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1355 – Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster (d. 1382)
1378 – Hongxi Emperor of China (d. 1425)
1401 – Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut (d. 1436)
1557 – Agostino Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1602)
1573 – Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1598)
1596 – Frederick V, Elector Palatine, Bohemian king (d. 1632)
1637 – Countess Emilie Juliane of Barby-Mühlingen (d. 1706)
1645 – Jean de La Bruyère, French philosopher (d. 1696)
1650 – Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian monk, cosmographer, and cartographer (d. 1718)
1682 – Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1712)
1744 – Pierre Méchain, French astronomer (d. 1804)
1761 – Yevstigney Fomin, Russian composer (d. 1800)
1815 – John Bosco, Italian priest and educator (d. 1888)
1820 – Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Canadian lawyer and politician,
          1st Premier of New Brunswick (d. 1892)
1821 – Arthur Cayley, English mathematician and academic (d. 1895)
1831 – John Jones Ross, Canadian politician,
          7th Premier of Quebec (d. 1901)
1832 – Wilhelm Wundt, German physician, psychologist, and physiologist (d. 1920)
1842 – Jakob Rosanes, Ukrainian-German mathematician, chess player, and academic (d. 1922)
1845 – Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourger-French physicist,
          Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1921)
1848:  Sir Francis Darwin  [British botanist] (d. 19 Sep 1925)
1848 – Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (d. 1926)
1856 – Aparicio Saravia, Uruguayan general and politician (d. 1904)
1858 – Arthur Achleitner, German author (d. 1927)
1860 – Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke, English-Scottish cricketer (d. 1938)
1860 – Jules Laforgue, Uruguayan-French poet (d. 1887)
1862 – Amos Alonzo Stagg, American baseball player and coach (d. 1965)
1868 – Bernarr Macfadden, American bodybuilder and publisher,
          founded Macfadden Publications (d. 1955)
1876 – Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator (d. 1942)
1877 – Roque Ruaño, Spanish priest and engineer (d. 1935)
1878 – Léon Binoche, French rugby player (d. 1962)
1882 – Désiré Mérchez, French swimmer and water polo player (d. 1968)
1882 – Christian Mortensen, Danish-American super-centenarian (d. 1998)
1884 – Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-American publisher (d. 1967)
1887:  Hugh Dalton, Baron Dalton  [British politician] (d. 13 Feb 1962)
          Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1945-1947
1888 – T. E. Lawrence, Welsh colonel (d. 1935)
1888 – Armand J. Piron, American violinist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1943)
1892 – Hal Foster, Canadian-American illustrator (d. 1982)
1892 – Otto Messmer, American cartoonist and animator (d. 1983)
          co-created Felix the Cat
1894 – George Meany, American labor leader (d. 1980)
1895 – Albert Cohen, Swiss author (d. 1981)
1895 – Liane Haid, Austrian-Swiss actress and singer (d. 2000)
1902 – Georgette Heyer, English author (d. 1974)
1902 – Wallace Thurman, American author (d. 1934)
1903 – August Lass, Estonian footballer (d. 1962)
1904 – Minoru Genda, Japanese general, pilot, and politician (d. 1989)
1904 – Wendell Meredith Stanley, American biochemist and virologist (d. 1971)
          Nobel Prize laureate
1908 – Orlando Cole, American cellist and educator (d. 2010)
1908 – William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., American author (d. 2000)
1909 – Paul Callaway, American organist and conductor (d. 1995)
1910 – Gloria Blondell, American actress (d. 1986)
1910 – Mae Clarke, American actress (d. 1992)
1911 – E. F. Schumacher, German economist and statistician (d. 1977)
1912 – Ted Drake, English footballer and manager (d. 1995)
1913 – Menachem Begin, Israeli politician (d. 1992)
          6th Prime Minister of Israel
          Nobel Prize laureate
1915 – Al Hibbler, American singer (d. 2001)
1916 – Iggy Katona, American race car driver (d. 2003)
