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| *[[1678]] - [[Antonio Vivaldi]], Italian composer (d. [[1741]]) | *[[1678]] - [[Antonio Vivaldi]], Italian composer (d. [[1741]]) | ||
| - | *[[1702]] - [[Jack Sheppard]], English burglar and escapee (d. [[1724]]) | ||
| - | *[[1706]] - [[Lauritz de Thurah]], Danish architect and architectural writer (d. [[1759]]) | ||
| - | *[[1715]] - [[James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave]], British statesman (d. [[1763]]) | ||
| - | *[[1719]] - [[George Pigot, Baron Pigot]], British governor of Madras (d. [[1777]]) | ||
| - | *[[1745]] - [[Charles Dibdin]], English composer (d.[[1814]]) | ||
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| - | *[[1746]] - [[Kazimierz Pułaski]], American Revolutionary War general (d. [[1779]]) | ||
| - | *[[1756]] - [[Sir Henry Raeburn]], Scottish painter (d. [[1823]]) | ||
| - | *[[1781]] - [[Rebecca Gratz]], American educator and philanthropist (d. [[1869]]) | ||
| - | *[[1782]] - [[Johann Rudolf Wyss]], Swiss folklorist (d. [[1830]]) | ||
| - | *[[1792]] - [[Samuel Slocum]], American inventor (d. [[1861]]) | ||
| - | *[[1793]] - [[Karl Lachmann]], German philologist (d. [[1851]]) | ||
| - | *[[1817]] - [[Edwards Pierrepont]], American statesman, jurist and lawyer; 34th [[United States Attorney General]] (d. [[1892]]) | ||
| - | *[[1819]] - [[Charles Oberthur]], German-born harpist (d. [[1895]]) | ||
| - | *[[1822]] - [[Jules Antoine Lissajous]], French mathematician (d. [[1880]]) | ||
| - | *[[1826]] - [[John Buford]], American Civil War Union cavalry officer (d. [[1863]]) | ||
| - | * 1826 - [[Theodore Judah]], American railroad engineer (d. [[1863]]) | ||
| - | *[[1835]] - [[John Hughlings Jackson]], English neurologist (d. [[1911]]) | ||
| - | *[[1847]] - [[Karl Bayer]], Austrian chemist (d. [[1904]]) | ||
| - | *[[1854]] - Sir [[Napier Shaw]], British meteorologist (d. [[1945]]) | ||
| - | *[[1856]] - [[Toru Dutt]], English and French poet and author (d. [[1877]]) | ||
| - | * 1856 - [[Alfred William Rich]], English painter (d. [[1921]]) | ||
| - | *[[1859]] - [[Alexander Stepanovich Popov]], Russian physicist (d. [[1905]]) | ||
| - | *[[1862]] - [[Jacob Robert Emden]], Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist (d. [[1940]]) | ||
| - | *[[1863]] - [[Reginald Innes Pocock]], British zoologist (d. [[1947]]) | ||
| - | *[[1863]] - [[Guilląme Furrét]], Portuguese playwright and political activist (d. [[1937]]) | ||
| - | * 1863 - [[John Henry Wigmore]], American jurist and expert in the law of evidence (d. [[1943]]) | ||
| - | *[[1864]] - [[David W. Taylor]], U.S. Navy architect (d. [[1940]]) | ||
| - | *[[1870]] - [[Thomas Sturge Moore]], English poet (d. [[1944]]) | ||
| - | *[[1871]] - [[Boris Galerkin]], Russian mathematician (d. [[1945]]) | ||
| - | *[[1873]] - [[Guy Wetmore Carryl]], American humorist and poet (d. [[1904]]) | ||
| - | * 1873 - [[John H. Trumbull]], 54th Governor of the U.S. state of Connecticut (d. [[1961]]) | ||
| - | *[[1875]] - [[Mihály Károlyi]], former [[Prime Minister of Hungary]] and [[President of Hungary]] (d. [[1955]]) | ||
| *[[1876]] - [[Léon-Paul Fargue]], French poet (d. [[1947]]) | *[[1876]] - [[Léon-Paul Fargue]], French poet (d. [[1947]]) | ||
| - | * 1876 - [[Theodore Hardeen]], Magician and stunt performer, founder of the Magician's Guild (d. [[1945]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1877]] - [[Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike]], Russian composer (d. [[1957]]) | + | |
| - | * 1877 - [[Fritz Graebner]], German ethnologist (d. [[1934]]) | + | |
