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1289 – Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306)
1459 – Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (d. 1507)
1510 – John Caius, English physician  (d. 1573)
      co-founded the Gonville and Caius College
1510 – Rowland Taylor, English priest and martyr (d. 1555)
1552 – Matteo Ricci, Italian priest and missionary (d. 1610)
1573 – Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton  (d. 1624)
      English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire
1591 – Settimia Caccini, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 1638)
1610 – Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (d. 1690)
1716 – George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax  (d. 1771)
      English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
1732 – John Broadwood, Scottish businessman  (d. 1812)
      co-founded Broadwood and Sons
1738 – Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (d. 1789)
1742 – Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian-Danish poet and playwright (d. 1755)
1744 – James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1813)
      founded McGill University
1767 – Henri Christophe, Grenadian-Haitian king (d. 1820)
1769 – Isaac Brock, English general and politician (d. 1812)
1773 – John MacCulloch, Scottish geologist (d. 1835)
1773 – Louis Philippe I, French king (d. 1850)
1801 – Hippolyte Carnot, French politician (d. 1888)
1803 – Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Polish-German physicist and meteorologist (d. 1879)
1820 – James Caulfeild, 3rd Earl of Charlemont (d. 1892)
1820 – Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano and actress (d. 1887)
1831 – Richard Dedekind, German mathematician and philosopher (d. 1916)
1838 – Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian soldier, poet, and author (d. 1910)
1846 – George Westinghouse, American engineer and businessman (d. 12 Mar 1914)
      founded the Westinghouse Air Brake Company
1862 – Albert J. Beveridge, American historian and politician (d. 1927)
1866 – Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor  (d. 1932)
      invented radiotelephony
1874 – Frank G. Allen, American merchant and politician  (d. 1950)
      51st Governor of Massachusetts
1876 – Ernest Lapointe, Canadian lawyer and politician  (d. 1941)
      18th Canadian Minister of Justice
1882 – Karol Szymanowski, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1937)
1886 – Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (d. 1960)
1887 – Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect (d. 27 Aug 1965)
       designed the Philips Pavilion and Saint-Pierre, Firminy
1887:  Maria Jeritza  [Czech Operatic soprano] (d. 10 Jul 1982)
1888 – Roland Garros, French soldier and pilot (d. 1918)
1890 – Jan Grijseels, Dutch sprinter (d. 1961)
1891 – Hendrik Adamson, Estonian poet and educator (d. 1946)
1892 – Jackie Saunders, American actress and screenwriter (d. 1954)
1893 – Meghnad Saha, Indian astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic (d. 1956)
1895 – Caroline Gordon, American author and critic (d. 1981)
1897 – Florence B. Seibert, American biochemist and academic (d. 1991)
1900 – Willy Merkl, German mountaineer (d. 1934)
1900 – Stan Nichols, English cricketer (d. 1961)
1901 – Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, German zoologist (d. 1990)
1903 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and academic  (d. 1995)
      Nobel Prize laureate
1905 – Helen Wills, American tennis player and painter (d. 1998)
1906 – Janet Gaynor, American actress and singer (d. 1984)
1906 – Taffy O'Callaghan, Welsh footballer and coach (d. 1946)
1908 – Carole Lombard, American actress and singer (d. 1942)
1908 – Sergei Sobolev, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1989)
1910 – Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn  (d. 2002)
      English politician, First Secretary of State
1912 – Perkins Bass, American lawyer and politician (d. 2011)
1913 – Méret Oppenheim, German-Swiss painter and photographer (d. 1985)
1914 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer and explorer (d. 18 Apr 2002)
1914 – Joan Littlewood, English director and playwright (d. 2002)
1915 – Carolyn Goodman, American psychologist and activist (d. 2007)
