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Pre-1600[edit]
- 1342 – Philip
II, Duke of Burgundy (d.
1404)
- 1429 – Antonio
del Pollaiuolo, Italian artist (d.c. 1498)
- 1463 – Frederick
III, Elector of Saxony (d.
1525)
- 1463 – Antoine
Duprat, French cardinal (d. 1535)
- 1472 – Guidobaldo
da Montefeltro, Italian captain (d.
1508)
- 1484 – George Spalatin, German
priest and reformer (d. 1545)
- 1501 – Leonhart Fuchs, German
physician and botanist (d. 1566)
- 1504 – Pope
Pius V (d. 1572)[19]
- 1517 – Henry
Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English
Duke (d. 1554)
- 1560 – Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss
botanist, physician, and academic (d.
1624)
- 1574 – Robert
Fludd, English physician,
astrologer, and mathematician (d. 1637)
- 1593 – William Backhouse, English
alchemist and astrologer (d. 1662)
- 1600 – Pedro
Calderón de la Barca, Spanish
playwright and poet (d. 1681)
1601–1900[edit]
- 1612 – Thomas Fairfax, English
general and politician (d. 1671)
- 1640 – Jonathan
Singletary Dunham, American settler
(d. 1724)
- 1659 – Antonio Veracini, Italian
violinist and composer (d. 1745)
- 1666 – Antonio
Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist
and physician (d. 1723)
- 1686 – Archibald Bower, Scottish
historian and author (d. 1766)
- 1706 – Benjamin Franklin, American
publisher, inventor, and politician, 6th President
of Pennsylvania (d.
1790)
- 1712 – John
Stanley, English organist and
composer (d. 1786)
- 1719 – William Vernon, American
businessman (d. 1806)
- 1728 – Johann
Gottfried Müthel, German pianist and
composer (d. 1788)
- 1732 – Stanisław
August Poniatowski,
Polish-Lithuanian king (d. 1798)
- 1734 – François-Joseph
Gossec, French composer and
conductor (d. 1829)
- 1761 – Sir
James Hall, 4th Baronet, Scottish
geologist and geophysicist (d. 1832)
- 1789 – August Neander, German
historian and theologian (d. 1850)
- 1793 – Antonio
José Martínez, Spanish-American
priest, rancher and politician (d. 1867)
- 1814 – Ellen Wood,
English author (d. 1887)
- 1820 – Anne Brontë, English author
and poet (d. 1849)
- 1828 – Lewis A. Grant, American
lawyer and general, Medal
of Honor recipient
(d. 1918)
- 1828 – Ede
Reményi, Hungarian violinist and
composer (d. 1898)
- 1832 – Henry Martyn Baird,
American historian and academic (d. 1906)
- 1834 – August Weismann, German
biologist, zoologist, and geneticist (d.
1914)
- 1850 – Joaquim Arcoverde de
Albuquerque Cavalcanti, Brazilian
cardinal (d. 1930)
- 1850 – Alexander
Taneyev, Russian pianist and
composer (d. 1918)
- 1851 – A.
B. Frost, American author and
illustrator (d. 1928)
- 1853 – Alva
Belmont, American suffragist (d.
1933)[20]
- 1853 – T.
Alexander Harrison, American painter
and academic (d. 1930)
- 1857 – Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian
pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1941)
- 1857 – Eugene
Augustin Lauste, French-American
engineer (d. 1935)
- 1858 – Tomás
Carrasquilla, Colombian author (d.
1940)
- 1860 – Douglas
Hyde, Irish academic and politician,
1st President
of Ireland (d.
1949)
- 1863 – David Lloyd George,
Welsh lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom (d. 1945)
- 1863 – Konstantin
Stanislavski, Russian actor and
director (d. 1938)
- 1865 – Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th
Baronet, English general and
politician, 3rd Governor-General
of New Zealand (d.
1951)
- 1867 – Carl
Laemmle, German-born American film
producer, co-founded Universal Studios (d.
1939)
- 1867 – Sir Alfred Rawlinson, 3rd Baronet,
English colonel, pilot, and polo player
(d. 1934)
- 1871 – David
Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, English
admiral (d. 1936)
- 1871 – Nicolae
Iorga, Romanian historian and
politician, 34th Prime
Minister of Romania (d.
1940)
- 1875 – Florencio
Sánchez, Uruguayan journalist and
playwright (d. 1910)
- 1876 – Frank
Hague, American lawyer and
politician, 30th Mayor of Jersey City (d.
