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1881 – Pope Saint John XXIII  (d. 3 Jun 1963)

      born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli

      261st Pope of Rome, 1958-1963

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1454 – Catherine Cornaro  (d. 1510)

      Greek wife of James II of Cyprus

1562 – Lope de Vega  (d. 1635)

      Spanish playwright and poet

1577 – Piet Pieterszoon Hein, Dutch admiral (d. 1629)

1609 – Henrietta Maria of France  (d. 10 Sep 1669)

      Queen Consort of Charles I, King of England 

1638 – Catherine of Braganza  (d. 31 Dec 1705)

       Queen Consort of Charles II, King of England

1666 – Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri  (d. 1740)

      Italian violin maker

1697 – Maria Karolina Sobieska  (d. 1740)

      Polish daughter of Countess Palatine Hedwig Elisabeth of Neuburg

1703 – Jean-François Séguier  (d. 1784)

      French astronomer and botanist

1752 – Johann Friedrich Reichardt  (d. 1814)

      German composer and critic

1753 – Robert Townsend  (d. 1838)

      American spy

1758 – John Armstrong, Jr.  (d. 1843)

      American general and politician

      7th United States Secretary of War

1778 – Joseph Lancaster  (d. 23 Oct 1838)

      English Quaker and public education innovator

1778 – Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck  (d. 1856)

      English author and activist

1787 – Franz Xaver Gruber  (d. 1863)

      Austrian organist and composer

1812 – Henry Mayhew  (d. 25 Jul 1887)

      English social researcher, journalist, playwright

            and advocate of reform

1814 – Julius Robert von Mayer  (d. 1878)

      German physician and physicist

1815 – William Sawyer  (d. 1904)

      Canadian merchant and politician

1817 – John Bigelow  (d. 1911)

      American lawyer and politician

      United States Ambassador to France

1835 – Andrew Carnegie  (d. 11 Aug 1919)

      Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist

1841 – Ernst Schröder  (d. 1902)

      German mathematician and educator

1843 – Henry Ware Eliot  (d. 1919)

      American businessman and philanthropist

1844 – Karl Benz  (d. 1929)

      German engineer and businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz

1845 – José Maria de Eça de Queirós  (d. 1900)

      Portuguese-French journalist and author

1846 – Carrie Nation  (d. 9 Jun 1911)

      American activist

1858 – Alfred Capus  (d. 1922)

      French journalist, author, and playwright

1862 – Ethelbert Nevin  (d. 1901)

      American pianist and composer

1862 – Gustaf Söderström  (d. 1958)

      Swedish tug of war competitor, shot putter, and discus thrower

1867 – Talaat Harb  (d. 1941)

      Egyptian economist, founded the Banque Misr

1868 – Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (d. 1937)

1869 – Ben Lindsey  (d. 1934)

      American lawyer and judge

1870 – Winthrop Ames  (d. 1937)

      American director, producer, and playwright

1872 – Robert Maysack  (d. 1960)

      American gymnast and triathlete

1873 – Albert Henry Krehbiel  (d. 1945)

      American painter and illustrator

1874 – Joe Gans  (d. 1910)

      American boxer

1876 – Grand Duchess Viktoria Feodorovna of Russia  (d. 2 Mar 1936)

      born Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

1880 – John Flynn  (d. 1951)

      Australian minister

      founded the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia

1880 – Elsie J. Oxenham  (d. 1960)

      English author

1880:  Leonard Woolf  (d. 14 Aug 1969)

      English political theorist, author, publisher and civil servant

      husband of author Virginia Woolf

1881 – Jacob Fichman  (d. 1958)

      Romanian-Israeli poet and critic

1883 – Harvey Spencer Lewis  (d. 1939)

      American mystic and author

1883 – Merrill C. Meigs  (d. 1968)

      American publisher

1887 – Nikolai Vavilov  (d. 1943)

      Russian botanist and geneticist

1888 – Amund Rydland  (d. 1967)

      Norwegian actor and theatre director

1890 – Isaac Rosenberg  (d. 1918)

      English soldier and poet

1891 – Ōnishiki Uichirō  (d. 1941)

      Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna

1893 – Joseph Wood Krutch  (d. 1970)

      American author and critic

1895 – Wilhelm Kempff  (d. 1991)

      German pianist and composer

1895 – Helen Hooven Santmyer  (d. 21 Feb 1986)

      American writer, educator, and librarian

1895 – Ludvík Svoboda  (d. 1979)

      Czech general and politician

      8th President of Czechoslovakia

1896 – Albertus Soegijapranata  (d. 1963)

      Indonesian archbishop

1896 – Virgil Thomson  (d. 1989)

