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1465 – Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (d. 1489)
1475 – Pope Leo X  (d. 1 Dec 1521)
      born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici
      217th Pope of Rome, 1513-11521
1566 – Manuel Cardoso  (d. 1650)
      Portuguese organist and composer
1680 – Emanuele d'Astorga, Italian composer (d. 1736)
1709 – Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans  (d. 1742)
      French wife of Louis I of Spain
1712 – Francesco Algarotti  (d. 1764)
      Italian poet, philosopher, and critic
1725 – George Mason  (d. 7 Oct 1792)
      American planter, lawyer, and politician
      Virginia delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787
1758 – Carl Friedrich Zelter  (d. 1832)
      German composer, conductor, and educator
1761 – Gian Domenico Romagnosi  (d. 1835)
      Italian physicist, economist, and jurist
1781 – David Brewster  (d. 1868)
      Scottish physicist, mathematician, and astronomer
1801 – Christian Dietrich Grabbe  (d. 1836)
      German poet and playwright
1803 – Hector Berlioz  (d. 1869)
      French composer, conductor, and critic
1810 – Alfred de Musset  (d. 1857)
      French author, poet, and playwright
1830 – Kamehameha V  (d. 11 Dec 1872)
      Monarch of the Hawaiian Islands, 1863-1872
1838 – John Labatt
      Canadian brewer and businessman (d. 1915)
1843 – Robert Koch  (d. 27 May 1910)
      German microbiologist and physician
      Nobel Prize in Medicine (1905)
1849:  Ellen Key  (d. 25 Apr 1926)
      Swedish difference feminist writer
1856 – Georgi Plekhanov  (d. 1918)
      Russian philosopher, theorist, and author
1858 – Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko  (d. 1943)
      Russian director, producer, and playwright
1863 – Annie Jump Cannon  (d. 1941)
      American astronomer and academic
1867 – Antonio Conte, Italian fencer (d. 1953)
1872 – René Bull, British illustrator and photographer (d. 1942)
1873 – Josip Plemelj  (d. 1967)
      Slovenian mathematician and academic
1875 – Yehuda Leib Maimon  (d. 1962)
      Moldovan-Israeli rabbi and politician
1880 – Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer and umpire (d. 1951)
1882 – Subramanya Bharathi  (d. 1921)
      Indian journalist and poet
1882 – Max Born  (d. 5 Jan 1970)
      German physicist and mathematician
      Nobel Prize in Physics (1954)
1882 – Fiorello H. La Guardia  (d. 30 Sep 1947)
      American lawyer and politician
      99th Mayor of New York City, 1934-1945
      U.S. Representative, R. NY, 1917-1919, 1923-1933
1884 – Piet Ooms  (d. 1961)
      Dutch swimmer and water polo player
1885 – Carlo Wieth, Danish actor (d. 1943)
1889 – Walter Knott  (d. 1981)
      American farmer and businessman
      founded Knott's Berry Farm
1890 – Carlos Gardel  (d. 1935)
      French-Argentinian singer-songwriter and actor
1890 – Mark Tobey  (d. 1976)
      American-Swiss painter and educator
1897 – Ronald Skirth, English soldier (d. 1977)
1899 – Julio de Caro
      Argentinian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1980)
1904 – Marjorie Henderson Buell (bka Marge)  (d. 30 May 1993)
      American cartoonist
1905 – Robert Henriques  (d. 1967)
      English farmer, author, and broadcaster
1905 – Gilbert Roland  (d. 1994)
      Mexican-American actor and singer
1908 – Elliott Carter, American composer and academic (d. 2012)
1908 – Manoel de Oliveira  (d. 2015)
      Portuguese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1908 – Hákun Djurhuus  (d. 1987)
      Faroese educator and politician
      4th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
1908 – Amon Goeth, Austrian SS officer (d. 1946)
1909 – Ronald McKie  (d. 1991)
      Australian soldier, journalist, and author
1910:  Willard Richardson Espy
      American editor, philologist, writer, poet, and local historian
1910 – Noel Rosa  (d. 1937)
      Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1911 – Val Guest  (d. 2006)
      English-American director, producer, screenwriter,
            and composer
1911 – Naguib Mahfouz  (d. 30 Aug 2006)
      Egyptian author
      Nobel Prize in Literature (1988)
1911 – Qian Xuesen  (d. 2009)
      Chinese aerodynamicist and academic
1912 – Carlo Ponti, Italian-Swiss film producer (d. 2007)
1913 – Jean Marais, French actor and director (d. 1998)
1916 – Pérez Prado  (d. 1989)
      Cuban-Mexican singer-songwriter, pianist, and bandleader
1918 – Clinton Adams, American painter and historian (d. 2002)
1918 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  (d. 3 Aug 2008)
      Russian soldier, novelist, dramatist and historian
      Nobel Prize in Literature (1970)
1919 – Cliff Michelmore, English television host and producer
1919 – Marie Windsor, American actress and singer (d. 2000)
