Pisces (notable persons)

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Notable persons born under the Sign of Pisces (Tropical Zodiac) include:-

• 1879 - Albert Einstein, scientist (d. 1955)
• 1484 - Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (d. 1535)
• 1556 - Sethus Calvisius, German calendar reformer (d. 1615)
• 1621 - Rebecca Nurse, American accused witch (d. 1692)
• 1675 - Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (d. 1750)
• 1688 - Queen Ulrike Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741)
• 1705 - Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (d. 1781)
• 1721 - John McKinly, American physician (d. 1796)
• 1723 - Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (d. 1808)
• 1728 - Tsar Peter III of Russia, husband of Catherine the Great (d. 1762)
• 1791 - Carl Czerny, Austrian composer (d. 1857)
• 1801 - John Henry Newman, English Catholic cardinal (d. 1890)
• 1821 - Charles Scribner, American publisher (d. 1871)
• 1836 - Léo Delibes, French composer (d. 1891)
• 1844 - Charles-Marie Widor, French composer (d. 1937)
• 1865 - John Haden Badley, English school founder (d. 1967)
• 1867 - Otto Hermann Kahn, German millionaire (d. 1934)
• 1875 - Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian (d. 1997
• 1876 - Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (d. 1956)
• 1876 - Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor
• 1880 - Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (d. 1952)
• 1885 - Sacha Guitry, Russian dramatist (d. 1957)
• 1893 - Celia Lovsky, Russian-born actress (d. 1979)
• 1893 - Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (d. 1987)
• 1895 - Carl Peter Henrik Dam Danish biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
• 1903 - Fairfax M. Cone, American advertising executive (d. 1977)
• 1903 - Anaïs Nin, French writer (d. 1977)
• 1907 - W. H. Auden, English poet (d. 1973)
• 1907 - Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian of religions, philosopher, novelist
• 1910 - Douglas Bader, British pilot (d. 1982)
• 1910 - Carmine Galante, Italian-born gangster (d. 1979)
• 1910 - Eddie Waring, British sports commentator (d. 1986)
• 1911 - L. Ron Hubbard, Founder of Scientology (d. 1986)
• 1915 - Ann Sheridan, American actress (d. 1967)
• 1917 - Lucille Bremer, American actress (d. 1996)
• 1917 - Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist
• 1922 - Jack Kerouac, American writer
• 1924 - Robert Mugabe first President of Zimbabwe
• 1925 - Sam Peckinpah, American film director (d. 1984)
• 1925 - Robert Altman, American film director (d. 2006)
• 1927 - Erma Bombeck, American humorist (d. 1996)
• 1927 - Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer
• 1929 - Roberto "Chespirito" Carlos Bolanõs, Mexican actor
• 1932 - John Updike, American writer
• 1933 - Philip Roth, American writer
• 1933 - Nina Simone, American singer (d. 2003)
• 1934 - Rue McClanahan, American actress
• 1936 - Barbara Jordan, American politician (d. 1996)
• 1937 - King Harald V of Norway
• 1937 - Gary Lockwood, American actor
• 1940 - John Lewis, American politician
• 1941 - James Wong, Hong Kong composer (d. 2004)
• 1942 - Margarethe von Trotta, German actor
• 1879 - John Irving, American writer
• 1943 - David Geffen, American record producer
• 1943 - George Harrison, English musician (d. 2001)
• 1946 - Tyne Daly, American actress
• 1946 - Anthony Daniels, British actor
• 1946 - Alan Rickman, English actor
• 1947 - Olympia Snowe, American politician
• 1947 - Victor Sokolov, Russian journalist (d. 2006)
• 1947 - Edward H Ntalami, Chief Executive Officer (CMA, Kenya)
• 1947 - Jimnah Mbaru, Chairman (Nairobi Stock Exchange, NSE)
• 1949 - Jerry Harrison, American musician (Talking Heads)
• 1951 - Vince Welnick, musician, musician (The Grateful Dead)
• 1953 - Christine Ebersole, American actress
• 1953 - William Petersen, American actor
• 1955 - Sir Steven Fayburgh, British diplomat
• 1955 - Kelsey Grammer, American actor
• 1958 - Jake Burns, Irish singer (Stiff Little Fingers}
• 1958 - Mary Chapin Carpenter, American singer
• 1958 - Alan Trammell, baseball player and manager
• 1961 - Davey Allison, American race car driver (d. 1993)
• 1961 - Christopher Atkins, American actor
• 1961 - Martha Hackett, American actress
• 1961 - Chuck Palahniuk, American writer
• 1961 - Bertha Faye, American wrestler (d. 2001)
• 1962 - Jim Starr, American gladiator
• 1962 - Vanessa Feltz, British television presenter
• 1962 - David Foster Wallace, American writer
• 1963 - William Baldwin, American actor
• 1967 - Leroy Burrell, American runner
• 1967 - Billy Corgan, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins)
• 1969 - Eric Wilson, American musician (Sublime)
• 1969 - James Dean Bradfield, Welsh musician (Manic Street Preachers)
• 1970 - Michael Slater, Australian cricketer
• 1972 - Dane Cook, American comedian
• 1972 - Seo Taiji, Korean musician
• 1974 - Iván Campo, Spanish footballer
• 1974 - Roberto Heras, Spanish cyclist
• 1975 - Affirmed, American race horse (d. 2001)
• 1976 - Ryan Smyth, Canadian hockey player
• 1977 - Steve Francis, American basketball player
• 1977 - Kevin Rose, American television host
• 1977 - Chad Hutchinson, baseball and football player
• 1979 - Pascal Chimbonda, French footballer
• 1979 - Carlito, Puerto Rican wrestler
• 1979 - Lonnie Ford, American football player
• 1979 - Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress
• 1983 - Braylon Edwards, American football player
• 1984 - Andrew Ellis, New Zealand rugby union player
• 1984 - David Odonkor, German footballer
• 1986 - Charlotte Church, Welsh singer
• 1987 - Anthony Walker, British murder victim (d. 2005)
• 1987 - Ellen Page, Canadian actress
• 1989 - Kristin Herrera, American actress
• 1989 - Corbin Bleu, American actor
• 1040 - Rashi, French rabbi and commentator (d. 1105)
• 1403 - Charles VII of France (d. 1461)
• 1440 - Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary (d. 1457)
• 1500 - Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (d. 1564)
• 1612 - George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (d. 1677)