1956)
- 1877 – Marie
Zdeňka Baborová-Čiháková, Czech
botanist and zoologist (d. 1937)[21]
- 1877 – May
Gibbs, English-Australian author and
illustrator (d. 1969)
- 1880 – Mack
Sennett, Canadian-American actor,
director, and producer (d. 1960)
- 1881 – Antoni Łomnicki, Polish
mathematician and academic (d. 1941)
- 1881 – Harry
Price, English psychologist and
author (d. 1948)
- 1882 – Noah
Beery, Sr., American actor (d. 1946)
- 1883 – Compton Mackenzie,
English-Scottish author, poet, and
playwright (d. 1972)
- 1886 – Glenn L. Martin, American
pilot and businessman, founded the Glenn
L. Martin Company (d.
1955)
- 1887 – Ola
Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and
philologist (d. 1975)
- 1888 – Babu
Gulabrai, Indian philosopher and
author (d. 1963)
- 1897 – Marcel
Petiot, French physician and serial
killer (d. 1946)
- 1898 – Lela
Mevorah, Serbian librarian (d. 1972)[22]
- 1899 – Al
Capone, American mob boss (d. 1947)
- 1899 – Robert
Maynard Hutchins, American
philosopher and academic (d. 1977)
- 1899 – Nevil
Shute, English engineer and author
(d. 1960)
1901–present[edit]
- 1901 – Aron Gurwitsch,
Lithuanian-American philosopher and author
(d. 1973)
- 1904 – Hem
Vejakorn, Thai painter and
illustrator (d. 1969)
- 1905 – Ray Cunningham,
American baseball player (d. 2005)
- 1905 – Peggy
Gilbert, American saxophonist and
bandleader (d. 2007)
- 1905 – Eduard
Oja, Estonian composer, conductor,
educator, and critic (d. 1950)
- 1905 – Guillermo
Stábile, Argentinian footballer and
manager (d. 1966)
- 1905 – Jan
Zahradníček, Czech poet and
translator (d. 1960)
- 1907 – Henk
Badings, Indonesian-Dutch composer
and engineer (d. 1987)
- 1907 – Alfred
Wainwright, British fellwalker,
guidebook author and illustrator (d. 1991)
- 1908 – Cus
D'Amato, American boxing manager and
trainer (d. 1985)
- 1911 – Busher Jackson, Canadian ice
hockey player (d. 1966)
- 1911 – John
S. McCain Jr., American admiral (d.
1981)
- 1911 – George
Stigler, American economist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1991)
- 1914 – Anacleto Angelini,
Italian-Chilean businessman (d. 2007)
- 1914 – Irving
Brecher, American director,
producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008)
- 1914 – Paul
Royle, Australian lieutenant and
pilot (d. 2015)
- 1914 – William
Stafford, American poet and author
(d. 1993)
- 1916 – Peter
Frelinghuysen Jr., American
lieutenant and politician (d. 2011)
- 1917 – M. G. Ramachandran,
Indian actor, director, and politician,
3rd Chief
Minister of Tamil Nadu (d.
1987)
- 1918 – Keith
Joseph, English lawyer and
politician, Secretary
of State for Education (d.
1994)
- 1918 – George
M. Leader, American soldier and
politician, 36th Governor of
Pennsylvania (d.
2013)
- 1920 – Georges Pichard, French
author and illustrator (d. 2003)
- 1921 – Asghar
Khan, Pakistani general and
politician (d. 2018)
- 1921 – Jackie
Henderson, Scottish footballer (d.
2005)[23]
- 1921 – Charlie
Mitten, English footballer and
manager (d. 2002)[24]
- 1921 – Antonio
Prohías, Cuban cartoonist (d. 1998)
- 1922 – Luis Echeverría,
Mexican academic and politician, 50th President
of Mexico (d.
2022)[25]
- 1922 – Nicholas
Katzenbach, American soldier,
lawyer, and politician, 65th United
States Attorney General (d.
2012)
- 1922 – Betty
White, American actress, game show
panelist, television personality, and
animal rights activist (d. 2021)[26]
- 1923 – Rangeya Raghav, Indian author
and playwright (d. 1962)
- 1924 – Rik De Saedeleer, Belgian
footballer and journalist (d. 2013)
- 1924 – Jewel
Plummer Cobb, American biologist,
cancer researcher, and academic (d. 2017)
- 1925 – Gunnar Birkerts,
Latvian-American architect (d. 2017)
- 1925 – Robert
Cormier, American author and
journalist (d. 2000)
- 1925 – Abdul
Hafeez Kardar, Pakistani cricketer
and author (d. 1996)
- 1926 – Newton N. Minow, American
lawyer and politician
- 1926 – Moira
Shearer, Scottish-English ballerina
and actress (d. 2006)
- 1926 – Clyde
Walcott, Barbadian cricketer (d.
