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Pre-1600[edit]
1601–1900[edit]
- 1605 – Philip IV of Spain (d.
1665)
- 1605 – Mary
Stuart, English-Scottish princess
(d. 1607)
- 1641 – Henry
Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English
general and politician, Secretary
of State for the Northern Department (d.
1704)
- 1692 – Giuseppe Tartini, Italian
violinist and composer (d. 1770)
- 1726 – Lewis
Morris, American judge and
politician (d. 1798)
- 1732 – David Rittenhouse,
American astronomer and mathematician (d.
1796)
- 1761 – William
Joseph Chaminade, French priest,
founded the Society
of Mary (d. 1850)
- 1770 – John Thomas Campbell,
Irish-Australian banker and politician (d.
1830)
- 1798 – Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet
and author (d. 1857)
- 1818 – Christian
IX of Denmark (d.
1906)
- 1818 – August
Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist
and academic (d. 1892)
- 1826 – Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican
soldier (d. 1890)
- 1827 – Ramón
Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican
ophthalmologist, journalist, and
politician (d. 1898)[25]
- 1842 – Elizabeth
Bacon Custer, American author and
educator (d. 1933)
- 1859 – Edmund Husserl, German
Jewish-Austrian mathematician and
philosopher (d. 1938)
- 1864 – Carlos Deltour, French rower
and rugby player (d. 1920)
- 1867 – Allen Butler Talcott,
American painter and educator (d. 1908)
- 1869 – Harvey Cushing, American
surgeon and academic (d. 1939)
- 1871 – Clarence
Hudson White, American photographer
and educator (d. 1925)
- 1874 – Manuel
Díaz, Cuban fencer (d. 1929)
- 1874 – Stanisław
Taczak, Polish general (d. 1960)
- 1875 – Albert I of Belgium (d.
1934)
- 1882 (O.S.
27 March) – Dmytro
Doroshenko, Lithuanian-Ukrainian
historian and politician, Minister
of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and
Prime Minister of Ukraine (d. 1951)
- 1883 – R.
P. Keigwin, English cricketer and
academic (d. 1972)
- 1883 – Julius
Seljamaa, Estonian journalist and
politician, Minister
of Foreign Affairs of Estonia (d.
1936)
- 1885 – Dimitrios Levidis,
Greek-French soldier, composer, and
educator (d. 1951)
- 1886 – Margaret
Ayer Barnes, American author and
playwright (d. 1967)[26]
- 1888 – Dennis Chávez, American
journalist and politician (d. 1962)
- 1889 – Adrian
Boult, English conductor (d. 1983)
- 1892 – Richard Neutra,
Austrian-American architect, designer of
the Los Angeles County Hall of
Records (d. 1970)
- 1892 – Mary
Pickford, Canadian-American actress,
producer, screenwriter and co-founder of United Artists (d.
1979)[27]
- 1896 – Yip
Harburg, American composer (d. 1981)
- 1900 – Marie
Byles, Australian solicitor (d.
1979) [28]
1901–present[edit]
- 1902 – Andrew
Irvine, English mountaineer and
explorer (d. 1924)
- 1902 – Maria
Maksakova Sr., Russian soprano (d.
1974)
- 1904 – John
Hicks, English economist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1989)
- 1904 – Hirsch
Jacobs, American horse trainer (d.
1970)
- 1905 – Joachim Büchner, German
sprinter and graphic designer (d. 1978)
- 1905 – Helen
Joseph, English-South African
activist (d. 1992)
- 1905 – Erwin
Keller, German field hockey player
(d. 1971)
- 1906 – Raoul
Jobin, Canadian tenor and educator
(d. 1974)
- 1908 – Hugo Fregonese, Argentinian
director and screenwriter (d. 1987)[29]
- 1909 – John
Fante, American author and
screenwriter (d. 1983)
- 1910 – George
Musso, American football player and
police officer (d. 2000)
- 1911 – Melvin
Calvin, American chemist and
academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d.
