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1473 – Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (d. 1483)
1556 – Alexander Briant, English martyr and saint (d. 1581)
1578 – Francesco Albani, Italian painter (d. 1660)
1601 – Pierre de Fermat, French lawyer and mathematician (d. 1665)
1629 – John III Sobieski, Polish–Lithuanian king (d. 1696)
1686 – Nicola Porpora, Italian composer (d. 1768)
1753 – Josef Dobrovský, Bohemian philologist and historian (d. 1828)
1761:  William Carey  [British missionary] (d. 9 Jun 1834)
1768 – Louis Desaix, French general (d. 1800)
1786 – Davy Crockett, American soldier and politician (d. 1836)
1786 – Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1861)
1794 – Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (d. 1849)
1828 – Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist and physician (d. 1897)
1840 – Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English poet and activist (d. 1922)
1844 – Menelik II of Ethiopia (d. 1913)
1851:  Henry Drummond  [Scottish evangelist and writer] (d. 11 Mar 1897)
1863 – Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and photographer (d. 1924)
1866 – Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI, Indian 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (d. 1911)
1866 – Julia Marlowe, English-American actress (d. 1950)
1873 – John A. Sampson, American gynecologist (d. 1946)
1877 – Ralph McKittrick, American golfer and tennis player (d. 1923)
1878 – Reggie Duff, Australian cricketer (d. 1911)
1879:  Samuel Goldwyn  [American film producer] (d. 31 Jan 1974)
1880 – Percy Sherwell, South African cricketer (d. 1948)
1887 – Charles I of Austria (d. 1922)
1887 – Marcus Garvey, Jamaican journalist and activist (d. 1940)
          founded Black Star Line
1888 – Monty Woolley, American actor and singer (d. 1963)
1890 – Stefan Bastyr, Polish soldier and pilot (d. 1920)
1890 – Harry Hopkins, American politician and diplomat (d. 1946)
          8th United States Secretary of Commerce
1893 – John Brahm, German-American film and television director (d. 1982)
1893 – Mae West, American actress, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1980)
1894 – William Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes, English businessman (d. 1964)
          founded Rootes Group
1895 – Aris Maliagros, Greek actor and singer (d. 1984)
1896 – Leslie Groves, American general and engineer (d. 1970)
1896 – Tõnis Kint, Estonian politician (d. 1991)
          Prime Minister of Estonia in exile
1896 – Oliver Waterman Larkin, American historian and author (d. 1970)
1904 – Mary Cain, American journalist and politician (d. 1984)
1904 – Leopold Nowak, Austrian composer and musicologist (d. 1991)
1904:  John Hay Whitney  [American diplomat, publisher and businessman] (8 Feb 1892)
          U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, 1957-1961
1907 – Gustav Schwarzenegger, Austrian police chief and postal inspector (d. 1972)
1909 – Larry Clinton, American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1985)
1911 – Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (d. 1995)
1911 – Martin Sandberger, German colonel and lawyer (d. 2010)
1913 – Mark Felt, American agent (d. 2008)
          2nd Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
1913 – Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1989)
1913 – Rudy York, American baseball player and manager (d. 1970)
1914 – Bill Downs, American journalist (d. 1978)
1914 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1988)
1916 – Moses Majekodunmi, Nigerian physician and politician (d. 2012)
1918 – Evelyn Ankers, Chilean-American actress (d. 1985)
1918 – Michael John Wise, English geographer and academic
1919 – Georgia Gibbs, American singer (d. 2006)
1920 – George Duvivier, American bassist (d. 1985)
1920 – Maureen O'Hara, Irish-American actress and singer
1920 – Lida Moser, American photographer and author (d. 2014)
1921 – Geoffrey Elton, German-English historian and academic (d. 1994)
1922 – Roy Tattersall, England cricketer (d. 2011)
1923 – Larry Rivers, American artist (d. 2002)
1925:  John C. Hawkes  [American novelist] (d. 15 May 1998)
1926 – Valerie Eliot, English businesswoman (d. 2012)
1926 – George Melly, English singer (d. 2007)
1926 – Jean Poiret, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1992)