2006)
- 1927 – Thomas
Anthony Dooley III, American
physician and humanitarian (d. 1961)
- 1927 – Eartha
Kitt, American actress and singer
(d. 2008)[27]
- 1927 – Harlan
Mathews, American lawyer and
politician (d. 2014)
- 1927 – E.
W. Swackhamer, American director and
producer (d. 1994)
- 1928 – Jean Barraqué, French
composer (d. 1973)
- 1928 – Vidal
Sassoon, English-American
hairdresser and businessman (d. 2012)
- 1929 – Jacques Plante,
Canadian-Swiss ice hockey player, coach,
and sportscaster (d. 1986)
- 1929 – Tan
Boon Teik, Malaysian-Singaporean
lawyer and politician, Attorney-General
of Singapore (d.
2012)
- 1931 – James Earl Jones, American
actor
- 1931 – Douglas
Wilder, American sergeant and
politician, 66th Governor
of Virginia
- 1931 – Don
Zimmer, American baseball player,
coach, and manager (d. 2014)
- 1932 – Sheree
North, American actress and dancer
(d. 2005)
- 1933 – Dalida,
Egyptian-French singer and actress (d.
1987)
- 1933 – Prince
Sadruddin Aga Khan, French-Pakistani
diplomat, United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees (d.
2003)
- 1933 – Shari
Lewis, American actress,
puppeteer/ventriloquist, and television
host (d. 1998)
- 1934 – Donald Cammell,
Scottish-American director and
screenwriter (d. 1996)
- 1935 – Ruth Ann Minner, American
businesswoman and politician, 72nd Governor of Delaware
- 1936 – John Boyd,
English academic and diplomat, British ambassador to Japan (d.
2019)
- 1936 – A.
Thangathurai, Sri Lankan lawyer and
politician (d. 1997)
- 1937 – Alain
Badiou, French philosopher and
academic
- 1938 – John
Bellairs, American author and
academic (d. 1991)
- 1938 – Toini
Gustafsson, Swedish cross country
skier
- 1939 – Christodoulos
of Athens, Greek archbishop (d.
2008)
- 1939 – Maury
Povich, American talk show host and
producer
- 1940 – Nerses
Bedros XIX Tarmouni,
Egyptian-Armenian patriarch (d. 2015)
- 1940 – Kipchoge
Keino, Kenyan athlete
- 1940 – Tabaré
Vázquez, Uruguayan physician and
politician, 39th President
of Uruguay (d.
2020)
- 1941 – István Horthy, Jr.,
Hungarian physicist and architect
- 1942 – Muhammad
Ali, American boxer and activist (d.
2016)[28]
- 1942 – Ita
Buttrose, Australian journalist and
author
- 1942 – Ulf
Hoelscher, German violinist and
educator
- 1942 – Nigel
McCulloch, English bishop
- 1943 – Chris
Montez, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist
- 1943 – René
Préval, Haitian agronomist and
politician, 52nd President
of Haiti (d. 2017)
- 1944 – Ann
Oakley, English sociologist, author,
and academic
- 1945 – Javed
Akhtar, Indian poet, playwright, and
composer
- 1945 – Anne
Cutler, Australian psychologist and
academic
- 1948 – Davíð
Oddsson, Icelandic politician, 21st Prime
Minister of Iceland
- 1949 – Anita
Borg, American computer scientist
and academic (d. 2003)
- 1949 – Gyude
Bryant, Liberian businessman and
politician (d. 2014)
- 1949 – Augustin
Dumay, French violinist and
conductor
- 1949 – Andy
Kaufman, American actor and comedian
(d. 1984)
- 1949 – Mick
Taylor, English singer-songwriter
and guitarist
- 1950 – Luis López Nieves,
Puerto Rican-American author and academic
- 1952 – Tom
Deitz, American author (d. 2009)
- 1952 – Darrell
Porter, American baseball player and
sportscaster (d. 2002)
- 1952 – Ryuichi
Sakamoto, Japanese pianist,
composer, and producer
- 1953 – Jeff
Berlin, American bass player and
educator
- 1953 – Carlos
Johnson, American singer and
guitarist
- 1954 – Robert F. Kennedy,
Jr., American lawyer, radio host,
activist, and environmentalist
- 1955 – Steve
Earle, American singer-songwriter,
musician, record producer, author and
actor
- 1955 – Pietro
Parolin, Italian cardinal
- 1955 – Steve
Javie, American basketball player
and referee
- 1956 – Damian
Green, English journalist and
politician
- 1956 – Paul
Young, English singer-songwriter and
guitarist
- 1957 – Steve
Harvey, American actor, comedian,
television personality and game show host[29]
- 1957 – Ann
Nocenti, American journalist and
author
- 1958 – Tony Kouzarides,
English biologist, cancer researcher
- 1959 – Susanna