1915 – Humberto Sousa Medeiros   [Portuguese American clergyman] (d. 1983)
      Cardinal Archbishop of Boston, 1970-1983
1915 – Alice Timander, Swedish dentist and actress (d. 2007)
1916 – Chiang Wei-kuo, Japanese-Chinese general (d. 1997)
1917 – Fannie Lou Hamer, American activist (d. 1977)
1918 – Goh Keng Swee, Singaporean soldier and politician  (d. 2010)
      2nd Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore
1918:  Henry M. Morris  [American young Earth creationist] (d. 25 Feb 2006)
      President of the Institute for Creation Research
1918 – André Pilette, Belgian race car driver (d. 1993)
1918:  Abraham Robinson  [German-born mathematician] (d. 11 Apr 1974)
1920 – John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington  (d. 2005)
      English lawyer and judge
1921 – Evgenii Landis, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1997)
1921 – Joseph Lowery, American minister and activist
1922 – Joe Frazier, American baseball player and manager (d. 2011)
1922 – Teala Loring, American actress (d. 2007)
1923 – Yaşar Kemal, Turkish journalist and author (d. 2015)
1925 – Shana Alexander, American journalist and author (d. 23 Jun 2005)

1927 – Bill King, American sportscaster (d. 2005)
1928 – Barbara Werle, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
1929:  George Carman  [British barrister] (d. 2 Jan 2001)
1929 – George Mattos, American pole vaulter (d. 2012)
1930 – Hafez al-Assad, Syrian general and politician  (d. 2000)
      20th President of Syria, 1971-2000
1930 – Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (d. 2015)
1931 – Nikolai Chernykh, Russian astronomer (d. 2004)
1931 – Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-American astrophysicist and astronomer
      Nobel Prize laureate
1933:  Louis Begley  [Polish American novelist]
1934 – Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist and author (d. 2015)
1935 – Bruno Sammartino, Italian-American wrestler
1935 – Charito Solis, Filipino actress (d. 1998)
1936 – Julius L. Chambers, American lawyer, educator, and activist (d. 2013)
1936 – Sandra Voe, English actress
1937:  Fritz Scholder  [Native American artist] (d. 10 Feb 2005)
1938 – Serge Nubret, Caribbean-French bodybuilder and actor (d. 2011)
1939 – Melvyn Bragg, English journalist, author, and academic
1939 – Jack Cullen, American baseball player
1939 – Richard Delgado, American lawyer and academic
1939 – Sheila Greibach, American computer scientist
1939 – John J. LaFalce, American captain, lawyer, and politician
1940 – Jan Keizer, Dutch footballer and referee
1940 – Ellen Travolta, American actress
1940:  John Warnock  [American computer scientist and businessman]
      co-founder of Adobe Systems Inc.
1941 – Paul Popham, American soldier and activist  (d. 1987)
      co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis
1942 – Dan Christensen, American painter (d. 2007)
1942 – Britt Ekland, Swedish actress and singer
1942 – Fred Travalena, American comedian and actor (d. 2009)
1943 – Richard Caborn, English politician
      Minister for Sport and the Olympics
1943 – Michael Durrell, American actor
1943 – Alexander Maxovich Shilov, Russian painter
1943 – Cees Veerman, Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist  (d. 2014)
      (The Cats)
1944 – Merzak Allouache, Algerian director and screenwriter
1944 – Patrick Cordingley, English general
1944 – Boris Mikhailov, Russian ice hockey player and coach
1944 – Carlos Pace, Brazilian race car driver (d. 1977)
1945 – Ivan Graziani, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1997)
1946 – Millie, Jamaican singer-songwriter
1946 – Lloyd Doggett, American lawyer and politician
1946 – Tony Greig, South African–English cricketer and sportscaster (d. 2012)
1946 – Vinod Khanna, Indian actor and producer
1946:  Millie Small  [Jamaican musician]
1946 – Eddie Villanueva, Filipino evangelist and politician
      founded the ZOE Broadcasting Network
1947 – Patxi Andión, Spanish singer-songwriter and actor
1948 – Gerry Adams, Irish politician
1948 – Glenn Branca, American guitarist and composer
      (Theoretical Girls)
1949 – Penny Junor, English journalist and author
1949:  Sid McGinnis  [American musician]
1949 – Leslie Moonves, American businessman
1949 – Nicolas Peyrac, French singer-songwriter and photographer
1950 – David Brin, American physicist and author
