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Pre-1600
1601–1900
- 1622 – Abraham Diepraam, Dutch
painter (d. 1670)
- 1719 – John
Landen, English mathematician and
theorist (d. 1790)
- 1737 – John
Hancock, American general and
politician, first Governor
of Massachusetts (d.
1793)[18]
- 1745 – William Jessop, English
engineer, built the Cromford
Canal (d. 1814)
- 1752 – Muzio Clementi, Italian
pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1832)[19]
- 1780 – Georgios
Karaiskakis, Greek general (d. 1827)
- 1783 – Stendhal,
French novelist (d. 1842)
- 1786 – Auguste
de Montferrand, French-Russian
architect, designed Saint
Isaac's Cathedral and Alexander Column (d.
1858)
- 1799 – Alois Negrelli, Tyrolean
engineer and railroad pioneer active in
the Austrian Empire (d. 1858)
- 1809 – Surendra
Sai, Indian activist (d. 1884)
- 1813 – Camilla Collett, Norwegian
novelist and activist (d. 1895)
- 1828 – Saigō Takamori, Japanese
samurai (d. 1877)
- 1832 – Édouard Manet, French painter
(d. 1883)
- 1833 – Muthu Coomaraswamy,
Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (d. 1879)
- 1838 – Marianne
Cope, German-American nun and saint
(d. 1918)
- 1840 – Ernst
Abbe, German physicist and engineer
(d. 1905)
- 1846 – Nikolay
Umov, Russian physicist and
mathematician (d. 1915)
- 1855 – John
Browning, American weapons designer,
founded the Browning
Arms Company (d.
1926)
- 1857 – Andrija
Mohorovičić, Croatian meteorologist
and seismologist (d. 1936)
- 1862 – David
Hilbert, German mathematician and
academic (d. 1943)
- 1862 – Frank
Shuman, American inventor and
engineer (d. 1918)
- 1872 – Paul
Langevin, French physicist and
academic (d. 1946)
- 1872 – Jože
Plečnik, Slovenian architect,
designed Plečnik
Parliament (d.
1957)
- 1876 – Otto
Diels, German chemist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d.
1954)
- 1878 – Rutland Boughton, English
composer (d. 1960)
- 1880 – Antonio
Díaz Soto y Gama, Mexican politician
(d. 1967)
- 1889 – Claribel Kendall, American
mathematician (d.1965)[20]
- 1894 – Jyotirmoyee Devi, Indian
author (d. 1988)
- 1896 – Alf
Blair, Australian rugby league
player and coach (d. 1944)
- 1896 – Alf Hall,
English-South African cricketer (d. 1964)
- 1897 – Subhas Chandra Bose,
Indian freedom fighter and politician (d.
1945)
- 1897 – Margarete
Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect
(d. 2000)
- 1897 – Ieva
Simonaitytė, Lithuanian author (d.
1978)
- 1897 – William
Stephenson, Canadian captain and spy
(d. 1989)
- 1898 – Georg Kulenkampff,
German violinist (d. 1948)
- 1898 – Randolph
Scott, American actor (d. 1987)
- 1898 – Freda
Utley, English scholar and author
(d. 1978)
- 1899 – Glen
Kidston, English racing driver and
pilot (d. 1931)
- 1900 – William Ifor Jones,
Welsh organist and conductor (d. 1988)
1901–present
- 1901 – Arthur
Wirtz, American businessman (d.
1983)
- 1903 – Jorge
Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian lawyer and
politician, 16th Minister
of National Education of Colombia (d.
1948)
- 1905 – Erich Borchmeyer,
German sprinter (d. 2000)
- 1907 – Dan
Duryea, American actor and singer
(d. 1968)
- 1907 – Hideki
Yukawa, Japanese physicist and
academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d.
1981)
- 1910 – Django Reinhardt, Belgian
guitarist and composer (d. 1953)
- 1912 – Boris Pokrovsky, Russian
director and manager (d. 2009)
- 1913 – Jean-Michel
Atlan, Algerian-French painter (d.
1960)
- 1913 – Wally
Parks, American businessman, founded
the National
Hot Rod Association (d.
2007)
- 1915 – Herma
Bauma, Austrian javelin thrower and
handball player (d. 2003)
- 1915 – W.
Arthur Lewis, Saint Lucian-Barbadian
economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1991)
- 1915 – Potter
Stewart, American lawyer and judge
(d. 1985)
- 1916 – David Douglas Duncan,
American photographer and journalist (d.
2018)
- 1916 – Airey
Neave, English colonel, lawyer, and
politician, Shadow
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (d.
1979)
- 1918 – Gertrude B. Elion, American
biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1999)
- 1918 – Florence
Rush, American social worker and
theorist (d. 2008)
- 1919 – Frances
Bay, Canadian-American actress (d.
