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Births

1623 - Johann Adam Reinken, German organist (d. 1722)

1701 - King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (d. 1773)

1718 - Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (d. 1790)

1737 - Edward Gibbon, English historian (d. 1794)

1759 - Mary Wollstonecraft, English activist and author (d. 1797)

1791 - Samuel F. B. Morse, American inventor (d. 1872)

1812 - Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (d. 1883)

1820 - Herbert Spencer, English philosopher (d. 1903)

1822 - Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (d. 1885)

1840 - Edward Whymper, English mountain climber (d. 1911)

1850 - Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general (d. 1921)

1878 - Frank Alvin Gotch, American professional wrestler (d. 1917)

1888 - Florence La Badie, Canadian actress (d. 1917)

 
 

1891 - Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer (d. 1953)

1894 - Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian-born musicologist and composer (d.1995)

1896 - Rogers Hornsby, baseball player (d. 1963)

1899 - Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (d. 1994)

1904 - Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and writer (d. 1972)

1913 - Philip Hauge Abelson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)

1916 - Enos Slaughter, baseball player (d. 2002)

1920 - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d. 1956)

1920 - Edwin Morgan, Scottish poet

1922 - Jack Klugman, American actor

1927 - Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 2006)

1931 - Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist

1932 - Anouk Aimée, French actress

 
 

1932 - Pik Botha, South African politician

1932 - Casey Kasem, American disc jockey

1932 - Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-born mathematician and philosopher (d. 1999)

1937 - Sandy Dennis, American actress (d. 1992)

1937 - Robin Eames, Northern Irish clergyman

1938 - Earl Anthony, American bowler (d. 2001)

1939 - Judy Carne, British actress and comedian

1941 - Lee Roy Jordan, American football player

1942 - Jim Keltner, American drummer

1944 - Cuba Gooding, Sr., American musician (The Main Ingredient)

1945 - August Wilson, American playwright (d. 2005)

1947 - Ann Peebles, American singer

1948 - Kate Pierson, American singer (The B-52's)

1951 - Ace Frehley, American musician (KISS)

1952 - George Gervin, American basketball player

1959 - Sheena Easton, Scottish singer

1963 - Cali Timmins, Canadian actress

1967 - Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands

1969 - Cory Booker, Mayor-Elect of Newark, New Jersey

1969 - Darcey Bussell, British ballerina

1969 - Mica Paris, British singer and presenter

1970 - Kylie Travis, English actress and model

1976 - Isobel Campbell, Scottish singer, cellist and composer

1976 - Walter Pandiani, Uruguayan footballer

1981 - Fabrizio Faniello, Maltese singer

1981 - Patrik Gerrbrand, Swedish footballer

1984 - Patrick Stump, American musician (Fall Out Boy)

1986 - Elena Risteska, Macedonian singer

1987 - William Moseley, British actor

 

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