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1463 – Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician and philosopher (d. 1512)
1504 – Shin Saimdang, South Korean painter and poet (d. 1551)
1682 – Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian, explorer, and author (d. 1761)
1690 – Martin Folkes, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1754)
1704 – John Byng, English admiral and politician  (d. 1757)
      11th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland
1740 – James Boswell, Scottish-English lawyer and author (d. 19 May 1795)
1748:  Daniel Smith  [American surveyor, revolutionary, and politician] (d. 16 Jun 1818)
      U.S. Senator from Tennessee, 1798-1799, 1805-1809
      Secretary of the Southwest Territory, 1790-1796
1808 – Caterina Scarpellini, Italian astronomer (d. 1873)
1815 – Dan Emmett, American composer (d. 1904)
1822 – Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski, Russian-Polish cardinal (d. 1902)
1832 – Narcisa de Jesús, Ecuadorian saint (d. 1869)
1855 – Paul Bruchési, Canadian archbishop (d. 1939)
1856 – Jacques Curie, French physicist and academic (d. 1941)
1861 – Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (d. 1904)
1866 – Antonio Luna, Filipino general (d. 1899)
1873:  Lester J. Dickinson  [American politician]
      U.S. Senator, R. IA, 1931-1937
      U.S. Representative, R. IA, 1919-1931
1875 – Marie of Romania (d. 1938)
1877 – Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film producer (d. 1966)
1877 – Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer and coach (d. 1973)
1879 – Alva B. Adams, American lawyer and politician (d. 1941)
1879 – Franz von Papen, German soldier and politician (d. 1969)
      Chancellor of Germany
1880 – Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1960)
1881 – John DeWitt, American football player and hammer thrower (d. 1930)
1882 – Jean Giraudoux, French author and playwright (d. 31 Jan 1944)
1883 – Victor Hochepied, French swimmer and water polo player (d. 1966)
1891 – Fanny Brice, American actress and singer (d. 29 May 1951)
1892 – Charles McFadyen, Australian public servant (d. 1965)
1897 – Joseph Goebbels, German lawyer and politician  (d. 1945)
      Chancellor of Germany
1898 – Alan Barker, English soldier (d. 1984)
1899 – Kate Seredy, Hungarian-American author and illustrator (d. 1975)
1899 – Akim Tamiroff, Georgian-American actor (d. 1972)
1905 – Henry Green, English author (d. 1973)
1906 – Fredric Brown, American author (d. 1972)
1907 – Edwige Feuillère, French actress (d. 1998)
1910 – A. J. Ayer, English philosopher and author (d. 1989)
1913 – Al Suomi, American ice hockey player (d. 2014)
1914 – Maxim of Bulgaria, Bulgarian patriarch (d. 2012)
1915 – William Berenberg, American physician and academic (d. 2005)
1917 – Eddie Constantine, American-French actor and singer (d. 1993)
1918 – Bernard Gordon, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2007)
1920 – Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-American physician and immunologist  (d. 2011)
      Nobel Prize laureate
1921 – Baselios Thoma Didymos I, Indian metropolitan (d. 2014)
1921 – Baku Mahadeva, Sri Lankan civil servant and academic (d. 2013)
1921 – Bill Mauldin, American soldier and cartoonist (d. 2003)
1922 – Neal Hefti, American trumpet player and composer (d. 2008)
1923 – Carl Djerassi, Austrian-American chemist, author, and playwright (d. 2015)
1923 – Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Dutch runner, hurdler, and long jumper (d. 2015)
1925 – Dominick Dunne, American journalist and author (d. 2009)
1925 – Robert Hardy, English actor
1925 – Haim Hefer, Polish-Israeli songwriter and poet (d. 2012)
1925 – Zoot Sims, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1985)
1926 – Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor and actor (d. 2015)
1929 – Yevgeny Primakov, Ukrainian-Russian journalist and politician n(d. 2015)
      32nd Prime Minister of Russia
1930 – Bertha Brouwer, Dutch sprinter (d. 2006)
1930 – Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor and painter (d. 2002)
1930 – Omara Portuondo, Cuban singer and dancer
      (Cuarteto d'Aida and Buena Vista Social Club)