| - | * 1877 - [[Garrett Morgan]], American inventor (d. [[1963]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1878]] - [[Egbert Van Alstyne]], American songwriter and pianist (d. [[1951]]) | + | |
| - | * 1878 - [[Peter D. Ouspensky]], Russian philosopher (d. [[1947]]) | + | |
| - | * 1878 - [[Arishima Takeo]], Japanese novelist, short-story writer and essayist (d. [[1923]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1879]] - [[Josip Murn Aleksandrov]], Slovenian poet (d. [[1901]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1880]] - [[Channing Pollock (writer)|Channing Pollock]], American playwright and critic (d. [[1946]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1881]] - [[Todor Aleksandrov]], 19th century Bulgarian revolutionary (d. [[1924]]) | + | |
| - | * 1881 - [[Maude Fealy]], American actor (d. [[1971]]) | + | |
| - | * 1881 - [[Thomas Sigismund Stribling]], American writer (d. [[1965]]) | + | |
| - | * 1881 - [[Richard C. Tolman]], American mathematical physicist (d. [[1948]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1882]] - [[Nicolae Titulescu]], Romanian diplomat, government minister, and former President of the League of Nations (d. [[1941]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1883]] - [[Sam Langford]], Canadian boxer (d. [[1956]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1884]] - [[Red Murray]], American professional baseball player (d. [[1958]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1886]] - [[Paul Bazelaire]], French cellist (d. [[1958]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1887]] - [[Violet MacMillan]], American Broadway theatre actress (d. [[1953]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1888]] - [[Jeff Pfeffer]], American professional baseball pitcher (d. [[1972]]) | + | |
| - | * 1888 - [[Knute Rockne]], American football player and coach (d. [[1931]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1889]] - [[Oscar Chisini]], Italian mathematician (d. [[1967]]) | + | |
| - | * 1889 - [[Oren E. Long]], 10th Territorial Governor of Hawai'i (d. [[1965]]) | + | |
| - | * 1889 - [[Pearl White]], American actress (d. [[1938]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1891]] - [[Dazzy Vance]], American Major League Baseball pitcher (d. [[1961]]) | + | |
| - | * 1891 - [[Lois Wilson (activist)|Lois Wilson]], founder of [[Al-Anon]] (d. [[1988]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1895]] - [[Bjarne Brustad]], Norwegian violinist (d. [[1978]]) | + | |
| - | * 1895 - [[Milt Gross]], American comic book illustrator (d. [[1953]]) | + | |
| - | * 1895 - [[Shemp Howard]], American comedian ([[Three Stooges]]) (d. [[1955]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1897]] - [[Lefty O'Doul]], American baseball player (d. [[1969]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1898]] - [[Georges Dumézil]], French philologist (d. [[1940]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1899]] - [[Emilio Prados]], Spanish poet and editor (d. [[1962]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1900]] - [[Herbert Biberman]], American screenwriter (d. [[1971]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1901]] - [[Charles Goren]], American bridge player and writer (d. [[1991]]) | + | |
| - | * 1901 - [[Jean Joseph Rabearivelo]], Malagasy/French poet (d. [[1937]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1903]] - [[Luis Carrero Blanco]], Spanish statesman (d. [[1973]]) | + | |
| - | * 1903 - [[William C. Boyd]], American immunochemist (d. [[1983]]) | + | |
| - | * 1903 - [[Dorothy Mackaill]], British-born actress (d. [[1990]]) | + | |