1917 – Matt Christopher, American author (d. 1997)
1917 – Roque Cordero, Panamanian composer and educator (d. 2008)
1919 – Karl-Heinz Euling, German SS officer (d. 2014)
1920 – Charles Bukowski, German-American author and poet (d. 1994)
1922 – Ernie Freeman, American pianist and bandleader (d. 2001)
1923 – Millôr Fernandes, Brazilian journalist and playwright (d. 2012)
1924 – Fess Parker, American actor and singer (d. 2010)
1924 – Inez Voyce, American baseball player
1925 – Willie Jones, American baseball player (d. 1983)
1926 – Ronnie Bowlby, English bishop
1927 – Lois Nettleton, American actress (d. 2008)
1928 – Ann Blyth, American actress and singer
1928 – Eydie Gormé, American singer (d. 2013)
1928 – Eddie Kirkland, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2011)
1929:  Bill Copeland  [Australian cricketer] (d. 20 Sep 2011)
1929 – Bill Evans, American pianist and composer (d. 1980)
1929 – Helmut Rahn, German footballer (d. 2003)
1929 – Fritz Von Erich, American wrestler (d. 1997)
1929 – Wyatt Tee Walker, American pastor, theologian, and activist
1930 – Robert Culp, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
1930 – Frank Gifford, American football player, sportscaster, and actor (d. 2015)
1930 – Leslie Manigat, Haitian educator and politician (d. 2014)
          43rd President of Haiti
1930 – Tony Trabert, American tennis player and sportscaster
1931:  Forrest Mars, Jr.  [American businessman]
1933 – Reiner Kunze, German writer
1933 – Tom Maschler, English author and publisher
1933 – Julie Newmar, American actress, singer, and dancer
1933 – Stuart Roosa, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1994)
1934 – Donnie Dunagan, American actor and soldier
1934 – Diana Wynne Jones, English author (d. 2011)
1934 – Ketty Lester, American singer and actress
1934 – Pierre Richard, French actor, director, and screenwriter
1934 – John Standing, English actor
1934 – Dave Thomas, Welsh golfer (d. 2013)
1935 – Cliff Fletcher, Canadian businessman
1935 – Andreas Stamatiadis, Greek footballer and coach
1936 – Anita Gillette, American actress and singer
1937 – David Anderson, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician
1937 – David Behrman, American composer and producer
1937 – Lorraine Gary, American actress
1937 – Boris Rõtov, Estonian chess player (d. 1987)
1939 – Seán Brady, Irish cardinal
1939 – Trevor McDonald, Trinidadian-English journalist and academic
1939 – Billy Joe Shaver, American singer-songwriter
1940 – Bruce Beresford, Australian director and producer
1941 – Théoneste Bagosora, Rwandan soldier
1943 – Sharon Baird, American actress and dancer
1943 – Woody Peoples, American football player (d. 2010)
1944 – Kevin Ayers, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Soft Machine) (d. 2013)
1945 – Bob Balaban, American actor, producer, director and author
1945 – Russell Brookes, English race car driver
1945 – Suzanne Farrell, American ballerina
1946 – Masoud Barzani, Kurdish politician
          President of Iraqi Kurdistan
1946:  David Mixner  [American activist and author]
1946 – Dick Murdoch, American wrestler (d. 1996)
1946 – Lesley Ann Warren, American actress and singer
1947 – Carol Moseley Braun, American lawyer and politician
          United States Ambassador to New Zealand
1947 – Katharine Hamnett, English fashion designer
1947 – Marc Messier, Canadian actor
1948:  Earl Blumenauer  [American politician]
          U.S. Representative, D. OR, 1996-present
1948 – Barry Hay, Indian-Dutch singer-songwriter (Golden Earring)
1948 – Mike Jorgensen, American baseball player and manager
1948 – Pierre Reid, Canadian educator and politician
1949 – Scott Asheton, American drummer (d. 2014)
          (The Stooges and Sonic's Rendezvous Band)
1949 – Barbara Goodson, American voice actress
1950 – Hasely Crawford, Trinidadian runner
1950 – Stockwell Day, Canadian politician
1950 – Jeff Thomson, Australian cricketer
1950 – Neda Ukraden, Serbian singer
1951 – Richard Hunt, American puppeteer and voice actor (d. 1992)
1951 – Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Nigerian politician (d. 2010)