• 1705 - Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (d. 1735)
• 1714 - Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (d. 1795)
• 1732 - George Washington, 1st President of the United States. (d. 1799)
• 1778 - Rembrandt Peale, American artist (d. 1860)
• 1788 - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (d. 1860)
• 1796 - Alexis Bachelot, French missionary (d. 1838)
• 1796 - Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (d. 1874)
• 1806 - Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (d. 1875)
• 1810 - Frederic Chopin, French-Polish composer
• 1817 - Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880)
• 1819 - James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist (d. 1891)
• 1825 - Jean Baptiste Salpointe, second Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1898)
• 1839 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (d. 1906)
• 1840 - August Bebel, German politician (d. 1913)
• 1849 - Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Russian mathematician (d. 1915)
• 1857 - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English founder of the Boy Scouts (d. 1941)
• 1857 - Heinrich Hertz, German physicist (d. 1894)
• 1878 - Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist (d. 1909)
• 1880 - Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956)
• 1882 - Eric Gill, British sculptor (d. 1940)
• 1883 - Marguerite Clark, American silent film actress (d. 1940)
• 1886 - Hugo Ball, German author and poet (d. 1927)
• 1887 - Ksawery Tartakower, Polish chess player (d. 1956)
• 1888 - Owen Brewster, U.S. Senator from Maine (d. 1961)
• 1889 - Olave Baden-Powell, English Chief Girl Guide (d. 1977)
• 1892 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, American writer (d. 1950)
• 1897 - Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (d. 1947)
• 1899 - Dwight Frye, American actor (d. 1943)
• 1899 - George O'Hara, American actor (d. 1966)
• 1899 - Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (d. 1986)
• 1900 - Luis Buñuel, Spanish-born film director (d. 1983)
• 1902 - Fritz Strassmann, German physicist (d. 1980)
• 1903 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (d. 1990)
• 1903 - Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (d. 1969)
• 1907 - Sheldon Leonard, American actor (d. 1997)
• 1907 - Robert Young, American actor (d. 1998)
• 1908 - Sir John Mills, English actor (d. 2005)
• 1911 - Bill Baker, Baseball player (d. 2006)
• 1914 - Renato Dulbecco, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
• 1918 - Sid Abel, Canadian hockey player (d. 2000)
• 1918 - Charlie Finley, American sports entrepreneur (d. 1996)
• 1918 - Don Pardo, American radio and television announcer
• 1918 - Robert Wadlow, tallest person in history (d. 1940)
• 1921 - Jean-Bédel Bokassa, ruler of the Central African Republic (d. 1996)
• 1921 - Wayne Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)
• 1925 - Edward Gorey, American illustrator (d. 2000)
• 1926 - Kenneth Williams, English actor (d. 1988)
• 1926 - Bud Yorkin, American film director
• 1928 - Paul Dooley, American actor
• 1928 - Bruce Forsyth, British entertainer
• 1929 - Rebecca Schull, American actress
• 1930 - Marni Nixon, American singer
• 1932 - Ted Kennedy, U.S. senator from Massachusetts
• 1933 - Katharine, Duchess of Kent
• 1934 - Sparky Anderson, American baseball manager
• 1936 - J. Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
• 1938 - Ishmael Reed, American writer
• 1941 - Hipólito Mejía, President of the Dominican Republic
• 1944 - Jonathan Demme, American director
• 1944 - Robert Kardashian, American lawyer
• 1944 - Tom Okker, Dutch tennis player
• 1945 - Leslie Charleson, American actress
• 1949 - Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver
• 1949 - Olga Morozova, Russian tennis player
• 1950 - Julius Erving, American basketball player
• 1950 - Ellen Greene, American actress
• 1950 - Miou-Miou, French actress
• 1950 - Julie Walters, English actress
• 1950 - Lenny Kuhr, Dutch singer
• 1952 - Bill Frist, U.S. senator from Tennessee
• 1955 - Tim Young, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1959 - Kyle MacLachlan, American actor
• 1962 - Steve Irwin, Australian herpetologist and personality (d. 2006)
• 1962 - Lenda Murray, American bodybuilder
• 1963 - Vijay Singh, Fijian golfer
• 1965 - Pat LaFontaine, American ice hockey player
• 1966 - Rachel Dratch, American actress and comedienne
• 1966 - Brian Greig, Australian politician
• 1966 - Aiden Shaw, British pornographic actor
• 1967 - Alf Poier, Austrian comedian
• 1968 - Bradley Nowell, American musician (d. 1996)
• 1968 - Jeri Ryan, American actress
• 1969 - Byron Stroud, American bassist
• 1971 - Lea Salonga, Filipina actress and singer
• 1972 - Claudia Pechstein, German speed skater
• 1972 - Michael Chang, American tennis player
• 1974 - James Blunt, British musician
• 1974 - Chris Moyles, British DJ
• 1975 - Drew Barrymore, American actress
• 1976 - Faan Rautenbach, South African rugby player
• 1976 - Chester Bennington, American musician, Lead vocalist of popular nu metal band Linkin Park
• 1979 - Brett Emerton, Australian footballer
• 1979 - Link Starbureiy, American mathematician
• 1982 - Robert Weiner, Jr., water polo player
• 1986 - Miko Hughes, American actor
• 1989 - Anna Sundstrand, Swedish singer and model
• 1417 - Pope Paul II (d. 1471)
• 1583 - Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist (d. 1656)
• 1633 - Samuel Pepys, English naval administrator and man of letters, posthumously famous as a diarist (d. 1703)
• 1646 - Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (d. 1709)
• 1648 - Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (d. 1730)
• 1680 - Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana (d. 1767)
• 1685 - Georg Friedrich Handel, German/British Baroque composer (d. 1759)
• 1688 - Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741)
• 1723 - Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (d. 1791)
• 1729 - Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (d. 1809)