2011)
- 1919 – Hans
Hass, Austrian biologist and diver
(d. 2013)
- 1919 – Ernie
Kovacs, American actor and game show
host (d. 1962)[21]
- 1919 – Bob
Paisley, English footballer and
manager (d. 1996)
- 1920 – Gottfried
Böhm, German architect (d. 2021)
- 1920 – Henry
Eriksson, Swedish runner (d. 2000)
- 1920 – Walter
Frederick Morrison, American
businessman, invented the Frisbee (d.
2010)
- 1922 – Leon
Golub, American painter and academic
(d. 2004)
- 1922 – Tom Lewis,
Australian politician, 33rd Premier
of New South Wales (d.
2016)
- 1923 – Horace Ashenfelter,
American runner (d. 2018)
- 1923 – Cot Deal,
American baseball player and coach (d.
2013)
- 1923 – Walter M. Miller, Jr.,
American soldier and author (d. 1996)
- 1924 – Frank Lautenberg,
American soldier, businessman, and
politician (d. 2013)
- 1925 – Marty
Paich, American pianist, composer,
producer, and conductor (d. 1995)
- 1926 – Bal
Thackeray, Indian journalist,
cartoonist, and politician (d. 2012)
- 1927 – Lars-Eric Lindblad,
Swedish-American businessman and explorer
(d. 1994)
- 1927 – Fred
Williams, Australian painter (d.
1982)
- 1928 – Chico Carrasquel,
Venezuelan baseball player and manager (d.
2005)
- 1928 – Jeanne
Moreau, French actress (d. 2017)
- 1929 – Myron
Cope, American journalist and
sportscaster (d. 2008)
- 1929 – Phillip
Knightley, Australian journalist,
author, and critic (d. 2016)
- 1929 – John
Polanyi, German-Canadian chemist and
academic, Nobel
Prize laureate
- 1930 – Filaret,
Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
of the Kyivan
- 1930 – Mervyn
Rose, Australian tennis player (d.
2017)
- 1930 – Derek
Walcott, Saint Lucian poet and
playwright, Nobel
Prize laureate (d.
2017)[22]
- 1930 – Teresa
Żylis-Gara, Polish operatic soprano
- 1932 – George Allen, English
footballer (d. 2016)
- 1932 – Larri
Thomas, American actress and dancer
(d. 2013)
- 1933 – Bill
Hayden, Australian politician, 21st Governor
General of Australia
- 1933 – Chita
Rivera, American actress, singer,
and dancer
- 1934 – Pierre Bourgault, Canadian
journalist and politician (d. 2003)
- 1935 – Mike
Agostini, Trinidadian sprinter (d.
2016)
- 1935 – Tom
Reamy, American author (d. 1977)
- 1936 – Jerry
Kramer, American football player and
sportscaster
- 1936 – Cécile
Ousset, French pianist
- 1938 – Giant
Baba, Japanese wrestler and
promoter, founded All
Japan Pro Wrestling (d.
1999)
- 1938 – Georg
Baselitz, German painter and
sculptor
- 1939 – Ed
Roberts, American disability rights
activist (d. 1995)
- 1940 – Alan
Cheuse, American writer and critic
(d. 2015)
- 1940 – Joe
Dowell, American pop singer (d.
2016)
- 1941 – Jock R. Anderson, Australian
economist and academic
- 1941 – João
Ubaldo Ribeiro, Brazilian
journalist, author, and academic (d. 2014)
- 1942 – Laurie
Mayne, Australian cricketer
- 1942 – Herman
Tjeenk Willink, Dutch judge and
politician
- 1942 – Phil
Clarke, New Zealand rugby union
player[23]
- 1943 – Özhan
Canaydın, Turkish basketball player
and businessman (d. 2010)
- 1944 – Rutger
Hauer, Dutch actor, director, and
producer (d. 2019)[24]
- 1945 – Mike
Harris, Canadian politician, 22nd Premier of Ontario
- 1946 – Arnoldo Alemán, Nicaraguan
lawyer and politician, President
of Nicaragua
- 1946 – Boris
Berezovsky, Russian-English
businessman and mathematician (d. 2013)
- 1947 – Tom
Carper, American captain and
politician, 71st Governor of Delaware
- 1947 – Megawati
Sukarnoputri, Indonesian politician, President
of Indonesia[25]
- 1948 – Anita
Pointer, American R&B/soul
singer-songwriter
- 1950 – Richard
Dean Anderson, American actor,
producer, and composer
- 1950 – Guida
Maria, Portuguese actress (d. 2018)
- 1950 – Suzanne
Scotchmer, American economist and
academic (d. 2014)
- 1950 – Luis
Alberto Spinetta, Argentinian
singer-songwriter, guitarist, and poet (d.