1951:  Kerry Bentivolio  [American politician]
      U.S. Representative, R. MI, 2013-2015
1951 – Kevin Cronin, American musician
      (REO Speedwagon)
1951 – Clive Rees, Singaporean-Welsh rugby player
1951 – Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (d. 1985)
1952 – Ayten Mutlu, Turkish poet and author
1952 – Jürgen Schulz, German footballer
1953 – Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord (d. 1991)
1953 – Rein Rannap, Estonian pianist and composer
1953 – Raul Rebane, Estonian journalist
1954 – Bill Buford, American author and journalist
1954 – David Hidalgo, American musician
      (Los Lobos, Latin Playboys, and Los Super Seven)
1954 – Darrell M. West, American political scientist, author, and academic
1955 – Tony Dungy, American football player and coach
1956 – Sadiq al-Ahmar, Yemeni politician
1956 – Kathleen Webb, American author and illustrator
1957 – Bruce Grobbelaar, Zimbabwean footballer and coach
1959 – Turki bin Sultan, Saudi Arabian politician (d. 2012)
1959 – Oil Can Boyd, American baseball player
1959 – Brian Higgins, American politician
1959 – Walter Ray Williams, Jr., American bowler
1961 – Miyuki Matsuda, Japanese actress
1961 – Paul Sansome, English footballer
1961 – Ben Summerskill, English businessman and journalist
1962 – David Baker, American biochemist and computational biologist
1962 – Rich Yett, American baseball player
1963 – Sven Andersson, Swedish footballer and coach
1963 – Jsu Garcia, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1963 – Elisabeth Shue, American actress
1964 – Ricky Berry, American basketball player (d. 1989)
1964 – Mark Field, German-English lawyer and politician
1964 – Tom Jager, American swimmer and coach
1964 – Miltos Manetas, Greek painter
1964 – Knut Storberget, Norwegian lawyer and politician
      Norwegian Minister of Justice
1964 – Matthew Sweet, American musician
      (Community Trolls, Oh-OK, and The Thorns)
1965 – Peg O'Connor, American philosopher and academic
1965 – Steve Scalise, American politician
1965 – Rubén Sierra, Puerto Rican baseball player
1966 – Jacqueline Obradors, American actress
1966 – Niall Quinn, Irish footballer and manager
1967 – Kennet Andersson, Swedish footballer
1967 – Svend Karlsen, Norwegian strongman and bodybuilder
1968 – Bjarne Goldbæk, Danish footballer and sportscaster
1969 – Troy Shaw, English snooker player
1970 – Amy Jo Johnson, American actress, singer, and gymnast
1970 – Maria Kannegaard, Danish-Norwegian pianist
1970 – Shauna MacDonald, Canadian actress
1970 – Darren Oliver, American baseball player
1971 – Phil Bennett, English race car driver
1971 – Lola Dueñas, Spanish actress
1971 – Takis Gonias, Greek footballer and manager
1971 – Alan Stubbs, English footballer, coach, and manager
1972 – Daniel Cavanagh, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
      (Anathema)
1972 – Anders Iwers, Swedish bass player
      (Tiamat, Cemetary, and Ceremonial Oath)
1972 – Mark Schwarzer, Australian footballer
1972 – Ryu Si-won, South Korean actor and singer
1972 – Ko So-young, South Korean actress
1973 – Jeff B. Davis, American comedian, actor, and singer
1973 – Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor
1973 – Sylvain Legwinski, French footballer and manager
1973 – Rebecca Lobo, American basketball player and sportscaster
1974 – Walter Centeno, Costa Rican footballer
1974 – Alexis Georgoulis, Greek actor and producer
1974 – Kenny Jönsson, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
1974 – Jeremy Sisto, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1975 – Reon King, Guyanese cricketer
1976 – Barbie Hsu, Taiwanese actress and singer
1976 – Freddy García, Venezuelan baseball player
1976 – Magdalena Kučerová, Czech-German tennis player
1976 – Stefan Postma, Dutch footballer and coach
1977 – Daniel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – Melinda Doolittle, American singer-songwriter
1977 – Shimon Gershon, Israeli footballer
1977 – Jamie Laurie, American singer-songwriter (Flobots)
1977 – Vladimir Manchev, Bulgarian footballer
1977 – Wes Ramsey, American actor
1978 – Pamela David, Argentinian model and actress
1978 – Carolina Gynning, Swedish model, actress, and singer
1978 – Ricky Hatton, English boxer and promoter
1978:  Liu Yang  [Chinese astronaut]
1979 – David Di Tommaso, French footballer (d. 2005)