• 1743 - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German-born banker (d. 1812)
• 1840 - Carl Menger, Austrian economist (d. 1921)
• 1868 - W.E.B. DuBois, American civil rights leader (d. 1963)
• 1873 - Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (d. 1929)
• 1874 - Konstantin Päts, Estonian president (d. 1956)
• 1878 - Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian painter and art theorist (d. 1935)
• 1883 - Victor Fleming, American director (d. 1949)
• 1883 - Karl Jaspers, German philosopher (d. 1969)
• 1889 - Musidora, French actress and director (d. 1957)
• 1899 - Erich Kästner, German writer (d. 1974)
• 1904 - William L. Shirer, American historian (d. 1993)
• 1904 - Leopold Trepper, Soviet spy (d. 1982)
• 1908 - William McMahon, twentieth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1988)
• 1914 - Theofiel Middelkamp, Dutch cyclist (d. 2005)
• 1915 - Jon Hall, American actor (d. 1979)
• 1915 - Paul Tibbets, American pilot
• 1918 - Richard G. Butler, American fascist (d. 2004)
• 1924 - Allan McLeod Cormack, South-African born physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
• 1928 - Vasili Lazarev, cosmonaut (d. 1990)
• 1932 - Majel Barrett, American actress
• 1937 - Tom Osborne, American football coach and politician
• 1938 - Diane Varsi, American actress (d. 1992)
• 1940 - Peter Fonda, American actor
• 1941 - Ron Hunt, baseball player
• 1943 - Fred Biletnikoff, American football player and coach
• 1944 - Johnny Winter, American musician
• 1945 - Allan Boesak, South African activist
• 1946 - David Gilmour, British guitarist and singer (Pink Floyd)
• 1951 - Ed Jones, American football player
• 1951 - Patricia Richardson, American actress
• 1952 - Brad Whitford, American musician (Aerosmith)
• 1954 - Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine
• 1955 - Tom Bodett, American voice actor, radio personality, and writer
• 1955 - Howard Jones, British pop singer
• 1958 - Tony Barrell, English writer and journalist
• 1958 - David Sylvian, English musician
• 1959 - Richard Dodds, British field hockey player
• 1960 - Alan Griffin, Australian politician and member for Bruce in the House of Representatives
• 1963 - Bobby Bonilla, former baseball player
• 1964 - Dana Scully, fictional character on the tv-show The X-Files, played by Gillian Anderson
• 1965 - Kristin Davis, American actress
• 1965 - Michael Dell, American computer manufacturer
• 1965 - Helena Suková, former Czech tennis player
• 1965 - Veronica Webb, American supermodel and actress
• 1969 - Marc Wauters, Belgian cyclist
• 1970 - Niecy Nash, American actress
• 1972 - Steve Holy, American country singer
• 1973 - André Tanneberger, German DJ
• 1974 - Jaime Villarreal, Mexican musician
• 1974 - Leko, American DJ
• 1975 - Michael Cornacchia, American actor
• 1977 - Kristina Šmigun, Estonian cross-country skier
• 1978 - Dan Snyder, Canadian hockey player (d. 2003)
• 1981 - Gareth Barry, English footballer
• 1981 - Charles Tillman, American Football Player
• 1982 - Austin Ryan Fuentes, American heir
• 1983 - Mido, Egyptian footballer
• 1986 - Holly Brook, American musician
• 1994 - Dakota Fanning, American actress
• 1103 - Emperor Toba of Japan (d. 1156)
• 1304 - Ibn Battuta, explorer
• 1463 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian humanist (d. 1494)
• 1500 - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1558)
• 1547 - Don John of Austria, military leader (d. 1578)
• 1557 - Mathias, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1619)
• 1597 - Vincent Voiture, French poet (d. 1648)
• 1619 - Charles Le Brun, French artist (d. 1690)
• 1622 - Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (d. 1665)
• 1678 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer
• 1684 - Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (d. 1738)
• 1693 - James Quin, English actor (d. 1766)
• 1709 - Jacques de Vaucanson, French inventor (d. 1782)
• 1723 - John Burgoyne, British general (d. 1792)
• 1774 - Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (d. 1850)
• 1786 - Martin W. Bates. U.S. Senator from Delaware (d. 1869)
• 1786 - Wilhelm Grimm, German philologist and folklorist (d. 1859)
• 1831 - Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1899)
• 1836 - Winslow Homer, American artist (d. 1910)
• 1842 - Arrigo Boito, Italian composer (d. 1918)
• 1846 - Luigi Denza, Italian composer (d. 1922)
• 1848 - Andrew Inglis Clark, Tasmanian politician (d. 1907)
• 1852 - George Moore, English writer (d. 1933)
• 1866 - Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev, Russian physicist (d. 1912)
• 1874 - Honus Wagner, baseball player (d. 1955)
• 1877 - Ettie Rout, New Zealand activist (d. 1936)
• 1885 - Chester Nimitz, U.S. admiral (d. 1966)
• 1885 - Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer and painter (d. 1939)
• 1890 - Marjorie Main, American actress (d. 1975)
• 1909 - August Derleth, American writer (d. 1971)
• 1914 - Zachary Scott, American actor (d. 1965)
• 1914 - Ralph Erskine, British architect (Byker Wall) (d. 2005)
• 1919 - Árpád Bogsch, Hungarian turned American international civil servant (d. 2004)
• 1921 - Abe Vigoda, American actor
• 1921 - Douglass Watson, American actor (d. 1989)
• 1922 - Richard Hamilton, English painter
• 1922 - Steven Hill, American actor
• 1923 - David Soyer, American cellist
• 1932 - Michel Legrand, French composer
• 1932 - John Vernon, Canadian actor (d. 2005)
• 1934 - Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 2000)
• 1934 - Renata Scotto, Italian soprano
• 1934 - Linda Cristal, Argentina-born actress
• 1938 - James Farentino, American actor
• 1938 - Phil Knight, American sportswear manufacturer
• 1938 - Kathleen Margaret Richardson, Baroness Richardson of Calow, British Baroness and Methodist reverend
• 1940 - Pete Duel American actor (d. 1971)
• 1940 - Denis Law Scottish footballer
• 1942 - Joseph Lieberman, American politician and vice presidential candidate
• 1943 - Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer
• 1943 - Terry Semel, chairman and CEO of Yahoo!
