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Births
1457 - King Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
1540 - Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610)
1582 - John Barclay, Scottish writer (d. 1621)
1600 - Pope Clement IX (d. 1669)
1608 - Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679)
1611 - Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (d. 1687)
1622 - Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (d. 1691)
1701 - Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774)
1706 - John Baskerville, English printer (d. 1775)
1712 - Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (d. 1761)
1717 - Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1774)
1719 - Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (d. 1749)
1755 - Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, German physician (d. 1830)
1784 - George Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1860)
1822 - Alexander Mackenzie, second Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1892)
1833 - Charles George 'Chinese' Gordon, British soldier and administrator (d. 1885)
1841 - Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh-born explorer and journalist (d. 1904)
1853 - José MartÃ, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1895)
1857 - William Seward Burroughs, American inventor (d. 1898)
1873 - Colette, French writer (d. 1954)
1874 - Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatre director (d. 1940)
1879 - Francis Picabia, French-born painter and poet (d. 1953)
1880 - Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (d. 1970)
1884 - Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist (d. 1962)
1886 - Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (d. 1973)
1887 - Arthur Rubinstein, Polish pianist and conductor (d. 1982)
1890 - Robert Stroud, American convict, the Birdman of Alcatraz (d. 1963)
1892 - Ernst Lubitsch, German-born film director (d. 1947)
1897 - Valentin Kataev, Russian writer (d. 1986)
1910 - John Banner, Austrian actor (d. 1973)
1910 - Arnold Moss, American character actor (d. 1989)
1912 - Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956)
1922 - Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1993)
1923 - Ivo Robi?, Croatian singer (d. 2001)
1927 - Ronnie Scott, British jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner (d. 1996)
1927 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (d. 2001)
1929 - Acker Bilk, English jazz clarinetist
1929 - Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-born artist
1934 - Mitr Chaibancha, Thai actor (d. 1970)
1935 - David Lodge, English author
1936 - Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer
1936 - Alan Alda, American actor, writer, and director
1938 - Leonid Zhabotinsky, Russian weightlifter
1941 - Joel Crothers, American actor (d. 1985)
1944 - John Tavener, English composer
1945 - Robert Wyatt, English musician
1948 - Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian dancer
1948 - Charles Taylor, former leader of Liberia
1950 - Barbi Benton, American actress
1951 - Brian Bilbray, American politician
1951 - Leonid Kadeniuk, Ukrainian cosmonaut
1954 - Rick Warren, pastor and author
1959 - Randi Rhodes, American personality
1959 - Dave Sharp, Welsh guitarist (The Alarm)
1960 - Robert von Dassanowsky, American cultural historian, writer, and producer
1962 - Sam Phillips, American singer
1968 - Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer and songwriter
1968 - DJ Muggs, American musician (Cypress Hill)
1968 - Rakim, American rapper
1969 - Kathryn Morris, American actress
1969 - Linda Sanchez, American politician
1969 - Mo Rocca, Writer and comedian
1974 - Tony Delk, American basketball player
1974 - Jermaine Dye, baseball player
1975 - David Zingler, American writer
1976 - Mark Madsen, American basketball player
1976 - Jarrod Montague, American drummer (Taproot)
1977 - Daunte Culpepper, American football player
1977 - Joey Fatone, American singer (*NSYNC)
1978 - Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer
1978 - Jamie Carragher, English footballer
1978 - Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer
1979 - Pixie, English model
1979 - Ali Boulala, Swedish skateboarder
1980 - Nick Carter, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
1981 - Rick Razzano, American football player
1981 - Elijah Wood, American actor
1984 - Andre Iguodala, American basketball player
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