| - | * 1903 - [[John Scarne]], American magician (d. [[1985]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1904]] - [[George Gamow]], Ukrainian-born physicist (d. [[1968]]) | + | |
| - | * 1904 - [[Joseph Schmidt]] Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (d. [[1942]]) | + | |
| - | * 1904 - [[Chief Tahachee (actor)|Chief Tahachee]], American-born Old Settler Cherokee Indian stage and film actor (d. [[1978]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1906]] - [[Meindert DeJong]] American author (d. [[1991]]) | + | |
| - | * 1906 - [[Georges Ronsse]], Belgian national cyclo-cross and world champion road bicycle racer (d. [[1969]]) | + | |
| - | * 1906 - [[Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr.]], American businessman (d. [[2007]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1907]] - [[Eleanor "Sis" Daley]], wife of Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley (d. [[2003]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1908]] - [[T.R.M. Howard]], American civil rights leader (d. [[1976]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1909]] - [[Harry Helmsley]], American real estate entrepreneur (d.[[1997]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1912]] - [[Afro Basaldella]], Italian painter (d. [[1976]]) | + | |
| - | * 1912 - [[Judith Furse]], British character actress (d. [[1974]]) | + | |
| - | * 1912 - [[Carl Marzani]], American documentarian (d. [[1994]]) | + | |
| *[[1913]] - [[Taos Amrouche]], Algerian writer and singer (d. [[1976]]) | *[[1913]] - [[Taos Amrouche]], Algerian writer and singer (d. [[1976]]) | ||
| * 1913 - [[John Garfield]], American actor (d. [[1952]]) | * 1913 - [[John Garfield]], American actor (d. [[1952]]) | ||
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Art and culture
- 1877 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake premiers at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
Births
- 1678 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (d. 1741)
- 1876 - Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (d. 1947)
- 1913 - Taos Amrouche, Algerian writer and singer (d. 1976)
- 1913 - John Garfield, American actor (d. 1952)
- 1913 - Willie Johnson (guitarist), American guitarist (d. 1995)
- 1914 - Gino Colaussi (Luigi Colaussi), Italian footballer (d. 1991)
- 1914 - Ward Kimball, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
- 1914 - Robert R. Wilson, American physicist, sculptor and architect (d. 2000)
- 1915 - Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (d. 1997)
- 1916 - William Alland, American actor, producer, writer and director (d. 1997)
- 1916 - Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (d. 2000)
- 1916 - Hans Eysenck, German-born psychologist (d. 1997)
- 1917 - Clyde McCullough, American baseball player (d. 1982)
- 1918 - Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player
- 1919 - Buck Baker, American racecar driver (d. 2002)
- 1920 - Jean Lecanuet, French politician (d. 1993)
- 1920 - Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (d. 2002)
- 1921 - Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-born composer
- 1921 - Joan Greenwood, English actress (d. 1987)
- 1921 - Wilson Harris, Guyanese writer
- 1921 - Dinny Pails, Australian tennis player
- 1922 - Richard E. Cunha, American cinematographer and film director (d. 2005)
- 1922 - Martha O'Driscoll, American film actress (d. 1998)
- 1922 - Dina Pathak (Deena Pathak), Veteran Gujarati theatre and film actress (d. 2002)
- 1923 - Sir Patrick Moore, British astronomer
- 1924 - Kenneth O'Donnell, aide to US President John F. Kennedy (d. 1977)
- 1925 - Paul Mauriat, French musician (d. 2006)
- 1926 - Richard DeVos, American billionaire, co-founder of Amway
