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Pre-1600[edit]
1601–1900[edit]
- 1606 – Joachim von Sandrart,
German art-historian and painter (d. 1688)
- 1622 – Louis
de Buade de Frontenac,
French-Canadian soldier and politician,
third Governor
General of New France (d.
1698)
- 1626 – Louis Hennepin, Flemish
priest and missionary (d. 1705)
- 1670 – Augustus
II the Strong, Polish king (d. 1733)
- 1700 – Luigi Vanvitelli,
Italian architect and engineer, designed
the Palace of Caserta and Royal Palace of Milan (d.
1773)
- 1725 – Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (d.
1785)
- 1739 – Johann Baptist Wanhal,
Czech-Austrian organist and composer (d.
1813)
- 1754 – Franz
Anton Hoffmeister, German composer
and publisher (d. 1812)
- 1755 – Giovanni
Battista Viotti, Italian violinist
and composer (d. 1824)
- 1767 – Manuel
Godoy, Spanish field marshal and
politician, Prime
Minister of Spain (d.
1851)
- 1774 – Ellis Cunliffe Lister,
English politician (d. 1853)
- 1777 – Mary
Reibey, Australian businesswoman (d.
1855)[24]
- 1803 – Justus von Liebig, German
chemist and academic (d. 1873)[25]
- 1804 – Robert Baldwin, Canadian
lawyer and politician, third Premier
of West Canada (d.
1858)
- 1806 – Johan
Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish
philosopher and politician (d. 1881)
- 1812 – Edward
Lear, English poet and illustrator
(d. 1888)[26]
- 1814 – Adolf von Henselt, German
pianist and composer (d. 1889)
- 1820 – Florence
Nightingale, Italian-English nurse,
social reformer, and statistician (d.
1910)[27]
- 1825 – Orélie-Antoine
de Tounens, French lawyer and
explorer (d. 1878)
- 1828 – Dante
Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and
painter (d. 1882)[28]
- 1829 – Pavlos
Carrer, Greek composer and educator
(d. 1896)
- 1839 – Tôn
Thất Thuyết, Vietnamese mandarin (d.
1913)
- 1840 – Alejandro
Gorostiaga, Chilean colonel (d.
1912)
- 1842 – Jules Massenet, French
composer (d. 1912)
- 1845 – Gabriel Fauré, French
pianist, composer, and educator (d. 1924)
- 1850 – Henry Cabot Lodge,
American historian and politician (d.
1924)
- 1850 – Frederick
Holder, Australian politician, 19th Premier
of South Australia (d.
1909)
- 1859 – William Alden Smith,
American lawyer and politician (d. 1932)
- 1859 – Frank
Wilson, English-Australian
politician, ninth Premier
of Western Australia (d.
1918)
- 1863 – Upendrakishore
Ray Chowdhury, Bengali writer,
painter, violin player and composer,
technologist and entrepreneur (d. 1915)
- 1867 – Hugh
Trumble, Australian cricketer and
accountant (d. 1938)
- 1869 – Carl Schuhmann, German
gymnast, wrestler, and weightlifter (d.
1946)
- 1872 – Anton Korošec, Slovenian
priest and politician, tenth Prime
Minister of Yugoslavia (d.
1940)
- 1873 – J. E. H. MacDonald,
English-Canadian painter (d. 1932)
- 1874 – Clemens von Pirquet,
Austrian pediatrician and immunologist (d.
1929)
- 1875 – Charles Holden, English
architect, designed the Bristol
Central Library (d.
1960)
- 1880 – Lincoln Ellsworth, American
explorer (d. 1951)
- 1885 – Paltiel Daykan,
Lithuanian-Israeli lawyer and jurist (d.
1969)
- 1885 – Saneatsu
Mushanokōji, Japanese author (d.