1926 – Jiang Zemin, Chinese  politician
          General Secretary of the Communist Party
          5th President of China
1927 – Sam Butera, American saxophonist (d. 2009)
1927 – F. Ray Keyser, Jr., American lawyer and politician, 72nd Governor of Vermont (d. 2015)
1928 – T. J. Anderson, American composer, conductor, and educator
1928 – Willem Duys, Dutch tennis player, sportscaster, and producer (d. 2011)
1929 – Augie Blunt, American actor (d. 1999)
1929 – Jimmy Donley, American singer-songwriter (d. 1963)
1929 – Francis Gary Powers, American captain and pilot (d. 1977)
1930 – Harve Bennett, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2015)
1930 – Ted Hughes, English poet, author, and playwright (d. 1998)
1931 – Tony Wrigley, English historian, demographer, and academic
1932 – V. S. Naipaul, Trinidadian-English journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate
1933 – Glenn Corbett, American actor (d. 1993)
1933 – Mark Dinning, American singer (d. 1986)
1933 – Gene Kranz, American NASA flight director and manager
1934 – João Donato, Brazilian pianist and composer
1934 – Ron Henry, English footballer (d. 2014)
1935 – Oleg Tabakov, Russian actor
1936 – Seamus Mallon, Irish politician, Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland
1936:  Mark Mobius  [American investment manager]
1936 – Floyd Red Crow Westerman, American actor, singer, and activist (d. 2007)
1937 – Ronnie Butler, Bahamian singer
1937 – Spiros Focás, Greek actor
1938 – Abu Bakar Bashir, Indonesian cleric
1938 – Theodoros Pangalos, Greek politician
1939 – Luther Allison, American singer and guitarist (d. 1997)
1939:  Josh McDowell  [American evangelist]
1939 – Anthony Valentine, English actor
1940 – Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1940:  David Price  [American politician]
          U.S. Representative, D. NC, 1987-1995, 1997-present
1940 – Barry Sheerman, English academic and politician
1941:  Ibrahim Babangida  [Nigerian general and politician]
          President of Nigeria, 1985-1993
          Chief of Army Staff, 1984-1985
1941 – Lothar Bisky, German politician (d. 2013)
1941 – Jean Pierre Lefebvre, Canadian director and screenwriter
1942 – Muslim Magomayev, Azerbaijani singer
1942 – Shane Porteous, Australian actor
1943 – Boots Plata, Filipino director (d. 2011)
1943 – Edward Cowie, English composer, painter, and author
1943 – Ian McAllister, Scottish businessman
1943 – Robert De Niro, American actor, director, and producer
1943 – John Humphrys, Welsh journalist and author
1943 – Dave "Snaker" Ray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002)
          (Koerner, Ray & Glover)
1944:  Millard Drexler  [American businessman]
1944 – Larry Ellison, American businessman
          co-founded the Oracle Corporation
1944 – Jean-Bernard Pommier, French pianist and conductor
1945 – Rachel Pollack, American author
1946 – Martha Coolidge, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1946 – Patrick Manning, Trinidadian-Tobagonian politician
          4th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
1946:  Takeshi Uchiyamada  [Japanese businessman]
          Chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation, 2013-present
1947 – Sylvia Nasar, German-American economist and author
1947 – Jennifer Rhodes, American actress
1947 – Gary Talley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
          (The Box Tops)
1948 – Alexander Ivashkin, Russian-English cellist and conductor (d. 2014)
1948 – Rod MacDonald, American singer-songwriter
1949 – Norm Coleman, American lawyer and politician
          U.S. Senator,  R. MN, 2003-2009
          52nd Mayor of St. Paul, 1994-2002
1949 – Sue Draheim, American fiddler
1949 – Julian Fellowes, Egyptian-English actor, director, screenwriter, and politician
1949 – Sib Hashian, American drummer
          (Boston and Ernie and the Automatics)
1951 – Robert Joy, Canadian actor
1951 – Richard Hunt, American puppeteer and actor (d. 1992)
1951 – Alan Minter, English boxer
1951 – Elba Ramalho, Brazilian singer-songwriter and actress
1952 – Aleksandr Maksimenkov, Russian footballer and coach (d. 2012)
1952 – Nelson Piquet, Brazilian race car driver
1952 – Mario Theissen, German businessman
1952 – Guillermo Vilas, Argentinian tennis player