- 1926 - James J. Eagan, Former Mayor of Florissant, Missouri (d. 2000)
- 1926 - Pascual Pérez (boxing), Argentine flyweight boxer (d. 1977)
- 1926 - Don Rendell, English jazz musician and arranger
- 1926 - Fran Warren, American singer
- 1927 - Philip Batt, 29th Governor of the U.S. state of Idaho
- 1927 - Thayer David, American actor (d. 1978)
- 1927 - Robert Orben, American magician
- 1927 - Dick Savitt, American tennis player
- 1927 - Cy Touff, American jazz musician (d. 2003)
- 1928 - Samuel Adler, American composer
- 1928 - Alan Sillitoe, English writer
- 1929 - Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor
- 1929 - Josep Mestres Quadreny, Catalan composer
- 1931 - Wally Bruner, American journalist and television host (d. 1997)
- 1931 - Bob Johnson, American ice hockey coach (d. 1991)
- 1931 - William Henry Keeler, American Roman Catholic Archbishop and Cardinal
- 1931 - Alice Rivlin, American economist
- 1932 - Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist (d. 2007)
- 1932 - Miriam Makeba, South African singer
- 1932 - Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, American car designer (d. 2001)
- 1932 - Frank Wells, American entertainment businessman (d. 1994)
- 1933 - Ann Burton, Dutch jazz singer (d. 1989)
- 1933 - John W Mills, British sculptor
- 1933 - Nino Vaccarella, former Italian sports car racing and Formula One driver
- 1934 - Mario Davidovsky, Argentinian composer
- 1934 - John Duffey, American bluegrass musician (d. 1996)
- 1934 - Anne Haney, American actress (d. 2001)
- 1934 - Barbara McNair, American singer and actress (d. 2007)
- 1934 - Janez Strnad, Slovenian physicist
- 1934 - Gleb Yakunin, Russian priest and dissident
- 1935 - Bent Larsen, Danish chess player
- 1935 - Nancy Whiskey, Scottish folk singer (d. 2003)
- 1936 - Jim Clark, OBE, Scottish racing driver and two-time F1 world champion (d. 1968)
- 1936 - Aribert Reimann, German composer
- 1937 - Graham Dowling, New Zealand cricketer
- 1937 - Leslie Gelb, American foreign policy advisor
- 1937 - Yuri Senkevich, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2003)
- 1937 - Barney Wilen, French jazz saxophonist (d. 1996)
- 1938 - Angus MacLise, American percussionist (d. 1979)
- 1938 - Don Perkins, American football player
- 1938 - Paula Prentiss, American actress
- 1938 - Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Polish diplomat and researcher
- 1939 - Jack Fisher, American baseball player
- 1939 - Carlos Vereza, Brazilian actor
- 1940 - Volodymyr Morozov, Ukrainian flatwater canoer
- 1941 - John Aprea, American actor
- 1941 - Adrian Lyne, English film director
- 1941 - Bobby Shew, American jazz musician
- 1942 - Gloria Gaither, American gospel songwriter
- 1942 - Charles C. Krulak, 31st Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
- 1942 - David Matthews, American keyboardist, pianist, and arranger
- 1943 - Lucio Dalla, Italian singer and songwriter
- 1943 - Zoltan Jeney, Hungarian composer
- 1944 - Ulrich Roski, German singer-songwriter (d. 2003)
- 1944 - Harvey Postlethwaite, English engineer and race car designer (d. 1999)
- 1944 - Bobby Womack, American singer
- 1945 - Tara Browne, British socialite (d. 1966)
- 1945 - Dieter Meier, Swiss singer
- 1945 - Tommy Svensson, Swedish football manager
- 1945 - Gary Williams, American basketball coach
- 1946 - Michael Ashcroft, English entrepreneur
- 1946 - Haile Gerima, Ethiopian filmmaker
- 1946 - Harvey Goldsmith, British impresario
- 1947 - David Franzoni, American screenwriter
- 1947 - Jan Garbarek, Norwegian musician
- 1947 - Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic actor
