Births

1417 – Pope Paul II (d. 1471)
1443 – Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, King of Hungary and Croatia (d. 1490)
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)
1723 – Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (d. 1791)
1729 – Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (d. 1809)
1743 – Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German-born banker (d. 1812)
1809 – William Sprague, American minister and politician from Michigan (d. 1868)
1840 – Frederick Wicks, English author and inventor (d. 1910)
1842 – Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (d. 1906)
1850 – César Ritz, Swiss hotelier (d. 1918)
1868 – W. E. B. Du Bois, 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 – Karl Jaspers, German philosopher (d. 1969)
1889 – Victor Fleming, American director (d. 1949)
1889 – Musidora, French actress and director (d. 1957)
1889 – John Gilbert Winant, American politician (d. 1947)
1891 – Harold Horder, Australian Rugby League player (d. 1978)
1899 – Erich Kästner, German writer (d. 1974)
1899 – Norman Taurog, American film director (d. 1981)
1901 – Edgar Ende, German painter (d. 1965)
1904 – Terence Fisher, English film director (d. 1980)
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, US Air Force retired Brigadier General and Pilot of B-29 "Enola Gay" over Hiroshima (d. 2007)
1918 – Richard G. Butler, American fascist (d. 2004)
1920 – Paul Gérin-Lajoie, French Canadian politician
1923 – Rafael Addiego Bruno, Uruguayan politician
1924 – Allan McLeod Cormack, South-African born physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
1924 – Claude Sautet, French film director (d. 2000)
1927 – Régine Crespin, French operatic soprano (d. 2007)
1928 – Hans Herrmann, German race car driver
1928 – Vasili Lazarev, cosmonaut (d. 1990)
1929 – Elston Howard, American Baseball Player (d. 1980)
1931 – Tom Wesselmann, American collage artist (d. 2004)
1932 – Majel Barrett, American actress (d. 2008)
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 – Bernard Cornwell, English historical novelist
1944 – John Sandford, American novelist
1944 – Johnny Winter, American musician
1945 – Allan Boesak, South African activist
1946 – Rusty Young, American country-rock guitarist (Poco)
1947 – John McWethy, American journalist (d. 2008)
1947 – Pia Kjærsgaard, Danish politician
1948 – Doug Moench, American comic book writer
1949 – Marc Garneau, French Canadian astronaut
1950 – Maxi, Irish singer and radio personality
1951 – Ed Jones, American football player
1951 – Patricia Richardson, American actress
1952 – Brad Whitford, American musician (Aerosmith)
1953 – Satoru Nakajima, Japanese racing driver
1954 – Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine
1955 – Tom Bodett, American voice actor, radio personality, and writer
1955 – Howard Jones, British pop singer
1955 – Flip Saunders, American basketball coach
1957 – Ria Brieffies, Dutch singer (d. 2009)
1958 – Tony Barrell, English writer and journalist
1958 – David Sylvian, English musician (Japan, Nine Horses)
1959 – Richard Dodds, British field hockey player
1960 – Alan Griffin, Australian politician
1960 – Naruhito, Crown Prince of Japan
1961 – Kelly Hansen, American drummer (Summer Lights)
1962 – Michael Wilton, American musician (Queensrÿche)
1963 – Bobby Bonilla, former baseball player
1963 – Radosław Sikorski, Polish politician
1964 – John Norum, Norwegian guitarist (Europe)
1965 – Kristin Davis, American actress
1965 – David E. Clemmer, American ion mobility-mass spectrometrist, 2006 recipient of Biemann Medal
1965 – Michael Dell, American computer manufacturer
1965 – Helena Suková, former Czech tennis player
1965 – Veronica Webb, American supermodel and actress
1966 – Neal McDonough, American actor
1967 – Tamsin Greig, English actress
1967 – Chris Vrenna, American musician, producer and sound engineer Nine Inch Nails, Tweaker
1968 – Justin Bell, British racing driver
1969 – Marc Wauters, Belgian cyclist
1969 – Michael Campbell, New Zealand golfer
1970 – Marie-Josée Croze, French Canadian actress
1970 – Niecy Nash, American actress
1971 – Jeong Chan, South Korean actor
1971 – Don Maxwell, Canadian cricketer
1971 – Melinda Messenger, English television presenter
1971 – Joe-Max Moore, American soccer player
1972 – Steve Holy, American country singer
1972 – Rondell White, American baseball player
1973 – Jack Case, American artist
1973 – Lars-Olof Johansson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
1974 – Leko, American DJ
1974 – Jaime Villarreal, Mexican musician
1974 – Herschelle Gibbs, South African cricketer
1975 – Michael Cornacchia, American actor
1975 – Robert Lopez, American composer
1975 – Natalia Verbeke, Argentine actress
1976 – Kelly Macdonald, British actress
1976 – Scott Elarton, American baseball player
1977 – Kristina Šmigun, Estonian cross-country skier
1978 – René Pérez, Puerto Rican musician (Calle 13)
1978 – Dan Snyder, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2003)
1978 – Jo Joyner, English Actress
1981 – Gareth Barry, English footballer
1981 – Charles Tillman, American football player
1982 – Adam Hann-Byrd, American actor
1982 – Karan Singh Grover, Indian Television Actor
1983 – Mirco Bergamasco, Italian rugby player
1983 – Mido, Egyptian footballer
1983 – Emily Blunt, British actress
1983 – Aziz Ansari, Indian American Comedian
1986 – Ola Svensson, Swedish Pop Singer
1986 – Holly Brook, American musician
1986 – Kazuya Kamenashi, Japanese pop star (KAT-TUN)
1986 – Jerod Mayo, American Football player
1989 – Evan Bates, American ice dancer
1992 – Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
1994 – Dakota Fanning, American actress