1930 – Natalie Sleeth, American pianist and composer (d. 1992)
1931 – Vaali, Indian actor, poet, and songwriter (d. 2013)
1931 – Franco Interlenghi, Italian actor (d. 2015)
1932 – Joyce Gould, Baroness Gould of Potternewton
      English pharmacist and politician
1933 – William Harrison, American author and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1935 – Michael Jayston, English actor
1935 – Isao Takahata, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter
1936 – Akiko Kojima, Japanese model, Miss Universe 1959
1938 – Ralph Bakshi, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1938 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian politician, 24th President of Liberia
1940 – Frida Boccara, Moroccan-French singer (d. 1996)
1940 – David Brigati, American singer
      (Joey Dee and the Starliters and The Rascals)
1940 – Angela Douglas, English actress and singer
1940 – Connie Mack III, American politician
1940 – Jack Shepherd, English actor, director, and playwright
1940 – Galen Weston, English-Canadian businessman and philanthropist
      founded George Weston Limited
1941 – George Davies, English fashion designer
1941 – Paul Tyler, Baron Tyler, English politician
1942 – Melora Harte, American voice actress and screenwriter
1942 – Bob Ross, American painter and television host (d. 1995)
1943 – Don Simpson, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1944 – Claude Brochu, Canadian businessman
1944 – Denny Laine, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
      (The Moody Blues, Ginger Baker's Air Force, and Wings)
1945 – Mick Gallagher, English keyboard player and songwriter
      (The Animals, The Blockheads, and Skip Bifferty)
1945 – Ron Maag, American businessman and politician
1945 – Melba Moore, American singer-songwriter and actress
1945 – Gerrit Ybema, Dutch civil servant and politician (d. 2012)
1946 – Lynn Carey, American singer-songwriter and actress
1946 – Peter Green, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
      (Fleetwood Mac and John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers)
1947 – Helen Coonan, Australian lawyer and politician
      52nd Australian Minister for Communications
1947 – Richard Dreyfuss, American actor, singer, and producer
1948 – Frans de Waal, Dutch-American ethologist, author, and academic
1948 – Kate Jackson, American actress, director, and producer

1949 – Kieron Baker, English footballer
1949 – Paul Orndorff, American football player and wrestler
1949 – David Paton, Scottish guitarist
      (The Alan Parsons Project and Bay City Rollers)
1949 – James Williamson, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
     (The Stooges)
1950 – Abdullah Gül, Turkish academic and politician
      11th President of Turkey
1950 – Bronwen Mantel, Canadian actress
1951 – Dirk Kempthorne, American politician
       49th United States Secretary of the Interior
1951 – Tiff Needell, English race car driver and television host
1952 – Marcia Fudge, American lawyer and politician
1953 – Denis Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1954 – Lee Child, English author
1954:  Paul Di Filippo  [American sci-fi writer]
1955 – Kevin DuBrow, American singer-songwriter (Quiet Riot) (d. 2007)
1955 – Roger O'Donnell, English keyboard player
      (The Cure and Thompson Twins)
1956 – Wilfredo Gómez, Puerto Rican boxer
1957 – Dan Castellaneta, American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter
1958 – Blažej Baláž, Slovak painter, sculptor, and illustrator
1958:  Ann-Marie MacDonald
      Canadian playwright, novelist, actor and broadcast journalist
1958 – David Remnick, American journalist and author
1959 – Jesse Barfield, American baseball player and sportscaster
1959 – Mike Gartner, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1960:  Fabiola Gianotti  [Italian particle physicist]
      CERN Director-General, 2016-
1960 – Finola Hughes, English actress, dancer, and director
1960 – Thorsten Schlumberger, German footballer
1961 – Randy Jackson, American singer-songwriter and dancer
     (The Jackson 5)
1961 – Joel Otto, American ice hockey player and coach
1961:  Nancy Werlin  [American writer]
1962 – Einar Örn Benediktsson, Icelandic singer, trumpet player and politician
