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1780:  Richard Mentor Johnson  [American politician] (d. 19 Nov 1850)
      9th Vice President of the United States, 1837-1841
      U.S. Senator, KY, 1819-1829
      U.S. Representative, KY, 1807-1819, 1829-1837

1864:  Robert Lansing  [American lawyer and politician] (d. 30 Oct 1928)
      42nd United States Secretary of State, 1915-1920
1865 – James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician (d. 1950)
      23rd United States Secretary of the Interior

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1253 – Ivo of Kermartin, French priest and saint (d. 1303)
1577 – Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (d. 1621)
1577 – Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (d. 1642)
1582 – Johann Gerhard, German theologian and academic (d. 1637)
1623 – Francis Turretin, Swiss-Italian minister, theologian, and academic (d. 1687)
1688 – Domenico Zipoli, Italian missionary and composer (d. 1726)
1711 – Jupiter Hammon, American poet (d. 1806)
1719 – Jacques Cazotte, French author and academic (d. 1792)
1720 – Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Italian harpsichord player and composer (d. 1795)
1725 – John Wilkes, English journalist and politician (d. 1797)
1729 – Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, French composer (d. 1817)
1760 – Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon (d. 1825)
      French economist and philosopher
1810 – Adolphe-Félix Cals, French painter (d. 1880)
1811 – Albertus van Raalte, Dutch-American pastor (d. 1876)
1813 – Georg Büchner, German-Swiss poet and playwright (d. 1837)
1814 – Yakiv Holovatsky, Ukrainian historian, scholar, and poet (d. 1888)
1817 – Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian philosopher and scholar (d. 1898)
1853 – Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1920)
1859 – Childe Hassam, American painter (d. 1935)
1864 – Elinor Glyn, English author, screenwriter, and producer (d. 1943)
1883 – Thaddeus Shideler, American hurdler (d. 1966)
1886 – Spring Byington, American actress and singer (d. 1971)
1890 – Roy Kilner, English cricketer (d. 1928)
1892 – Theodor Eicke, German general (d. 1943)
1892 – Herbert Howells, English organist, composer, and educator (d. 1983)
1895:  Doris Humphrey  [American dancer and choreographer] (29 Dec 1958)
1898 – Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese violinist and educator (d. 1998)
1898 – Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author and poet (d. 1971)
1900 – Jean Arthur, American actress and singer (d. 1991)
1902 – Irene Ryan, American actress (d. 1973)
1903 – Nathanael West, American author and screenwriter (d. 1940)
1906 – Paul Derringer, American baseball player (d. 1987)
1908 – Hjördis Petterson, Swedish actress (d. 1988)
1908 – Red Rolfe, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1969)
1909 – Cozy Cole, American drummer (d. 1981)
1910 – Ester Wier, American author (d. 2000)
1912 – Pope John Paul I (d. 1978)
1912 – Theodore Marier, American composer and educator (d. 2001)
       founder of the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School
1912 – Jack Owens, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1982)
1914 – Jerry Siegel, American author and illustrator (d. 1996)
1915 – Arthur Miller, American author and playwright (d. 10 Feb 2005)
1917 – Adele Stimmel Chase, American artist (d. 2000)
1917 – Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-American author and playwright (d. 1991)
1917 – Marsha Hunt, American actress and singer
1917 – Norman Leyden, American composer and conductor (d. 2014)
1918 – Rita Hayworth, American actress, singer, dancer, and producer (d. 14 May 1987)
1918 – Ralph Wilson, American businessman, founded the Buffalo Bills (d. 2014)
1919 – Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Ukrainian-Russian physicist and academic
1920 – Montgomery Clift, American actor and screenwriter (d. 23 Jul 1966)
1920 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish journalist and author (d. 2010)
1921 – George Mackay Brown, Scottish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1996)
1921 – Priscilla Buckley, American journalist and author (d. 2012)
1921 – Maria Gorokhovskaya, Ukrainian-Israeli gymnast (d. 2001)
1921 – Tom Poston, American actor (d. 2007)
1922 – Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian guitarist and composer (d. 2001)
