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Pre-1600[edit]
1601–1900[edit]
- 1657 – William
Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury (d.
1737)[56]
- 1714 – Jean-Baptiste
Pigalle, French sculptor and
educator (d. 1785)[57]
- 1715 – Claude
Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher
(d. 1771)[58]
- 1716 – George Germain, 1st Viscount
Sackville, English general and
politician, Secretary of State for the
Colonies (d. 1785)
- 1722 – Alexander Carlyle, Scottish
minister and author (d. 1805)
- 1763 – Charles XIV John of
Sweden (d. 1844)
- 1781 – Ludwig Achim von Arnim,
German poet and author (d. 1831)
- 1813 – Juan Pablo Duarte, Dominican
philosopher and poet (d. 1876)
- 1824 – Emil Czyrniański,
Polish chemist (d. 1888)[59]
- 1832 – George Shiras, Jr.,
American lawyer and jurist (d. 1924)
- 1842 – François
Coppée, French poet and author (d.
1908)
- 1852 – Pierre
Savorgnan de Brazza, Italian-French
explorer (d. 1905)
- 1857 – 12th Dalai Lama (d.
1875)
- 1861 – Louis Anquetin, French
painter (d. 1932)
- 1864 – József Pusztai,
Slovene-Hungarian poet and journalist (d.
1934)
- 1866 – John Cady, American golfer
(d. 1933)
- 1877 – Kees van Dongen, Dutch
painter (d. 1968)[60]
- 1878 – Dave
Nourse, English-South African
cricketer and coach (d. 1948)
- 1880 – Douglas MacArthur, American
general, Medal
of Honor recipient
(d. 1964)
- 1885 – Michael Considine,
Irish-Australian politician (d. 1959)
- 1885 – Harry
Ricardo, English engineer and
academic (d. 1974)
- 1885 – Per
Thorén, Swedish figure skater (d.
1962)
- 1887 – François Faber,
French-Luxembourgian cyclist (d. 1915)
- 1887 – Marc
Mitscher, American admiral and pilot
(d. 1947)
- 1887 – Dimitris
Pikionis, Greek architect and
academic (d. 1968)
- 1891 – Frank Costello,
Italian-American mob boss (d. 1973)
- 1891 – August
Froehlich, German priest and martyr
(d. 1942)
- 1891 – Wilder
Penfield, American-Canadian
neurosurgeon and academic (d. 1976)
- 1892 – Bessie Coleman, American
pilot (d. 1926)[61]
- 1893 – Giuseppe
Genco Russo, Italian mob boss (d.
1976)
- 1899 – Günther
Reindorff, Russian-Estonian graphic
designer and illustrator (d. 1974)
- 1900 – Karl Ristenpart,
German conductor (d. 1967)
1901–present[edit]
- 1902 – Menno ter Braak, Dutch author
(d. 1940)
- 1904 – Ancel
Keys, American physiologist and
nutritionist (d. 2004)
- 1904 – Seán
MacBride, Irish lawyer and
politician, Irish Minister for External
Affairs Nobel
Prize laureate (d.
1988)
- 1905 – Charles Lane, American actor
and singer (d. 2007)
- 1905 – Maria
von Trapp, Austrian-American singer
(d. 1987)[62]
- 1907 – Dimitrios Holevas, Greek
priest and philologist (d. 2001)
- 1908 – Jill
Esmond, English actress (d. 1990)
- 1908 – Rupprecht
Geiger, German painter and sculptor
(d. 2009)
- 1908 – Stéphane
Grappelli, French violinist (d.
1997)
- 1910 – Jean
Image, Hungarian-French animator,
director, and screenwriter (d. 1989)
- 1911 – Polykarp Kusch,
German-American physicist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d.
1993)
- 1911 – Norbert
Schultze, German composer and
conductor (d. 2002)
- 1913 – Jimmy Van Heusen, American
pianist and composer (d. 1990)
- 1914 – Dürrüşehvar
Sultan, Imperial Princess of the
Ottoman Empire (d. 2006)
- 1915 – William Hopper, American
actor (d. 1970)
- 1917 – Louis Zamperini, American
runner and captain (d. 2014)
- 1918 – Philip
José Farmer, American author (d.
2009)
- 1919 – Valentino Mazzola, Italian
footballer (d. 1949)
- 1919 – Bill
Nicholson, English footballer and
manager (d. 2004)
- 1919 – Hyun
Soong-jong, South Korean politician,
24th Prime
Minister of South Korea (d.