- 1947 - Gwen Welles, American actress (d. 1993)
- 1948 - Lindy Chamberlain, Australian author
- 1948 - James Ellroy, American writer
- 1948 - Tom Grieve, American baseball player
- 1948 - Leron Lee, American baseball player
- 1948 - Jean O'Leary, American gay and lesbian rights activist and politician (d. 2005)
- 1948 - Chris Squire, English bassist (Yes)
- 1948 - Shakin' Stevens, Welsh singer
- 1949 - Carroll Baker, Canadian country singer and songwriter
- 1950 - Ofelia Medina, Mexican actress and screenwriter
- 1950 - Rick Perry, Governor of Texas
- 1951 - Edelgard Bulmahn, German politician
- 1951 - Kenny Dalglish, Scottish footballer and manager
- 1951 - Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, American novelist (d. 1982)
- 1951 - Sam Perlozzo, American Major League Baseball manager (Baltimore Orioles)
- 1951 - Mike Quarry, American light heavyweight boxer (d. 2006)
- 1951 - Chris Rea, English singer
- 1951 - Linda Yamamoto, Japanese singer
- 1952 - Ronn Moss, American actor
- 1952 - Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer
- 1953 - Emilio Estefan, Cuban percussionist
- 1953 - Scott Hicks, Ugandan-born film director
- 1953 - Paweł Janas, Polish football manager and former footballer
- 1953 - Kay Lenz, American actress
- 1953 - Chris Smith, American politician
- 1954 - Mark Chorvinsky, American author and editor (d. 2005)
- 1954 - François Fillon, French politician, Prime Minister of France
- 1954 - Peter Jacobsen, American professional golfer
- 1954 - Catherine O'Hara, Canadian actress
- 1954 - Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian writer and dissident
- 1954 - Willie Thorne, English snooker player
- 1954 - Adrian Zmed, American actor
- 1955 - Rowland Charles Gould (Boon Gould) English musician (Level 42)
- 1955 - Dominique Pinon, French actor
- 1955 - James Weaver, English race car driver
- 1956 - Kermit Driscoll, American jazz bassist
- 1957 - Jim Dwyer, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner
- 1957 - Rick Mast, American NASCAR driver
- 1958 - Patricia Heaton, American actress
- 1958 - Lennie Lee, British artist
- 1959 - Rick Ardon, Australian news presenter
- 1960 - Mikko Kuustonen, Finnish singer and songwriter
- 1960 - John Mugabi, Ugandan boxer
- 1960 - Christina Sussiek, former German athlete
- 1960 - Mykelti Williamson, American actor
- 1961 - Sabine Everts, former German track athlete
- 1961 - Ray Mancini, American boxer
- 1961 - Steven Weber, American actor
- 1961 - Roger Wessels, South African golfer
- 1962 - Simon Bisley, British comic book artist
- 1962 - Lolo Ferrari, French actress (d. 2000)
- 1962 - Greg Kragen, American footballer
- 1962 - David Sparrow, English actor
- 1963 - Barbara Bubula, Polish politician
- 1963 - Janey Lee Grace, English singer, author, television presenter and radio disc jockey
- 1963 - Jason Newsted, American bassist (Metallica)
- 1963 - Daniel Roebuck, American actor
- 1964 - Tom Lampkin, American baseball player
- 1965 - Paul W. S. Anderson, English filmmaker
- 1965 - Andrew Collins, English journalist, scriptwriter and broadcaster
- 1965 - Stacy Edwards, American actress
- 1965 - Gary Helms, American country singer
- 1965 - Khaled Hosseini, Afghan author and physician
- 1965 - WestBam (Maximillian Lenz), German rave techno DJ
- 1965 - Yuri Lonchakov, Russian cosmonaut
- 1965 - Jonathan Shearer, Scottish castaway
- 1966 - Daniela Amavia, Greek-American actress and international model
- 1966 - Steve Bastoni, Italian Australian actor
- 1966 - Emese Hunyady, Hungarian speed skater
- 1966 - Kevin Johnson, American basketball player
- 1966 - Dav Pilkey, American author
- 1966 - Grand Puba, American rapper