2012)
- 1951 – Chesley Sullenberger,
American airline pilot and safety expert[26]
- 1952 – Omar
Henry, South African cricketer
- 1953 – John Luther Adams,
American composer[27]
- 1953 – Alister
McGrath, Irish priest, historian,
and theologian
- 1953 – Antonio
Villaraigosa, American politician,
41st Mayor
of Los Angeles
- 1953 – Robin
Zander, American rock
singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1954 – Trevor
Hohns, Australian cricketer
- 1957 – Caroline,
Princess of Hanover
- 1958 – Sergey Litvinov, Russian
hammer thrower (d. 2018)
- 1959 – Clive
Bull, English radio host
- 1960 – Jean-François
Sauvé, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1960 – Greg
Ritchie, Australian cricketer
- 1961 – Neil
Henry, Australian rugby league
player and coach
- 1961 – Yelena
Sinchukova, Russian long jumper
- 1962 – David
Arnold, English composer
- 1962 – Aivar
Lillevere, Estonian footballer and
coach
- 1962 – Elvira
Lindo, Spanish journalist and author
- 1964 – Jonatha Brooke, American
singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1964 – Mariska
Hargitay, American actress and
producer
- 1964 – Bharrat
Jagdeo, Guyanese economist and
politician, seventh President
of Guyana
- 1964 – Mario
Roberge, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1965 – Louie Clemente, American
drummer
- 1966 – Damien Hardman, Australian
surfer
- 1966 – Haywoode
Workman, American basketball player
and referee
- 1967 – Owen Cunningham,
Australian rugby league player
- 1968 – Taro
Hakase, Japanese violinist and
composer
- 1968 – Petr
Korda, Czech-Monacan tennis player
- 1969 – Andrei Kanchelskis,
Ukrainian-Russian footballer and manager
- 1969 – Brendan
Shanahan, Canadian ice hockey player
and actor
- 1969 – Susen
Tiedtke, German long jumper
- 1970 – Spyridon Vasdekis, Greek long
jumper
- 1971 – Scott
Gibbs, Welsh-South African rugby
player and sportscaster
- 1971 – Adam
Parore, New Zealand cricketer and
mountaineer
- 1971 – Claire
Rankin, Canadian actress
- 1972 – Ewen
Bremner, Scottish actor
- 1973 – Tomas Holmström, Swedish ice
hockey player
- 1974 – Glen
Chapple, English cricketer
- 1974 – Rebekah
Elmaloglou, Australian actress
- 1974 – Jack
Michaels, American ice hockey
commentator[28][29]
- 1974 – Yosvani
Pérez, Cuban baseball player
- 1974 – Richard
T. Slone, English painter
- 1974 – Tiffani
Thiessen, American actress
- 1975 – Nick
Harmer, German musician
- 1975 – Phil
Dawson, American football player
- 1976 – Brandon Duckworth, American
baseball player and scout
- 1976 – Anne
Margrethe Hausken, Norwegian
orienteering competitor
- 1976 – Alex Shaffer,
American skier
- 1979 – Larry
Hughes, American basketball player
- 1979 – Dawn
O'Porter, Scottish-English fashion
designer and journalist
- 1979 – Juan
Rincón, Venezuelan baseball player
and coach
- 1981 – Rob
Friend, Canadian soccer player
- 1982 – Wily Mo Peña, Dominican
baseball player
- 1982 – Oceana Mahlmann, German
singer and songwriter
- 1982 – Andrew
Rock, American sprinter
- 1983 – Irving Saladino, Panamanian
long jumper
- 1984 – Robbie
Farah, Australian rugby league
player
- 1984 – Arjen
Robben, Dutch footballer
- 1985 – Dong
Fangzhuo, Chinese footballer
- 1985 – Doutzen
Kroes, Dutch model and actress
- 1985 – Yevgeny
Lukyanenko, Russian pole vaulter
- 1985 – Aselefech
Mergia, Ethiopian runner
- 1985 – Jeff
Samardzija, American baseball player
- 1985 – San E, South
Korean rapper
- 1986 – Gelete
Burka, Ethiopian runner
- 1986 – Marc
Laird, Scottish footballer
- 1986 – José
Enrique, Spanish footballer
- 1986 – Steven
Taylor, English footballer
- 1986 – Sandro
Viletta, Swiss skier
- 1987 – Leo
Komarov, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1988 – Shaun Kenny-Dowall,
Australian-New Zealand rugby league player
- 1990 – Alex
Silva, Canadian wrestler
- 1991 – Steve Birnbaum, American
footballer[30]
- 1992 – Reina
Triendl, Japanese model and actress
- 1994 – Addison Russell, American
baseball player
- 1995 – Luke
Bateman, Australian rugby league
player
- 1995 – Tuimoala
Lolohea, New Zealand rugby league
player
- 1998 – XXXTentacion,
American rapper (d. 2018)[31]
- 2001 – Olga Danilović, Serbian
tennis player[32]
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