Hoffs, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and actress
- 1960 – John
Crawford, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist
- 1960 – Chili
Davis, Jamaican-American baseball
player and coach
- 1961 – Brian Helgeland, American
director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1962 – Jun
Azumi, Japanese broadcaster and
politician, 46th Japanese
Minister of Finance
- 1962 – Jim
Carrey, Canadian-American actor and
producer
- 1962 – Sebastian
Junger, American journalist and
author
- 1963 – Kai
Hansen, German singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer
- 1963 – Colin
Gordon, English footballer, agent,
manager and chief executive[30]
- 1964 – Michelle Obama, American
lawyer and activist, 46th First
Lady of the United States
- 1964 – John
Schuster, Samoan-New Zealand rugby
player
- 1965 – Sylvain Turgeon, Canadian ice
hockey player
- 1966 – Trish
Johnson, English golfer
- 1966 – Joshua
Malina, American actor
- 1967 – Richard Hawley, English
singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1968 – Rowan
Pelling, English journalist and
author
- 1968 – Ilja
Leonard Pfeijffer, Dutch author,
poet, and scholar
- 1969 – Naveen Andrews, English actor
- 1969 – Lukas
Moodysson, Swedish director,
screenwriter, and author
- 1969 – Tiësto, Dutch DJ
and producer
- 1970 – Cássio Alves de Barros,
Brazilian footballer
- 1970 – Jeremy
Roenick, American ice hockey player
and actor
- 1970 – Genndy
Tartakovsky, Russian-American
animator, director, and producer
- 1971 – Giorgos Balogiannis,
Greek basketball player
- 1971 – Richard
Burns, English race car driver (d.
2005)
- 1971 – Kid Rock,
American singer-songwriter, producer, and
actor
- 1971 – Sylvie
Testud, French actress, director,
and screenwriter
- 1973 – Cuauhtémoc
Blanco, Mexican footballer and actor
- 1973 – Chris
Bowen, Australian politician, 37th Treasurer
of Australia
- 1973 – Liz
Ellis, Australian netball player and
sportscaster
- 1973 – Aaron
Ward, Canadian ice hockey player and
sportscaster
- 1974 – Yang Chen, Chinese footballer
and manager
- 1974 – Vesko
Kountchev, Bulgarian viola player,
composer, and producer
- 1974 – Derrick
Mason, American football player
- 1975 – Freddy
Rodriguez, American actor
- 1978 – Lisa
Llorens, Australian Paralympian[31]
- 1978 – Ricky
Wilson, English singer-songwriter
- 1980 – Maksim Chmerkovskiy,
Ukrainian-American dancer and
choreographer
- 1980 – Zooey
Deschanel, American
singer-songwriter and actress
- 1980 – Modestas
Stonys, Lithuanian footballer
- 1981 – Warren
Feeney, Northern Irish footballer
and manager
- 1982 – Dwyane
Wade, American basketball player
- 1982 – Amanda
Wilkinson, Canadian singer
- 1983 – Álvaro Arbeloa, Spanish
footballer
- 1983 – Johannes
Herber, German basketball player
- 1983 – Rick
Kelly, Australian race car driver
- 1983 – Marcelo
Garcia, Brazilian martial artist
- 1984 – Calvin
Harris, Scottish singer-songwriter,
DJ, and producer
- 1985 – Pablo Barrientos,
Argentinian footballer
- 1985 – Betsy
Ruth, American wrestler and manager
- 1985 – Simone
Simons, Dutch singer-songwriter
- 1987 – Cody
Decker, American baseball player
- 1988 – Andrea Antonelli, Italian
motorcycle racer (d. 2013)
- 1988 – Will
Genia, Australian rugby player
- 1988 – Héctor Moreno,
Mexican footballer
- 1989 – Taylor
Jordan, American baseball player
- 1989 – Kelly
Marie Tran, American actress
- 1990 – Santiago
Tréllez, Colombian footballer
- 1991 – Trevor
Bauer, American baseball player
- 1991 – Esapekka
Lappi, Finnish Rally Driver
- 1991 – Slade
Griffin, Australian rugby league
player
- 1991 – Alise
Post, American BMX rider
- 1993 – Frankie Cocozza, British
singer
- 1994 – Mark
Steketee, Australian cricketer
- 1995 – Terutsuyoshi
Shoki, Japanese sumo wrestler[32]
- 1995 – Indya
Moore, American actor and model[33]
- 1997 – Jake
Paul, American YouTube personality,
actor, rapper, and professional boxer[34]
- 1998 – Jeff Reine-Adelaide,
French footballer
- 1998 – Sophie
Molineux, Australian cricketer
- 2000 – Devlin DeFrancesco,
Canadian race car driver[35]
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