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Pre-1600[edit]
- 972 – Sheng
Zong, emperor of the Liao Dynasty
(d. 1031)
- 1093 – Isaac
Komnenos, son of Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos (d.
1152)
- 1245 – Edmund Crouchback,
English politician, Lord
Warden of the Cinque Ports (d.
1296)[34]
- 1362 – Robert
de Vere, duke of Ireland (d. 1392)
- 1409 – René of Anjou, king of Naples
(d. 1480)
- 1477 – Johannes
Schöner, German astronomer and
cartographer (d. 1547)
- 1501 – Anthony
Denny, confidant of Henry VIII of England (d.
1559)
- 1516 – Bayinnaung,
king of Burma (d. 1581)
- 1558 – Jakobea of Baden, Margravine
of Baden by birth, Duchess of
Jülich-Cleves-Berg by marriage (d. 1597)
1601–1900[edit]
- 1616 – François
de Vendôme, duke of Beaufort (d.
1669)
- 1626 – Lucas Achtschellinck,
Belgian painter and educator (d. 1699)
- 1630 – Guru
Har Rai, Sikh Guru (d. 1661)
- 1634 – Dorothe
Engelbretsdatter, Norwegian author
and poet (d. 1716)[35]
- 1675 – Louis de Rouvroy, duc
de Saint-Simon, French soldier and
diplomat (d. 1755)
- 1691 – Peter Scheemakers,
Belgian sculptor and educator (d. 1781)
- 1728 – Niccolň
Piccinni, Italian composer and
educator (d. 1800)
- 1749 – Vittorio Alfieri, Italian
poet and playwright (d. 1803)
- 1757 – Richard
Goodwin Keats, English admiral and
politician, third Commodore-Governor of
Newfoundland (d.
1834)
- 1807 – Charles Henry Davis,
American admiral (d. 1877)
- 1815 – Henry
Halleck, American lawyer, general,
and scholar (d. 1872)
- 1821 – John C. Breckinridge,
American general and politician, 14th Vice President of the United
States (d. 1875)
- 1834 – Robert R. Hitt, American
lawyer and politician, 13th United States Assistant Secretary
of State (d. 1906)
- 1836 – Francis
II of the Two Sicilies (d.
1894)[36]
- 1838 – Franz Brentano, German
philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)
- 1844 – Ismail
Qemali, Albanian civil servant and
politician, first Prime Minister of
Albania (d. 1919)[37]
- 1851 – William Hall-Jones,
English-New Zealand politician, 16th Prime
Minister of New Zealand (d.
1936)
- 1853 – Johnston
Forbes-Robertson, English actor and
manager (d. 1937)
- 1853 – Ian
Standish Monteith Hamilton,
Greek-English general (d. 1947)
- 1853 – André
Michelin, French businessman,
co-founded the Michelin Tyre Company (d.
1931)
- 1870 – Jüri Jaakson, Estonian
businessman and politician, State Elder of
Estonia (d. 1942)
- 1872 – Henri Büsser, French
organist, composer, and conductor (d.
1973)
- 1874 – Robert W. Service,
English-Canadian poet and author (d. 1958)[38]
- 1875 – Leonor Michaelis, German
biochemist and physician (d. 1949)
- 1876 – Claude Buckenham, English
cricketer and footballer (d. 1937)
- 1878 – Harry Carey,
American actor, director, producer, and
screenwriter (d. 1947)
- 1880 – Samuel
Jones, American high jumper (d.
1954)
- 1882 – Margaret
Wilson, American author (d. 1973)
- 1885 – Zhou
Zuoren, Chinese author and
translator (d. 1967)
- 1888 – Osip
Brik, Russian avant garde writer and
literary critic (d. 1945)
- 1892 – Homer Burton Adkins,
American chemist (d. 1949)
- 1893 – Daisy
Kennedy, Australian-English
violinist (d. 1981)
- 1894 – Irving
Mills, American publisher (d. 1985)
- 1895 – Evripidis
Bakirtzis, Greek soldier and
politician (d. 1947)
- 1895 – T.