1997)
- 1911 – Emil
Cioran, Romanian-French philosopher
and academic (d. 1995)
- 1912 – Alois
Brunner, Austrian-German SS officer
(d. 2001 or 2010)
- 1912 – Sonja
Henie, Norwegian-American figure
skater and actress (d. 1969)
- 1914 – María Félix, Yaqui/Basque-Mexican
actress (d. 2002)
- 1915 – Ivan
Supek, Croatian physicist,
philosopher and writer (d. 2007)
- 1917 – Winifred Asprey, American
mathematician and computer scientist (d.
2007)
- 1917 – Lloyd
Bott, Australian public servant (d.
2004)
- 1917 – Hubertus
Ernst, Dutch bishop (d. 2017)
- 1917 – Grigori
Kuzmin, Russian-Estonian astronomer
(d. 1988)
- 1918 – Betty
Ford, American wife of Gerald
Ford, 40th First
Lady of the United States (d.
2011)
- 1918 – Glendon
Swarthout, American author and
academic (d. 1992)
- 1919 – Ian
Smith, Zimbabwean lieutenant and
politician, 1st Prime
Minister of Rhodesia (d.
2007)
- 1921 – Franco Corelli, Italian tenor
and actor (d. 2003)
- 1920 – Carmen
McRae, American singer-songwriter,
pianist, and actress (d. 1994)
- 1921 – Jan
Novák, Czech composer (d. 1984)
- 1921 – Herman
van Raalte, Dutch footballer (d.
2013)
- 1923 – George
Fisher, American cartoonist (d.
2003)
- 1923 – Edward
Mulhare, Irish-American actor (d.
1997)
- 1924 – Frédéric
Back, German-Canadian animator,
director, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
- 1924 – Anthony
Farrar-Hockley, English general and
historian (d. 2006)
- 1924 – Kumar
Gandharva, Hindustani classical
singer (d. 1992)
- 1924 – Sara
Northrup Hollister, American
occultist (d. 1997)
- 1926 – Henry
N. Cobb, American architect and
academic, co-founded Pei
Cobb Freed & Partners (d.
2020)
- 1926 – Shecky
Greene, American comedian
- 1926 – Jürgen
Moltmann, German theologian and
academic
- 1927 – Tilly Armstrong, English
author (d. 2010)
- 1927 – Ollie
Mitchell, American trumpet player
and bandleader (d. 2013)
- 1928 – Fred
Ebb, American lyricist (d. 2004)
- 1929 – Jacques
Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter and
actor (d. 1978)
- 1929 – Renzo
De Felice, Italian historian and
author (d. 1996)
- 1930 – Carlos
Hugo, Duke of Parma (d.
2010)
- 1931 – John
Gavin, American actor and diplomat, United
States Ambassador to Mexico (d.
2018)[30]
- 1932 – Iskandar of Johor (d.
2010)
- 1933 – James
Lockhart, American scholar of
colonial Latin America, especially Nahua
peoples (d. 2014)
- 1934 – Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese
architect, designed the Nakagin
Capsule Tower and Singapore Flyer (d.
2007)
- 1935 – Oscar Zeta Acosta, American
lawyer and politician (d. 1974)
- 1935 – Albert
Bustamante, American soldier,
educator, and politician
- 1937 – Tony
Barton, English footballer and
manager (d. 1993)[31]
- 1937 – Seymour
Hersh, American journalist and
author
- 1937 – Momo
Kapor, Serbian author and painter
(d. 2010)
- 1938 – Kofi
Annan, Ghanaian economist and
diplomat, 7th Secretary-General of the United
Nations (d. 2018)
- 1938 – John
Hamm, Canadian physician and
politician, 25th Premier
of Nova Scotia
- 1938 – Mary
W. Gray, American mathematician,
statistician, and lawyer
- 1939 – Manolis Angelopoulos,
Greek singer, composer and songwriter (d.
1989)[32]
- 1939 – John
Arbuthnott, Scottish microbiologist
and academic
- 1939 – Trina
Schart Hyman, American author and
illustrator (d. 2004)
- 1940 – John
Havlicek, American basketball player
(d. 2019)
- 1941 – Vivienne Westwood, English
fashion designer
- 1942 – Tony
Banks, Baron Stratford, Northern
Irish politician, Minister
for Sport and the Olympics (d.
2006)
- 1942 – Roger
Chapman, English singer-songwriter
and guitarist
- 1942 – Douglas
Trumbull, American director,
producer, and special effects artist (d.