- 1966 - Wash West, English gay porn film director
- 1967 - Daryll Cullinan, South African cricketer
- 1967 - Evan Dando, American musician (The Lemonheads)
- 1967 - Andrew Osmond, English writer
- 1967 - Kubilay Türkyılmaz, former Turkish-Swiss footballer
- 1968 - Giovanni Carrara, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1968 - Patsy Kensit, English actress
- 1968 - Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greek politician
- 1969 - Chastity Bono, American actress and gay rights activist
- 1969 - Pierluigi Casiraghi, Italian football manager
- 1969 - Annie Shizuka Inoh, Taiwanese actress
- 1969 - Stina Nordenstam, Swedish experimental pop singer, songwriter and musician
- 1969 - Patrick Roach, Canadian actor
- 1969 - Jason Townsend, American artist and record producer
- 1970 - Andrea Bendewald, American actress
- 1970 - Àlex Crivillé, Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer
- 1971 - Iain Baird, Canadian soccer player
- 1971 - Fergal Lawler, Irish drummer (The Cranberries)
- 1971 - Satoshi Motoyama, Japanese racing driver
- 1971 - Shavar Ross, American actor-turned film director, writer, film producer and editor
- 1971 - Nick Stabile, American actor
- 1971 - Jovan Stanković, Serbian footballer
- 1972 - Pae Gil-Su, North Korean gymnast
- 1972 - Ivy Queen, American composer and singer
- 1972 - Robert Smith, American footballer
- 1972 - Jos Verstappen, Dutch Formula One driver
- 1972 - Alison Wheeler, British singer (The Beautiful South)
- 1973 - Summer Cummings, American actress
- 1973 - Phillip Daniels, American footballer
- 1973 - Len Wiseman, American director
- 1974 - ICS Vortex (Simen Hestnæs), Norwegian vocalist (Arcturus)
- 1974 - Karol Kučera, Slovak tennis player
- 1974 - Ariel Ortega, Argentine footballer
- 1974 - Tommy Phelps, American baseball player
- 1975 - Kirsten Bolm, German hurdler
- 1975 - Patrick Femerling, German-born professional basketball player
- 1975 - Kim Jung-Eun, South Korean actress
- 1975 - Myrna Veenstra, Dutch field hockey player
- 1975 - Antti Aalto, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1975 - Hawksley Workman, Canadian rock singer-songwriter
- 1976 - Hiram Bocachica, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1976 - Sean Covel, American film producer
- 1976 - Scott Sturgeon (Stza Crack), American musician (Choking Victim and Leftover Crack)
- 1976 - Thierry Renaer, Belgian field hockey player
- 1976 - Vic Wunderle, American archer
- 1977 - Ana Gabriela Guevara, Mexican athlete
- 1977 - Juha Helppi, Finnish professional poker player
- 1977 - Daniel Klewer, German footballer
- 1977 - Jason Marsalis, American musician
- 1978 - Nate Ackerman, British-American logician and wrestler
- 1978 - Pierre Dagenais, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1978 - Denis Dallan, Italian rugby union footballer
- 1978 - Rachel Roberts, Canadian model and actress
- 1978 - Philip Marston, Model and sexual deviant, well hung.
- 1979 - Ben Fouhy, New Zealand flatwater canoeist
- 1979 - Geoff Huegill, Australian swimmer
- 1979 - John Lawler (John Fratelli), Scottish singer (The Fratellis)
- 1980 - Omar Bravo, Mexican footballer
- 1980 - Jung Da Bin, South Korean actress (d. 2007)
- 1980 - Jack Hannahan, American baseball player
- 1980 - Arash Markazi, American sportswriter
- 1981 - Carol Banawa, Filipina singer and celebrity
- 1981 - Donny Tourette, English punk rock singer (Towers of London)
- 1982 - Mariano Altuna, Argentine racing driver
- 1982 - Landon Donovan, American soccer player
- 1982 - Charity Rahmer, American actress
- 1983 - Max Vergara Poeti, Colombian writer
- 1983 - Ryan Lonie, Australian football player.