1920 – Denis Jenkinson
      English motorcycle racer and journalist (d. 1996)
1921 – Ilmar Laaban, Estonian poet and publicist (d. 2000)
1921 – Liz Smith, English actress
1922 – Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer-songwriter (d. 2005)
1922 – Maila Nurmi  (d. 2008)
      Finnish-American actress, producer, and screenwriter
1922 – Grace Paley, American author and poet (d. 2007)
1923 – Betsy Blair  (d. 2009)
      American-English actress and dancer
1923 – Nikolai Matvejev, Estonian cyclist (d. 1984)
1924 – Doc Blanchard  (d. 2009)
      American football player and colonel
1925 – Aaron Feuerstein
      American businessman and philanthropist
1925 – Paul Greengard
      American neuroscientist and academic
      Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (2000)
1925 – James Sullivan, American politician (d. 2012)
1926 – Big Mama Thornton  (d. 1984)
      American singer-songwriter
1926 – Dick Tufeld  (d. 2012)
      American actor, announcer, narrator and voice actor
1927 – John Buscema, American illustrator (d. 2002)
1929 – Axel Anderson  (d. 2012)
      German-Puerto Rican actor and production manager
1930 – Chus Lampreave, Spanish actress
1930 – Jean-Louis Trintignant
      French actor, director, and screenwriter
1931 – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh  (d. 19 Jan 1990)
      born Chandra Mohan Jain (aka Osho, Acharya Rajneesh)
      Indian guru, mystic, and educator
1931 – Ronald Dworkin  (d. 2013)
      American philosopher and scholar
1931 – Rita Moreno
      Puerto Rican-American actress, singer, and dancer
1931 – Pierre Pilote, Canadian ice hockey player
1931 – Jerome Rothenberg, American anthropologist and poet
1932 – Enrique Bermúdez  (d. 1991)
      Nicaraguan colonel and engineer
1932 – Anne Heywood, English actress and singer
1932 – Aladár Kovácsi, Hungarian pentathlete (d. 2010)
1932 – Keith Waldrop, American author and poet
1933 – Aquilino Pimentel, Jr.
      Filipino politician
      23rd President of the Senate of the Philippines
1935 – Ron Carey, American actor (d. 2007)
1935 – Pranab Mukherjee
      Indian journalist and politician
      13th President of India
1936 – Taku Yamasaki, Japanese politician
1936 – Hans van den Broek
      Dutch lawyer and politician
      Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs
1937:  Jim Harrison
      American author
1938 – Reg Livermore
      Australian actor, singer, theatrical performer,
            and television presenter.
1938 – Enrico Macias
      Algerian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist
1938 – McCoy Tyner, American pianist and composer
1939:  Tom Hayden
      American activist, author, and politician
1939:  Thomas Francis McGuane III
      American writer, novelist, film director, and screenwriter
1940 – David Gates
      American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Bread)
1940 – Donna Mills, American actress and producer
1941 – Max Baucus
      American lawyer, politician, and diplomat
      11th United States Ambassador to China, 2014-present
      U.S. Senator, D. MT, 1978-2014
      U.S. Representative, D. MT, 1975-1978
1941 – J. P. Parisé  (d. 2015)
      Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager
1941 – Rogier van Otterloo  (d. 1988)
      Dutch conductor and composer
1941 – J. Frank Wilson  (d. 1991)
      American singer-songwriter
      (J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers)
1942 – Anna Carteret, Indian-English actress
1943 – Errol Brown  (d. 2015)
      Jamaican-English singer-songwriter (Hot Chocolate)
1943 – John Kerry
      American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician
      68th United States Secretary of State, 2013-present
      U.S. Senator, D. MA, 1985-2013
      66th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, 1983-1985
1944 – Jon Garrison, American tenor and educator
1944 – Lynda Day George, American actress
1944 – Brenda Lee, American singer
1944 – Juan E. Méndez
      Argentinian lawyer, academic, and activist
      Canadian novelist
1945:  Harold Hamm
      American entrepreneur
      CEO of Continental Resources, 1967-present
1946 – Rhoma Irama
      Indonesian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1946 – Diana Palmer, American journalist and author
1947 – Teri Garr, American actress and dancer
1947:  Charles Palliser
      American-born,, British-based novelist
1948:  Susan Elizabeth Phillips
      American romance novelist
1948 – Stamatis Spanoudakis, Greek guitarist and composer
1948 – Tanimura Shinji, Japanese singer-songwriter
1949 – Noel Campbell, Irish footballer and manager
1950 – Nino Frassica, Italian actor
1950 – Christina Onassis  (d. 1988)
      American-Argentinian businesswoman
1951 – Mazlan Othman, Malaysian astrophysicist
