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Births
1164 - Emperor Rokujo of Japan (d. 1176)
1522 - Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (d. 1583)
1619 - Antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688)
1655 - Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1698)
1665 - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, British general (d. 1716)
1778 - Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki, Polish politician (d. 1846)
1856 - Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1924)
1866 - Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian, diplomat and politician (d. 1935)
1879 - Billy Mitchell, American military aviation pioneer (d. 1936)
1882 - Arthur Eddington, British astronomer and physicist (d. 1944)
1888 - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, German film director (d. 1931)
1898 - Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (b. 1957)
1899 - Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (d. 1943)
1902 - Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (d. 2001)
1902 - Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (d. 1988)
1903 - Earl "Fatha" Hines, American musician (d. 1983)
1903 - John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician (d. 1957)
1905 - Cliff Arquette, American actor and comedian (d. 1974)
1908 - Lew Ayres, American actor (d. 1996)
1922 - Stan Lee, American comic book writer
1924 - Milton Obote, President of Uganda (d. 2005)
1925 - Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer and writer (d. 2002)
1929 - Brian Redhead, British journalist and broadcaster (d. 1994)
1929 - Terry Sawchuk, Canadian hockey player (d. 1970)
1931 - Guy Debord, French writer and filmmaker (d. 1994)
1932 - Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (d. 2002)
1932 - Manuel Puig, Argentine writer (d. 1990)
1932 - Roy Hattersley, British politician
1933 - Nichelle Nichols, American actress and singer
1934 - Maggie Smith, British actress
1934 - Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (d. 1987)
1937 - Ratan Tata, Indian industrialist
1938 - Charles Neville, American musician (Neville Brothers)
1940 - Don Francisco, Chilean TV host
1943 - Richard Whiteley, British television presenter (d. 2005)
1944 - Kary Mullis, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1946 - Edgar Winter, American musician
1947 - Aurelio RodrÃguez, Mexican baseball player (d. 2000)
1953 - Richard Clayderman, French pianist
1954 - Denzel Washington, American actor
1956 - Nigel Kennedy, British violinist
1960 - Raymond Bourque, Canadian ice hockey player
1962 - Rachel Z, American jazz pianist
1967 - Chris Ware, American cartoonist
1969 - Linus Torvalds, Finnish computer programmer
1971 - Frank Sepe, American bodybuilder and model
1972 - Patrick Rafter, Australian tennis player
1972 - Adam Vinatieri, American Football player
1978 - John Legend, American singer, songwriter, and pianist
1981 - Sienna Miller, British actress
1982 - Cedric Benson, American football player
1982 - Kevin Pereira, American television host
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