      American composer and critic

1898 – Debaki Bose  (d. 1971)

      Indian actor, director, and screenwriter

1898 – Aarne Viisimaa  (d. 1989)

      Estonian tenor and director

1900:  Helen Gahagan Douglas  (d. 28 Jun 1980)

      American actress and politician

      U.S. Representative, D. CA, 1945-1951

1900 – Rudolf Höss  (d. 16 Apr 1947)

      German SS officer

      Commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, 1940-1943, 1944-1945

1900:  Arthur Schwartz  (d. 3 Sep 1984

      American composer and film producer

1901 – Arthur Liebehenschel  (d. 28 Jan 1948)

      German SS officer

      commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, 1943-1944

      commandant of Majdanek extermination camp, 1944

1902 – Eddie Shore  (d. 1985)

      Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach

1904 – Lillian Copeland  (d. 1964)

      American discus thrower and shot putter

1904 – Ba Jin  (d. 2005)

      Chinese author

1904 – Toni Ortelli  (d. 2000)

      Italian composer and conductor

1907 – John Stuart Hindmarsh  (d. 1938)

      English race car driver and pilot

1909 – P. D. Eastman  (d. 1986)

      American author and illustrator

1911 – Roelof Frankot  (d. 1984)

      Dutch painter and photographer

1913 – Lewis Thomas (d. 1993)

      American physician, etymologist, and educator

1914 – Joe DiMaggio  (d. 8 Mar 1999)

      American baseball player and coach

1914 – Léon Zitrone, Russian-French journalist (d. 1995)

1915 – Augusto Pinochet  (d. 2006)

      Chilean general and politician

      30th President of Chile

1915 – Armando Villanueva  (d. 2013)

      Peruvian politician

      121st Prime Minister of Peru

1916 – Peg Lynch  (d. 2015)

      American actress and screenwriter

1917 – Luigi Poggi  (d. 2010)

      Italian cardinal

1919 – Norman Tokar  (d. 1979)

      American director, producer, and screenwriter

1920 – Ricardo Montalbán  (d. 14 Jan 2009)

      Mexican-American actor, singer, and director

1920 – Noel Neill

      American actress

1920 – Putra of Perlis (d. 16 Apr 2000)

      3rd Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, 1960-1965

      6th Raja of Perlis, 1945-2000

1921 – Stanley Ho Hung Sun

      Hong Kong and Macanese business magnate

1922 – Shelagh Fraser  (d. 2000)

      English actress

1922 – Ilja Hurník  (d. 2013)

      Czech composer

1922 – Gloria Lasso  (d. 2005)

      Spanish-French singer

1922 – Fernance B. Perry  (d. 2014)

      Portuguese-American businessman

1923 – Mauno Koivisto

      Finnish banker and politician

      9th President of Finland

1924 – Paul Desmond

      American saxophonist and composer (d. 1977)

1924 – Sybil Stockdale  (d. 2015)

      American activist

      co-founded the National League of Families

1924 – Takaaki Yoshimoto  (d. 2012)

      Japanese poet, philosopher, and critic

1926 – Poul Anderson  (d. 31 Jul 2001)

      American author of science fiction, fantacy,

            historical novels, and short stories

1926 – Rosalyn Drexler (pen name Julia Sorel)

       Pop artist, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter

1926 – Jeffrey Hunter  (d. 1969)

      American actor and producer

1926 – Ranganath Misra  (d. 13 Sep 2012)

      Indian jurist

      21st Chief Justice of India, 1990-1991

1927 – John K. Cooley  (d. 2008)

      American journalist and author

1929 – Judy Crichton  (d. 2007)

      American director and producer

1931 – Nat Adderley  (d. 2000)

      American cornet and trumpet player

1932 – Takayo Fischer

      American actress and singer

1933 – Kathryn Crosby

      American actress and singer

1935 – Robert Berner  (d. 2015)

      American geologist and academic

1936 – Trisha Brown

      American dancer and choreographer

1936 – William McIlvanney

      Scottish novelist, short story writer, and poet

1938 – Rosanna Schiaffino  (d. 2009)

      Italian actress

1939 – Martin Feldstein

      American economist and academic

1940 – Reinhard Furrer  (d. 1995)

      Austrian-German physicist and astronaut

1940 – Joe Gibbs

      American football player and coach

1940 – Jan Jongbloed

      Dutch footballer and coach

1940 – Karl Offmann

      Mauritian politician

      3rd President of Mauritius

1940 – Shyamal Kumar Sen

      Indian jurist and politician

      21st Governor of West Bengal

1940 – Percy Sledge  (d. 14 Apr 2015)

