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Births
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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