1922 – Pierre Juneau, Canadian broadcaster and politician (d. 2012)
      co-founded the Montreal World Film Festival
1923 – Barney Kessel, American guitarist and composer (d. 2004)
1923 – Charles McClendon, American football player and coach (d. 2001)
1924 – Don Coryell, American football player and coach (d. 2010)
1924 – Anton Geiser, Croatian SS officer (d. 2012)
1924 – Ülo Sooster, Estonian artist (d. 1970)
1925 – Harry Carpenter, English sportscaster (d. 2010)
1926 – Julie Adams, American actress
1926 – Beverly Garland, American actress (d. 2008)
1926 – Roberto Lippi, Italian racing driver (d. 2011)
1929 – Mário Wilson, Mozambican footballer and manager
1930 – Robert Atkins, American physician and cardiologist (d. 2003)
       created the Atkins diet
1930 – Jimmy Breslin, American journalist and author
1931 – Ernst Hinterberger, Austrian author and playwright (d. 2012)
1933 – William Anders, Hong Kong-American general and astronaut
1933 – The Singing Nun, Belgian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and nun (d. 1985)
1934 – Alan Garner, English author
1934 – Johnny Haynes, English-Scottish footballer (d. 2005)
1934 – Rico Rodriguez, American trombonist
      (Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra)
1935 – Michael Eavis, English farmer, founded the Glastonbury Festival
1935 – Sydney Chapman, English architect and politician (d. 2014)
      Vice-Chamberlain of the Household
1936 – Sathima Bea Benjamin, South African singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
1936 – Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese-American seismologist and academic
1937 – Paxton Whitehead, English actor
1938 – Evel Knievel, American motorcycle rider and stuntman (d. 2007)
1938 – Les Murray, Australian anthologist, poet, and critic
1939 – Oliver Rackham, English botanist and academic
1940 – Stephen Kovacevich, American pianist and conductor
1940 – Jim Smith, English footballer and manager
1940 – Peter Stringfellow, English businessman
1941 – Earl Thomas Conley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1942 – Gary Puckett, Musician and actor
1942 – Steve Jones, American basketball player and sportscaster
1942:  Gary Zukav  [American writer]
1946 – Ronni Chasen, American publicist (d. 2010)
1946:  Virgil Goode  [American politician]
      U.S. Representative, VA, 1997-2009
1946 – Michael Hossack, American drummer (d. 2012)
      (The Doobie Brothers)
1946 – Cameron Mackintosh, English producer and manager
1946 – Adam Michnik, Polish journalist and historian
1946 – Drusilla Modjeska, English-Australian author and critic
1946 – Bob Seagren, American pole vaulter
1947 – Simi Garewal, Indian actress and director
1947 – Gene Green, American lawyer and politician
1947 – Michael McKean, American singer-songwriter, actor, and director
1948 – Robert Jordan, American author (d. 2007)
1948 – Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress
1948 – Michael Lynch, American sociologist
1948 – George Wendt, American actor
1949 – Owen Arthur, Barbadian economist and politician
      5th Prime Minister of Barbados
1949:  Nick Tosches  [American journalist and writer]
1950 – Philippe Barbarin, French cardinal
1950 – Howard Rollins, American actor (d. 1996)
1950:  Michael Tolkin  [American filmmaker and novelist]
1951 – Annie Borckink, Dutch speed skater
1951 – Roger Pontare, Swedish singer
1951 – Shari Ulrich, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and violinist
      (Hometown Band, The Pied Pumkin, and UHF)
1953 – Joseph Bowie, American trombonist
      (Defunkt and Black Artists Group)
1954 – Carlos Buhler, American mountaineer
1955 – George Alogoskoufis, Greek economist, academic, and politician
      Greek Minister of Finance
1955 – Tyrone Mitchell, American murderer (d. 1984)
1955 – Smita Patil, Indian actress (d. 1986)
1956 – Fran Cosmo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
      (Boston and Orion the Hunter)
1956 – Mae Jemison, American physician and astronaut
1956 – Pat McCrory, American politician, 74th Governor of North Carolina
1957 – Lawrence Bender, American actor and producer
1957 – Steve McMichael, American football player, wrestler, and sportscaster
1957 – Vincent Van Patten, American tennis player and actor
1958 – Howard Alden, American guitarist
1958 – Alan Jackson, American singer-songwriter
1958 – Craig Murray, English academic and politician