      American singer

1941 – Christos Papanikolaou

      Greek pole vaulter

1941 – Gerald Seymour

      English journalist and author

1941 – Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

      Pakistani spiritual leader and author

1942 – Bob Lind

      American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1942 – Mimis Papaioannou

      Greek footballer and manager

1943 – Jerry Portnoy

      American singer-songwriter and harmonica player

1944 – Bev Bevan

      English drummer

      (The Move, Electric Light Orchestra, and ELO Part II)

1944 – Maarten 't Hart

      Dutch biologist, ethologist, and author

1944 – Ben Stein

      American actor, lawyer, and author

1944 – Michael Kijana Wamalwa  (d. 2003)

      Kenyan politician

      8th Vice President of Kenya

1945 – Gail Collins
      American journalist, op-ed columnist, and author

1945 – Patrick Nagel  (d. 1984)

      American illustrator

1945 – George Webster  (d. 2007)

      American football player

1946 – Marc Brown

      American author and illustrator

1946 – Mike Doyle  (d. 2011)

      English footballer

1947 – Laurie Graham

      Irish journalist, scriptwriter and novelist

1947 – Jonathan Kaplan

      French-American director and producer

1947 – John Larroquette

      American actor, director, and producer

1947 – Tracey Walter

      American actor

1948 – Jacques Dupuis

      Canadian lawyer and politician

      14th Deputy Premier of Quebec

1948 – Lars Eighner

      American author

1949 – Kerry O'Keeffe

      Australian cricketer and sportscaster

1950 – Chris Claremont

      English-American author

1950 – Giorgio Faletti  (d. 2014)

      Italian author, screenwriter, and actor

1950 – Alexis Wright

      Australian author

1951 – Charlaine Harris

      American author and poet

1951 – Arturo Pérez-Reverte

      Spanish author and journalist

1951 – Johnny Rep

      Dutch footballer and manager

1952 – Crescent Dragonwagon

      American author and educator

1952 – Imran Khan
      Pakistani cricketer and politician
1952 – John Lynch

      American businessman and politician

      80th Governor of New Hampshire

1952 – Herschel Savage

      American porn actor and director

1952 – Gabriele Oriali

      Italian footballer and manager

1953 – Graham Eadie

      Australian rugby player and coach

1953 – Mark Frost

      American author, screenwriter, and producer

1953 – James Hayden  (d. 1983)

      American actor

1953 – Jeffrey Skilling

      American businessman

1955 – Don Hahn

      American director and producer

1955 – Kurt Niedermayer

      German footballer and manager

1955 – Connie Palmen

      Dutch author

1955 – Bruno Tonioli

      Italian dancer and choreographer

1956 – Hélène Goudin

      Belgian-Swedish politician

1957 – Bob Ehrlich

      American lawyer and politician

      60th Governor of Maryland

1959 – Charles Kennedy  (d. 2015)

      Scottish journalist and politician

1959 – Steve Rothery

      English guitarist and songwriter

      (Marillion and The Wishing Tree)

1960 – Amy Grant

      American singer-songwriter and actress

1960 – John F. Kennedy Jr.  (d. 16 Jul 1999)

      American lawyer, journalist, and publisher

      co-founded George Magazine

1960 – Amy Gibson

      American actress and businesswoman

1961 – Paul Comstive  (d. 2013)

      English footballer

1962 – Scott Cam

      Australian TV personality

1962 – Gilbert Delorme,

      Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1962 – Hironobu Sakaguchi

      Japanese game designer

      founded Mistwalker

1963 – Kevin Chamberlin

      American actor

1963 – Holly Cole

      Canadian singer

1963 – Chip Kelly

      American football player and coach

1963 – Bernie Kosar

      American football player and sportscaster

1963 – Ago Silde

      Estonian politician

1964 – Mark Lanegan

      American singer-songwriter

      (Screaming Trees and The Gutter Twins)

1964 – Bert van Vlaanderen

      Dutch runner

1965 – Cris Carter

      American football player, coach, and sportscaster

1965 – Dougray Scott

      Scottish actor and producer

1966 – Tim Armstrong

      American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

      (Rancid, The Transplants, Devils Brigade,

            Operation Ivy, Dance Hall Crashers)

1966 – Billy Burke

      American actor and producer

1967 – Kazuya Nakai

      Japanese voice actor

1967 – Anthony Nesty

      Trinidadian-Surinamese swimmer and coach

1967 – Gregg Turkington

      Australian-American comedian and singer

      (Zip Code Rapists)

1968 – Jill Hennessy

      Canadian actress and singer

1968 – Galin Nikov

      Bulgarian pole vaulter

1968 – Erick Sermon

      American rapper and producer (EPMD)

1969 – Adam Hasner

      American attorney and politician, R. FL.