1979 – Richard Seymour, American football player
1979 – Lex Shrapnel, English actor
1979 – Pascal van Assendelft, Dutch sprinter
1980:  David Alpay  [Canadian actor, musician and producer]
1980 – Arnaud Coyot, French cyclist (d. 2013)
1980:  Michael Hastings  [American politician]
1980 – Abdoulaye Méïté, French footballer
1981 – Zurab Khizanishvili, Georgian footballer
1981 – José Luis Perlaza, Ecuadorian footballer
1982 – Michael Arden, American actor and singer
1982 – Levon Aronian, Armenian chess player
1982 – William Butler, American keyboard player and composer
      (Arcade Fire)
1982 – Meiyang Chаng, Indian actor and singer
1982 – Fábio Júnior dos Santos, Brazilian footballer
1982 – Lil Wyte, American rapper
1982 – MC Lars, American rapper
1982 – Hideki Mutoh, Japanese race car driver
1982 – Paul Smith, English boxer
1982 – Bronagh Waugh, Northern Irish actress
1983 – Renata Voráčová, Czech tennis player
1984 – Morné Morkel, South African cricketer
1984 – Joanna Pacitti, American singer-songwriter and actress
1985 – Mitchell Cole, English footballer (d. 2012)
1985 – Sylvia Fowles, American basketball player
1985 – Tarmo Kink, Estonian footballer
1986 – Tereza Kerndlová, Czech singer
1986 – Meg Myers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1986 – Mohammad Shukri, Malaysian cricketer
1986 – Olivia Thirlby, American actress
1987 – Joe Lewis, English footballer
1988 – Maki Horikita, Japanese actress
1989 – Pizzi, Portuguese footballer
1989 – Tyler Ennis, Canadian ice hockey player
1989 – Albert Ebossé Bodjongo, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2014)
1991 – Roshon Fegan, American actor, rapper, and dancer
1992 – Taylor Paris, Canadian rugby player
1993 – Adam Gemili, English sprinter
1993 – Joe Rafferty, English-born Irish footballer
1998 – Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink, German actress and singer

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404 – Aelia Eudoxia, Roman wife of Arcadius
836 – Saint Nicetas the Patrician, Byzantine general and monk (b. 762)
869 – Ermentrude of Orléans (b. 823)
877 – Charles the Bald, Roman emperor (b. 823)
1014 – Samuel of Bulgaria (b. 958)
1101 – Bruno of Cologne, German-Italian monk and saint  (b. 1030)
      founded Carthusian Order
1173 – Engelbert III, Margrave of Istria
1413 – Dawit I of Ethiopia (b. 1382)
1641 – Matthijs Quast, Dutch explorer
1644 – Elisabeth of France (b. 1602)
1660 – Paul Scarron, French poet and author (b. 1610)
1661 – Guru Har Rai, Indian 7th Sikh guru (b. 1630)
1688 – Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle  (b. 1652)
      English soldier and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica
1739 – Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné  (b. 1684)
      French wife of Adrien Maurice de Noailles
1762 – Francesco Manfredini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1684)
1819 – Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia (b. 1751)
1829 – Pierre Derbigny, French-American politician  (b. 1769)
      6th Governor of Louisiana
1836 – Johannes Jelgerhuis, Dutch painter and actor (b. 1770)
1873 – Paweł Strzelecki, Polish-English geologist and explorer (b. 1797)
1883 – Dục Đức, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1852)
1891 – Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (b. 1846)
1892 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (b. 1809)
1912 – Auguste Marie François Beernaert, Belgian politician  (b. 1829)
      14th Prime Minister of Belgium
      Nobel Prize laureate
1942 – Siegmund Glücksmann, German-Jewish politician (b. 1884)
1945 – Leonardo Conti, German SS officer (b. 1900)
1947 – Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer and critic (b. 1887)
1951 – Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman (b. 1860)
      founded the Kellogg Company
1951 – Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-American physician and biochemist  (b. 1884)
      Nobel Prize laureate
1953 – William Burns, Canadian lacrosse player (b. 1875)
1953 – Porter Hall, American actor (b. 1888)
1959 – Bernard Berenson, American historian and author (b. 1865)
1962 – Tod Browning, American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1880)
1968 – Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1917)
1973 – Sidney Blackmer, American actor and singer (b. 1895)