- 1984 - Ai Iwamura, Japanese actress
- 1984 - Zak Whitbread, American-born English soccer player
- 1985 - Chinedum Ndukwe, American football player
- 1986 - Margo Harshman, American actress
- 1986 - Tom De Mul, Belgian footballer
- 1986 - Bohdan Shust, Ukrainian footballer
- 1990 - Andrea Bowen, American actress
- 1991 - Diandra Newlin, American actress, singer, and fashion model
- 1992 - Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, daughter of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
- 1993 - Jenna Boyd, American actress
- 1993 - Alice Jones, British actress
- 1993 - Abigail Mavity, American actress
- 1993 - Yves Michel-Beneche, American actor
Deaths
- 251 - Pope Lucius I
- 480 - Saint Landry, bishop of Sées
- 561 - Pope Pelagius I
- 1172 - Stephen III of Hungary (b. 1147)
- 1193 - Saladin, Kurdish sultan (b. 1137)
- 1238 - Joan of England, Queen Consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II (b. 1210)
- 1238 - Yuri II, Grand Prince of Vladimir (b. 1189)
- 1303 - Daniel of Moscow, Russian Saint, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1261)
- 1484 - Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland (b. 1458)
- 1496 - Sigismund of Austria (b. 1427)
- 1583 - Bernard Gilpin, English clergyman, "Apostle of the North" (b. 1517)
- 1604 - Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (b. 1539)
- 1615 - Hans von Aachen, German painter (b. 1552)
- 1619 - Anne of Denmark, wife of James I (b. 1574)
- 1710 - Louis III, Prince of Condé (b. 1668)
- 1733 - Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (b. 1656)
- 1744 - John Anstis, Garter King of Arms (b. 1669)
- 1762 - Johannes Zick, German fresco painter (b. 1702)
- 1793 - Louis de Bourbon, French admiral (b. 1725)
- 1795 - John Collins, American politician (b. 1717)
- 1805 - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (b. 1725)
- 1807 - Abraham Baldwin, American politician (b. 1754)
- 1821 - Princess Elizabeth of Clarence, daughter of King William IV, granddaughter of King George III (b. 1820)
- 1832 - Jean-François Champollion, French scholar (b. 1790)
- 1851 - James Richardson, British explorer (b. 1809)
- 1852 - Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (b. 1809)
- 1853 - Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (b. 1774)
- 1858 - Matthew Perry, U.S. naval officer (b. 1794)
- 1864 - Thomas Starr King, influential Californian Unitarian minister during the American Civil War (b. 1824)
- 1866 - Alexander Campbell, Irish founder of the Disciples of Christ (b. 1788)
- 1868 - Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer of the Chisholm Trail (b. 1805)
- 1872 - Johannes Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (b. 1790)
- 1883 - Alexander Hamilton Stephens, former Vice President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1812)
- 1888 - Amos Bronson Alcott, American philosopher (b. 1799)
- 1903 - Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (b. 1834)
- 1906 - John McAllister Schofield, former U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army (b. 1831)
- 1910 - Knut Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1857)
- 1915 - William Willett, inventor of Daylight Saving Time (b. 1856)
- 1916 - Franz Marc, German artist (b. 1880)
- 1922 - Bert Williams, American entertainer (b. 1874)
- 1925 - Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer (b. 1854)
- 1925 - James Ward, English psychologist and philosopher (b. 1843)
- 1925 - John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player (b. 1860)
- 1927 - Ira Remsen American chemist (b. 1846)
- 1938 - George Foster Peabody, American politician (b. 1852)
- 1938 - Jack Taylor, American baseball player (b. 1874)
- 1940 - Hamlin Garland, American novelist (b. 1860)
- 1941 - Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1858)
- 1944 - Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster (b.1897) (executed)
- 1944 - Louis Capone, New York organized crime figure (b. 1896) (executed)
- 1944 - Emanuel Weiss, American hitman (b. 1906) (executed)
- 1944 - Fannie Barrier Williams, American educator and political activist (b. 1855)
- 1945 - Lucille La Verne, American actress (d. 1972)
- 1945 - Mark Sandrich, American film director, writer and producer (b. 1900)
- 1946 - Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big-game hunter (b. 1886)
- 1948 - Antonin Artaud, French actor/director (b. 1896)
- 1950 - Adam Rainer, the only man in recorded human history ever to have been both a dwarf and a giant (b. 1899)