2020)
- 1920 – Hans
Holzer, Austrian-American paranormal
researcher and author (d. 2009)
- 1921 – Eddie
Barclay, French record producer,
founded Barclay Records (d.
2005)
- 1921 – Akio
Morita, Japanese businessman,
co-founded Sony (d.
1999)
- 1922 – Michael Bentine, English
actor and screenwriter (d. 1996)
- 1922 – Seán
Flanagan, Irish footballer and
politician, 7th Irish
Minister for Health (d.
1993)
- 1922 – Gil
Merrick, English footballer (d.
2010)
- 1923 – Patrick J. Hannifin,
American admiral (d. 2014)
- 1923 – Anne
Jeffreys, American actress and
singer (d. 2017)
- 1924 – Alice
Babs, Swedish singer and actress (d.
2014)[63]
- 1924 – Annette
Strauss, American philanthropist and
politician, Mayor
of Dallas (d.
1998)
- 1925 – David
Jenkins, English bishop and
theologian (d. 2016)
- 1925 – Joan
Leslie, American actress (d. 2015)
- 1925 – Paul
Newman, American actor, activist,
director, race car driver, and
businessman, co-founded Newman's
Own (d. 2008)
- 1925 – Ben
Pucci, American football player and
sportscaster (d. 2013)
- 1925 – Claude
Ryan, Canadian journalist and
politician (d. 2004)
- 1926 – Farman Fatehpuri, Pakistani
linguist and scholar (d. 2013)
- 1926 – Joseph Bacon Fraser,
Jr., American architect and
businessman, co-founded the Sea Pines Company (d.
2014)
- 1927 – José
Azcona del Hoyo, Honduran
businessman and politician, President
of Honduras (d.
2005)
- 1927 – Bob
Nieman, American baseball player and
scout (d. 1985)
- 1927 – Hubert
Schieth, German footballer and
manager (d. 2013)
- 1928 – Roger
Vadim, French actor and director (d.
2000)
- 1929 – Jules
Feiffer, American cartoonist,
playwright, screenwriter, and educator
- 1933 – Donald Sarason, American
mathematician (d. 2017)[64]
- 1934 – Roger
Landry, Canadian businessman and
publisher (d. 2020)
- 1934 – Charles
Marowitz, American director,
playwright, and critic (d. 2014)
- 1934 – Huey
"Piano" Smith, American pianist and
songwriter
- 1934 – Bob
Uecker, American baseball player,
sportscaster and actor
- 1935 – Corrado Augias, Italian
journalist and politician
- 1935 – Henry
Jordan, American football player (d.
1977)
- 1935 – Paula
Rego, Portuguese-born British visual
artist (d. 2022)
- 1936 – Sal
Buscema, American illustrator
- 1937 – Joseph Saidu Momoh,
Sierra Leonean soldier and politician, 2nd President
of Sierra Leone (d.
2003)
- 1938 – Henry
Jaglom, English-American director
and screenwriter
- 1940 – Séamus Hegarty, Irish bishop
(d. 2019)
- 1940 – Frank
Large, English footballer and
cricketer (d. 2003)[65]
- 1943 – César
Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball
player and manager (d. 2005)
- 1943 – Jack
Warner, Trinidadian businessman and
politician
- 1944 – Angela
Davis, American activist, academic,
and author[66]
- 1944 – Jerry
Sandusky, American football coach
and criminal
- 1945 – Jacqueline
du Pré, English cellist (d. 1987)
- 1945 – David
Purley, English race car driver (d.
1985)
- 1946 – Christopher
Hampton, Portuguese-English
director, screenwriter, and playwright
- 1946 – Gene
Siskel, American journalist and film
critic (d. 1999)
- 1946 – Susan
Friedlander, American mathematician
- 1947 – Patrick Dewaere, French actor
and composer (d. 1982)
- 1947 – Les
Ebdon, English chemist and academic
- 1947 – Redmond Morris, 4th Baron
Killanin, Irish director, producer,
and production manager
- 1947 – Michel
Sardou, French singer-songwriter and
actor
- 1948 – Alda
Facio, Costa Rican jurist, writer
and teacher
- 1949 – Jonathan Carroll, American
author
- 1949 – David
Strathairn, American actor
- 1950 – Jörg Haider, Austrian lawyer
and politician, Governor
of Carinthia (d.