1973 – François Cevert, French race car driver (b. 1944)
1973 – Dick Laan, Dutch actor, screenwriter, and author (b. 1894)
1973 – Dennis Price, English actor (b. 1915)
1973 – Margaret Wilson, American author (b. 1882)
1974 – Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian race car driver (b. 1948)
1976 – Gilbert Ryle, English philosopher and author (b. 1900)
1977 – Danny Greene, American mobster (b. 1933)
1979 – Elizabeth Bishop, American poet and author (b. 1911)
1980 – Hattie Jacques, English actress (b. 1922)
1980 – Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921)
1981 – Anwar Sadat, Egyptian politician  (b. 1918)
      3rd President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate
1983 – Terence Cooke, American cardinal (b. 1921)
1985 – Nelson Riddle, American composer, conductor, and bandleader (b. 1921)
1986 – Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1921)
1989 – Bette Davis, American actress and singer (b. 1908)
1991 – Igor Talkov, Russian singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
1992 – Denholm Elliott, English-Spanish actor (b. 1922)
1992 – Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1902)
1993 – Larry Walters, American truck driver and pilot (b. 1949)
1995 – Benoît Chamoux, French mountaineer (b. 1961)
1997 – Johnny Vander Meer, American baseball player and manager (b. 1914)
1998 – Mark Belanger, American baseball player (b. 1944)
1999 – Amália Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1920)
1999 – Gorilla Monsoon, American wrestler and sportscaster (b. 1937)
2000 – Richard Farnsworth, American actor and stuntman (b. 1920)
2001 – Arne Harris, American director and producer (b. 1934)
2002 – Prince Claus of the Netherlands (b. 1926)
2004 – Marvin Santiago. Puerto Rican singer and actor (b. 1947)
2006 – Bertha Brouwer, Dutch sprinter (b. 1930)
2006 – Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian director and screenwriter (b. 1940)
2006 – Buck O'Neil, American baseball player and manager (b. 1911)
2006 – Wilson Tucker, American author and critic (b. 1914)
2007 – Babasaheb Bhosale, Indian politician (d. 1921)
      8th Chief Minister of Maharashtra
2007 – Bud Ekins, American actor and stuntman (b. 1930)
2007 – Viet Nguyen, Vietnamese conjoined twin (b. 1981)
2007 – Laxmi Mall Singhvi, Indian scholar, jurist, and politician (b. 1931)
2008 – Peter Cox, Australian politician (b. 1925)
2008 – Kim Ji-hoo, South Korean actor and model (b. 1985)
2009 – Douglas Campbell, Scottish-Canadian actor and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2010 – Rhys Isaac, South-African-Australian historian and author (b. 1937)
2010 – Antonie Kamerling, Dutch actor and singer (b. 1966)
2010 – Colette Renard, French actress and singer (b. 1924)
2010 – Piet Wijn, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1929)
2011 – Ahmed Jaber al-Qattan, Bahraini protester (b. 1994)
2011 – Diane Cilento, Australian actress (b. 1933)
2012 – Chadli Bendjedid, Algerian colonel and politician  (b. 1929)
      3rd President of Algeria
2012 – Anthony John Cooke, English organist and composer (b. 1931)
2012 – Nick Curran, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1977)
      (The Fabulous Thunderbirds)
2012 – Albert, Margrave of Meissen (b. 1943)
2012 – Joseph Meyer, American lawyer and politician  (b. 1941)
      19th Secretary of State of Wyoming
2012 – B. Satya Narayan Reddy, Indian politician (b. 1927)
      19th Governor of West Bengal
2012 – J.J.C. Smart, English-Australian philosopher and academic (b. 1920)
2013 – Ulysses Curtis, American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1926)
2013 – Rift Fournier, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1936)
2013 – Paul Rogers, English actor (b. 1917)
2013 – Mary Scales, American academic and politician (b. 1928)
2013 – Andy Stewart, Scottish-English politician (b. 1937)
2013 – Nico van Kampen, Dutch physicist and educator (b. 1921)
2014 – Vic Braden, American tennis player and coach (b. 1929)
2014 – Igor Mitoraj, German-Polish sculptor (b. 1944)
2014 – Diane Nyland, Canadian actress, director and choreographer (b. 1944)
2014 – Marian Seldes, American actress and singer (b. 1928)
2014 – Serhiy Zakarlyuka, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1976)

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