      (The Sugarcubes, Purrkur Pillnikk, and KUKL)
1963:  Tim Minear  [American screenwriter and director]
1963 – Gerald Morris, American author
1964 – Yasmin Le Bon, English model
1964 – Eddie McGuire, Australian businessman and television host
1965 – Tyler Collins, American singer-songwriter and actress
1965 – Masahiro Takashima, Japanese actor
1965 – William De Los Santos
      Hawaiian/Irish-American author, poet, screenwriter and film director
1966 – Mary Bucholtz, American linguist
1967 – Joely Fisher, American actress and director
1967 – Rufus Sewell, English actor
1968 – Tsunku, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer (Sharam Q)
1968 – Johann Olav Koss, Norwegian speed skater and physician
1969 – David Farr, English director and playwright
1969 – Eleni Menegaki, Greek actress and talk show host
1969 – Chris Verene, American photographer
1970 – Phillip Cocu, Dutch footballer and manager
1970 – Kaido Reivelt, Estonian physicist and academic
1970 – Edwin van der Sar, Dutch footballer and sportscaster
1971 – Daniel J. Bernstein, American mathematician, cryptologist, and academic
1971 – Matthew Hayden, Australian cricketer
1971:  Ma Huateng  [Chinese entrepreneur]
      founded Tencent Inc. (internet company)
1971 – Winona Ryder, American actress and producer
1972 – Takafumi Horie, Japanese businessman, founded Livedoor
1972 – Tracee Ellis Ross, American actress and producer
1972 – Gabrielle Union, American actress
1973 – Vonetta Flowers American bobsledder, sprinter, and long jumper
1973 – Éric Messier, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 – Robert Pirès, French footballer
1974 – Michael Vaughan, English cricketer and sportscaster
1974 – Yenny Wahid, Indonesian activist and politician
1975 – Kelly Lin, Chinese actress
1976 – Stephen Craigan, Irish footballer and manager
1976 – Milena Govich, American actress, singer, and dancer
1976 – Georgios Kalaitzis, Greek basketball player
1977 – Jon Abrahams, American actor
1977 – Brendan Fehr, Canadian actor
1977 – Vaggelis Kaounos, Greek footballer
1978 – Travis Henry, American football player
1978:  Martin Lel  [Kenyan long distance and marathon runner]
1978 – Kelly Smith, English footballer
1979 – Andrew-Lee Potts, English actor, director, and producer
1979 – Ignasi Giménez Renom, Catalan lawyer and politician
1980:  Miguel Cotto  [Puerto Rican boxer]
1980 – Ben Foster, American actor
1980 – Nadejda Ostrovskaya, Belarusian tennis player
1980 – Kaine Robertson, New Zealand-Italian rugby player
1980 – B. J. Sams, American football player
1981 – Amanda Beard, American swimmer
1981 – Jonathan Brown, Australian footballer
1981 – Angelika de la Cruz, Filipino actress and singer
1981:  Dan Feuerriegel  [Australian actor]
1981 – Georgios Fotakis, Greek footballer
1981 – Reemma Sen, Indian actress
1982 – Ariel Lin, Taiwanese actress and singer
1982 – Chelan Simmons, Canadian actress
1983 – Richard Brancatisano, Australian actor
1983 – Maurice Clarett, American football player
1983 – Freddy Eastwood, Welsh footballer
1983 – Dana Eveland, American baseball player
1983 – Johnny Lewis, American actor (d. 2012)
1983 – Jason Tahincioğlu, Turkish race car driver
1984 – Les Davies, Welsh footballer
1984 – Eric Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 – Cal Crutchlow, English motorcycle racer
1985 – Janet Montgomery, English actress and dancer
1985 – Jefferson Severino, Brazilian footballer
1985 – Vijender Singh, Indian boxer
1985 – Youn-a, South Korean-Japanese model
1986 – Sarita Pérez de Tagle, Filipino actress
1986 – Paulina James, American porn actress
1986:  Derek Theler  [American film actor and model]
1986 – Tina Yuzuki, Japanese porn actress
1987 – Andy Dalton, American football player
1987 – Jessica Dubé, Canadian figure skater
1987 – Zé Eduardo, Brazilian footballer
1987 – Tove Lo, Swedish singer-songwriter
1987 – Frazer McLaren, Canadian ice hockey player
1987 – Makoto Ogawa, Japanese singer and actress
      (Morning Musume, Morning Musume Otomegumi, and Dream Morning Musume)
1988 – Sam Hutsby, English golfer
1989 – Primož Roglič, Slovenian ski jumper and bicycle racer
1990 – Eric Saade, Swedish singer (What's Up!)