1969 – Dexter Jackson

      American bodybuilder

1969 – Kim Ofstad

      Norwegian drummer (D'Sound)

1971 – Christina Applegate

      American actress, singer, and producer

1971 – Magnus Arvedson

      Swedish ice hockey player and coach

1972 – Deepa Marathe, Indian cricketer

1972 – Mark Morton

      American guitarist and songwriter

      (Lamb of God)

1973 – Steven de Jongh

      Dutch cyclist

1973 – Octavio Dotel

      Dominican baseball player

1973 – Erick Strickland

      American basketball player

1973 – Eddie Steeples

      American actor, producer, and screenwriter

1974 – Kenneth Mitchell

      Canadian actor

1975 – Abdelkader Benali

      Moroccan-Dutch journalist and author

1975 – Kristian Nairn

      Irish actor and DJ

1976 – Clint Mathis

      American soccer player and coach

1976 – Donovan McNabb

      American football player and sportscaster

1976 – Olena Vitrychenko

      Ukrainian gymnast and coach

1977 – Guillermo Cañas

      Argentinian tennis player

1977 – Jill Flint

      American actress

1977 – Marcus Marshall

      Australian race car driver

1978 – Ringo Sheena

      Japanese singer-songwriter and producer

      (Tokyo Jihen)

1979 – Jerry Ferrara

      American actor

1979 – Thea Gilmore

      English singer-songwriter

1979 – Joel Kinnaman

      Swedish-American actor

1979 – Michael Lehan

      American football player

1980 – Valerie Azlynn

      American actress

1980 – John-Michael Liles

      American ice hockey player

1980 – Josh Mathews

     American wrestler and sportscaster

1980 – Aaron Mokoena

      South African footballer

1980 – Alviro Petersen

      South African cricketer

1980 – Steffen Thier

      German rugby player

1981 – Xabi Alonso

      Spanish footballer

1981 – Lee Bum-ho

      South Korean baseball player

1981 – Barbara Pierce Bush

      American activist

      daughter of 43rd U.S. President George W. Bush

1981 – Jenna Bush Hager

      American journalist and author

      daughter of 43rd U.S. President George W. Bush

1981 – Jared Jeffries

      American basketball player

1981 – Maurício Rua

      Brazilian mixed martial artist

1983 – Joey Chestnut

      American competitive eater

1983 – Jhulan Goswami

      Indian cricketer

1984 – Peter Siddle

      Australian cricketer

1984 – Gaspard Ulliel

      French model and actor

1985 – Remona Fransen

      Dutch pentathlete

1985 – Haley Webb

      American actress

1986 – Katie Cassidy

      American actress and singer

1986 – Craig Gardner
      English footballer
1987 – Roderick Anthony Burton II (bka Dolla)  (d. 18 May 2009)
      American rapper
1988 – Nodar Kumaritashvili  (d. 2010)
      Georgian luger
1988 – Jay Spearing
      English footballer
1989 – Tom Dice
      Belgian singer-songwriter
1990 – Rye Rye
      American rapper, dancer, and actress
1990 – Everton Heleno dos Santos
      Brazilian footballer
1991 – Jamie Grace
      American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
1991 – Luca Tremolada
      Italian footballer
1992 – Zack Shada
      American actor
1993 – Danny Kent
      English motorcycle racer