1951 – Ria Stalman, Dutch discus thrower and shot putter
1952:  David Limbaugh
      American attorney, political commentator, and author
      younger brother of talk radio host Rush Limbaugh
1953 – Bess Armstrong, American actress
1954 – Brad Bryant, American golfer
1954 – Santiago Creel
      Mexican lawyer and politician
      Mexican Secretary of the Interior
1954 – Jermaine Jackson
      American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
      (Jackson 5)
1954 – Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson
      Icelandic guitarist, mathematician, and engineer
1955:  Stu Jackson
      American basketball coach and executive
      NBA Executive Vice President, 2000-2013
1955 – Christian Sackewitz, German footballer and manager
1956 – Andrew Lansley
      English politician, Secretary of State for Health
1956 – Stevie Young
      Scottish-born Australian guitarist (AC/DC, Starfighters)
1958 – Isabella Hofmann, American actress
1958 – Chris Hughton, English-Irish footballer and manager
1958:  Lisa Morton
      American horror author and screenwriter
1958 – Tom Shadyac
      American comedian, director, screenwriter, producer,
            author, and actor
1958 – Nikki Sixx
      born Frank Carlton Serafino Feranna, Jr.
      American musician, songwriter, author, fashion designer,
            radio host, photographer, and record producer
      (Mötley Crüe, Sixx:A.M., Brides of Destruction, 58,
            London, Sister)
1960 – Rachel Portman, English composer
1961 – Dave King
     Irish-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
    (Flogging Molly and Fastway)
1961 – Steve Nicol, Scottish footballer and manager
1961 – Macky Sall
      Senegalese engineer and politician
      4th President of Senegal
1961 – Marco Pierre White, English chef and television host
1962 – Ben Browder, American actor and screenwriter
1962 – Paul Haslinger
      Austrian-American keyboard player, guitarist, and composer
      (Tangerine Dream)
1962 – Nele Karajlić
      Serbian singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and actor
      (Zabranjeno Pušenje)
1963 – Mario Been, Dutch footballer and manager
1963 – Jon Brion, American singer-songwriter and producer
1963 – Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, German tennis player
1963 – John Lammers, Dutch footballer and manager
1963 – Nigel Winterburn, English footballer and coach
1964 – Michel Courtemanche, Canadian comedian and actor
1964 – Ella Kovacs, Romanian runner
1964:  Ayelet Waldman
      Israeli American novelist and essayist
1964 – Carolyn Waldo, Canadian swimmer and sportscaster
1965 – Jay Bell, American baseball player and coach
1965 – Gavin Hill, New Zealand rugby player
1965 – Giannis Ragousis
      Greek economist and politician
      Greek Minister for National Defence
1966 – Gary Dourdan, American actor
1966 – Göran Kropp  (d. 2002)
      Swedish race car driver and mountaineer
1966 – Leon Lai, Chinese singer and actor
1966 – Erik Honoré
      Norwegian writer, musician, record producer
1967 – Antoine Carraby (bka DJ Yella)
      American DJ and producer
      (N.W.A and World Class Wreckin' Cru)
1967 – Monique Angela Hicks (bka Mo'Nique)
      American comedian, actress, and producer
1968 – Fabrizio Ravanelli, Italian footballer and manager
1969 – Viswanathan Anand, Indian chess player
1969 – Francisco Javier Arellano Félix, Mexican drug trafficker
1969 – Stig Inge Bjørnebye, Norwegian footballer and manager
1969 – Max Martini, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1969 – Alessandro Melli, Italian footballer and manager
1970 – Victoria Fuller, American model and actress
1970:  Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik
      Indian physician, leadership consultant, mythologist, and author
1971 – Willie McGinest, American football player and sportscaster
1972 – Daniel Alfredsson, Swedish ice hockey player
1972 – Sami Al-Jaber, Saudi Arabian footballer and manager
1972 – Andriy Husin, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2014)
1972 – Rusty Joiner, American model and actor
1973 – Yasiin Bey (bka Mos Def)
      born Dante Terrell Smith
      American rapper and actor (Black Star and Soulquarians)
1974 – Rey Mysterio, American wrestler and actor
1974 – Maarten Lafeber, Dutch golfer
1974 – Lisa Ortiz, American voice actress
1974 – Ben Shephard, English journalist and television host
1974 – Gete Wami, Ethiopian runner
1975 – Gerben de Knegt, Dutch cyclist
1975 – Tomoka Kurotani, Japanese actress
1975 – Dawn Steele, Scottish actress
1976 – Shareef Abdur-Rahim
      American basketball player, coach, and manager
1976 – Yujiro Shirakawa, Japanese actor
1977 – Brandon Rogers, American singer
1977 – Mark Streit, Swiss ice hockey player
1978 – Roy Wood, Jr.