          13th President of Nigeria
1952 – Mahes Goonatilleke, Sri Lankan cricketer
1952 – Reginald VelJohnson, American actor
1953 – Kathie Lee Gifford, American talk show host, singer, and actress
1953:  Cynthia P. Schneider  [American diplomat]
          61st U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands, 1998-2001
1953:  Anne Taintor  [American artist]
1954 – James Cameron, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
1954 – George Galloway, Scottish-born politician and broadcaster
1955:  Jeff Perry  [American actor]
1955 – James Reilly, Irish surgeon and politician
          Minister for Children and Youth Affairs
1956 – Vahan Hovhannisyan, Armenian politician (d. 2014)
1956 – Daniel Willems, Belgian cyclist
1957 – Tim Farriss, Australian guitarist (INXS)
1957 – Laura Innes, American actress and director
1957 – R. R. Patil, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 2015)
          Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra
1957 – Randhir Singh, Indian cricketer
1958 – Madonna Ciccone, American singer-songwriter, producer, actress, and director
1958 – Angela Bassett, American actress, singer, and producer
1958 – José Luis Clerc, Argentinian tennis player
1958 – Oscar Collodo, Swiss-Italian rugby player and coach
1958 – Diane Dodds, Northern Irish politician
1959 – Marc Sergeant, Belgian cyclist
1960 – Timothy Hutton, American actor, producer and director
1960:  Mitch Landrieu  [American politician]
          61st Mayor of New Orleans, D., 2010-present
1960 – Franz Welser-Möst, Austrian-American conductor
1961 – Michaela Dornonville de la Cour, Swedish singer and actress
          (Army of Lovers)
1961 – Christian Okoye, American football player
1961 – Angela C. Smith, English politician
1961:  Mark Stewart, stage name Stew  [American musician]
1962 – Steve Carell, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1962 – Manfred Hellmann, German footballer
1963 – Aloísio Pires Alves, Brazilian footballer
1963 – Christine Cavanaugh, American actress (d. 2014)
1963:  Jennifer Donnelly  [American writer]
1964 – Jimmy Arias, American tennis player
1964 – Barry Venison, English footballer and journalist
1967:  Kelly Corrigan  [American writer]
1967 – Mark Coyne, Australian rugby league player
1967 – Ulrika Jonsson, Swedish journalist, actress, and author
1968 – Mateja Svet, Slovenian skier
1968 – Wolfgang Tillmans, German photographer
1968 – Arvind Kejriwal, Indian civil servant and politician
          7th Chief Minister of Delhi
1969 – Kate Higgins, American voice actress
1969:  Jase Robertson  [American television personality]
          COO of Duck Commander
1970 – Bonnie Bernstein, American journalist
1970 – Fabio Casartelli, Italian cyclist (d. 1995)
1970 – Saif Ali Khan, Indian actor, singer, and producer
1970 – Manisha Koirala, Nepalese-Indian actress
1971 – Rulon Gardner, American wrestler
1971 – Stefan Klos, German footballer
1972 – Frankie Boyle, Scottish comedian and television host
1972 – Stan Lazaridis, Australian footballer
1972 – Emily Robison, American singer-songwriter and banjo player
          (Dixie Chicks and Court Yard Hounds)
1972 – George Stroumboulopoulos, Canadian radio and television host
1973 – Damian Jackson, American baseball player
1974 – Roger Cedeño, Venezuelan baseball player
1974 – Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Guyanese cricketer
1974 – Krisztina Egerszegi, Hungarian swimmer
1974 – Iván Hurtado, Ecuadorian footballer and politician
1975 – Magic, American rapper (504 Boyz and Body Head Bangerz) (d. 2013)
1975 – Didier Agathe, French footballer
1975 – Jonatan Johansson, Finnish footballer, coach, and manager
1975 – Pantelis Konstantinidis, Greek footballer
1975 – George Stults, American actor
1975 – Álvaro Tardáguila, Uruguayan cyclist
1976 – Tiina Kankaanpää, Finnish discus thrower
1977 – Tamer Hosny, Egyptian singer-songwriter and actor
1978 – Ben Galea, Australian rugby league player
1978 – Fu Mingxia, Chinese diver
1979 – Paul Gallacher, Scottish footballer
1979 – Eduardo Maiorino, Brazilian mixed martial artist and kick-boxer (d. 2012)