Births

* 1355 – Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, son of Edward III of England (d. 1397)
* 1502 – Pope Gregory XIII (d. 1585)
* 1528 – Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (d. 1572)
* 1647 – Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)
* 1685 – Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (d. 1761)
* 1706 – Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751)
* 1718 – Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1790)
* 1768 – Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples (d. 1844)
* 1786 – John Catron, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1865)
* 1796 – Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (d. 1817)
* 1800 – Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (d. 1874)
* 1827 – Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer; introduced Universal Standard Time (d. 1915)
* 1830 – Albert Bierstadt, German-American painter (d. 1902)
* 1831 – Heinrich von Stephan, German labor organizer (d. 1897)
* 1832 – James Munro, Premier of Victoria (d. 1908)
* 1834 – Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor (d. 1874)
* 1844 – Bernadette Soubirous, French saint (d. 1879)
* 1845 – King Ludwig III of Bavaria (d. 1921)
* 1858 – Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, key figure in the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language (d. 1922)
* 1860 – Emanuil Manolov, Bulgarian composer (d. 1902)
* 1870 – Lord Gordon Hewart, British judge (d. 1943)
* 1871 – Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956)
* 1873 – Charles Péguy, French poet and essayist (d. 1914)
* 1873 – Adolph Zukor, Hungarian producer (d. 1976)
* 1875 – Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1945)
* 1875 – Thomas Hicks, American runner (d. 1963)
* 1876 – William Hurlstone, English composer (d. 1906)
* 1891 – Zora Neale Hurston, American writer (d. 1960)
* 1895 – Clara Haskil, Romanian pianist (d. 1960)
* 1895 – Sir Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and co-founder of QANTAS (d. 1974)
* 1896 – Arnold Ridley, British playwright and actor (d. 1984)
* 1899 – Al Bowlly, British jazz singer (d. 1941)
* 1899 – Francis Poulenc, French composer (d. 1963)
* 1900 – John Brownlee, Australian tenor (d. 1969)
* 1903 – Alan Napier, English actor (d. 1988)
* 1907 – Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harpist (d. 1993)
* 1908 – Red Allen, American musician (d. 1967)
* 1910 – Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas (d. 1994)
* 1911 – Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani poet (d. 1984)
* 1911 – Butterfly McQueen, American actress (d. 1995)
* 1912 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d. 1988)
* 1912 – Günter Wand, German conductor, composer (d. 2002)
* 1913 – Johnny Mize, American baseball player (d. 1993)
* 1916 – Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (d. 1975)
* 1917 – Ulysses Kay, American composer (d. 1995)
* 1922 – Vincent Gardenia, Italian-born actor (d. 1992)
* 1922 – Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flutist (d. 2000)
* 1922 – Eric Jupp, British-born Australian composer, arranger, conductor (d. 2003)
* 1922 – Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager
* 1923 – Hugh Kenner, Canadian literary critic (d. 2003)
* 1924 – Pablo Birger, Argentine racing driver (d. 1966)
* 1924 – Geoffrey Bayldon, British actor
* 1925 – Gerald Durrell, British naturalist (d. 1995)
* 1928 – William Peter Blatty, American screenwriter
* 1929 – Terry Moore, American actress
* 1932 – Joe Berinson, Australian politician
* 1933 – Elliott Kastner, U.S. film producer
* 1934 – Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (d. 2002)
* 1934 – Charlie Jenkins, American runner
* 1935 – Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (d. 2006)
* 1935 – Tommy Johnson, American tubist (d. 2006)
* 1935 – Valeri Kubasov, Soviet cosmonaut
* 1936 – Ben Cropp, Australian shark hunter and photographer
* 1936 – G. Robert Blakey, American attorney
* 1938 – Roland Topor, French illustrator (d. 1997)
* 1938 – Lou Graham, American golfer
* 1939 – Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark
* 1941 – Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (d. 2004)
* 1941 – Manfred Schellscheidt, German American soccer coach
* 1941 – John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1941 – Frederick D. Gregory, NASA astronaut
* 1942 – Danny Williams, South African singer (d. 2005)
* 1942 – Vasily Alexeev, Russian weightlifter
* 1942 – Jim Lefebvre, American baseball player and manager
* 1943 – Sadako Sasaki, Japanese child victim of the Hiroshima atomic bomb (d. 1955)
* 1943 – Sir Richard Armstrong, British conductor
* 1944 – Arne Scheie, Norwegian sports commentator
* 1944 – Tony Whitlam, Australian judge
* 1945 – Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (d. 1990)
* 1945 – Gilles Marotte, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
* 1945 – **** Marty, Swiss politician
* 1945 – Raila Odinga, Prime Minister of Kenya
* 1946 – Jann Wenner, American publisher
* 1947 – Shobha De, Indian writer
* 1948 – Kenny Loggins, American singer
* 1949 – Marshall Chapman, American singer/songwriter
* 1949 – Anne Schedeen, American actress
* 1949 – Steven Williams, American actor
* 1950 – Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer and songwriter
* 1950 – Erin Gray, American actress
* 1950 – Ross Grimsley, American baseball player
* 1950 – Johnny Lever, Indian actor
* 1951 – Helen Worth, British actress
* 1952 – Sammo Hung, Hong Kong actor
* 1953 – Morris Titanic, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1954 – José María Vitier, Cuban music composer and pianist.