M. Sabaratnam, Sri Lankan lawyer and
politician (d. 1966)
- 1895 – Nat
Schachner, American lawyer, chemist,
and author (d. 1955)
- 1897 – Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet
and academic (d. 1977)
- 1898 – Margaret Booth, American
producer and editor (d. 2002)
- 1898 – Irving
Rapper, American film director and
producer (d. 1999)
- 1900 – Kiku
Amino, Japanese author and
translator (d. 1978) [39]
- 1900 – Edith
Frank, German-Dutch mother of Anne
Frank (d. 1945) [40]
1901–present[edit]
- 1901 – Fulgencio Batista, Cuban
colonel and politician, ninth President of Cuba (d.
1973)[41]
- 1902 – Eric
Liddell, Scottish runner, rugby
player, and missionary (d. 1945)[42]
- 1903 – William
Grover-Williams, English-French
racing driver (d. 1945)[43]
- 1905 – Ernesto Halffter, Spanish
composer and conductor (d. 1989)
- 1906 – Johannes Brenner, Estonian
footballer and pilot (d. 1975)
- 1906 – Diana
Wynyard, English actress (d. 1964)
- 1907 – Alexander Knox,
Canadian-English actor and screenwriter
(d. 1995)[44]
- 1907 – Paul
Nitze, American banker and
politician, tenth United States Secretary of the
Navy (d. 2004)
- 1908 – Sammy
Crooks, English footballer (d. 1981)
- 1908 – Ethel
Merman, American actress and singer
(d. 1984)
- 1908 – Günther
Prien, German captain (d. 1941)
- 1909 – Clement Greenberg, American
art critic (d. 1994)
- 1910 – Dizzy
Dean, American baseball player and
sportscaster (d. 1974)
- 1911 – Ivan
Barrow, Jamaican cricketer (d. 1979)
- 1911 – Eduardo
Frei Montalva, Chilean lawyer and
politician, 28th President
of Chile (d. 1982)
- 1911 – Roger
Lapébie, French cyclist (d. 1996)
- 1914 – Roger
Wagner, French-American conductor
and educator (d. 1992)
- 1915 – Leslie H. Martinson,
American director, producer, and
screenwriter (d. 2016)
- 1916 – Philip
Lucock, English-Australian minister
and politician (d. 1996)
- 1917 – Carl
Karcher, American businessman,
founded Carl's
Jr. (d. 2008)
- 1918 – Nel
Benschop, Dutch poet and educator
(d. 2005)
- 1918 – Allan
Ekelund, Swedish director, producer,
and production manager (d. 2009)
- 1918 – Clem
Jones, Australian surveyor and
politician, eighth Lord
Mayor of Brisbane (d.
2007)
- 1918 – Stirling
Silliphant, American screenwriter
and producer (d. 1996)[45]
- 1919 – Jerome Horwitz, American
chemist and academic (d. 2012)
- 1920 – Elliott
Reid, American actor and
screenwriter (d. 2013)
- 1921 – Francesco Scavullo, American
photographer (d. 2004)
- 1923 – Gene
Feist, American director and
playwright, co-founded the Roundabout
Theatre Company (d.
2014)
- 1923 – Anthony
Hecht, American poet (d. 2004)
- 1924 – Katy
Jurado, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
- 1925 – Peter
Hirsch, German-English metallurgist
and academic
- 1925 – James
Robinson Risner, American general
and pilot (d. 2013)
- 1928 – William
Kennedy, American novelist and
journalist
- 1928 – Pilar
Lorengar, Spanish soprano and
actress (d. 1996)
- 1929 – Stanley
Jeyaraja Tambiah, Sri Lankan
anthropologist and academic (d. 2014)
- 1930 – Mary Ann McMorrow, American
lawyer and judge (d. 2013)
- 1930 – Norman
Podhoretz, American journalist and
author
- 1930 – Paula
Tilbrook, English actress (d. 2019)[46]
- 1931 – John
Enderby, English physicist and
academic (d. 2021)
- 1931 – Robert
L. Park, American physicist and
academic (d. 2020)
- 1931 – Johannes
Rau, German journalist and
politician, eighth Federal
President of Germany (d.
