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1584 - Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (d. 1648)

1602 - John Lightfoot, English churchman (d. 1675)

1713 - John Ponsonby, Irish politician (d. 1789)

1769 - Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal (d. 1851)

1790 - John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (d. 1862)

1824 - Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (d. 1899)

1826 - Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist and politician (d. 1900)

1867 - Cy Young, baseball player (d. 1955)

1873 - Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician (d. 1941)

1874 - Lou Hoover, First Lady of the United States (d. 1944)

1889 - Warner Baxter, American actor (d. 1951)

1891 - Yvan Goll, French-German writer (d. 1950)

1892 - József Cardinal Mindszenty, Hungarian Catholic cardinal (d. 1975)

 
 

1895 - Ernst Jünger, German author (d. 1998)

1897 - Ruby Muhammad, American wife of Elijah Muhammad

1899 - Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist leader (d. 1953)

1900 - John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1980)

1901 - Andrija Maurovic, Croatian illustrator (d. 1981)

1902 - Marcel Aymé, French writer (d. 1967)

1902 - William Walton, English composer (d. 1983)

1905 - Philip Ahn, American actor (d. 1978)

1908 - Arthur O'Connell, American actor (d. 1981)

1908 - Dennis O'Keefe, American actor (d. 1968)

1909 - E. Power Biggs American concert organist

1911 - Brigitte Horney, German actress (d. 1988)

1912 - Hanna Reitsch, German pilot (d. 1979)

 
 

1913 - Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)

1913 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 2000)

1916 - Eugene McCarthy, American politician (d. 2005)

1918 - Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (d. 1990)

1918 - Sam Walton, American businessman (d. 1992)

1919 - Eileen Heckart, American actress (d. 2001)

1927 - John McLaughlin, American political commentator

1927 - John Robert Vane, English pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)

1929 - Lennart Meri, President of Estonia (d. 2006)

1931 - Aleksei Gubarev, cosmonaut

1936 - Judith Guest, American author

1936 - Mogens Camre, Danish politician

1937 - Billy Carter, Presidential brother (d. 1988)

1940 - Ray Davis, American musician (P-Funk)

1940 - Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian singer

1941 - Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., American astrophysicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate

1943 - Eric Idle, English actor, writer, and composer

1943 - John Major, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1943 - Vangelis, Greek musician

1944 - Terry Jacks, Canadian musician, songwriter, and activist

1944 - Denny McLain, baseball player

1945 - Walt Frazier, American basketball player

1947 - Bobby Kimball, American singer (Toto)

1948 - Bud Cort, American actor

1949 - Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist

1952 - Teofilo Stevenson, Cuban boxer

1954 - Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre (d. 1985)

1955 - Earl Campbell, American football star

1955 - Christopher Lawford, American actor

1956 - Patty Donahue, lead singer of The Waitresses (d. 1996)

1957 - Christopher Lambert, French actor

1959 - Barry Blanchard, Canadian mountaineer

1959 - Perry Farrell, American musician (Jane's Addiction and Porno for Pyros)

1960 - Marina Sirtis, English actress

1963 - Elle Macpherson, Australian model

1967 - Brian Jordan, baseball player

1967 - John Popper, American musician (Blues Traveler)

1968 - Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress and singer

1971 - Aaron Lawrence, American pornographic actor

1972 - Rui Costa, Portugal football player

1973 - Marc Overmars, former Dutch football player

1976 - Jennifer Capriati, American tennis player

1981 - Jlloyd Samuel, West Indian-born footballer

1983 - Justin Tuck, American football player

1984 - Valentine Rei, Russian television personality

 

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