1976)
- 1886 – Ernst A. Lehmann, German
captain and pilot (d. 1937)
- 1889 – Abelardo
L. Rodríguez, substitute president
of Mexico (d. 1967)[29]
- 1889 – Otto
Frank, German-Swiss businessman and
Holocaust survivor; father of diarist Anne
Frank (d. 1980)
- 1892 – Fritz
Kortner, Austrian-German actor and
director (d. 1970)
- 1895 – William Giauque,
Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d.
1982)[30]
- 1895 – Jiddu
Krishnamurti, Indian-American
philosopher and author (d. 1986)
- 1900 – Helene
Weigel, Austrian-German actress (d.
1971)[31]
1901–present[edit]
- 1901 – The Duke of Paducah,
American country comedian, radio host and
banjo player (d. 1986)
- 1903 – Faith
Bennett, British actress and ATA
pilot during WWII (d. 1969) [32]
- 1903 – Wilfrid
Hyde-White, English actor (d. 1991)
- 1905 – Édouard Rinfret, Canadian
lawyer and politician, Postmaster
General of Canada (d.
1994)
- 1907 – Leslie Charteris, English
author and screenwriter (d. 1993)
- 1907 – Katharine
Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1908 – Nicholas Kaldor,
Hungarian-English economist (d. 1986)
- 1910 – James
Dudley, American baseball player,
wrestling manager and executive (d. 2004)
- 1910 – Johan
Ferrier, Surinamese educator and
politician, first President
of Suriname (d.
2010)
- 1910 – Dorothy
Hodgkin, English biochemist,
crystallographer, and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d.
1994)[33]
- 1910 – Gordon
Jenkins, American pianist and
composer (d. 1984)
- 1911 – Charles
Biro, American author and
illustrator (d. 1972)
- 1912 – Henry
Jonsson, Swedish runner (d. 2001)
- 1914 – Bertus
Aafjes, Dutch poet and author (d.
1993)
- 1914 – Howard
K. Smith, American journalist and
actor (d. 2002)
- 1915 – Tony
Strobl, American comics artist and
animator (d. 1991)
- 1916 – Albert
Murray, American author and critic
(d. 2013)
- 1918 – Mary
Kay Ash, American businesswoman,
founded Mary Kay Cosmetics (d.
2001)
- 1918 – Julius
Rosenberg, American spy (d. 1953)
- 1921 – Joseph
Beuys, German sculptor and
illustrator (d. 1986)
- 1921 – Farley
Mowat, Canadian environmentalist and
author (d. 2014)
- 1921 – Lily
Renée, American comic-book artist
(d. 2022)
- 1922 – Marco
Denevi, Argentinian lawyer and
author (d. 1998)
- 1922 – Murray
Gershenz, American actor and
businessman (d. 2013)[34]
- 1922 – Bob
Goldham, Canadian ice hockey player
and sportscaster (d. 1991)
- 1922 – Roy
Salvadori, English racing driver and
manager (d. 2012)[35]
- 1924 – Maxine
Cooper, American actress and
photographer (d. 2009)[36]
- 1924 – Alexander
Esenin-Volpin, Russian-American
mathematician and poet (d. 2016)
- 1924 – Tony
Hancock, English actor, producer,
and screenwriter (d. 1968)[37]
- 1925 – Yogi
Berra, American baseball player,
coach, and manager (d. 2015)
- 1926 – Paulette
Poujol-Oriol, Haitian educator and
writer (d. 2011)[38]
- 1926 – Viren
J. Shah, Indian politician, 21st Governor of West
Bengal (d. 2013)
- 1928 – Burt Bacharach, American
singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer[39]
- 1929 – Sam
Nujoma, Namibian politician, first President
of Namibia
- 1929 – Dollard
St. Laurent, Canadian ice hockey
player (d. 2015)[40]
- 1930 – Jesús Franco, Spanish
director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
- 1932 – Joel
Joffe, Baron Joffe, South
African-English lawyer and politician (d.