      American comedian, actor, and radio host
1979:  Colleen Hoover
      American author
1979 – Valdis Mintals, Estonian figure skater
1979 – Rider Strong
      American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1980 – Kristjan Kitsing, Estonian basketball player
1981 – Nikki Benz, Ukrainian-Canadian porn actress
1981 – Hamish Blake, Australian comedian, actor, and author
1981 – Jason Kennedy, American journalist
1981 – Paul Medhurst, Australian footballer
1981 – Javier Saviola, Argentinian footballer
1982 – Pablo Pérez Companc, Argentinian race car driver
1984 – Leighton Baines, English footballer
1984 – P.J. Lane, Australian actor and singer
1984:  Xosha Roquemore
      American actress
1984 – Spyros Vrontaras, Greek footballer
1985 – Aiko Kayō, Japanese singer and actress
1985 – Yekta Kurtuluş, Turkish footballer
1985 – Anja Prislan, Slovenian tennis player
1985:  Karla Olivares Souza
      Mexican actress
1986:  Gary Carr
      English actor, dancer, and musician
1986 – Roy Hibbert, American basketball player
1986:  Condola Rashad
      American actress
1987 – Natalia Gordienko, Moldovan singer and dancer
1987 – Alex Russell, Australian actor
1988 – Ashley Hinshaw, American model and actress
1988 – Tim Southee, New Zealand cricketer
1991 – Anna Bergendahl, Swedish singer
1992 – Tiffany Alvord, American singer-songwriter
1994 – Alice Hirose
      Japanese actress, television personality, and model
1996 – Jack Griffo, American actor and singer
1996 – Hailee Steinfeld, American actress



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1913 – Clyde Woodrow Miller (d. 10 Feb 2012)
1913 – Claude F. Miller (d. 28 Aug 2004)


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384 – Pope Damasus I (b. 305)
861 – Al-Mutawakkil, Abbasid caliph (b. 822)
969 – Nikephoros II Phokas, Byzantine emperor (b. 912)
1121 – Al-Afdal Shahanshah, Fatimid political advisor (b. 1066)
1241 – Ögedei Khan, Mongolian emperor (b. 1186)
1282 – Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Welsh prince (b. 1223)
1282 – Michael VIII Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1225)
1532 – Pietro Accolti, Italian cardinal (b. 1455)
1582 – Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba  (b. 1508)
      Spanish general and politician, 12th Constable of Portugal
1686 – Louis, Grand Condé, French general (b. 1621)
1694 – Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1630)
1737 – John Strype  (b. 1643)
      English clergyman, historian, and author
1747 – Edmund Curll  (b. 1675)
      English bookseller and publisher
1797 – Richard Brocklesby, English physician (b. 1722)
1826 – Maria Leopoldina of Austria (b. 1797)
1840 – Emperor Kōkaku of Japan (b. 1771)
1872 – Kamehameha V of Hawaii (b. 1830)
1880 – Oliver Winchester  (b. 1810)
      American businessman
      founded the Winchester Repeating Arms Company
1892 – William Milligan  (b. 1821)
      Scottish theologian and scholar
1906 – Charles Townsend  (b. 1872)
      American fencer, engineer, and academic
1918 – Ivan Cankar  (b. 1876)
      Slovenian author, poet, and playwright
1920 – Olive Schreiner  (b. 1855)
      South African author and activist
1936 – Myron Grimshaw, American baseball player (b. 1875)
1937 – Jaan Anvelt, Estonian politician (b. 1884)
1938 – Christian Lous Lange  (b. 1869)
      Norwegian historian and educator
      Nobel Prize laureate
1941 – John Gillespie Magee, Jr.  (b. 1922)
      American pilot and poet
1941 – Émile Picard  (b. 1856)
      French mathematician and academic
1945 – Charles Fabry, French physicist (b. 1867)
1950 – Leslie Comrie  (b. 1893)
      New Zealand astronomer and author
1953 – Sedat Simavi, Turkish journalist and director (b. 1896)