2022)
- 1943 – Michael
Bennett, American dancer,
choreographer, and director (d. 1987)
- 1943 – Miller
Farr, American football player
- 1943 – James
Herbert, English author and
illustrator (d. 2013)
- 1943 – Chris
Orr, English painter and illustrator
- 1944 – Hywel
Bennett, Welsh actor (d. 2017)
- 1944 – Odd
Nerdrum, Swedish-Norwegian painter
and illustrator
- 1945 – Derrick Walker, Scottish
businessman
- 1945 – Jang
Yong, South Korean actor
- 1946 – Catfish Hunter, American
baseball player (d. 1999)
- 1946 – Tim
Thomerson, American actor and
producer
- 1947 – Tom
DeLay, American lawyer and
politician
- 1947 – Steve Howe,
English guitarist, songwriter, and
producer
- 1947 – Robert
Kiyosaki, American businessman,
co-founded Cashflow Technologies
- 1947 – Pascal
Lamy, French businessman and
politician, European
Commissioner for Trade
- 1947 – Larry
Norman, American singer-songwriter,
and producer (d. 2008)
- 1948 – Barbara Young, Baroness Young of
Old Scone, Scottish academic and
politician
- 1949 – K. C. Kamalasabayson,
Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 39th Attorney
General of Sri Lanka (d.
2007)
- 1949 – John
Madden, English director and
producer
- 1949 – Brenda
Russell, African-American-Canadian
singer-songwriter and keyboard player
- 1949 – John
Scott, English sociologist and
academic
- 1950 – Grzegorz
Lato, Polish footballer and coach
- 1951 – Gerd
Andres, German politician
- 1951 – Geir
Haarde, Icelandic economist,
journalist, and politician, 23rd Prime
Minister of Iceland
- 1951 – Mel
Schacher, American bass player
- 1951 – Joan
Sebastian, Mexican singer-songwriter
and actor (d. 2015)
- 1951 – Phil
Schaap, American jazz disc jockey
and historian (d. 2021)[33][34]
- 1952 – Ahmet Piriştina, Turkish
politician (d. 2004)
- 1954 – Gary
Carter, American baseball player and
coach (d. 2012)
- 1954 – Princess
Lalla Amina of Morocco (d.
2012)
- 1954 – G.V. Loganathan,
Indian-American engineer and academic (d.
2007)
- 1955 – Gerrie Coetzee, South African
boxer
- 1955 – Ron Johnson,
American businessman and politician[35]
- 1955 – Barbara
Kingsolver, American novelist,
essayist and poet[36]
- 1955 – David Wu,
Taiwanese-American lawyer and politician[37]
- 1956 – Michael Benton,
Scottish-English paleontologist and
academic
- 1956 – Christine
Boisson, French actress
- 1956 – Roman
Dragoun, Czech singer-songwriter and
keyboard player
- 1958 – Detlef Bruckhoff, German
footballer
- 1958 – Tom
Petranoff, American javelin thrower
and coach
- 1959 – Alain
Bondue, French cyclist
- 1960 – John
Schneider, American actor and
country singer
- 1961 – Richard Hatch,
American reality contestant
- 1961 – Brian
McDermott, English footballer and
manager
- 1962 – Paddy
Lowe, English engineer
- 1962 – Izzy
Stradlin, American guitarist and
songwriter
- 1963 – Tine Asmundsen, Norwegian
bassist
- 1963 – Julian
Lennon, English singer-songwriter
- 1963 – Terry
Porter, American basketball player
and coach
- 1963 – Donita
Sparks, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist
- 1963 – Alec
Stewart, English cricketer
- 1963 – Seth
Tobias, American businessman (d.