2017)
- 1933 – Andrei Voznesensky,
Russian poet (d. 2010)
- 1935 – Felipe
Alou, Dominican-American baseball
player, coach, and manager
- 1935 – Johnny
Bucyk, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1936 – Guillermo Endara, Panamanian
lawyer and politician, 32nd President
of Panama (d.
2009)
- 1936 – Tom
Snyder, American journalist and talk
show host (d. 2007)
- 1936 – Frank
Stella, American painter and
sculptor[39]
- 1937 – Beryl
Burton, English cyclist (d. 1996)
- 1937 – George
Carlin, American comedian, actor,
and author (d. 2008)
- 1937 – Susan
Hampshire, English actress[41]
- 1937 – Miriam
Stoppard, English physician and
author
- 1938 – Millie Perkins, American
actress[39]
- 1939 – Cyril Chantler, English
pediatrician and academic[42]
- 1939 – Jalal
Dabagh, Kurdish journalist and
politician
- 1939 – Miltiadis
Evert, Greek minister and
politician, 69th Mayor
of Athens (d.
2011)
- 1939 – Reg
Gasnier, Australian rugby league
player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2014)
- 1939 – Ron
Ziegler, American politician, White
House Press Secretary (d.
2003)
- 1940 – Norman Whitfield, American
songwriter and producer (d. 2008)
- 1941 – Ruud
de Wolff, Dutch singer (d. 2000)
- 1942 – Ian
Dury, English singer-songwriter (d.
2000)
- 1942 – Billy
Swan, American country
singer-songwriter[43]
- 1942 – Dragoljub
Velimirović, Serbian chess player
and theoretician (d. 2014)
- 1944 – Chris
Patten, English academic and
politician, 28th Governor
of Hong Kong[44]
- 1945 – Alan
Ball, Jr., English footballer and
manager (d. 2007)
- 1945 – Ian
McLagan, English keyboard player and
songwriter (d. 2014)[45]
- 1945 – Patrick
Ricard, French businessman (d. 2012)
- 1946 – Daniel Libeskind, American
architect, designed the Imperial
War Museum North and Jewish Museum
- 1947 – Michael Ignatieff, Canadian
journalist and politician
- 1948 – Lindsay Crouse, American
actress[39]
- 1948 – Dave
Heineman, American captain and
politician, 39th Governor of Nebraska
- 1948 – Richard
Riehle, American actor
- 1948 – Steve
Winwood, English singer-songwriter
and multi-instrumentalist[39]
- 1949 – Ross
Bleckner, American painter
- 1950 – Bruce Boxleitner,
American actor and author[39]
- 1950 – Gabriel
Byrne, Irish actor, director, and
producer[39]
- 1950 – Helena Kennedy,
Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws,
Scottish lawyer, academic, and politician
- 1950 – Billy
Squier, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist
- 1951 – George
Karl, American basketball player and
coach
- 1955 – Kix
Brooks, American country music
singer-songwriter and musician
- 1956 – Bernie Federko, Canadian ice
hockey player, coach, and manager
- 1956 – Sergio
Marchi, Argentinean-Canadian urban
planner and politician, tenth Canadian
Minister of International Trade
- 1956 – Greg
Phillinganes, American keyboardist
- 1956 – Asad
Rauf, Pakistani cricketer and umpire
- 1957 – Ziya
Onis, Turkish economist and academic
- 1958 – Kim
Greist, American actress[39]
- 1958 – Andreas Petroulakis,
Greek cartoonist
- 1958 – Dries
van Noten, Belgian fashion designer
- 1959 – Ving
Rhames, American actor[39]
- 1960 – Lisa Martin,
Australian runner
- 1961 – Thomas
Dooley, German-American soccer
player and manager
- 1961 – Bruce
McCulloch, Canadian actor and
comedian
- 1962 – Emilio Estevez, American
actor[46]
- 1962 – Brett
