What happened on July 3 ?

1423 - King Louis XI of France (d. 1483)

1442 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)

1530 - Claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601)

1567 - Samuel de Champlain, French explorer (d. 1635)

1676 - Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747)

1683 - Edward Young, English poet (d. 1765)

1685 - Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768)

1728 - Robert Adam, Scottish architect (d. 1792)

1738 - John Singleton Copley, American painter (d. 1815)

1793 - John Clare, British poet (d. 1864)

1854 - Leos Janacek, Czech composer (d. 1928)

1870 - Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1947)

1875 - Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German surgeon (d. 1951)

1879 - Alfred Korzybski, Polish linguist (d. 1950)

1883 - Franz Kafka, Czech writer (d. 1924)

1893 - Mississippi John Hurt, American musician (d. 1966)

1906 - George Sanders, Russian-born actor (d. 1972)

1908 - M. F. K. Fisher, American writer (d. 1992)

1913 - Dorothy Kilgallen, American columnist and television personality (d. 1965)

1921 - Susan Peters, American actress (d. 1952)

1927 - Ken Russell, British director

1930 - Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 2004)

1935 - Harrison Schmitt, astronaut

1937 - Tom Stoppard, Czech-born playwright

1939 - László Kovács, Hungarian politician and diplomat

1940 - César Tovar, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 1994)

1940 - Lamar Alexander U.S. Senator from Tennesse

1944 - Michel Polnareff, French singer and songwriter

1946 - Leszek Miller, Prime Minister of Poland

1947 - Dave Barry, American writer

1947 - Betty Buckley, American actress

1949 - Jan Smithers, American actress

1949 - Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (Heatwave) (d. 2006)

1950 - James Hahn, American politician

1951 - Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer

1952 - Alan Autry, American football player, actor, and politician

1955 - Sanma Akashiya, Japanese television performer and actor

1957 - Laura Branigan, American singer (d. 2004)

1959 - Julie Burchill, British journalist and author

1959 - Stephen Pearcy, American singer (Ratt)

1960 - Vince Clarke, British songwriter (Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure)

1960 - Tim Smith, English singer (Cardiacs)

1961 - Pedro Romeiras, Portuguese dancer

1962 - Tom Cruise, American actor

1964 - Joanne Harris, British author

1964 - Yeardley Smith, American actress

1966 - Moises Alou, baseball player

1969 - Kevin Hearn, Canadian keyboardist (Barenaked Ladies)

1970 - Teemu Selänne, Finnish hockey player

1970 - Shawnee Smith, American actress

1973 - Johnny Terris, Canadian-born actor and director

1976 - Andrea Barber, American actress

1980 - Roland Mark Schoeman, South African swimmer