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Births
- 106 BC - Cicero, Roman statesman and philosopher (d. 43 BC)
- 1887 - August Macke, German painter (d. 1914)
- 1892 - J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (d. 1973)
- 1894 - ZaSu Pitts, American actress (d. 1963)
- 1895 - Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and businessman (d. 1974)
- 1897 - Marion Davies, American actress (d. 1961)
- 1898 - Carlos Keller, Chilean fascist politician (d. 1974)
- 1901 - Ngô Đình Diệm, President of South Vietnam (d. 1963)
- 1905 - Ray Milland, Welsh actor (d. 1986)
- 1905 - Anna May Wong, American actress (d. 1961)
- 1909 - Victor Borge, Danish entertainer (d. 2000)
- 1910 - Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player (d. 2000)
- 1911 - John Sturges, American director (d. 1982)
- 1912 - Renaude Lapointe, Canadian journalist and senator (d. 2002)
- 1912 - Armand Lohikoski, Finnish director (d. 2005)
- 1916 - Maxene Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (d. 1995)
- 1916 - Betty Furness, American actress (d. 1994)
- 1917 - Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (d. 2004)
- 1920 - Renato Carosone, Italian musician (d. 2001)
- 1921 - John Russell, American actor (d. 1991)
- 1922 - Bill Travers, English actor and director (d. 1994)
- 1923 - Hank Stram, American football coach (d. 2005)
- 1924 - Doug Ellis, British entrepreneur
- 1924 - André Franquin, Belgian cartoonist (Gaston Lagaffe) (d. 1997)
- 1924 - Nell Rankin, American singer (d. 2005)
- 1926 - George Martin, British producer
- 1929 - Sergio Leone, Italian director (d. 1989)
- 1929 - Ernst Mahle, Brazilian composer
- 1930 - Marcel Dubé, Quebec playwright
- 1930 - Robert Loggia, American actor
- 1932 - Dabney Coleman, American actor
- 1932 - Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (d. 2005)
- 1935 - Raymond Garneau, French Canadian politician and businessman
- 1937 - Seri Wangnaitham, Thai dancer and choreographer (d. 2007)
- 1939 - Nikos Alefantos, Greek football manager
- 1939 - Bobby Hull, Canadian hockey player
- 1941 - Van Dyke Parks, American musician
- 1942 - John Thaw, British actor (d. 2002)
- 1944 - David Atherton, English conductor
- 1945 - Stephen Stills, American musician
- 1946 - John Paul Jones, British musician (Led Zeppelin)
- 1946 - Cissy King, American entertainer
- 1949 - Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (d. 1965)
- 1950 - Victoria Principal, American actress
- 1954 - Dean Hart, Canadian wrestler (d. 1990)
- 1954 - Ned Lamont, American businessman
- 1954 - Jim Ross, American wrestling announcer
- 1955 - Palmolive, English musician (The Slits, The Raincoats)
- 1956 - Mel Gibson, Australian actor
- 1956 - Willy T. Ribbs, American race car driver
- 1957 - Bojan Križај, Slovenian skier
- 1958 - Shim Hyung-rae, South Korean filmmaker
- 1959 - Rafael Arráiz Lucca Venezuelan writer
- 1960 - Sandeep Marwah Founder of Film City, Noida, India
- 1962 - Francesca Lia Block, American author
- 1963 - Vic Grimes, American professional wrestler
- 1963 - Jerome Young, American professional wrestler
- 1964 - Bruce LaBruce, Canadian film-maker
- 1966 - Martin Galway, Northern Ireland composer
- 1969 - Michael Schumacher, German race car driver
- 1970 - Mahaya Petrosian, Iranian actress
- 1971 - Cory Cross, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1972 - Yoon Chan, South Korean actor
- 1972 - Nichole Nordeman, American singer
- 1974 - Alessandro Petacchi, Italian cyclist
- 1975 - Thomas Bangalter, French DJ (Daft Punk)
- 1975 - Jason Marsden, American actor
- 1975 - Danica McKellar, American actress
- 1976 - Angelos Basinas, Greek footballer
- 1976 - Dinara Drukarova, Russian actress
- 1976 - Nicholas Gonzalez, American actor
- 1977 - Lee Bowyer, English footballer
- 1977 - A.J. Burnett, American baseball player
- 1977 - Mayumi Iizuka, Japanese voice actress (seiyū)
- 1977 - Michelle Stephenson, English singer (The Spice Girls)
- 1978 - Kimberley Locke, American singer
- 1978 - Park Sol-mi, South Korean actress
- 1978 - Dominic Wood, English children's television presenter and magician
- 1978 - Mike York, American ice hockey player
- 1979 - Francesco Bellissimo, Italian mangaka
- 1980 - Rob Arnold, American guitarist (Chimaira)
- 1980 - Liya Kebede, Ethiopian model
- 1980 - Angela Ruggiero, American ice hockey player
- 1980 - David Tyree, American football player
- 1981 - Eli Manning, American football player
- 1985 - John David Booty, American football player
- 1986 - Jacob Timpano, Australian soccer player