1979 – Monder Rizki, Belgian runner
1980 – Hwangbo, South Korean rapper and actress (Chakra)
1980 – Vanessa Carlton, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1980 – Øystein Moen, Norwegian pianist (Puma, Jaga Jazzist)
1980 – Emerson Ramos Borges, Brazilian footballer
1980 – Piet Rooijakkers, Dutch cyclist
1980 – Raniere Silva dos Santos, Brazilian footballer
1981 – Roque Santa Cruz, Paraguayan footballer
1982 – Cam Gigandet, American actor
1982 – Tomohiro Ito, Japanese sprinter
1982 – Joleon Lescott, English footballer
1983:  Dominik Garcia-Lorido  [American actress]
1983 – Nikolaos Zisis, Greek basketball player
1984 – Matteo Anesi, Italian speed skater
1984 – Candice Dupree, American basketball player
1984 – Konstantin Vassiljev, Estonian footballer
1985:  Agnes Bruckner  [American actress]
1985 – Arden Cho, American actress, singer and model
1985 – Cristin Milioti, American actress
1986 – Yu Darvish, Japanese baseball player
1986 – Kim Oh-Sung, South Korean footballer
1986 – Shawn Pyfrom, American actor
1986:  Ashton Shepherd  [American musician]
1987 – Eri Kitamura, Japanese voice actress and singer
1987 – Kyal Marsh, Australian actor and gymnast
1987 – Carey Price, Canadian ice hockey player
1988:  Kevin Schmidt  [American actor]
1988:  Rumer Willis  [American actress]
1988:  Parker Young  [American actor]
1989 – Wang Hao, Chinese race walker
1990 – Kōki Uchiyama, Japanese actor
1991 – G.E.M., Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress
1991 – José Eduardo de Araújo, Brazilian footballer
1991 – Evanna Lynch, Irish actress
1991 – Kwon Ri-se, South Korean singer (Ladies' Code) (d. 2014)
1992 – Islam Dzhabrailov, Russian footballer
1992 – Diego Sebastián Schwartzman, Argentinian tennis player
1992 – Zawachin, Japanese idol and television personality
1993 – Cameron Monaghan, American actor
1994 – Riho Takada, Japanese actress and model
1997 – Greyson Chance, American singer-songwriter and pianist
2003 – Harvey Bautista, Filipino actor, dancer, comedian, and model


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Kathy Davis Dormaier  (1950)
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1983 – Paul Simon and Carrie Fisher (divorced in 1984)
1985 – Madonna and Sean Penn (divorced in 1989)


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963 – Marianos Argyros, Byzantine general
1027 – George I of Georgia (b. 998)
1258 – Theodore II Laskaris, Byzantine-Greek emperor (b. 1222)
1297 – John II of Trebizond (b. 1262)
1327 – Saint Roch, French saint (b. 1295)
1358 – Albert II, Duke of Austria (b. 1298)
1419 – Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (b. 1361)
1443 – Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (b. 1434)
1445 – Margaret Stewart, Dauphine of France (b. 1424)
1518 – Loyset Compère, French composer (b. 1445)
1532 – John, Elector of Saxony (b. 1468)
1661 – Thomas Fuller, English historian and author (b. 1608)
1678 – Andrew Marvell, English poet and author (b. 1621)
1705 – Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and theorist (b. 1654)
1733 – Matthew Tindal, English philosopher and author (b. 1657)
1791 – Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec (b. 1719)
          French soldier and diplomat
1836 – Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician (b. 1755)
1855 – Henry Colburn, English publisher (b. 1785)
1886 – Ramakrishna, Indian mystic (b. 1836)
1888 – John Pemberton, American chemist (b. 1831)
          invented Coca-Cola
1893 – Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist and academic (b. 1825)
1899 – Robert Bunsen, German chemist and academic (b. 1811)
1900 – José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Portuguese journalist and author (b. 1845)
1904 – Prentiss Ingraham, American colonel and author (b. 1843)
1911 – Patrick Francis Moran, Irish-Australian cardinal (b. 1830)
1914 – Carl Theodor Schulz, German-Norwegian gardener (b. 1835)
1921 – Peter I of Serbia (b. 1844)
1938 – Andrej Hlinka, Slovak priest and politician (b. 1864)
1938 – Robert Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1911)