1958:  Mike Quigley  [American politician]
      U.S. Representative, D. IL, 2009-present
1959 – Ron Drummond, American author and scholar
1959 – Russell Gilbert, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1959 – Mark Peel, Australian historian and academic
1959 – Richard Roeper, American journalist and critic
1960 – Guy Henry, English actor
1960 – Rob Marshall, American director, producer, and choreographer
1960 – Bernie Nolan, Irish singer and actress (The Nolans) (d. 2013)
1960 – Philippe Sands, American lawyer and academic
1961:  Cheri Bustos  [American politician]
      U.S. Representative, D. IL, 2013-present
1962 – Mike Judge, American animator, director, screenwriter, producer and actor
1963 – Sergio Goycochea, Argentinian footballer and journalist
1963 – Norm Macdonald, Canadian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1963 – Toby Young, English journalist
1965 – Aravinda de Silva, Sri Lankan cricketer
1966 – Shaun Edwards, English rugby player and coach
1966 – Danny Ferry, American basketball player and manager
1966 – Mark Gatiss, English actor, screenwriter, and author
1966 – Tommy Kendall, American race car driver
1967 – René Dif, Danish singer and actor (Aqua)
1967 – Simon Segars, English businessman
1967 – Kim Seung-jun, South Korean voice actor
1968 – Graeme Le Saux, English footballer
1968 – Ziggy Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter, guitarist, and voice actor
      (Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers)
1968 – David Robertson, Scottish footballer and manager
1969 – Ernie Els, South African golfer
1969 – Wyclef Jean, Haitian-American rapper, producer, and actor (Fugees)
1969 – Wood Harris, American actor and producer
1969 – Rick Mercer, Canadian comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
1970 – Anil Kumble, Indian cricketer
1970 – John Mabry, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
1970 – Shauna O'Brien, American model and actress
1970 – Blues Saraceno, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Poison)
1971:  Martin Heinrich  [American politician]
      U.S. Senator, D. NM, 2013-present
      U.S. Representative, D. NM, 2009-2013
1971 – Chris Kirkpatrick, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor ('N Sync)
1971 – Kim Ljung, Norwegian singer-songwriter and bass player
      (Seigmen and Zeromancer)
1971:  Patrick Ness  [American author]
1972 – Eminem, American rapper, producer, and actor
      (D12, Outsidaz, and Bad Meets Evil)
1972 – Musashi, Japanese martial artist and kick-boxer
1972 – Tarkan, German-Turkish singer-songwriter and producer
1972 – Sharon Leal, American actress and singer
1972 – Joe McEwing, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1973 – Andrea Tarozzi, Italian footballer and coach
1974 – Ariel Levy, American journalist and author
1974 – Matthew Macfadyen, English actor
1974 – Janne Puurtinen, Finnish keyboard player (HIM)
1974 – Cincinnati Red, American wrestler (d. 2015)
1974 – John Rocker, American baseball player and actor
1974 – Dhondup Wangchen, Chinese director and producer
1975 – Janne Aikala, Finnish murder victim (d. 1986)
1975 – Francis Bouillon, American-Canadian ice hockey player
1975 – Vina Morales, Filipino actress and singer
1975 – Despina Olympiou, Greek-Cypriot singer
1976 – Sebastián Abreu, Uruguayan footballer
1976 – Rena Inoue, Japanese-American figure skater
1976 – Kevin Maher, English-Irish footballer
1977 – Dudu Aouate, Israeli footballer
1977 – Alimi Ballard, American actor and producer
1977 – Bryan Bertino, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1977 – Hiroyuki Hirayama, Japanese actor
1977 – Ryan McGinley, American photographer
1977 – André Villas-Boas, Portuguese footballer and manager
1978 – Jerry Flannery, Irish rugby player and coach
1978 – Erin Karpluk, Canadian actress
1978 – Chuka Umunna, English lawyer and politician
1979 – Marcela Bovio, Mexican singer-songwriter and violinist
      (Stream of Passion and Elfonía)
1979 – Alexandros Nikolaidis, Greek martial artist
1979 – Koichiro Nishi, Japanese actor
1979 – Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish race car driver
1979 – Kostas Tsartsaris, Greek basketball player
1980 – Yekaterina Gamova, Russian volleyball player
1980 – Mohammad Hafeez, Pakistani cricketer
1980 – Alessandro Piccolo, Italian race car driver
1981 – Tsubasa Imai, Japanese singer, actor, and dancer