1957 – Jeanne Roques (bka Musidora)  (b. 1889)
      French actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
1959 – Jim Bottomley  (b. 1900)
      American baseball player and manager
1964 – Sam Cooke  (b. 1931)
      American singer-songwriter
      (The Highway Q.C.'s and The Soul Stirrers)
1964 – Percy Kilbride, American actor and singer (b. 1888)
1968 – Richard Sagrits, Estonian painter and author (b. 1910)
1968 – Arthur Hays Sulzberger, American publisher (b. 1891)
1971 – Maurice McDonald  (b. 1902)
      American businessman, co-founded McDonald's
1975 – Lee Wiley, American singer (b. 1908)
1978 – Vincent du Vigneaud  (b. 1901)
      American biochemist and academic
      Nobel Prize laureate
1978 – Paul O'Dea  (b. 1920)
      American baseball player and manager
1979 – James J. Gibson  (b. 1904)
      American psychologist and author
1983 – Neil Ritchie, Guyanese-English general (b. 1897)
1984 – Oskar Seidlin  (b. 1911)
      German-American author, poet, and scholar
1984 – George Waggner  (b. 1894)
      American director, producer and actor
1987 – G. A. Kulkarni, Indian author and academic (b. 1923)
1987 – Adile Naşit, Turkish actress (b. 1930)
1989 – Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (b. 1895)
1991 – Robert Q. Lewis  (b. 1921)
      American actor and game show host
1991 – Artur Lundkvist, Swedish author and critic (b. 1906)
1991 – Pat Walshe, American actor (b. 1900)
1992 – Michael Robbins, English actor (b. 1930)
1993 – Elvira Popescu  (b. 1894)
      Romanian-French actress and director
1994 – Philip Phillips  (b. 1900)
      American archaeologist and scholar
1995 – Arthur Mullard, English actor and singer (b. 1910)
1996 – Willie Rushton  (b. 1937)
      English cartoonist, author, and publisher
      co-founded Private Eye
1997 – Eddie Chapman, English spy (b. 1914)
1997 – Simon Jeffes  (b. 1949)
      English guitarist and composer (Penguin Cafe Orchestra)
1998 – André Lichnerowicz  (b. 1915)
      French physicist and mathematician
1998 – Lynn Strait  (b. 1968)
     , American singer-songwriter (Snot)
2000 – Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah  (b. 1915)
      Pakistani politician and diplomat
2001 – Mainza Chona  (b. 1930)
      Zambian lawyer and politician
      1st Prime Minister of Zambia
2003 – Ahmadou Kourouma  (b. 1927)
      Ivorian author and playwright
2004 – José Luis Cuciuffo, Argentinian footballer (b. 1962)
2004 – Arthur Lydiard  (b. 1917)
      New Zealand runner and coach
2004 – M. S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer and actress (b. 1916)
2006 – Elizabeth Bolden, American super-centenarian (b. 1890)
2007 – Christie Hennessy  (b. 1945)
      Irish singer-songwriter and producer
2008 – Maddie Blaustein  (b. 1960)
      American voice actress and singer
2008 – Bettie Page, American model and actress (b. 1923)
2011 – John Patrick Foley, American cardinal (b. 1935)
2011 – Susan Gordon, American actress (b. 1949)
2012 – Toni Blankenheim, German opera singer (b. 1921)
2012 – B. B. Nimbalkar, Indian cricketer (b. 1919)
2012 – Ravi Shankar  (b. 1920)
      Indian-American sitar player and composer
2012 – Galina Vishnevskaya (b. 1926)
      Russian soprano and actress
2012 – Mendel Weinbach, Polish-Israeli rabbi (b. 1933)
2013 – Nadir Afonso, Portuguese painter and architect (b. 1920)
2013 – Javier Jauregui, Mexican boxer (b. 1973)
2013 – Garry Robbins, Canadian wrestler and actor (b. 1957)
2013 – Sheikh Mussa Shariefi  (b. 1942)
      Indian philosopher and scholar
2014 – Tom Adams, English actor (b. 1938)
2014 – Hans Wallat, German conductor (b. 1929)


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