1953:  Columba Bush  [Mexican American philanthropist]
          wife of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush
1953 – Mick Malthouse, Australian footballer and coach
1953 – Kevin Rowland, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
          (Dexys Midnight Runners)
1953 – Herta Müller, Romanian-German poet and author
          Nobel Prize laureate
1954 – Andrés Pastrana Arango, Colombian lawyer and politician
          38th President of Colombia
1954 – Eric Johnson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1955 – Richard Hilton, American businessman
1956 – Gail Berman, American businessman
          co-founded BermanBraun
1956 – Álvaro Pino, Spanish cyclist
1957 – Robin Cousins, English figure skater
1957 – Ken Kwapis, American director and screenwriter
1957 – Laurence Overmire, American poet, author, and actor
1958 – Belinda Carlisle, American singer-songwriter
          (The Go-Go's)
1958 – Fred Goodwin, Scottish banker and accountant
1958 – Maurizio Sandro Sala, Brazilian race car driver
1958 – Kirk Stevens, Canadian snooker player
1959 – Jonathan Franzen, American author
1959 – David Koresh, American cult leader (d. 1993)
1959 – Chika Sakamoto, Japanese voice actress and singer
1959 – Eric Schlosser, American journalist and author
1960 – Stephan Eicher, Swiss singer-songwriter
          (Grauzone)
1960 – Sean Penn, American actor and director
1961 – Larry B. Scott, American actor, director, and producer
1962 – Gilby Clarke, American musician and producer
          (Guns N' Roses, Rock Star Supernova, and Candy)
1962 – John Marshall Jones, American actor
1962 – Buddy Landel, American wrestler
1962 – Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, German actor and director
1963 – Shankar, Indian director and producer
1963 – Jon Gruden, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
1964 – Colin James, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1965 – Steve Gorman, American drummer
          (The Black Crowes and Trigger Hippy)
1964 – Maria McKee, American singer-songwriter (Lone Justice)
1964 – Dave Penney, English footballer and manager
1966 – Maysa Leak, American singer and producer (Incognito)
1966 – Jüri Luik, Estonian politician, 18th Estonian Minister of Defense
1966 – Rodney Mullen, American skateboarder
1966 – Don Sweeney, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
1967 – David Conrad, American actor
1968 – Andrew Koenig, American actor (d. 2010)
1968 – Andriy Kuzmenko, Ukrainian singer-songwriter and actor (Skryabin) (d. 2015)
1968 – Ed McCaffrey, American football player
1968 – Helen McCrory, English actress
1969 – Christian Laettner, American basketball player and coach
1969 – Wayne Mills, American singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
1969 – Donnie Wahlberg, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (New Kids on the Block)
1970 – Jim Courier, American tennis player
1970 – Rupert Degas, English actor and producer
1970 – Andrus Kivirähk, Estonian author
1970 – Øyvind Leonhardsen, Norwegian footballer
1970 – Bob Golding, English actor
1971 – Gonzalo Inzunza Inzunza, Mexican drug lord (d. 2013)
1971 – Uhm Jung-hwa, South Korean singer and actress
1971 – Ed Motta, Brazilian singer and keyboard player
1971 – Jorge Posada, Puerto Rican baseball player
1971 – Shaun Rehn, Australian footballer and coach
1972 – Habibul Bashar, Bangladeshi cricketer
1974 – Tony Hajjar, Lebanese-American drummer (At the Drive-In and Sparta)
1974 – Tomomi Kahala, Japanese singer
1974 – Nicola Kraus, American author
1975:  Jessi Klein  [American comedian]
1975 – Carmina Villaroel, Filipino actress and host
1975 – Giuliana Rancic, Italian-American journalist and actress
1976 – Eric Boulton, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 – Scott Halberstadt, American actor
1976 – Geertjan Lassche, Dutch journalist
1976 – Serhiy Zakarlyuka, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2014)
1977 – Nathan Deakes, Australian race walker
1977 – William Gallas, French footballer
1977 – Thierry Henry, French footballer
1977 – Mike Lewis, Welsh guitarist (Lostprophets, Public Disturbance, and No Devotion)
1977 – Tarja Turunen, Finnish singer-songwriter (Nightwish)
1978 – Jelena Karleuša, Serbian singer and dancer
1978 – Karena Lam, Canadian-Hong Kong actress and singer