- 1986 - Lloyd Polite, R&B Singer
- 1987 - Anchal Joseph, Indian-American fashion model and reality show contestant
- 1989 - Alex D. Linz, American actor
Deaths
- 1098 - Walkelin, first Norman bishop of Winchester (b. unknown)
- 1322 - King Philip V of France (b. 1293)
- 1437 - Catherine of Valois, wife of Henry V of England (b. 1401)
- 1543 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, Portuguese explorer (b. 1499)
- 1641 - Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer (b. 1618)
- 1656 - Mathieu Molé, French statesman (b. 1584)
- 1670 - George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier (b. 1608)
- 1690 - Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1615)
- 1743 - Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect and designer (b. 1657)
- 1779 - Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (b. 1712)
- 1785 - Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b. 1706)
- 1795 - Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (b. 1730)
- 1826 - Louis Gabriel Suchet, French marshal (b. 1770)
- 1875 - Pierre Larousse, French editor (b. 1817)
- 1882 - William Harrison Ainsworth, English novelist (b. 1805)
- 1903 - Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hilter (b. 1837)
- 1911 - Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (b. 1851)
- 1915 - James Elroy Flecker, English author (b. 1884)
- 1916 - Grenville M. Dodge, American Civil War Union Army Major General (b. 1831)
- 1923 - Jaroslav Hasek, Czech novelist (b. 1883)
- 1927 - Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (b. 1856)
- 1931 - Joseph Joffre, French general (b. 1852)
- 1933 - Wilhelm Cuno, 6th Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (Germany) (b. 1876)
- 1933 - Jack Pickford, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
- 1944 - Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1873)
- 1945 - Edgar Cayce, American psychic (b. 1877)
- 1945 - Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (b. 1879)
- 1946 - William Joyce, American Nazi propagandist (executed) (b. 1906)
- 1950 - Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (b. 1884)
- 1956 - Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer (b. 1864)
- 1956 - Joseph Wirth, 5th Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (Germany) (b. 1876)
- 1963 - Jack Carson, Canadian actor (b. 1910)
- 1967 - Mary Garden, Scottish singer (b. 1874)
- 1967 - Jack Ruby, American killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1911)
- 1969 - Jean Focas, Greco-French astronomer (b. 1909)
- 1969 - Howard McNear, American actor (b. 1905)
- 1974 - Gino Cervi, Italian actor (b. 1901)
- 1979 - Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (b. 1887)
- 1980 - Joy Adamson, Czech conservationist (b. 1910)
- 1980 - Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist (b. 1892)
- 1981 - Princess Alice of Albany (b. 1883)
- 1988 - Rose Ausländer, German poet (b. 1901)
- 1988 - Joie Chitwood, American racedriver & Daredevil (b. 1912)
- 1989 - Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
- 1992 - Dame Judith Anderson, Australian actress (b. 1897)
- 1993 - Johnny Most, American sports announcer (b. 1923)
- 2002 - Juan García Esquivel, Mexican band leader (b. 1918)
- 2002 - Freddy Heineken, Dutch beer executive (b. 1923)
- 2003 - Sid Gillman, American football coach (b. 1911)
- 2004 - Leon Wagner, American baseball player (b. 1934)
- 2005 - Koo Chen-fu, Chinese negotiator (b. 1917)
- 2005 - JN Dixit, Indian government official (b. 1936)
- 2005 - Will Eisner, American comic book artist (b. 1917)
- 2006 - Steve Rogers, Australian rugby league footballer (b. 1954)
- 2006 - Bill Skate, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1954)
- 2007 - Janos Furst, Hungarian-born orchestral conductor (b. 1935)
- 2007 - Earl Reibel, Canadian ice hockey forward Detroit Red Wings (b. 1930)
- 2007 - William Verity Jr., United States Secretary of Commerce 1987-1989 (b. 1917)
- 2007 - Sir Cecil Walker, Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for North Belfast 1983–2001 (b. 1924)
- 2007 - Michael Yeats, Irish Fianna Fáil senator 1961–1981 and son of W.B. Yeats (b. 1921)
Notes
Sergio Leone Jurgis Baltrušaitis Walter Herdeg August Macke John Millington Synge Juan García Esquivel Emil Jannings Daft Punk Rosa Montero Rudolf Koppitz Milton Avery Monique Wittig Vladislav Gorodetsky Jaroslav Hašek Cicero John M. Woolsey Pola Negri Bodil Joensen J. R. R. Tolkien Robert Thomas Bruce LaBruce
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