893 - Charley Chase, American comedian (d. 1940)
1894 - Olive Thomas, American actress (d. 1920)
1897 - Crown Prince Eun of Korea (d. 1970)
1900 - Wayne Morse, U.S. Senator from Oregon (d. 1974)
1904 - Anna Neagle, English actress (d. 1986)
1904 - Tommy Clement Douglas, Canadian politician (d. 1986)
1905 - Ellery Queen, pseudonym of two American writers (d. 1982)
1907 - Arlene Francis, American television personality (d. 2001)
1913 - Grandpa Jones, American banjo player and singer (d. 1998)
1918 - Robert Lochner, German journalist (d. 2003)
1925 - Art Buchwald, American newspaper columnist
1928 - Joyce Brothers, American psychologist and television personality
1931 - Mickey Mantle, baseball player (d. 1995)
1932 - Rosey Brown, American football player (d. 2004)
1935 - Jerry Orbach, American actor (d. 2004)
1937 - Juan Marichal, baseball player
1938 - Iain MacMillan, Abbey Road Photographer (d. 2006)
1940 - Kathy Kirby, British singer
1942 - Earl Hindman, American actor (d. 2003)
1942 - Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1944 - David Mancuso, American disc jockey
1946 - Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1949 - Valeri Borzov, Ukrainian athlete
1950 - Tom Petty, American musician
1951 - Claudio Ranieri, Italian football player and manager
1955 - Aaron Pryor, American boxer
1956 - Danny Boyle, English film director
1958 - Dave Finlay, Northern Irish professional wrestler
1958 - Viggo Mortensen, American actor
1958 - Lynn Flewelling, American fantasy author
1958 - Ivo Pogorelic, Croatian pianist
1958 - Scott Hall, American professional wrestler
1960 - Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (d. 2004)
1961 - Ian Rush, Welsh footballer
1961 - Michie Tomizawa, Japanese Voice Actress
1963 - Julie Payette, Canadian astronaut
1965 - William Zabka, American actor
1966 - Allan Donald, South African cricketer
1966 - Stefan Raab, German entertainer
1969 - Juan Gonzalez, baseball player
1969 - Laurie Daley, Australian rugby league player
1971 - Dannii Minogue, Australian-born singer
1971 - Snoop Dogg, American rapper
1976 - Tom Wisniewski, American guitarist (MxPx)
1978 - Virender Sehwag, Indian cricketer
1979 - John Krasinski, American actor
1981 - Willis McGahee, American football player
1983 - Alex Nackman, musician/singer/guitarist
1983 - Takayuki Yamada, Japanese Actor
1984 - Scott Fuller, radio personality
1984 - Florent Sinama-Pongolle, French footballer
1985 - Jennifer Nicole Freeman, American actress
1988 - Risa Niigaki, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
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