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Births

1489 - Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV of Scotland (d. 1541)

1570 - James Whitelocke, English judge (d. 1632)

1598 - Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (d. 1667)

1628 - John Bunyan, English cleric and author (d. 1688)

1632 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer (d. 1687)

1640 - Willem de Vlamingh, Flemish sea captain

1661 - Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (d. 1723)

1681 - Jean Cavalier, French protestant rebel leader (d. 1740)

1700 - Nathaniel Bliss, Astronomer Royal (d. 1764)

1757 - William Blake, British poet and artist (d. 1827)

1772 - Luke Howard, British meteorologist (d. 1864)

1785 - Achille Charles Léon Victor, duc de Broglie, Prime Minister of France (d. 1870)

1792 - Victor Cousin, French philosopher (d. 1867)

 
 

1793 - Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Swedish romantic poet (d. 1866)

1805 - John Stephens, American archeologist (d. 1852)

1810 - William Froude, British engineer and naval architect (d. 1879)

1820 - Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (d. 1895)

1821 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (d. 1878)

1829 - Anton Rubinstein, Russian composer, pianist, and conductor (d. 1894)

1837 - John Wesley Hyatt, American inventor of celluloid (d. 1920)

1853 - Helen Magill White, first American woman to earn a Ph.D. (d. 1944)

1864 - James Allen English writer (d. 1912)

1864 - Lindley M. Garrison, American lawyer, U.S. Secretary of War from 1913 through 1916 (d. 1932)

1866 - Henry Bacon, American architect (d. 1924)

1881 - Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (d. 1942)

1887 - Ernst Röhm, Nazi official (d. 1934)

 
 

1895 - José Iturbi, Spanish pianist (d. 1980)

1896 - Lilia Skala, Austrian actress (d. 1994)

1904 - Nancy Mitford, British essayist and satirist (d. 1973)

1904 - James Eastland, American politician

1907 - Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (d. 1990)

1908 - Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist

1915 - Evald Okas, Estonian painter

1916 - Mary Lilian Baels, Princess of Rethy, Belgium (d. 2002)

1925 - Gloria Grahame, American actress (d. 1981)

1925 - József Bozsik, Hungarian international footballer (d. 1978)

1927 - Chuck Mitchell, American actor (d. 1992)

1929 - Berry Gordy Jr., American record company owner and founder of Motown

1931 - Hope Lange, American actress (d. 2003)

1931 - Tomi Ungerer, French graphic artist, and author

1933 - Joe Knollenberg, U.S Congressman from Michigan

1936 - Gary Hart, American politician

1941 - Laura Antonelli, Italian actress

1942 - Paul Warfield, American football player

1943 - Randy Newman, American composer and musician

1949 - Alexander Godunov, Russian composer and ballet dancer (d. 1995)

1949 - Paul Shaffer, Canadian orchestra leader and musician

1950 - Ed Harris, American actor

1950 - Russell Alan Hulse, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

1952 - S. Epatha Merkerson, American actress

1955 - Adem Jashari, Albanian freedom fighter

1957 - David Van Day, British singer (Dollar)

1958 - Dave Righetti, American baseball player

1959 - Judd Nelson, American actor

1961 - Martin Clunes, British actor

1961 - Alfonso Cuarón, Mexican film director

1961 - Jane Sibbett, American actress

1962 - Jon Stewart, American comedian, actor, and television host

1963 - Walt Weiss, American baseball player

1964 - Cornelia Guest, American debutante

1965 - Erwin Mortier, Belgian author

1965 - Matt Williams, baseball player

1966 - Sam Seder, American comedian

1967 - Anna Nicole Smith, American model and television personality

1967 - Stephnie Weir, American actress and comedienne

1968 - Dawn Robinson, R&B singer (En Vogue)

1969 - Robb Nen, American baseball player

1969 - Lexington Steele (Clifton Britt), American adult film actor

1973 - Jade Puget, guitarist, (AFI)

1973 - Rob Conway, American professional wrestler

1974 - András Tölcséres, Hungarian footballer

1974 - Styles P (David Styles), American rapper

1977 - DeMya Walker, American basketball player

1978 - Freddie Mitchell, American football player

1978 - Mehdi Nafti, Tunisian footballer

1979 - Chamillionaire (Hakeem Seriki), American rapper

1979 - Joel Maximo (Kelvin Ramirez), American professional wrestler

1979 - Daniel Henney, Korean model-actor

1980 - Stuart Taylor, British footballer

1982 - Leandro Barbosa, Brazilian basketball player

1984 - Andrew Bogut, Australian basketball player

1988 - Scarlett Pomers, American actress

 

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