• 1944 - Nicky Hopkins, British musician (d. 1994)
• 1946 - Barry Bostwick, American actor
• 1946 - Grigory Margulis, Russian mathematician
• 1947 - Rupert Holmes, English musician
• 1947 - Edward James Olmos, American actor
• 1948 - J. Jayalalithaa, Indian politician
• 1948 - Walter Smith, Scottish football manager
• 1948 - Dennis Waterman, British actor
• 1950 - Pete Duel, American actor (d. 1971)
• 1951 - Debra Jo Rupp, American actress
• 1951 - Helen Shaver, Canadian actress
• 1955 - Steve Jobs, American computer pioneer
• 1955 - Alain Prost, French race car driver
• 1956 - Paula Zahn, American journalist
• 1956 - Eddie Murray, former baseball player
• 1958 - Sammy Kershaw, American musician
• 1958 - Plastic Bertrand, Belgian singer
• 1959 - Beth Broderick, American actress
• 1962 - Michelle Shocked, American musician
• 1962 - Teri Weigel, American pornography actress
• 1963 - Mike Vernon, Canadian ice hockey goalie
• 1964 - Andy Crane, British children's television presenter
• 1966 - Billy Zane, American actor
• 1966 - René Arocha, Baseball player
• 1968 - Mitch Hedberg, American comedian (d. 2005)
• 1970 - Jeff Garcia, American football player
• 1971 - Pedro de la Rosa, Spanish Formula One driver
• 1973 - Chris Fehn, American percussionist (Slipknot)
• 1973 - Jordan Jovtchev, Bulgarian gymnast
• 1973 - Alexei Kovalev, Russian hockey player
• 1973 - Richard Clapp, baseball player
• 1974 - Chad Hugo, American musician and producer (The Neptunes)
• 1974 - Karim Bagheri, Iranian football (soccer) player
• 1975 - Ashley MacIsaac, Canadian fiddler
• 1976 - Matt Skiba, Singer/Guitarist/Songwriter (Alkaline Trio,Heavens)
• 1976 - Eric Griffin, American rock guitarist
• 1976 - Bradley McGee, Australian cyclist
• 1977 - Floyd Mayweather Jr, American boxer
• 1977 - Jason Akermanis, Australian footballer
• 1977 - Bronson Arroyo - baseball pitcher (Cincinnati Reds)
• 1978 - John Nolan, Straylight Run
• 1980 - Anton Gustafsson, better known as Anton Maiden. Infamous Swedish Iron Maiden fan (d. 2003)
• 1980 - Shinsuke Nakamura, Japanese professional wrestler
• 1981 - Lleyton Hewitt, Australian tennis player
• 1981 - Mohammad Sami, Pakistani cricketer (fast bowler)
• 1982 - Klára Koukalová, Czech tennis player
• 1987 - Daniel Reilly, British entrepreneur
• 1987 - Mayuko Iwasa, Japanese entertainer and model
• 1398 - Xuande, Emperor of China (d. 1435)
• 1591 - Friedrich von Spee, German writer (d. 1635)
• 1643 - Ahmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1695)
• 1663 - Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (d. 1718)
• 1682 - Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (d. 1771)
• 1692 - Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (d. 1775)
• 1707 - Carlo Goldoni, Italian writer (d. 1793)
• 1714 - René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (d. 1792)
• 1714 - Hyde Parker, British admiral (d. 1782)
• 1725 - Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (d. 1798)
• 1752 - John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada (d. 1806)
• 1778 - José de San Martín, Argentine general and liberator of South America
• 1841 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter, graphic artist and sculptor (d. 1919)
• 1842 - Karl May, German writer (d. 1912)
• 1845 - George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1918)
• 1860 - Sir William Ashley, Economic historian. (d. 1927)
• 1873 - Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (d. 1921)
• 1877 - Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist (d. 1935)
• 1888 - John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State (d. 1959)
• 1889 - Homer S. Ferguson, United States Senator (d. 1982)
• 1890 - Dame Myra Hess, English pianist (d. 1965)
• 1890 - Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (d. 1986)
• 1895 - Lew Andreas, American basketball coach (d. 1984)
• 1901 - Zeppo Marx, American actor (d. 1979)
• 1908 - Frank G. Slaughter, American novelist (d. 2001)
• 1910 - Millicent Fenwick, American fashion editor and politician (d. 1992)
• 1913 - Jim Backus, American actor (d. 1989)
• 1913 - Gert Fröbe, German actor (d. 1988)
• 1916 - Reinhard Bendix, German sociologist (d. 1991)
• 1917 - Anthony Burgess, English author (d. 1993)
• 1918 - Barney Ewell, American athlete (d. 1996)
• 1918 - Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (d. 1995)
• 1919 - Karl Pribram, Austrian neuroscientist
• 1921 - Pierre Laporte, Canadian statesman (d. 1970)
• 1925 - Edward Gorey, American illustrator (d. 2000)
• 1928 - Larry Gelbart, American comedy writer
• 1929 - Christopher George, American actor (d. 1983)
• 1932 - Faron Young, American singer (d.1996)
• 1934 - Tony Lema, American pro golfer (d. 1966)
• 1935 - Sally Jessy Raphaël, American talk show host
• 1937 - Tom Courtenay, British actor
• 1937 - Bob Schieffer, American broadcast journalist
• 1937 - Barbara Piasecka Johnson, widow of John Seward Johnson I
• 1938 - Diane Baker, American actress
• 1938 - Herb Elliott, Australian runner
• 1940 - Billy Packer, American sports broadcaster
• 1940 - Ron Santo, baseball player
• 1940 - Danny Cater, baseball player
• 1942 - Karen Grassle, American actress
• 1942 - Carl Eller, former American football player
• 1943 - Wilson Piazza, Brazilian footballer
• 1943 - George Harrison, British musician (the Beatles) (d. 2001)
• 1946 - Franz Xaver Kroetz, German dramatist
• 1947 - Lee Evans, American athlete
• 1947 - Doug Yule, American bass guitarist, (The Velvet Underground)
• 1948 - Danny Denzongpa, Indian actor
• 1949 - Ric Flair, American professional wrestler
• 1950 - Neil Jordan, Irish director
• 1950 - Néstor Kirchner, President of Argentina
• 1951 - Don Quarrie, Jamaican runner
• 1951 - James Brown, American sportscaster
• 1951 - César Cedeño, baseball player
• 1952 - Joey Dunlop, Irish motorcycle racer (d. 2000)
• 1953 - José María Aznar, Prime Minister of Spain
• 1954 - John Doe, American musician
• 1958 - Kurt Rambis, American basketball player
• 1959 - Mike Peters, Welsh musician (The Alarm)
• 1960 - Tony Grimaud, Maltese-born singer and songwriter
• 1960 - Stefan Blöcher, German field hockey player
• 1961 - Davey Allison, American race car driver (d. 1993)
• 1961 - Todd Blackledge, American football player
• 1962 - Birgit Fischer, German kayaker
• 1963 - Nancy O'Dell, American reporter and television personality
• 1964 - Lee Evans, British Comedian
• 1964 - Don Majkowski, American football player
• 1966 - Alexis Denisof, American actor
• 1966 - Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete (d. 2003)
• 1966 - Téa Leoni, American actress
• 1968 - Sandrine Kiberlain, French actress
• 1969 - Paul Trimboli, Australian footballer
• 1971 - Sean Astin, American actor
• 1971 - Dave Harris, American disc jockey
• 1971 - Daniel Powter, Canadian musician