2006)
- 1932 – Victor Ciocâltea, Romanian
chess player (d. 1983)
- 1932 – Dian
Fossey, American zoologist and
anthropologist (d. 1985)
- 1933 – Susan
Sontag, American novelist, essayist,
and critic (d. 2004)
- 1934 – Bob
Bogle, American rock guitarist and
bass player (d. 2009)
- 1934 – Marilyn
Horne, American soprano and actress
- 1935 – A.
J. Foyt, American race car driver
- 1935 – Udo
Lattek, German footballer, manager,
and sportscaster (d. 2015)
- 1936 – Michael
White, Scottish actor and producer
(d. 2016)
- 1937 – Luiz
Bueno, Brazilian racing driver (d.
2011)
- 1937 – Francis
George, American cardinal (d. 2015)
- 1938 – Marina
Vaizey, American journalist and
critic
- 1939 – Ralph
Gibson, American photographer
- 1941 – Christine Truman, English
tennis player and sportscaster
- 1942 – René Angélil, Canadian singer
and manager (d. 2016)
- 1942 – Barbara
Lynn, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist
- 1943 – Gavin
Bryars, English bassist and composer
- 1943 – Ronnie
Milsap, American singer and pianist
- 1944 – Dieter Moebius, Swiss-German
keyboard player and producer (d. 2015)
- 1944 – Jim
Stafford, American singer-songwriter
and actor
- 1944 – Jill
Tarter, American astronomer and
biologist
- 1944 – Judy
Baar Topinka, American journalist
and politician (d. 2014)
- 1945 – Wim
Suurbier, Dutch footballer and
manager (d. 2020)
- 1946 – Kabir
Bedi, Indian actor
- 1946 – Katia
Ricciarelli, Italian soprano and
actress
- 1947 – Elaine
Murphy, Baroness Murphy, English
academic and politician
- 1947 – Harvey
Proctor, English politician
- 1947 – Laura
Schlessinger, American physiologist,
talk show host, and author
- 1948 – John Carpenter, American
director, producer, screenwriter, and
composer
- 1948 – Ants
Laaneots, Estonian general
- 1948 – Cliff
Thorburn, Canadian snooker player
- 1948 – Ruth
Reichl, American journalist and
critic
- 1949 – Anne F. Beiler, American
businesswoman, founded Auntie Anne's
- 1949 – R.
F. Foster, Irish historian and
academic
- 1949 – Andrew
Refshauge, Australian physician and
politician, 13th Deputy Premier of New South Wales
- 1950 – Debbie
Allen, American actress, dancer, and
choreographer
- 1950 – Robert
Schimmel, American comedian, actor,
and producer (d. 2010)
- 1952 – Fuad II, King of
Egypt[47]
- 1952 – Piercarlo
Ghinzani, Italian racing driver and
manager
- 1953 – Robert Jay Mathews,
American militant, founded The Order (d.