1978 – Ebon Moss-Bachrach, American actor
1978 – Vibeke Stene, Norwegian singer (Tristania)
1979 – Marcus Patric, English actor
1979 – Antwaan Randle El, American football player
1980 – Keith Dabengwa, Zimbabwean cricketer
1980 – Daniel Güiza, Spanish footballer
1980 – Jan Kromkamp, Dutch footballer
1980 – Lene Marlin, Norwegian singer-songwriter
1980 – Tootsie Guevara, Filipino singer
1980 – Van Tuong Nguyen, Thai-Australian drug trafficker (d. 2005)
1981 – Kristin Adams, American television host
1982 – Phil Jagielka, English footballer
1982 – Cheerleader Melissa, American wrestler
1982 – Mark Salling, American actor and singer
1983 – Dustin Pedroia, American baseball player
1984 – Dee Brown, American basketball player
1984 – Oksana Domnina, Russian ice dancer
1984 – Garrett Wolfe, American football player
1985 – Yū Aoi, Japanese actress
1986 – Rudy Gay, American basketball player
1986 – Bryton James, American actor and singer
1986 – Tyrus Thomas, American basketball player
1987 – Kemp Muhl, American model, actress, and singer
1987 – Paolo Serrano, Filipino actor
1988 – Aidan Coleman, Irish jockey
1988 – Bianca Collins, American actress
1988 – Brady Corbet, American actor
1988 – Erika Toda, Japanese actress
1988 – Natalie Sandtorv, Norwegian singer (Morning Has Occurred)
1989 – Lil B, American rapper (The Pack)
1989 – Elena Hight, American snowboarder
1989 – Frederick Lau, German actor
1990 – Colin Bates, American actor, singer, and dancer
1990 – Lauren Diewold, Canadian actress
1990 – Rachel Hurd-Wood, English actress
1991 – Austin Butler, American actor and singer
1991 – Qory Sandioriva, Indonesian model, Puteri Indonesia 2009
1992 – Paige, English wrestler
1992 – Alex Elisala, New Zealand-Australian rugby player (d. 2013)
1993 – Cinta Laura, German-Indonesian actress and singer
1993 – Sarah Sjöström, Swedish swimmer
1994 – Taissa Farmiga, American actress
1995 – Gracie Gold, American figure skater
1996 – Ella Cruz, Filipino actress, model and dancer


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1153 – Eustace IV, Count of Boulogne (b. 1130)
1304 – Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (b. 1243)
1324 – Irene of Brunswick (b. 1293)
1338 – Nitta Yoshisada, Japanese samurai (b. 1301)
1433 – Jan of Tarnów (b. 1367)
1510 – Edmund Dudley, English politician, Speaker of the House of Commons (b. 1462)
1657 – Robert Blake, English admiral and politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1599)
1673 – Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1641)
1676 – Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, German author (b. 1621)
1720 – Anne Dacier, French scholar and translator (b. 1654)
1723 – Joseph Bingham, English scholar and academic (b. 1668)
1768 – Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1703)
1785 – Jonathan Trumbull, American politician, 16th Governor of Connecticut (b. 1710)
1786 – Frederick the Great, Prussian king (b. 1712)
1834 – Husein Gradaščević, Bosniak general (b. 1802)
1838 – Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian playwright and poet (b. 1749)
1850 – José de San Martín, Argentinian general and politician, 1st President of Peru (b. 1778)
1861 – Alcée Louis la Branche, American politician (b. 1806)
1870 – Perucho Figueredo, Cuban poet and activist (b. 1818)
1875 – Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist and anthropologist (b. 1827)
1880 – Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist and composer (b. 1810)
1897 – William Jervois, English engineer and diplomat, 10th Governor of South Australia (b. 1821)
1901 – Edmond Audran, French organist and composer (b. 1842)
1903 – Hans Gude, Norwegian painter (b. 1825)
1909 – Madan Lal Dhingra, Indian activist (b. 1883)
1918 – Moisei Uritsky, Russian politician (b. 1873)
1920 – Ray Chapman, American baseball player (b. 1891)
1924 – Tom Kendall, Australian cricketer (b. 1851)
1925 – Ioan Slavici, Romanian journalist (b. 1848)
1935 – Adam Gunn, American decathlete (b. 1872)
1935 – Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American sociologist and author (b. 1860)
1936 – José María of Manila, Spanish-Filipino Roman Catholic blessed (b.1880)
1940 – Billy Fiske, American soldier and pilot (b. 1911)
1944 – Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (b. 1882)
1945 – Reidar Haaland, Norwegian police officer and soldier (b. 1919)
