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Births
1301 - Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (d. 1330)
1397? - Guillaume Dufay, Franco-Flemish composer and theorist (d. 1474)
1623 - Antonio Cesti, Italian composer (d. 1669)
1641 - John Hathorne, American magistrate (d. 1717)
1662 - James Anderson, Scottish historian (d. 1728)
1694 - Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (d. 1744)
1802 - Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1829)
1813 - Ivar Aasen, Norwegian poet and language reformer (d. 1896)
1815 - Edward John Eyre, English explorer (d. 1901)
1850 - Guy de Maupassant, French author (d. 1893)
1872 - Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician (d. 1917)
1866 - Carl Harries, German chemist (d. 1923)
1877 - Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (d. 1917)
1889 - Conrad Aiken, American writer (d. 1973)
1890 - Erich Kleiber, Austrian-born conductor (d. 1956)
1890 - Naum Gabo (born Naum Pevsner), Sculptor (d. 1977)
1897 - Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (d. 1972)
1906 - John Huston, American director (d. 1987)
1906 - Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (d. 1999)
1906 - Joan Hickson, British actress (d. 1998)
1908 - Harold Holt, seventeenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
1911 - Robert Taylor, American actor (d. 1969)
1918 - Betty Oliphant, Canadian ballerina (d. 2004)
1923 - Devan Nair, President of Singapore
1930 - Neil Armstrong, astronaut
1935 - John Saxon, American actor
1937 - Herb Brooks, American hockey coach (d. 2003)
1939 - Princess Irene of the Netherlands
1943 - Nelson Briles, baseball player (d. 2005)
1946 - Loni Anderson, American actress
1946 - Jimmy Webb, American composer
1947 - Rick Derringer, American musician
1947 - Angry Anderson, Australian entertainer
1951 - John Jarratt, Australian actor
1953 - Rick Mahler, baseball player (d. 2005)
1953 - Samantha Sang, Australian singer
1956 - Maureen McCormick, American actress
1961 - Clayton Rohner, American actor
1961 - Mark O'Connor, American violinist
1962 - Patrick Ewing, American basketball player
1964 - Adam Yauch, American musician
1966 - Jonathan Silverman, American actor
1968 - John Olerud, American baseball player
1972 - Christian Olde Wolbers, Belgian bassist (Fear Factory)
1974 - Antoine Sibierski, French footballer
1975 - Kajol Mukherjee, Indian actress
1975 - Ami Foster, American actress
1976 - Jeff Friesen, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 - Mark Mulder, baseball player
1979 - David Healy, Northern Irish footballer
1980 - Wayne Bridge, English footballer
1981 - Carl Crawford, baseball player
1981 - K? Shibasaki, Japanese singer
1982 - Ryu Seung Min, Korean table tennis player
1982 - Tobias Regner, German singer
1985 - Salomon Kalou, Dutch footballer
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