1990 – Carlson Young, American actress
1991 – Grant Hall, English footballer
1992 – Jacqueline Jossa, English actress
1993 – Ágnes Bukta, Hungarian tennis player
1993 – India Eisley, American actress
1998 – Lance Stroll, Canadian race car driver

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Bill Buob
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Loren Paulsson
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1268 – Conradin, Italian king (b. 1252)
1268 – Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (b. 1249)
1321 – Stefan Uroš II Milutin of Serbia (b. 1253)
1590 – Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch philosopher, theologian, and politician (b. 1522)
1618 – Walter Raleigh, English admiral, explorer, and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey (b. 1554)
1650 – David Calderwood, Scottish historian and theologian (b. 1575)
1666 – Edmund Calamy the Elder, English minister and activist (b. 1600)
1783 – Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1717)
1829 – Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian pianist (b. 1751)
1877 – Nathan Bedford Forrest, American general and KKK leader (b. 1821)
1892 – William Harnett, American painter (b. 1848)
1897 – Henry George, American economist and politician (b. 1839)
1901 – Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of William McKinley (b. 1873)
1905 – Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian weight thrower and shot putter (b. 1873)
1911 – Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-American publisher, lawyer, and politician, founded Pulitzer, Inc. (b. 1847)
1916 – John Sebastian Little, American politician, 21st Governor of Arkansas (b. 1851)
1918 – Rudolf Tobias, Estonian-German organist and composer (b. 1873)
1919 – Albert Benjamin Simpson, Canadian preacher, theologian, and author, founded the Christian and Missionary Alliance (b. 1843)
1924 – Frances Hodgson Burnett, English-American playwright and author (b. 1849)
1932 – Joseph Babinski, French neurologist and academic (b. 1857)
1933 – Albert Calmette, French physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist (b. 1863)
1933 – George Benjamin Luks, American painter (b. 1867)
1933 – Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France (b. 1853)
1936 – Ramiro de Maeztu, Spanish journalist and theorist (b. 1874)
1939 – Dwight B. Waldo, American historian and academic (b. 1864)
1940 – Phan Bội Châu, Vietnamese poet and activist (b. 1867)
1941 – Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (b. 1897)
1947 – Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston, American wife of Grover Cleveland, 23rd First Lady of the United States (b. 1864)
1949 – George Gurdjieff, Armenian-French monk, psychologist, and philosopher (b. 1872)
1950 – Gustaf V of Sweden (b. 1858)
1953 – William Kapell, American pianist (b. 1922)
1956 – Louis Rosier, French race car driver (b. 1905)
1957 – Louis B. Mayer, Belarusian-American production manager and producer (b. 1885)
1957 – Rosemarie Nitribitt, German murder victim (b. 1933)
1958 – Zoë Akins, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1886)
1961 – Astrid Holm, Danish actress (b. 1893)
1963 – Adolphe Menjou, American actor and singer (b. 1890)
1969 – Pops Foster, American bassist and trumpet player (b. 1892)
1971 – Duane Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Allman Brothers Band, Hour Glass, Derek and the Dominos, and The Allman Joys) (b. 1946)
1971 – Arne Tiselius, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
1977 – Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41st Yokozuna (b. 1926)
1980 – Giorgio Borġ Olivier, Maltese lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1911)
1981 – Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1921)
1986 – Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor, singer, and academic (b. 1913)
1987 – Woody Herman, American singer, clarinet player, saxophonist, and bandleader (b. 1913)
1988 – Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Indian author and activist (b. 1903)
1993 – Lipman Bers, Latvian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1914)
1994 – Shlomo Goren, Israeli rabbi, general, and scholar (b. 1918)
1995 – Terry Southern, American author, screenwriter, and academic (b. 1924)
1996 – Eugen Kapp, Estonian composer and educator (b. 1908)
1997 – Anton LaVey, American occultist, founded the Church of Satan (b. 1930)
1997 – Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, Greek-American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1947)
1998 – Paul Misraki, Turkish-French composer (b. 1908)
1999 – Greg, Belgian author and illustrator (b. 1931)
1999 – Prince Heinrich Ruzzo Reuss of Plauen (b. 1950)
2000 – Carlos Guastavino, Argentinian pianist and composer (b. 1912)
2002 – Glenn McQueen, Canadian-American animator (b. 1960)
2003 – Hal Clement, American pilot, author, and educator (b. 1922)
2003 – Franco Corelli, Italian tenor and actor (b. 1921)
2004 – Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician, Premier of Dominica (b. 1923)
2004 – Vaughn Meader, American actor and singer (b. 1936)
2004 – Peter Twinn, English mathematician and entomologist (b. 1916)
2005 – Lloyd Bochner, Canadian-American actor (b. 1924)
2005 – Ion Irimescu, Romanian sculptor and illustrator (b. 1903)
2006 – Muhammadu Maccido, Nigerian sultan (b. 1928)
2008 – Mike Baker, American singer-songwriter (Shadow Gallery) (b. 1963)
2011 – Jimmy Savile, English radio and television host (b. 1926)
2012 – Letitia Baldrige, American etiquette expert and secretary (b. 1926)
2012 – J. Bernlef, Dutch author, poet, and songwriter (b. 1937)
2012 – Kenneth G. Ryder, American academic (b. 1924)
2012 – Wallace L. W. Sargent, English-American astronomer and academic (b. 1935)
2012 – Jack Vaughn, American boxer and diplomat (b. 1920)
2013 – Jean Rénald Clérismé, Haitian priest and politician, Foreign Ministers of Haiti (b. 1937)
2013 – Sherman Halsey, American director and producer (b. 1957)
2013 – Sheikh Salahuddin, Bangladeshi cricketer (b. 1969)
2013 – John Spence, American soldier and engineer (b. 1918)
2013 – Graham Stark, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2014 – Roger Freeman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1965)
2014 – Klas Ingesson, Swedish footballer and manager (b. 1968)
2014 – H. Gary Morse, American businessman (b. 1936)

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