2008)
- 1951 – David Briggs, Australian
guitarist, songwriter, and producer
- 1951 – Andy
Hummel, American singer-songwriter
and bass player (d. 2010)
- 1951 – Anne
Mills, English economist and
academic
- 1953 – Alik
L. Alik, Micronesian politician, 7th Vice
President of the Federated States of
Micronesia
- 1953 – Anders
Fogh Rasmussen, Danish politician
and diplomat, 39th Prime
Minister of Denmark
- 1953 – Lucinda
Williams, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist
- 1954 – Kim
Hughes, Australian cricketer
- 1955 – Eddie Van Halen,
Dutch-American guitarist, songwriter, and
producer (d. 2020)
- 1957 – Road Warrior Hawk,
American wrestler (d. 2003)
- 1958 – Anita
Baker, American singer-songwriter
- 1958 – Ellen
DeGeneres, American comedian,
actress, and talk show host
- 1961 – Wayne
Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player
and coach
- 1961 – Tom
Keifer, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist
- 1962 – Guo
Jian, Chinese-Australian painter,
sculptor, and photographer
- 1962 – Tim May,
Australian cricketer
- 1962 – Oscar
Ruggeri, Argentinian footballer and
manager
- 1963 – José Mourinho, Portuguese
footballer and manager
- 1963 – Simon
O'Donnell, Australian footballer,
cricketer, and sportscaster
- 1963 – Tony
Parks, English footballer and
manager
- 1963 – Andrew
Ridgeley, English singer-songwriter
and guitarist
- 1964 – Adam
Crozier, Scottish businessman
- 1965 – Thomas Östros, Swedish
businessman and politician
- 1965 – Natalia
Yurchenko, Russian gymnast and coach
- 1966 – Kazushige
Nagashima, Japanese baseball player
and sportscaster
- 1967 – Anatoly
Komm, Russian chef and businessman
- 1967 – Col
Needham, English businessman,
co-founded Internet Movie
Database
- 1968 – Jupiter
Apple, Brazilian singer-songwriter,
film director, and actor (d. 2015)
- 1969 – George Dikeoulakos,
Greek-Romanian basketball player and coach
- 1970 – Kirk
Franklin, American singer-songwriter
and producer
- 1973 – Larissa Lowing, Canadian
artistic gymnast[67]
- 1973 – Melvil
Poupaud, French actor, director, and
screenwriter
- 1973 – Brendan
Rodgers, Northern Irish footballer
and manager
- 1973 – Mayu
Shinjo, Japanese author and
illustrator
- 1977 – Vince
Carter, American basketball player
- 1977 – Justin
Gimelstob, American tennis player
and coach
- 1978 – Corina Morariu, American
tennis player and sportscaster
- 1981 – José
de Jesús Corona, Mexican footballer
- 1981 – Gustavo
Dudamel, Venezuelan violinist,
composer, and conductor
- 1981 – Juan
José Haedo, Argentinian cyclist
- 1981 – Colin
O'Donoghue, Irish actor
- 1982 – Reggie
Hodges, American football player
- 1983 – Petri Oravainen, Finnish
footballer
- 1983 – Eric
Werner, American ice hockey player
- 1984 – Ryan
Hoffman, Australian rugby league
player
- 1984 – Iain
Turner, Scottish footballer
- 1984 – Luo
Xuejuan, Chinese swimmer
- 1985 – Heather Stanning, English
rower
- 1986 – Gerald
Green, American basketball player
- 1986 – Kim
Jae-joong, South Korean singer,
songwriter, actor, director and designer.
- 1986 – Mustapha
Yatabaré, French-Malian footballer
- 1987 – Sebastian Giovinco, Italian
footballer
- 1988 – Dimitrios
Chondrokoukis, Greek high jumper
- 1989 – MarShon Brooks, American
basketball player
- 1989 – Emily
Hughes, American figure skater
- 1990 – Sergio Pérez, Mexican race
car driver[68]
- 1990 – Peter
Sagan, Slovak professional cyclist
- 1990 – Nina
Zander, German tennis player
- 1992 – Sasha
Banks, American wrestler[69]
- 1993 – Lana
Clelland, Scottish footballer[70]
- 1993 – Florian
Thauvin, French footballer[71]
- 1995 – Sione Katoa, New Zealand
rugby league player[72]
- 1997 – Gedion Zelalem, German-born
American soccer player[73]
- 1998 – Moon
Bin, South Korean singer and actor.[74]
- 2001 – Latalia
Bevan, Welsh artistic gymnast[75]
- 2002 – Darya Astakhova, Russian
tennis player[76]
- 2009 – YaYa
Gosselin, American actress[77][78]
- 2009 – The Suleman octuplets[79]
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