- 1952 - Charles Scott Sherrington, English scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)
- 1954 - Noel Gay, English composer, (b. 1898)
- 1959 - Maxey Long, American athlete (b. 1878)
- 1960 - Herbert O'Conor, 51st Governor of the US State of Maryland (b. 1896)
- 1960 - Leonard Warren, American baritone (b. 1911)
- 1962 - George Mogridge, Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1889)
- 1963 - William Carlos Williams, American poet (b. 1883)
- 1967 - Vladan Desnica, Croatian and Serbian writer (b. 1905)
- 1967 - José Martínez Ruiz, Spanish poet and writer (b. 1873)
- 1967 - Michel Plancherel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1885)
- 1969 - Nicholas Schenck, Russian-born film empresario (b. 1881)
- 1973 - Samuel Tolansky, British scientist and expert on spectroscopy (b. 1907)
- 1974 - Adolph Gottlieb, American painter (b. 1903)
- 1976 - Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b. 1886)
- 1977 - Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (b. 1951)
- 1977 - Toma Caragiu, Romanian actor (b. 1925)
- 1977 - Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician and former Chancellor of Germany (b. 1887)
- 1978 - Wesley Bolin, former Governor of the U.S. State of Arizona (b. 1909)
- 1979 - Willi Unsoeld, American mountain climber (b. 1926)
- 1981 - Yip Harburg, American lyricist (b. 1896)
- 1981 - Torin Thatcher, Indian actor (b. 1905)
- 1984 - Ernest Buckler, Canadian novelist (b. 1908)
- 1984 - Jewel Carmen, American actress (b. 1897)
- 1984 - Geoffrey Lumsden, British actor (b. 1914)
- 1986 - Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (b. 1936)
- 1986 - Richard Manuel, Canadian musician (The Band) (b. 1943)
- 1989 - Tiny Grimes, American jazz and R&B guitarist (b. 1916)
- 1990 - Hank Gathers, American basketball player (b. 1967)
- 1992 - Art Babbitt, American animator (b. 1907)
- 1993 - Art Hodes, American jazz pianist (b. 1904)
- 1994 - John Candy, Canadian comedian (b. 1950)
- 1995 - Eden Ahbez, American composer (b. 1908)
- 1996 - Minnie Pearl, American comedian (b. 1912)
- 1997 - Robert H. Dicke, American physicist (b. 1916)
- 1997 - Carey Loftin, American actor/stuntman (b. 1914)
- 1999 - Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1908)
- 1999 - Del Close, American actor (b. 1934)
- 1999 - Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (b. 1921)
- 2001 - Glenn Hughes, American singer (The Village People) (b. 1950)
- 2001 - Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (b. 1916)
- 2001 - Jim Rhodes, Governor of Ohio (b. 1909)
- 2001 - Harold Stassen, American politician (b. 1907)
- 2002 - Claire Davenport, English actress (b. 1933)
- 2002 - Eric Flynn, British actor/singer (b. 1939)
- 2002 - Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (b. 1913)
- 2002 - Velibor Vasović, Yugoslavian footballer (b. 1939)
- 2003 - Jaba Ioseliani, Georgian bank robber (b. 1926)
- 2003 - Sébastien Japrisot, French author, screenwriter and film director (b. 1931)
- 2004 - John McGeoch, Scottish musician (b. 1955)
- 2004 - Claude Nougaro, French singer (b. 1929)
- 2004 - George Pake, American physicist (b. 1924)
- 2004 - Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer (b. 1953)
- 2005 - Nicola Calipari, Italian secret service agent (b. 1953)
- 2005 - Robert Consoli, American actor and musician (b. 1964)
- 2005 - Una Hale, Australian soprano (b. 1922)
- 2005 - Yuriy Kravchenko, Ukrainian statesman (b. 1951)
- 2005 - Carlos Sherman, Uruguayan-born writer (b. 1934)
- 2006 - Roman Ogaza, Polish footballer (b. 1952)
- 2006 - John Reynolds Gardiner, American engineer (b. 1944)
- 2006 - Dave Rose, American artist (b. 1910)
- 2006 - Edgar Valter, Estonian illustrator/cartoonist (b. 1929)
- 2007 - Natalie Bodanya (Natalie Bodanskaya), American soprano (b. 1908)
- 2007 - Thomas Eagleton, American politician (b. 1929)
- 2007 - Bob Hattoy, American activist (b. 1950)
- 2007 - Richard Joseph, British games soundtrack composer (b. 1954)
- 2007 - Sunil Kumar Mahato, Indian parliamentarian (b. 1966)
- 2007 - Tadeusz Nalepa, Polish composer, guitar player, vocalist and lyricist (b. 1934)
- 2007 - Ian Wooldridge, British sports journalist (b. 1932
Notes
Geoff Nicholson
Antonin Artaud
Lennie Lee
Nikolai Gogol
William Carlos Williams
Antonio Vivaldi
Franz Marc
Colored
Abraham Lincoln
Hans von Aachen
Maria Jolas
Knockout (comic)
Alan Sillitoe
Adrian Lyne
John Lennon on Christianity
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
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