Gurewitz, American guitarist and
songwriter
- 1962 – Gregory
H. Johnson, English-born American
astronaut[47]
- 1963 – Panagiotis
Fasoulas, Greek basketball player
and politician
- 1963 – Gavin
Hood, South African actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter
- 1963 – Stefano
Modena, Italian racing driver
- 1963 – Vanessa A. Williams, American
actress and producer
- 1964 – Pierre
Morel, French director and
cinematographer
- 1965 – Renée Simonsen, Danish model
and writer
- 1965 – Stacy
Wilson, Canadian ice hockey player[48]
- 1966 – Stephen Baldwin, American
actor[49]
- 1966 – Bebel
Gilberto, American-Brazilian
singer-songwriter
- 1966 – Deborah
Kara Unger, Canadian actress[50]
- 1967 – Mireille
Bousquet-Mélou, French mathematician
- 1967 – Bill
Shorten, Australian politician
- 1968 – Tony
Hawk, American skateboarder and
actor[51]
- 1969 – Suzanne Clément, Canadian
actress
- 1969 – Kim
Fields, American actress[39]
- 1970 – Mark
Foster, English swimmer
- 1970 – Jim
Furyk, American golfer
- 1970 – Samantha
Mathis, American actress
- 1970 – Mike
Weir, Canadian golfer
- 1970 – Raj
Chandarlapaty, American educator and
author[52]
- 1971 – Doug
Basham, American wrestler
- 1971 – Jamie
Luner, American actress[39]
- 1972 – Christian Campbell,
Canadian-American actor, writer and
photographer[39]
- 1973 – Mackenzie Astin, American
actor[39]
- 1973 – Lutz
Pfannenstiel, German footballer and
manager
- 1975 – Jonah
Lomu, New Zealand rugby player (d.
2015)
- 1975 – Ricky
Ortiz, American professional
wrestler and football player
- 1977 – Graeme
Dott, Scottish snooker player and
coach
- 1977 – Maryam
Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician
(d. 2017) [53]
- 1977 – Onur
Saylak, Turkish actor, filmmaker and
director
- 1977 – Rachel
Wilson, Canadian actress and voice
actress
- 1977 – Mareile
Höppner, German television presenter[54]
- 1978 – Malin Åkerman,
Swedish-Canadian model, actress, and
singer
- 1978 – Jason
Biggs, American actor and comedian[39]
- 1978 – Aya
Ishiguro, Japanese singer and
fashion designer
- 1979 – Adrian Serioux, Canadian
soccer player
- 1980 – Rishi
Sunak, English politician[55]
- 1981 – Rami
Malek, American actor[39]
- 1981 – Kentaro Sato,
Japanese-American composer and conductor
- 1982 – Donnie
Nietes, Filipino boxer
- 1983 – Domhnall Gleeson, Irish actor[39]
- 1983 – Alina
Kabaeva, Russian gymnast and
politician
- 1983 – Yujiro Kushida, Japanese
wrestler and mixed martial artist
- 1983 – Charilaos
Pappas, Greek footballer
- 1983 – Virginie
Razzano, French tennis player[56]
- 1983 – Francisco Javier
Torres, Mexican footballer
- 1984 – Clare
Bowen, Australian actress and singer[39]
- 1985 – Paolo
Goltz, Argentinian footballer
- 1985 – Andrew
Howe, Italian long jumper and
sprinter
- 1985 – Jeroen
Simaeys, Belgian footballer
- 1986 – Jonathan Orozco, Mexican
footballer
- 1986 – Emily
VanCamp, Canadian actress[39]
- 1987 – Kieron Pollard, Trinidadian
cricketer
- 1988 – Marcelo,
Brazilian footballer
- 1989 – Eleftheria
Eleftheriou, Greek Cypriot singer,
musician, and actress
- 1990 – Florent Amodio, French figure
skater
- 1990 – Etika, American
YouTuber and live streamer (d. 2019)[57]
- 1992 – Volha Khudzenka, Belarusian
kayaker[58]
- 1995 – Tamara Korpatsch, German
tennis player[59]
- 1997 – Morgan
Lake, English athlete[60]
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