1984)
- 1954 – Wolfgang
Schmidt, German discus thrower
- 1954 – Vasili
Zhupikov, Russian footballer and
coach (d. 2015)
- 1955 – Jerry M. Linenger, American
captain, physician, and astronaut
- 1956 – Wayne
Daniel, Barbadian cricketer
- 1956 – Martin
Jol, Dutch footballer and manager[48]
- 1956 – Greedy
Smith, Australian singer-songwriter
and keyboardist (d. 2019)
- 1957 – Jurijs Andrejevs, Latvian
footballer and manager
- 1957 – Ricardo
Darín, Argentinian actor, director,
and screenwriter
- 1958 – Anatoli Boukreev, Russian
mountaineer and explorer (d. 1997)
- 1958 – Lena Ek, Swedish
lawyer and politician, ninth Swedish Minister for the
Environment
- 1958 – Andris
Šķēle, Latvian businessman and
politician, fourth Prime
Minister of Latvia
- 1959 – Lisa
Milroy, Canadian painter and
educator
- 1959 – Sade,
Nigerian-English singer-songwriter and
producer
- 1961 – Kenneth
Sivertsen, Norwegian guitarist and
composer (d. 2006)
- 1962 – Joel Fitzgibbon,
Australian electrician and politician,
51st Australian
Minister of Defence
- 1962 – Maxine
Jones, American R&B
singer–songwriter and actress
- 1963 – James
May, British journalist/co-host of Top
Gear[49]
- 1964 – Gail
Graham, Canadian golfer
- 1966 – Jack
McDowell, American baseball player
- 1968 – Rebecca
Stead, American author
- 1969 – Marinus Bester, German
footballer
- 1969 – Stevie
Jackson, Scottish guitarist and
songwriter
- 1969 – Roy
Jones Jr., American boxer
- 1970 – Ron
Villone, American baseball player
and coach
- 1971 – Sergi Bruguera, Spanish
tennis player and coach
- 1971 – Josh
Evans, American film producer,
screenwriter and actor
- 1971 – Jonathan
Mangum, American actor
- 1972 – Ruben
Bagger, Danish footballer
- 1972 – Ang
Christou, Australian footballer
- 1972 – Yuri
Alekseevich Drozdov, Russian
footballer and manager
- 1972 – Ezra
Hendrickson, Vincentian footballer
and manager
- 1972 – Joe Horn,
American football player and coach
- 1974 – Kate
Moss, English model and fashion
designer
- 1976 – Viktor
Maslov, Russian racing driver
- 1976 – Martina
Moravcová, Slovak swimmer
- 1977 – Jeff
Foster, American basketball player
- 1978 – Alfredo Amézaga, Mexican
baseball player
- 1979 – Aaliyah,
American singer and actress (d. 2001)
- 1979 – Brenden
Morrow, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1979 – Jason
Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980 – Lin-Manuel
Miranda, American actor, playwright,
and composer
- 1980 – Albert
Pujols, Dominican-American baseball
player
- 1981 – Jamie Lundmark, Canadian ice
hockey player
- 1981 – Paul
Rofe, Australian cricketer
- 1981 – Bobby
Zamora, English footballer[50]
- 1982 – Preston, English
singer-songwriter
- 1982 – Tuncay, Turkish
footballer
- 1983 – Emanuel Pogatetz, Austrian
footballer
- 1983 – Andriy
Rusol, Ukrainian footballer
- 1984 – Stephan Lichtsteiner,
Swiss footballer
- 1984 – Miroslav
Radović, Serbian footballer
- 1985 – Jayde
Herrick, Australian cricketer
- 1985 – Gintaras
Januševičius, Russian-Lithuanian
pianist
- 1985 – Twins Jonathan[51] and Simon
Richter,[52] Danish-Gambian
footballers
- 1985 – Sidharth
Malhotra, Indian actor
- 1985 – Joe
Flacco, American football player[53]
- 1986 – Johannes
Rahn, German footballer
- 1986 – Mark
Trumbo, American baseball player
- 1986 – Reto
Ziegler, Swiss footballer[54]
- 1987 – Jake
Epstein, Canadian actor
- 1987 – Charlotte
Henshaw, English swimmer
- 1988 – Nicklas Bendtner, Danish
footballer
- 1988 – Jorge
Torres Nilo, Mexican footballer
- 1991 – Matt
Duchene, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1993 – Hannes
Anier, Estonian footballer
- 1993 – Amandine
Hesse, French tennis player
- 1995 – Mikaela
Turik, Australian-Canadian cricketer
- 1996 – Kim
Jennie, Korean singer[55]
- 2003 – Adriana
Hernández, Mexican rhythmic gymnast[56]
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