1945 – Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral (b. 1891)
1948 – Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach (b. 1895)
1949 – Margaret Mitchell, American author (b. 1900)
1951 – Louis Jouvet, French actor and director (b. 1887)
1956 – Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1882)
1957 – Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist (b. 1881)
          Nobel Prize laureate
1959 – William Halsey, Jr., American admiral (b. 1882)
1959 – Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichord player (b. 1879)
1961 – Abdul Haq, Indian linguist and scholar (b. 1870)
1964 – Paul Weinstein, German high jumper (b. 1878)
1972 – Pierre Brasseur, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1905)
1973 – Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-American biochemist and microbiologist (b. 1888)
          Nobel Prize laureate
1975 – Vladimir Kuts, Ukrainian runner (b. 1927)
1977 – Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor (b. 1935)
          (The Blue Moon Boys)
1978 – Jean Acker, American actress (b. 1893)
1978 – Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Dutch politician (b. 1888)
          Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
1979 – John Diefenbaker, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1895)
          13th Prime Minister of Canada
1983 – Earl Averill, American baseball player (b. 1902)
1986 – Jaime Sáenz, Bolivian author and poet (b. 1921)
1989 – Amanda Blake, American actress (b. 1929)
1990 – Pat O'Connor, New Zealand wrestler (b. 1925)
1991 – Luigi Zampa, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1905)
1993 – Stewart Granger, English-American actor (b. 1913)
1997 – Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani singer (b. 1948)
1998 – Phil Leeds, American actor (b. 1916)
2002 – Jeff Corey, American actor and director (b. 1914)
2002 – Abu Nidal, Palestinian militant leader (b. 1937)
2003 – Idi Amin, Ugandan field marshal and politician (b. 1928)
          3rd President of Uganda
2004 – Ivan Hlinka, Czech ice hockey player and coach (b. 1950)
2004 – Balanadarajah Iyer, Sri Lankan journalist and poet (b. 1957)
2004 – Carl Mydans, American photographer and journalist (b. 1907)
2004 – Robert Quiroga, American boxer (b. 1969)
2005 – Vassar Clements, American fiddler (Old and in the Way) (b. 1928)
2005 – Tonino Delli Colli, Italian cinematographer (b. 1922)
2005 – Vicky Moscholiou, Greek singer (b. 1943)
2005 – Joe Ranft, American animator, screenwriter, and voice actor (b. 1960)
2005 – Frère Roger, Swiss monk and mystic (b. 1915)
2006 – Alex Buzo, Australian playwright and author (b. 1944)
2006 – Herschel Green, American soldier and pilot (b. 1920)
2006 – Alfredo Stroessner, Paraguayan general and politician
          46th President of Paraguay (b. 1912)
2007 – Bahaedin Adab, Iranian engineer and politician (b. 1945)
2007 – The Missing Link, Canadian wrestler (b. 1939)
2008 – Dorival Caymmi, Brazilian singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1914)
2008 – Ronnie Drew, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist
          (The Dubliners) (b. 1934)
2008 – Masanobu Fukuoka, Japanese farmer and author (b. 1913)
2008 – Elena Leuşteanu, Romanian gymnast (b. 1935)
2010 – Dimitrios Ioannidis, Greek general (b. 1923)
2010 – Bobby Thomson, Scottish-American baseball player (b. 1923)
2012 – Princess Lalla Amina of Morocco (b. 1954)
2012 – T. G. Kamala Devi, Indian actor and singer (b. 1930)
2012 – Martine Franck, Belgian photographer (b. 1938)
2012 – Abune Paulos, Ethiopian patriarch (b. 1935)
2012 – William Windom, American actor (b. 1923)
2014 – Patrick Aziza, Nigerian general and politician
          Governor of Kebbi State (b. 1947)
2014 – Mike Matarazzo, American bodybuilder and boxer (b. 1965)
2014 – Vsevolod Nestayko, Ukrainian author (b. 1930)
2014 – Mario Oriani-Ambrosini, Italian-South African lawyer and politician (b. 1960)
2014 – Peter Scholl-Latour, German journalist, author, and academic (b. 1924)


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