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Births
1417 - Pope Paul II (d. 1471)
1633 - Samuel Pepys, English naval administrator and man of letters, posthumously famous as a diarist (d. 1703)
1646 - Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (d. 1709)
1648 - Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (d. 1730)
1680 - Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana (d. 1767)
1685 - Georg Friederich Händel, German composer (d. 1759)
1688 - Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741)
1723 - Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (d. 1791)
1743 - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German-born banker (d. 1812)
1840 - Carl Menger, Austrian economist (d. 1921)
1868 - W.E.B. DuBois, American civil rights leader (d. 1963)
1873 - Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (d. 1929)
1874 - Konstantin Päts, Estonian president (d. 1956)
1878 - Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian painter and art theorist (d. 1935)
1883 - Victor Fleming, American director (d. 1949)
1883 - Karl Jaspers, German philosopher (d. 1969)
1889 - Musidora, French actress and director (d. 1957)
1899 - Erich Kästner, German writer (d. 1974)
1904 - William L. Shirer, American historian (d. 1993)
1904 - Leopold Trepper, Soviet spy (d. 1982)
1908 - William McMahon, twentieth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1988)
1914 - Theofiel Middelkamp, Dutch cyclist (d. 2005)
1915 - Jon Hall, American actor (d. 1979)
1915 - Paul Tibbets, American pilot
1918 - Richard G. Butler, American fascist (d. 2004)
1924 - Allan McLeod Cormack, South-African born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1998)
1928 - Vasili Lazarev, cosmonaut (d. 1990)
1932 - Majel Barrett, American actress
1937 - Tom Osborne, American football coach and politician
1938 - Diane Varsi, American actress (d. 1992)
1940 - Peter Fonda, American actor
1943 - Fred Biletnikoff, American football player and coach
1944 - Johnny Winter, American musician
1945 - Allan Boesak, South African activist
1951 - Ed Jones, American football player
1951 - Patricia Richardson, American actress
1952 - Brad Whitford, American musician (Aerosmith)
1954 - Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine
1955 - Tom Bodett, American voice actor, radio personality, and writer
1955 - Howard Jones, British pop singer
1958 - Tony Barrell, English writer and journalist
1958 - David Sylvian, English musician
1959 - Richard Dodds, British field hockey player
1960 - Alan Griffin, Australian politician and member for Bruce in the House of Representatives
1963 - Bobby Bonilla, former baseball player
1964 - Dana Scully, fictional character on the tv-show The X-Files, played by Gillian Anderson
1965 - Kristin Davis, American actress
1965 - Michael Dell, American computer manufacturer
1965 - Helena Suková, former Czech tennis player
1965 - Veronica Webb, American supermodel and actress
1973 - André Tanneberger, German DJ
1974 - Jaime Villarreal, Mexican musician
1974 - Leko, American DJ
1977 - Kristina ?migun, Estonian cross-country skier
1978 - Dan Snyder, Canadian hockey player (d. 2003)
1981 - Gareth Barry, English footballer
1983 - Mido, Egyptian footballer
1986 - Holly Brook, American musician
1994 - Dakota Fanning, American child actress
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