      (Tackey & Tsubasa)
1982 – Nick Riewoldt, Australian footballer
1983 – Daniel Booko, American actor
1983 – Milica Brozovic, Serbian-Russian figure skater
1983 – Felicity Jones, English actress
1983 – Toshihiro Matsushita, Japanese footballer
1983 – Riki Miura, Japanese actor
1983 – Junichi Miyashita, Japanese swimmer
1983 – Ivan Saenko, Russian footballer
1983 – Mitch Talbot, American baseball player
1983 – Vitali Teleš, Estonian footballer
1984 – Jelle Klaasen, Dutch darts player
1984 – Chris Lowell, American actor
1984 – Randall Munroe, American author and illustrator
1984 – Anja Eline Skybakmoen, Norwegian singer, composer and orchestra leader
1985 – Carlos González, Venezuelan baseball player
1985 – Max Irons, English actor
1985 – Collins John, Dutch footballer
1985 – Baran Kosari, Iranian actress
1985 – Tomokazu Nagira, Japanese footballer
1986 – Aija Brumermane, Latvian basketball player
1986 – Yannick Ponsero, French figure skater
1987 – Bea Alonzo, Filipino actress and singer
1987 – Jarosław Fojut, Polish footballer
1987 – Hideto Takahashi, Japanese footballer
1988 – Christina Crawford, American wrestler and dancer
1988 – Tori Matsuzaka, Japanese actor
1988 – Yuko Oshima, Japanese singer and actress
      (AKB48 and Not Yet)
1989 – Tokio Emoto, Japanese actor
1989 – Oleksandr Isakov, Ukrainian swimmer
1990 – Bianca Bree, Belgian-American actress and producer
1990 – Paolo Campinoti, Italian footballer
1990 – Saki Kumagai, Japanese footballer
1990 – Patrick Lambie, South African rugby player
1990 – Arisa Murata, Japanese skier
1991 – Brenda Asnicar, Argentinian actress, singer, and dancer
1992 – Jacob Artist, American actor, singer, and dancer
1992 – Sam Concepcion, Filipino singer, dancer, and actor
1992 – Nanami Sakuraba, Japanese actress and singer

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33 – Agrippina the Elder, Roman wife of Germanicus (b. 14 BC)
532 – Pope Boniface II
1575 – Gaspar Cervantes de Gaeta, Spanish cardinal (b. 1511)
1586 – Philip Sidney, English courtier, poet, and general (b. 1554)
1587 – Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)
1616 – John Pitts, English priest and scholar (b. 1560)
1660 – Adrian Scrope, English colonel and politician (b. 1601)
1673 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (b. 1630)
       English politician, Lord High Treasurer of England
1757 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French entomologist and academic (b. 1683)
1776 – Pierre François le Courayer, French-English theologian and author (b. 1681)
1780 – William Cookworthy, English pharmacist and minister (b. 1705)
1786 – Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss painter and illustrator (b. 1723)
1806 – Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian commander and politician (b. 1758)
      Governor-General of Haiti (b. 1758)
1836 – Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)
1837 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1778)
1849 – Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1810)
1868 – Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (b. 1775)
1887 – Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist and chemist (b. 1824)
1889 – Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1828)
1893 – Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta (b. 1808)
      French general and politician, 3rd President of France
1910 – Julia Ward Howe, American poet and songwriter (b. 1819)
1918 – Malak Hifni Nasif, Egyptian feminist (b. 1886)
1928 – Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator (b. 1853)
1931 – Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist and academic (b. 1884)
1937 – J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman (b. 1862)
1938 – Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theoretician (b. 1854)
1956 – Anne Crawford, Israeli-English actress (b. 1920)
1958 – Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (b. 1896)
1958 – Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (b. 1876)
1962 – Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter, costume designer, and set designer (b. 1882)
1963 – Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician and academic (b. 1865)
1965 – Bart King, American cricketer (b. 1873)
1966 – Sidney Hatch, American runner and soldier (b. 1883)
1966 – Wieland Wagner, German director and manager (b. 1917)
1967 – Puyi, Chinese emperor (b. 1906)