* 1956 – David Caruso, American actor
* 1956 – Mike Liut, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1956 – Uwe Ochsenknecht, German actor and singer
* 1957 – Nicholson Baker, American novelist
* 1957 – Katie Couric, American television host
* 1957 – Julian Solis, Puerto Rican boxer
* 1957 – Reena Roy, Indian actress
* 1958 – Linda Kozlowski, American actress
* 1958 – Donna Rice, American sex scandal figure
* 1959 – Jon Larsen, Norwegian musician and composer
* 1959 – Kathy Valentine, American musician (The Go-Go's)
* 1960 – David Marciano, American actor
* 1960 – Loretta Sanchez, American politician
* 1961 – Andrew Thomson, Australian politician
* 1961 – Supriya Pathak, Indian actress
* 1961 – John Thune, American politician, junior senator of South Dakota
* 1962 – Aleksandr Dugin, Russian politician
* 1962 – Hallie Todd, American actress
* 1963 – Clint Mansell, English musician and composer
* 1964 – Nicolas Cage, American actor
* 1966 – Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, American publicist (d. 1999)
* 1966 – Ehab Tawfik, Egyptian singer
* 1967 – Guy Hebert, American ice hockey player
* 1967 – Mark Lamarr, British comedian and broadcaster
* 1967 – Nick Clegg, British Liberal Democrat Leader
* 1969 – David Yost, American actor
* 1970 – Doug E. Doug, American actor
* 1970 – Joao Ricardo, Angolan footballer
* 1971 – C.W. Anderson, American professional wrestler
* 1971 – Tina Anderson, American comic book writer
* 1971 – Jeremy Renner, American actor
* 1972 – Donald Brashear, American ice hockey player
* 1973 – Jonna Tervomaa, Finnish singer
* 1974 – John Rich, American musician (Big & Rich)
* 1976 – Éric Gagné, Canadian baseball player
* 1976 – Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player
* 1977 – Michelle Behennah, British model
* 1977 – Dustin Diamond, American actor
* 1977 – John Gidding, American architect and TV host (Designed to Sell)
* 1978 – Kevin Mench, American baseball player
* 1978 – Emilio Palma, first person born on the Antarctic continent
* 1978 – Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian shooting victim (d. 2005)
* 1979 – Bipasha Basu, Indian model
* 1979 – Ricardo Maurício, Brazilian racing driver
* 1979 – Mariangel Ruiz, Venezuelan actress and model
* 1980 – Zoe Salmon, Northern Irish television presenter
* 1981 – Alex Auld, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1981 – Marquis Daniels, American basketball player
* 1982 – Francisco Rodriguez, Venezuelan baseball player
* 1982 – Hannah Stockbauer, German swimmer
* 1982 – Ianina Zanazzi, Argentine racing driver
* 1983 – Edwin Encarnación, Dominican baseball player (raised in Puerto Rico)
* 1983 – Natalie Gulbis, American golfer
* 1983 – Robert Ri'chard, American actor (Cousin Skeeter)
* 1983 – Liesbeth Mouha, Belgian beach volleyball player
* 1984 – Diego Balbinot, Italian footballer
* 1984 – Jon Lester, American baseball player
* 1985 – Lewis Hamilton, English F1 racing driver
* 1986 – Grant Leadbitter, English footballer
* 1987 – Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress
* 1988 – Haley Bennett, American singer and sctress
* 1988 – Scott Pendlebury, Australian footballer
* 1988 – Robert Sheehan, Irish actor
* 1989 – Emiliano Insúa, Argentine footballer
* 1990 – Liam Aiken, American actor
* 1990 – Elene Gedevanishvili, Georgian figure skater
* 1990 – Camryn Grimes, American actress
* 1990 – Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian skijumper
* 1991 – Max Morrow, Canadian actor