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Births
1334 - King Peter I of Castile (d. 1369)
1377 - Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (d. 1447)
1705 - David Hartley, English philosopher (d. 1757)
1720 - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician (d. 1796)
1748 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d. 1825)
1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer (d. 1851)
1839 - Gulstan Ropert, French Catholic prelate (d. 1903)
1848 - Andrew Onderdonk, Canadian railway contractor (d. 1905)
1852 - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1911)
1856 - Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (d. 1927)
1860 - Isaac Levitan, Russian artist (d. 1900)
1871 - Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1937)
1884 - Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
1893 - Huey Long, American politician (d. 1935)
1896 - Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (d. 1983)
1898 - Shirley Booth, American actress (d. 1992)
1901 - Roy Wilkins, American civil rights leader (1981)
1906 - Joan Blondell, American actress (d. 1979)
1908 - Fred MacMurray, American actor (d. 1991)
1912 - Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
1913 - Richard Stone, British economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (d. 1991)
1918 - Ted Williams, baseball player (d. 2002)
1919 - Kitty Wells, American singer
1922 - Lionel Murphy, Australian politician and judge
1925 - Laurent de Brunhoff, French writer and illustrator
1927 - Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer
1930 - Warren Buffett, American entrepreneur
1930 - Jerry Tarkanian, American basketball coach
1935 - John Phillips, American singer (The Mamas and the Papas) (d. 2001)
1939 - John Peel, English radio disc jockey (d. 2004)
1941 - Ben Jones, American actor and politician
1943 - R. Crumb, American cartoonist
1943 - Jean-Claude Killy, French skier
1944 - Molly Ivins, American political humorist
1947 - Peggy Lipton, American actress
1948 - Lewis Black, American comedian
1949 - Peter Maffay, German rock musician
1951 - Timothy Bottoms, American actor
1951 - Dana, Irish singer and politician
1954 - Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus
1959 - Mark 'Jacko' Jackson, Australian footballer and actor
1963 - Paul Oakenfold, British disc jockey
1971 - Lars Frederiksen, American guitarist (Rancid/UK Subs)
1972 - Cameron Diaz, American actress
1972 - Pavel Nedved, Czech footballer
1974 - Aaron Barrett, American guitarist and singer (Reel Big Fish)
1975 - Radhi Jaidi, Tunisian footballer
1977 - Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer
1982 - Andy Roddick, American tennis player
1984 - Anthony Ireland, Zimbabwean cricketer
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