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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 Rodríguez, 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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