1946 – Percy Deane, Australian public servant (b. 1890)
1949 – Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist and politician (b. 1891)
1954 – Billy Murray, American singer (b. 1877)
1958 – Arthur Fox, American fencer (b. 1878)
1966 – Ken Miles, English race car driver (b. 1918)
1969 – Otto Stern, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
1970 – Rattana Pestonji, Thai director and producer (b. 1908)
1971 – Maedayama Eigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 39th Yokozuna (b. 1914)
1971 – Wilhelm List, German field marshal (b. 1880)
1973 – Conrad Aiken, American author and poet (b. 1889)
1973 – Jean Barraqué, French composer (b. 1928)
1973 – Paul Williams, American singer and choreographer (The Temptations) (b. 1939)
1976 – William Redfield, American actor (b. 1927)
1979 – John C. Allen, American roller coaster designer (b. 1907)
1979 – Vivian Vance, American actress and singer (b. 1909)
1983 – Ira Gershwin, American songwriter (b. 1896)
1987 – Gary Chester, Italian drummer (b. 1924)
1987 – Rudolf Hess, German politician (b. 1894)
1987 – Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor and screenwriter (b. 1929)
1988 – Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistani general and politician, 6th President of Pakistan (b. 1924)
1988 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1914)
1988 – Victoria Shaw, Australian-American actress (b. 1935)
1990 – Pearl Bailey, American actress and singer (b. 1918)
1992 – Al Parker, American porn actor, director, and producer (b. 1952)
1993 – Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician and academic (b. 1920)
1994 – Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver (b. 1901)
1994 – Jack Sharkey, American boxer (b. 1902)
1995 – Howard E. Koch, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1902)
1995 – Ted Whitten, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1933)
1998 – Władysław Komar, Polish shot putter (b. 1940)
1998 – Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (b. 1915)
1998 – Tadeusz Ślusarski, Polish pole vaulter (b. 1950)
2000 – Jack Walker, English businessman (b. 1929)
2003 – Mazen Dana, Palestinian journalist (b. 1962)
2004 – Thea Astley, Australian author (b. 1925)
2004 – Gérard Souzay, French singer (b. 1918)
2005 – John Bahcall, American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1934)
2006 – Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi poet and journalist (b. 1929)
2007 – Jos Brink, Dutch actor, producer, and author (b. 1942)
2007 – Bill Deedes, English journalist and politician (b. 1913)
2007 – Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (b. 1982)
2008 – Franco Sensi, Italian businessman (b. 1926)
2010 – Francesco Cossiga, Italian politician, 8th President of Italy (b. 1928)
2012 – Aase Bjerkholt, Norwegian politician, Minister of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion (b. 1915)
2012 – Pál Bogár, Hungarian basketball player (b. 1927)
2012 – Joey Kovar, American model (b. 1983)
2012 – Lou Martin, Irish-English pianist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1949)
2012 – Victor Poor, American engineer, developed the Datapoint 2200 (b. 1933)
2012 – Patrick Ricard, French businessman (b. 1945)
2012 – John Lynch-Staunton, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
2012 – Amparo Cuevas, Spanish Catholic seer (b. 1931)
2013 – Stephen Antonakos; Greek born American sculptor (b. 1926)
2013 – Chow Yam-nam, Chinese-Thai mystic (b. 1937)
2013 – Odilia Dank, American educator and politician (b. 1938)
2013 – Devin Gray, American basketball player (b. 1972)
2013 – Jack Harshman, American baseball player (b. 1927)
2013 – John Hollander, American poet and critic (b. 1929)
2013 – Frank Martínez, American painter (b. 1924)
2013 – Gus Winckel, Dutch lieutenant and pilot (b. 1912)
2014 – Børre Knudsen, Norwegian minister and activist (b. 1937)
2014 – Wolfgang Leonhard, German historian and author (b. 1921)
2014 – Sophie Masloff, American politician, 56th Mayor of Pittsburgh (b. 1917)
2014 – Miodrag Pavlović, Serbian poet and critic (b. 1928)
2014 – Joanie Spina, American magician, dancer, and choreographer (b. 1953)
2014 – Pierre Vassiliu, French singer-songwriter (b. 1937)


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