1970 – Pierre Laporte, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1921)
1970 – Vola Vale, American actress (b. 1897)
1970 – Quincy Wright, American political scientist and academic (b. 1890)
1972 – Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1914)
1972 – George, Crown Prince of Serbia (b. 1887)
1972 – Billy Williams, American singer (The Charioteers) (b. 1910)
1973 – Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian author and poet (b. 1926)
1978 – Giovanni Gronchi, Italian educator, soldier, and politician
      3rd President of the Italian Republic (b. 1887)
1979 – S. J. Perelman, American author and screenwriter (b. 1904)
1979 – John Stuart, Scottish-English actor (b. 1898)
1981 – Kannadasan Indian author, poet, and songwriter (b. 1927)
1981 – Albert Cohen, Greek-Swiss civil servant and author (b. 1895)
1981 – Lina Tsaldari, Greek politician (b. 1887)
1983 – Raymond Aron, French sociologist, political scientist, and philosopher (b. 1905)
1987 – Abdul Malek Ukil, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
1991 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and actor (b. 1919)
1992 – Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist, academic, and politician (b. 1912)
1992 – Orestis Laskos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
1993 – Criss Oliva, American guitarist and songwriter (Savatage) (b. 1963)
1996 – Chris Acland, English drummer (Lush) (b. 1966)
1997 – Larry Jennings, American magician and author (b. 1933)
1998 – Joan Hickson, English actress (b. 1906)
1998 – Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and politician (b. 1920)
      20th Governor of Sindh
1999 – Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician and physicist (b. 1915)
2000 – Leo Nomellini, Italian-American football player and wrestler (b. 1924)
2000 – Joachim Nielsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1964)
2001 – Jay Livingston, American singer-songwriter (b. 1915)
2001 – Micheline Ostermeyer, French shot putter, discus thrower, and pianist (b. 1922)
2001 – Rehavam Ze'evi, Israeli historian, general, and politician (b. 1926)
      Tourism Minister of Israel
2002 – Derek Bell, Irish harpist and composer (The Chieftains) (b. 1935)
2002 – Aileen Riggin, American swimmer and diver (b. 1906)
2004 – Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer-songwriter (b. 1952)
2005 – Ba Jin, Chinese author (b. 1904)
2006 – Daniel Emilfork, Chilean-French actor (b. 1924)
2006 – Christopher Glenn, American journalist (b. 1938)
2007 – Joey Bishop, American actor and talk show host (b. 1918)
2007 – Teresa Brewer, American singer (b. 1931)
2007 – Suzy Covey, American scholar and academic (b. 1939)
2008 – Urmas Ott, Estonian journalist and author (b. 1955)
2008 – Levi Stubbs, American singer and actor (Four Tops) (b. 1936)
2008 – Ben Weider, Canadian businessman (b. 1923)
      co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness
2009 – Norma Fox Mazer, American author and educator (b. 1931)
2009 – Vic Mizzy, American composer (b. 1916)
2011 – Carl Lindner, Jr., American businessman (b. 1919)
2012 – Milija Aleksic, English-South African footballer (b. 1951)
2012 – Émile Allais, French skier (b. 1912)
2012 – Henry Friedlander, German-American historian and author (b. 1930)
2012 – Stanford R. Ovshinsky, American scientist and businessman (b. 1922)
      co-founded Energy Conversion Devices
2012 – Kōji Wakamatsu, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1936)
2013 – Mother Antonia, American-Mexican nun and activist (b. 1926)
2013 – Terry Fogerty, English rugby player and coach (b. 1944)
2013 – Giant George, American dog (b. 2005)
2013 – Arthur Maxwell House, Canadian neurologist and politician (b. 1926)
      10th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador
2013 – Lou Scheimer, American animator, producer, and voice actor
      co-founded the Filmation Company (b. 1928)
2013 – Rene Simpson, Canadian-American tennis player (b. 1966)
2014 – Edwards Barham, American farmer and politician (b. 1937)
2014 – Masaru Emoto, Japanese author and activist (b. 1943)
2014 – Leigh Kamman, American radio host (b. 1922)
2014 – Anna Nakagawa, Japanese actress (b. 1965)
2014 – Tom Shaw, American bishop (b. 1945)
2014 – Berndt von Staden, German diplomat (b. 1919)
      German Ambassador to the United States

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