• 1973 - Justin Jeffre, American singer (98 Degrees)
• 1976 - Rashida Jones, American actress, writer, model, musician
• 1977 - Sarah Jezebel Deva, English singer
• 1977 - Josh Wolff, American footballer
• 1981 - Jamie Lynn, American model
• 1981 - Park Ji-Sung, South Korean footballer
• 1982 - Chris Baird, Irish footballer
• 1982 - Bert McCracken, American singer (The Used)
• 1985 - Joakim Noah, American basketball player
• 1986 - Justin Berfield, American actor
• 1986 - James and Oliver Phelps, British actors
• 1998 - Brendon Baerg, American actor
• 1361 - Wenceslaus, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (d. 1419)
• 1564 - Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist (d. 1593)
• 1587 - Stefano Landi, Italian composer (d. 1639)
• 1671 - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (d. 1713)
• 1672 - Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian (d. 1757)
• 1714 - James Hervey, English clergyman and writer (d. 1758)
• 1715 - Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher (d. 1771)
• 1720 - Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1803)
• 1749 - Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher
• 1786 - François Arago, French mathematician (d. 1853)
• 1799 - Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (d. 1864)
• 1802 - Victor Hugo, French writer (d. 1885)
• 1808 - Honoré Daumier, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor (d. 1879)
• 1814 - Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (d. 1876)
• 1829 - Levi Strauss, German-born clothing designer (d. 1902)
• 1846 - Buffalo Bill, American pioneer, officer, and hunter (d. 1917)
• 1857 - Émile Coué, French psychologist (d. 1926)
• 1861 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (d. 1948)
• 1861 - Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya, Russian revolutioner, Lenin's wife (d. 1939)
• 1879 - Frank Bridge, English composer (d. 1941)
• 1882 - Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (d. 1968)
• 1885 - Aleksandras Stulginskis, President of Lithuania (d. 1969)
• 1887 - Grover Cleveland Alexander, baseball player (d. 1950)
• 1887 - William Frawley, American actor (d. 1966)
• 1893 - I. A. Richards, English literary critic (d. 1979)
• 1899 - Max Petitpierre, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1994)
• 1902 - Jean Bruller, French writer and illustrator (d. 1991)
• 1903 - Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
• 1907 - Dub Taylor, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1908 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (d. 1980)
• 1908 - Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (d. 1949)
• 1909 - King Talal of Jordan (d. 1972)
• 1912 - Dane Clark, American actor (d. 1998)
• 1914 - Robert Alda, American actor (d. 1986)
• 1916 - Jackie Gleason, American actor, writer, composer, and comedian (d. 1987)
• 1918 - Otis Ray Bowen,American politician and physician.
• 1918 - Theodore Sturgeon, American writer (d. 1985)
• 1919 - Mason Adams, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1919 - Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (d. 2003)
• 1920 - Tony Randall, American actor (d. 2004)
• 1920 - Danny Gardella, baseball player (d. 2005)
• 1922 - Margaret Leighton, British Actress (d. 1976)
• 1921 - Betty Hutton, American actress
• 1927 - Tom Kennedy, American game show host
• 1928 - Fats Domino, American musician
• 1928 - Anatoli Filipchenko, cosmonaut
• 1928 - Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel
• 1930 - Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (d. 2005)
• 1931 - Ally McLeod, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2004)
• 1932 - Johnny Cash, American singer (d. 2003)
• 1934 - Robert Novak, American political columnist
• 1941 - Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (d. 1972)
• 1943 - Bill Duke, American actor and director
• 1945 - Marta Kristen, Norwegian actress
• 1945 - Peter Brock, Australian motorsports champion (d. 2006)
• 1946 - Ahmed H. Zewail, Egyptian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1947 - Sandie Shaw, British singer
• 1950 - Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand
• 1951 - Lee Atwater, American political operative (d. 1991)
• 1953 - Michael Bolton, American singer
• 1954 - Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of Turkey
• 1956 - Keisuke Kuwata, Japanese singer
• 1957 - Joe Mullen, American ice hockey player
• 1957 - David Muldrow Beasley, American politician
• 1958 - Michel Houellebecq, French novelist
• 1959 - Rolando Blackman, Panamanian basketball player
• 1962 - Greg Germann, American actor
• 1968 - J.T. Snow, American baseball player, 1st baseman
• 1971 - Erykah Badu, American singer
• 1971 - Max Martin, Swedish composer and producer
• 1973 - Marshall Faulk, American football star
• 1973 - Jenny Thompson, American swimmer
• 1973 - Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Norwegian footballer
• 1974 - Sébastien Loeb, French rally driver
• 1978 - Marc Hynes, British racing driver
• 1979 - Corinne Bailey Rae, British singer
• 1980 - Alex Fong, Hong Kong singer
• 1980 - Gary Majewski, Baseball player
• 1982 - Jay Mullen, British actor
• 1984 - Natalia Lafourcade, Mexican singer
• 1984 - Emmanuel Adebayor, Togon footballer
• 1985 - Alexandria Hilfiger, American actress, Daughter of Tommy Hilfiger
• 1986 - Crystal Kay, Japanese singer
• 1993 - Taylor Dooley, American actress
• 272 - Constantine I, Roman emperor (d. 337)
• 1691 - Edward Cave, English editor and publisher (d. 1754)
• 1711 - Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (d. 1769)
• 1807 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d. 1882)
• 1861 - Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher (d. 1925)
• 1886 - Hugo Black, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1971)
• 1888 - Lotte Lehmann, German singer (d. 1976)
• 1888 - Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (d. 1974)
• 1888 - Earl Caddock, Professional wrestler
• 1890 - Freddie Keppard, American jazz musician (d. 1933)
• 1891 - David Sarnoff, Russian-born broadcast pioneer (d. 1971)
• 1891 - Anne Samson, oldest-ever nun documented (d. 2004)
• 1892 - William Demarest, American actor (d. 1983)
• 1897 - Marian Anderson, American contralto (d. 1993)
• 1899 - Charles Best, American medical scientist (d. 1978)
• 1902 - Gene Sarazen, American golfer (d. 1999)
• 1902 - John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
• 1903 - Grethe Weiser, German actress (d. 1970)
• 1904 - James T. Farrell, American writer (d. 1979)
• 1904 - Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist (d. 1996)
• 1904 - André Leducq, French cyclist (d. 1980)
• 1904 - Chick Fullis, baseball player (d. 1946)
• 1905 - Franchot Tone, American actor (d. 1968)
