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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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