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1034 - Emperor Go-Sanjo of Japan (d. 1073)

1499 - Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henri II of France (d. 1566)

1568 - Adriano Banchieri, Italian composer (d. 1634)

1675 - Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (d. 1751)

1693 - Charles Radclyffe, British politician (d. 1746)

1695 - Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (d. 1764)

1710 - Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (d. 1784)

1724 - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (d. 1808)

1781 - Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Napoleon's wife, Josephine (d. 1824)

1810 - Paul Kane, Canadian painter (d. 1871)

1849 - Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (d. 1909)

1856 - Louis Sullivan, American architect (d. 1924)

1859 - Jean Jaurès, French Socialist leader (d. 1914)

 
 

1869 - Fritz Pregl, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930)

1875 - Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (d. 1951)

1887 - Frank Christian, American musician (d. 1973)

1899 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1985)

1900 - Maurice Dobb, economist (d. 1976)

1900 - Urho Kekkonen, eighth President of Finland (d. 1986)

1905 - Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)

1907 - Loren Eiseley, American anthropologist (d. 1977)

1908 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (d. 1988)

1910 - Kitty Carlisle, American actress and television personality

1913 - Alan Ladd, American actor (d. 1964)

1914 - Dixy Lee Ray, Governor of Washington State (d. 1994)

1916 - Eddie Stanky, baseball player (d. 1999)

 
 

1917 - Anthony Robert Klitz, British artist (d. 2000)

1918 - Helen Wagner, American actress

1921 - Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (d. 1971)

1923 - Mort Walker, American cartoonist

1928 - Gaston Thorn, President of the European Commission

1929 - Irene Papas, Greek actress

1930 - Cherry Wilder, New Zealand author (d. 2002)

1931 - Dick Motta, American basketball coach

1933 - Tompall Glaser, American singer

1933 - Freddie King, American Blues Musician

1938 - Eileen Brennan, American actress

1938 - Caryl Churchill, English playwright

1938 - Ryoji Noyori, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1940 - Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist

1941 - Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer (d. 1990)

1942 - Al Jardine, American musician (the Beach Boys)

1943 - Valerie Perrine, American actress

1947 - Kjell Magne Bondevik, Prime Minister of Norway

1949 - Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (d. 2004)

1950 - Doug Pinnick, American bassist and vocalist (King's X)

1955 - Steve Jones, English musician (Sex Pistols)

1957 - Garth Ancier, American television executive

1959 - Merritt Butrick, American actor (d. 1989)

1963 - Amber Lynn, American porn star

1964 - Adam Curry, Internet entrepreneur

1965 - Charlie Sheen, American actor

1969 - John Fugelsang, American actor

1969 - Dominic West, British actor

1970 - Gareth Southgate, English footballer

1976 - Vivek Oberoi, Indian actor

1976 - Ashley Jones, American actress

1977 - Olof Mellberg, Swedish footballer

1978 - John Curtis, English footballer

1979 - Tomo Milicevic, Croatian musician (30 Seconds to Mars)

1980 - The B.G., African American rapper

1980 - Jason McCaslin, Canadian bassist (Sum41)

1982 - Fearne Cotton, British television presenter

1982 - Kaori Natori, Japanese singer and model

1982 - Andrew McMahon, American singer and songwriter

1985 - Scott Carson, English footballer

1985 - Kelvin Wilson, English footballer

1985 - Tiana Ringer, American professional wrestler

1986 - Shaun White, American snowboarder and skateboarder

 

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