2007)
- 1964 – Biz
Markie, American rapper, producer,
and actor (d. 2021)
- 1964 – John
McGinlay, Scottish footballer and
manager
- 1965 – Steven
Blaney, Canadian businessman and
politician, 5th Canadian
Minister of Public Safety
- 1965 – Michael
Jones, New Zealand rugby player and
coach
- 1966 – Iveta
Bartošová, Czech singer and actress
(d. 2014)
- 1966 – Mark
Blundell, English race car driver
- 1966 – Andy
Currier, English rugby league player
- 1966 – Charlotte
Dawson, New Zealand-Australian
television host (d. 2014)
- 1966 – Dalton
Grant, English high jumper
- 1966 – Mazinho,
Brazilian footballer, coach, and manager
- 1966 – Harri
Rovanperä, Finnish race car driver
- 1966 – Evripidis
Stylianidis, Greek lawyer and
politician, Greek Minister for
the Interior
- 1966 – Robin
Wright, American actress, director,
producer
- 1967 – Kenny Benjamin, Antiguan
cricketer
- 1968 – Patricia Arquette, American
actress and director
- 1968 – Patricia
Girard, French runner and hurdler
- 1968 – Tracy
Grammer, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist
- 1971 – Darren
Jessee, American singer-songwriter
and drummer
- 1972 – Paul
Gray, American bass player and
songwriter (d. 2010)
- 1972 – Sergei
Magnitsky, Russian lawyer and
accountant (d. 2009)
- 1973 – Khaled
Badra, Tunisian footballer
- 1973 – Emma
Caulfield, American actress
- 1974 – Toutai
Kefu, Tongan-Australian rugby player
- 1974 – Nnedi
Okorafor, Nigerian-American author
and educator
- 1975 – Anouk, Dutch singer
- 1975 – Francesco
Flachi, Italian footballer
- 1975 – Timo
Pérez, Dominican-American baseball
player
- 1975 – Funda
Arar, Turkish singer
- 1977 – Ana de la Reguera, Mexican
actress
- 1977 – Mehran
Ghassemi, Iranian journalist and
author (d. 2008)
- 1977 – Mark
Spencer, American computer
programmer and engineer
- 1978 – Daigo, Japanese
singer-songwriter, actor, and voice actor
- 1978 – Bernt
Haas, Austrian-Swiss footballer
- 1978 – Rachel
Roberts, Canadian model and actress
- 1978 – Jocelyn
Robichaud, Canadian tennis player
and coach
- 1978 – Evans
Rutto, Kenyan runner
- 1979 – Alexi
Laiho, Finnish singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 2020)
- 1979 – Amit
Trivedi, Indian singer-songwriter
- 1980 – Manuel
Ortega, Austrian singer
- 1980 – Katee
Sackhoff, American actress
- 1980 – Mariko
Seyama, Japanese announcer,
photographer, and model
- 1981 – Frédérick
Bousquet, French swimmer
- 1981 – Ofer
Shechter, Israeli model, actor, and
screenwriter
- 1982 – Gennady Golovkin, Kazakhstani
boxer
- 1982 – Brett
White, Australian rugby league
player
- 1983 – Tatyana
Petrova Arkhipova, Russian runner
- 1984 – Michelle Donelan, British
politician
- 1984 – Ezra
Koenig, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist
- 1984 – Pablo
Portillo, Mexican singer and actor
- 1984 – Taran
Noah Smith, American actor
- 1985 – Patrick Schliwa, German rugby
player
- 1985 – Yemane
Tsegay, Ethiopian runner
- 1986 – Igor
Akinfeev, Russian footballer
- 1986 – Félix
Hernández, Venezuelan-American
baseball player
- 1987 – Royston Drenthe, Dutch
footballer
- 1987 – Jeremy
Hellickson, American baseball player
- 1987 – Elton
John, Trinidadian footballer[38]
- 1987 – Sam
Rapira, New Zealand rugby league
player
- 1988 – Jenni Asserholt, Swedish ice
hockey player
- 1990 – Kim Jong-hyun, South Korean
singer (d. 2017)[39] [40]
- 1993 – Viktor Arvidsson, Swedish ice
hockey player
- 1994 – Josh Chudleigh, Australian
rugby league player
- 1995 – Cedi
Osman, Turkish professional
basketball player
- 1996 – Anna
Korakaki, Greek Olympic medalist in
shooting [41]
- 1997 – Kim
Woo-jin, South Korean singer[42]
- 1997 – Saygrace,
Australian singer and songwriter[43]
- 1997 – Arno
Verschueren, Belgian professional
football player
- 2002 – Skai
Jackson, American actress
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