• 1907 - Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951)
• 1910 - Joan Bennett, American actress (d. 1990)
• 1910 - Peter De Vries, American writer (d. 1993)
• 1910 - Kelly Johnson, American aircraft engineer (d. 1990)
• 1912 - Lawrence Durrell, British writer (d. 1990)
• 1913 - Irwin Shaw, American writer (d. 1984)
• 1917 - John Connally, Governor of Texas (d. 1993)
• 1922 - Hans Rookmaaker, Dutch professor and art historian (d. 1977)
• 1923 - Dexter Gordon, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1990)
• 1925 - Samuel Dash, American Congressional counsel (d. 2004)
• 1926 - David H. Hubel, Canadian neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1927 - Lynn Cartwright, American actress (d. 2004)
• 1927 - Guy Mitchell, American singer (d. 1999)
• 1929 - Djalma Santos, Brazilian football player
• 1930 - Paul von Ragué Schleyer, American chemist
• 1930 - Peter Stone, American writer (d. 2003)
• 1930 - Joanne Woodward, American actress
• 1932 - Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress
• 1933 - Raymond Berry, American football player
• 1934 - Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (d. 1992)
• 1934 - N. Scott Momaday, American writer
• 1934 - Ralph Nader, American consumer activist
• 1934 - Van Williams, American actor
• 1935 - Mirella Freni, Italian soprano
• 1937 - Barbara Babcock, American actress
• 1940 - Howard Hesseman, American actor
• 1941 - Paddy Ashdown, British politician
• 1942 - Robert H. Grubbs, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1942 - Charlayne Hunter-Gault, American journalist
• 1943 - Mary Frann, American actress (d. 1998)
• 1943 - Morten Lauridsen, American composer
• 1944 - Ken Grimwood, American writer (d. 2003)
• 1945 - Carl Anderson, American singer and actor (d. 2004)
• 1947 - Gidon Kremer, Latvian violinist
• 1951 - Steve Harley, British rock musician (Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel)
• 1954 - Neal Schon, American musician (Journey)
• 1956 - Marjorie Russo, American poet
• 1957 - Viktor Markin, Russian athlete
• 1957 - Adrian Smith, English musician (Iron Maiden)
• 1962 - Adam Baldwin, American actor
• 1962 - Grant Show, American actor
• 1965 - Noah Emmerich, American actor
• 1965 - Frank Peter Zimmermann, German violinist
• 1966 - Donal Logue, Canadian actor
• 1969 - Brad Vander Ark, American musician
• 1970 - Michael A. Burstein, American writer
• 1970 - Patricia Petibon, French opera singer
• 1971 - Derren Brown, British psychological illusionist
• 1971 - Rozonda Thomas, American singer (TLC)
• 1977 - Lance Hoyt, American professional wrestler
• 1978 - James Beattie, English footballer
• 1980 - Bobby Valentino, American singer
• 1980 - Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton
• 1981 - Josh Groban, American singer
• 1984 - Juliana Imai, Brazilian model
• 1984 - Antti Tuisku, Finnish singer
• 1985 - Fefe Dobson, Canadian singer
• 1985 - Abe Asami. Japanese singer and actress.
• 1988 - JD Natasha, American musician
• 1989 -Kelly Breeding-, Member of boy band B5
• 1155 - Henry the Young King, son of Henry II of England (d. 1183)
• 1533 - Michel de Montaigne, French writer and philosopher (d. 1592)
• 1552 - Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (d. 1632)
• 1612 - John Pearson, English theologian (d. 1686)
• 1670 - Benjamin Wadsworth, American President of Harvard University (d. 1737)
• 1675 - Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (d. 1726)
• 1683 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (d. 1757)
• 1704 - Louis Godin, French astronomer (d. 1760)
• 1712 - Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander (d. 1759)
• 1724 - George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (d. 1807)
• 1820 - John Tenniel, English illustrator (d. 1914)
• 1823 - Ernest Renan, French philosopher (d. 1892)
• 1827 - Blondin, French tightrope walker (d. 1897)
• 1833 - Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (d. 1913)
• 1838 - Maurice Lévy, French engineer (d. 1910)
• 1865 - Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador (d. 1940).
• 1878 - Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (d. 1929)
• 1878 - Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (d. 1952)
• 1882 - Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (d. 1967)
• 1882 - José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer and politician (d. 1959)
• 1894 - Ben Hecht, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 1964)
• 1896 - Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1965)
• 1900 - Wolfram Hirth, German pilot and aircraft designer (d. 1959)
• 1901 - Linus Pauling, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Peace (d. 1994)
• 1903 - Vincente Minnelli, American director (d. 1986)
• 1906 - Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (d. 1947)
• 1907 - Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon) (d. 1988)
• 1908 - Billie Bird, American actress (d. 2002)
• 1909 - Stephen Spender, English poet (d. 1995)
• 1915 - Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1987)
• 1915 - Zero Mostel, American actor (d. 1977)
• 1921 - Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (d. 2006)
• 1923 - Charles Durning, American actor
• 1926 - Svetlana Alliluyeva, Soviet defector, daughter of Joseph Stalin
• 1929 - Hayden Fry, American football coach
• 1929 - Frank Gehry, Canadian-American architect
• 1930 - Leon Neil Cooper, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1930 - Gavin MacLeod, American actor
• 1931 - Dean Smith, American basketball coach
• 1932 - Don Francks, Canadian actor
• 1933 - Rein Taagepera, Estonian politician
• 1939 - Daniel C. Tsui, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1939 - Tommy Tune, American dancer, choreographer, and actor
• 1940 - Mario Andretti, American race car driver
• 1940 - Joe South, American singer and songwriter
• 1942 - Frank Bonner, American actor and director
• 1942 - Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (d. 1969)
• 1942 - Dino Zoff, Italian footballer
• 1942 - Micahel Eisner, American businessman
• 1944 - Kelly Bishop, American actress
• 1944 - Sepp Maier, German footballer
• 1944 - Win Aung, Burmese politician
• 1945 - Bubba Smith, American football player and actor
• 1946 - Robin Cook, British politician (d. 2005)
• 1946 - Syreeta Wright, American singer (d. 2004)
• 1947 - Stephanie Beacham, British actress
• 1948 - Steven Chu, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1948 - Mike Figgis, English director, writer, and composer
• 1948 - Bernadette Peters, American actress and singer
• 1948 - Mercedes Ruehl, American actress
• 1952 - William Finn, American composer and lyricist
• 1954 - Brian Billick, American football coach
• 1955 - Gilbert Gottfried, American comedian and actor