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311 – Pope Peter of Alexandria
1034 – Malcolm II of Scotland (b. 954)
1120 – William Adelin  (b. 1104)
      English son of Henry I of England
1185 – Pope Lucius III (b. 1097)
1326 – Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1264)
1374 – Philip II, Prince of Taranto (b. 1329)
1456 – Jacques Cœur, French merchant and banker (b. 1395)
1517 – Marcus Musurus, Greek philosopher and scholar (b. 1470)
1560 – Andrea Doria, Italian admiral (b. 1466)
1626 – Edward Alleyn, English actor, founded Dulwich College (b. 1566)
1694 – Ismaël Bullialdus, French astronomer and mathematician (b. 1605)
1700 – Stephanus Van Cortlandt  (b. 1643)
      American politician
      10th Mayor of New York City
1748 – Isaac Watts, English hymnwriter and theologian (b. 1674)
1755 – Johann Georg Pisendel, German violinist and composer (b. 1687)
1785 – Richard Glover, English poet and politician (b. 1712)
1865 – Heinrich Barth, German explorer and scholar (b. 1821)
1884 – Hermann Kolbe, German chemist and academic (b. 1818)
1885 – Thomas A. Hendricks  (b. 1819)
      American lawyer and politician
      21st Vice President of the United States
1885 – Alfonso XII of Spain (b. 1857)
1907 – George Sheldon, American diver (b. 1874)
1909 – Edward P. Allen, American lawyer and politician (b. 1839)
1920 – Gaston Chevrolet, French-American race car driver (b. 1892)
1944 – Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American lawyer and judge (b. 1866)
1948 – Kanbun Uechi, Japanese martial artist, founded Uechi-ryū (b. 1877)
1949 – Bill Robinson, American actor and dancer (b. 1878)
1950 – Johannes V. Jensen  (b. 1873)
      Danish author and playwright
      Nobel Prize laureate
1950 – Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finnish linguist and diplomat (b. 1873)
1955 – Herman Hoogland, Dutch draughts player (b. 1891)
1955 – Louis Lachenal, French mountaineer (b. 1921)
1956 – Alexander Dovzhenko  (b. 1894)
      Ukrainian-Russian director, producer, and screenwriter
1957 – Prince George of Greece and Denmark (b. 1869)
1959 – Gérard Philipe, French actor (b. 1922)
1961 – Hubert Van Innis, Belgian archer (b. 1866)
1963 – Alexander Marinesko, Russian lieutenant (b. 1913)
1965 – Myra Hess, English pianist and educator (b. 1890)
1968 – Upton Sinclair  (b. 1878)
      American journalist, author, and politician
1968 – Paul Siple, American geographer and explorer (b. 1908)
1970 – Yukio Mishima, Japanese author, actor, and director (b. 1925)
1972 – Henri Coandă  (b. 1886)
      Romanian engineer
      designed the Coandă-1910
1973 – Laurence Harvey  (b. 1928)
      Lithuanian-English actor, director, and producer
1974 – Nick Drake, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
1974 – U Thant  (b. 1909)
      Burmese diplomat
      3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations
1981 – Jack Albertson, American actor and singer (b. 1907)
1984 – Yashwantrao Chavan  (b. 1913)
      Indian politician
      5th Deputy Prime Minister of India
1985 – Geoffrey Grigson, English poet and critic (b. 1905)
1985 – Franz Hildebrandt, German pastor and theologian (b. 1909)
1987 – Harold Washington  (b. 1922)
      American lawyer and politician
      51st Mayor of Chicago
1989 – Alva R. Fitch, American general (b. 1907)
1990 – Merab Mamardashvili  (b. 1930)
      Georgian philosopher and academic
1991 – Eleanor Audley, American actress and singer (b. 1905)
1995 – Léon Zitrone, Russian-French journalist (b. 1914)
1997 – Hastings Banda  (b. 1898)
      Malawian physician and politician
      1st President of Malawi
1998 – Nelson Goodman, American philosopher and academic (b. 1906)
1998 – Flip Wilson, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1933)
1999 – Valentín Campa, Mexican union leader and politician (b. 1904)
2001 – Harry Devlin, American painter and illustrator (b. 1918)
2002 – Karel Reisz, Czech-English director and producer (b. 1926)
2005 – George Best, Irish footballer (b. 1946)
2005 – Richard Burns, English race car driver (b. 1971)
2006 – Luciano Bottaro, Italian author and illustrator (b. 1931)
2006 – Valentín Elizalde, Mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1979)
2006 – Phyllis Fraser  (b. 1916)
      American actress and publisher
      co-founded Beginner Books
2006 – Antonis Vratsanos, Greek soldier (b. 1919)
2007 – Peter Lipton, American philosopher and academic (b. 1954)
2009 – Giorgio I, Prince of Seborga (b. 1936)
2011 – Vasily Alekseyev, Russian weightlifter and coach (b. 1942)
2012 – Lars Hörmander, Swedish mathematician and educator (b. 1931)
2012 – Dave Sexton, English footballer and manager (b. 1930)
2012 – Dinah Sheridan, English actress (b. 1920)
2012 – Simeon ten Holt, Dutch composer (b. 1923)
2013 – Ricardo Fort, Argentinian businessman (b. 1968)
2013 – Bill Foulkes, English footballer and manager (b. 1932)
2013 – Chico Hamilton, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1921)
2013 – Egon Lánský, Czech journalist and politician (b. 1934)
2013 – Al Plastino, American author and illustrator (b. 1921)
2014 – Sitara Devi, Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer (b. 1920)
2014 – Petr Hapka, Czech composer and conductor (b. 1944)
2014 – Denham Harman  (b. 1916)
      American biogerontologist and academic

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