• 1955 - Silky Sullivan, American racehorse (d. 1977)
• 1956 - Jimmy Nicholl, Canadian-born Northern Irish footballer
• 1956 - Mike Tenay, American wrestling commentator
• 1957 - John Turturro, American actor
• 1960 - Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress and model (d. 1980)
• 1961 - Rae Dawn Chong, Canadian actress
• 1961 - Mark Latham, Australian politician
• 1963 - Claudio Chiappucci, Italian cyclist
• 1964 - Djamolidine Abdoujaparov, Uzbekistan cyclist
• 1967 - Colin Cooper, English footballer
• 1969 - Robert Sean Leonard, American actor
• 1969 - Patrick Monahan, American rock singer (Train)
• 1970 - Noureddine Morceli, Algerian athlete
• 1970 - Daniel Handler, American writer, better known as Lemony Snicket
• 1971 - Tristan Louis, American writer
• 1972 - Rory Cochrane, American actor
• 1972 - Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player
• 1973 - Eric Lindros, Canadian hockey player
• 1973 - Nicolas Minassian, French racing driver
• 1974 - Lee Carsley, Irish footballer
• 1976 - Ali Larter, American Actress
• 1977 - Jason Aldean, American Country singer
• 1978 - Benjamin Raich, Austrian Olympic skier
• 1979 - Primož Peterka, Slovenian ski jumper
• 1979 - Sébastien Bourdais, French racing driver
• 1980 - Pascal Bosschaart, Dutch footballer
• 1980 - Piotr Giza, Polish footballer
• 1982 - Natalia Vodianova, Russian supermodel
• 1984 - Karolína Kurková, Czech supermodel
• 1985 - Jelena Janković, Serbian tennis player
• 1985 - Fefe Dobson, Canadian singer
• 1468 - Pope Paul III (d. 1549)
• 1692 - John Byrom, English poet (d. 1763)
• 1736 - Ann Lee, American founder of Shakers (d. 1784)
• 1792 - Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer (d. 1868)
• 1840 - John Philip Holland, Irish inventor (d. 1914)
• 1852 - Frank Gavan Duffy, Australian judge (d. 1936)
• 1860 - Herman Hollerith, American statistician (d. 1929)
• 1896 - Morarji Desai, Prime Minister of India (d. 1995)
• 1896 - William A. Wellman, American film director (d. 1975)
• 1904 - Jimmy Dorsey, American bandleader (d. 1957)
• 1904 - Pepper Martin, baseball player (d. 1965)
• 1908 - Balthus, French-Polish painter (d. 2001)
• 1908 - Dee Brown, American writer and historian (d. 2002)
• 1908 - Alf Gover, English cricketer (d. 2001)
• 1916 - Dinah Shore, American singer (d. 1994)
• 1920 - James Mitchell, American actor
• 1920 - Michèle Morgan, French actress
• 1920 - Howard Nemerov, American poet (d. 1991)
• 1924 - Al Rosen, baseball player
• 1928 - Joss Ackland, English actor
• 1928 - Tempest Storm, actress and burlesque performer
• 1932 - Jaguar, Brazilian cartoonist
• 1936 - Jack Lousma, astronaut
• 1936 - Henri Richard, Canadian hockey player
• 1936 - Alex Rocco, American actor
• 1940 - Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
• 1944 - Phyllis Frelich, deaf American actress/Tony Winner
• 1944 - Dennis Farina, American actor
• 1944 - Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri, Italian illustrator
• 1944 - Ene Ergma, Estonian politician
• 1952 - Tim Powers, American writer
• 1952 - Raisa Smetanina, Russian cross-country skier
• 1952 - Bart Stupak, American politician
• 1956 - Jonathan Coleman, Anglo-Australian radio and television personality
• 1956 - Bob Speller, Canadian politician
• 1956 - Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer (d. 2002)
• 1956 - J. Randy Taraborrelli, American celebritiy journalist
• 1960 - Ian McKenzie Anderson, British musician and record producer
• 1960 - Richard Ramirez, American serial killer
• 1960 - Tony Robbins, American motivational speaker
• 1964 - Lyndon Byers, Canadian hockey player
• 1968 - Pete Fenson, American curler
• 1968 - Gonzalo Lira, Chilean-American novelist and filmmaker
• 1968 - Bryce Paup, American football player
• 1972 - Antonio Sabato Jr., Italian-born actor
• 1972 - Dave Williams, American singer (Drowning Pool) (d. 2002)
• 1972 - Pedro Zamora, Cuban-born American AIDS activist (d. 1994)
• 1976 - Ja Rule, American rapper and actor
• 1980 - Simon Gagné, Canadian hockey player
• 1980 - Taylor Twellman, American soccer player
• 1984 - Darren Ambrose, English footballer
• 1984 - Cam Ward, Canadian hockey player
• 1316 - Robert II of Scotland, (d. 1390)
• 1409 - John II of Alençon, French soldier (d. 1476)
• 1459 - Pope Adrian VI (d. 1523)
• 1545 - Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (d. 1613)
• 1578 - George Sandys, English colonist and poet (d. 1644)
• 1705 - William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and politician (d. 1793)
• 1770 - Louis Gabriel Suchet, French marshal (d. 1826)
• 1779 - Joel Roberts Poinsett, American statesman and botanist (d. 1851)
• 1793 - Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas (d. 1863)
• 1800 - Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (d. 1844)
• 1810 - Pope Leo XIII, (d. 1903)
• 1820 - Multatuli, Dutch writer (d. 1887)
• 1824 - Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer (d. 1884)
• 1829 - Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and statesman (d. 1906)
• 1849 - Robert Means Thompson, U.S. naval officer (d. 1930)
• 1859 - Sholom Aleichem, Russian novelist (d. 1916)
• 1860 - Susanna M. Salter, Mayor of Argonia, Kansas (d. 1961)
• 1860 - Hugo Wolf, composer
• 1862 - Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (d. 1916)
• 1876 - Pope Pius XII, (d. 1958)
• 1878 - William Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (d. 1944)
• 1886 - Willis O'Brien, American animator (d. 1962)
• 1900 - Kurt Weill, German composer (d. 1950)
• 1902 - Moe Berg, baseball player and spy (d. 1972)
• 1904 - Dr. Seuss, American author (d. 1991)
• 1908 - Walter Bruch, German engineer (d. 1990)
• 1909 - Mel Ott, baseball player (d. 1958)
• 1913 - Godfried Bomans, Dutch author and television personality (d. 1971)
• 1913 - Mort Cooper, baseball player (d. 1958)
• 1914 - Martin Ritt, American director (d. 1990)
• 1917 - Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born actor, bandleader, and musician (d. 1986)
• 1917 - Jim Konstanty, baseball player (d. 1976)
• 1919 - Jennifer Jones, American actress
• 1923 - Robert H. Michel, American politician
• 1926 - Murray Rothbard, American economist (d. 1995)
• 1927 - Roger Walkowiak, French cyclist
• 1928 - Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano
• 1930 - John Cullum, American actor and singer
• 1931 - Mikhail Gorbachev, Leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, President of the Soviet Union, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1931 - Tom Wolfe, American author
• 1935 - Al Waxman, Canadian actor (d. 2001)
• 1937 - Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria
• 1938 - Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile
• 1940 - Tony Croatto, Italian-born singer and composer (d. 2005)
• 1942 - John Irving, American author
• 1942 - Lou Reed, American singer and guitarist
• 1942 - Peter Guber, American film producer
• 1943 - Peter Straub, American author
• 1943 - Zygfryd Blaut, Polish football player
• 1944 - Uschi Glas, German actress
• 1944 - Kiri Te Kanawa, opera singer, originally from New Zealand
• 1948 - Rory Gallagher, Irish guitarist (d. 1995)
• 1948 - Jeff Kennett, Australian politician
• 1949 - Eddie Money, New York police officer and singer
• 1949 - JPR Williams, Welsh rugby player
• 1949 - Gates McFadden, American actress
• 1950 - Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer (d. 1983)
• 1952 - Mark Evanier, American writer
• 1952 - Laraine Newman, American actress and comedian
• 1953 - Russ Feingold, American politician
• 1955 - Shoko Asahara, Japanese religious leader
• 1956 - Mark Evans, Australian bassist (AC/DC)
• 1958 - Ian Woosnam, Welsh golfer
• 1961 - Simone Young, Australian conductor
• 1962 - Morioka Hiroyuki, Japanese writer
• 1962 - Jon Bon Jovi, American singer, songwriter, and actor
• 1963 - Tuff Hedeman, 4-Time PRCA World Champion Bull Rider
• 1964 - Megan Leigh, American pornstar (d. 1990)
• 1964 - Mike Von Erich, Professional wrestler
• 1965 - Ron Gant, baseball player
• 1968 - Daniel Craig, English actor
• 1972 - Amber Smith, American actress and model
• 1973 - Trevor Sinclair, English footballer
• 1974 - Monika Niederstätter, Italian athlete
• 1977 - Chris Martin, British musician (Coldplay)
• 1977 - Heather McComb, American actress
• 1977 - Andrew Strauss, English cricketer
• 1979 - Damien Duff, Irish footballer
• 1980 - Édson Nobre, Angolan footballer
• 1981 - Bryce Dallas Howard, American actress
• 1981 - Lance Cade, Professional wrestler
• 1982 - Kevin Kurányi, German footballer
• 1982 - Henrik Lundqvist, Swedish hockey
• 1982 - Ben Roethlisberger, American football player
• 1982 - Corey Webster, American football player
• 1985 - Robert Iler, American actor
• 1985 - Reggie Bush, American football player
• 1988 - Alexander Wolfe, University of Illinois Student
• 1989 - Will Makar, American singer
• 1455 - King John II of Portugal (d. 1495)
• 1520 - Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (d. 1575)
• 1583 - Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (d. 1648)
• 1589 - Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (d. 1676)
• 1606 - Edmund Waller, British poet (d. 1687)
• 1652 - Thomas Otway, British dramatist (d. 1685)
• 1800 - Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (d. 1862)
• 1805 - Jonas Furrer, first President of the Swiss Confederation, (d. 1861)
• 1831 - George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (d. 1897)
• 1839 - Jamshedji Tata, Indian industrialist (d. 1904)
• 1845 - Georg Cantor, German mathematician (d. 1918)
• 1847 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor (d. 1922)
• 1860 - Monte Ward, Baseball player (d. 1925)
• 1863 - Arthur Machen, Welsh-born author (d. 1947)
• 1871 - Maurice Garin, French cyclist (d. 1957)
• 1873 - William Green, American labor union leader (d. 1952)
• 1886 - Fred A. Busse, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1914)
• 1886 - Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet (d. 1968)
• 1890 - Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (d. 1939)
• 1893 - Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (d. 1998)
• 1895 - Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
• 1895 - Matthew Ridgway, Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, U.S. Army Chief of Staff (d. 1993)
• 1911 - Jean Harlow, American actress (d. 1937)
• 1918 - Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1918 - Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrian (d. 2000)
• 1920 - Julius Boros, American golfer (d. 1994)
• 1920 - James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (d. 2005)
• 1920 - Ronald Searle, British illustrator
• 1922 - Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer
• 1923 - Barney Martin, American actor
• 1923 - Doc Watson, American musician
• 1926 - Lys Assia, Swiss singer
• 1926 - Joseph Anthony Ferrario, American Catholic prelate
• 1926 - James Merrill, American poet (d. 1995)
• 1927 - Pierre Aubert, member of the Swiss Federal Council
• 1930 - Heiner Geißler, German politician
• 1930 - Ion Iliescu, President of Romania
• 1933 - Lee Radziwill, American fashion executive
• 1937 - Bobby Driscoll, American actor (d. 1968)
• 1940 - Germán Castro Caycedo, Colombian writer and journalist
• 1940 - Perry Ellis, fashion designer (d. 1986)
• 1945 - George Miller, Australian film director
• 1946 - John Virgo, English snooker player
• 1947 - Jennifer Warnes, American singer and songwriter
• 1948 - Snowy White, British guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Pink Floyd)
• 1949 - Jüri Allik, Estonian psychologist
• 1949 - Gloria Hendry, American actress
• 1949 - Jesse Jefferson, American baseball player
• 1950 - Tim Kazurinsky, American actor and comedian
• 1952 - Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian
• 1953 - Robyn Hitchcock, British musician
• 1953 - Zico, Brazilian footballer
• 1955 - Andy Breckman, American comedian and radio personality
• 1956 - Zbigniew Boniek, Polish soccer player
• 1958 - Marc Silvestri, American comic book artist and publisher (Top Cow Productions)
• 1958 - Miranda Richardson, British actress
• 1959 - Ira Glass, American radio host
• 1961 - Perry McCarthy, British racing driver
• 1962 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee, American athlete
• 1962 - Herschel Walker, American football player
• 1964 - Laura Harring, Mexican American actress
• 1964 - Raul Alcala, Mexican cyclist
• 1966 - Tone-Loc, American musician
• 1968 - Brian Leetch, American ice hockey player
• 1970 - Julie Bowen, American actress
• 1971 - Tyler Florence, Chef, Food Network personality, cookbook author
• 1973 - Victoria Zdrok, Ukrainian model
• 1973 - Romans Vainsteins, Latvian cyclist
• 1974 - David Faustino, American actor
• 1976 - Greta Gore, American Indian pinup model and actress
• 1977 - Ronan Keating, Irish singer
• 1978 - Matt Diaz, American baseball player
• 1979 - Patrick Renna, American actor
• 1980 - Mason Unck, American football player
• 1981 - Lil' Flip, American rapper
• 1982 - Jessica Biel, American actress
• 1985 - Sam Morrow, Northern Irish footballer
• 1986 - Stacie Orrico, American singer
• 1979 - Joel Madden, Lead vocalist for the band Good Charlotte
• 1979 - Benji Madden, the guitarist and backup vocalist of the band Good Charlotte.
• 1997 - Maria Francisca Isabel de Bragança, Infanta, daughter of Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza
• ((1959)) - ((Joseph Steffen)), American Political Operative, DC and Maryland

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