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Births
- 1301 - Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (d. 1330)
- 1397? - Guillaume Dufay, Franco-Flemish composer and theorist (d. 1474)
- 1623 - Antonio Cesti, Italian composer (d. 1669)
- 1641 - John Hathorne, American magistrate (d. 1717)
- 1662 - James Anderson, Scottish historian (d. 1728)
- 1694 - Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (d. 1744)
- 1802 - Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1829)
- 1813 - Ivar Aasen, Norwegian poet and language reformer (d. 1896)
- 1815 - Edward John Eyre, English explorer (d. 1901)
- 1827 - Deodoro da Fonseca, first Brazilian president (d.1892)
- 1850 - Guy de Maupassant, French author (d. 1893)
- 1862 - Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man (d. 1890)
- 1866 - Carl Harries, German chemist (d. 1923)
- 1866 - Harry Trott, Australian cricketer (d. 1917)
- 1872 - Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician (d. 1917)
- 1877 - Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (d. 1917)
- 1889 - Conrad Aiken, American writer (d. 1973)
- 1890 - Erich Kleiber, Austrian-born conductor (d. 1956)
- 1890 - Naum Gabo (born Naum Pevsner), sculptor (d. 1977)
- 1897 - Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (d. 1972)
- 1901 - Claude Autant-Lara, French film director (d. 2000)
- 1906 - John Huston, American director (d. 1987)
- 1906 - Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1999)
- 1906 - Joan Hickson, British actress (d. 1998)
- 1908 - Harold Holt, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
- 1911 - Robert Taylor, American actor (d. 1969)
- 1912 - Abbé Pierre, French catholic priest
- 1914 - David Brian, American actor (d. 1993)
- 1918 - Betty Oliphant, Canadian ballerina (d. 2004)
- 1918 - Tom Drake, American actor (d. 1982)
- 1923 - Devan Nair, President of Singapore
- 1930 - Neil Armstrong, astronaut
- 1934 - Wendell Berry, writer and farmer
- 1935 - John Saxon, American actor
- 1937 - Herb Brooks, American ice hockey coach (d. 2003)
- 1939 - Princess Irene of the Netherlands
- 1943 - Nelson Briles, American baseball player (d. 2005)
- 1946 - Loni Anderson, American actress
- 1946 - Ron Silliman, American poet
- 1947 - Rick Derringer, American musician
- 1947 - Angry Anderson, Australian entertainer
- 1947 - Bernie Carbo, American baseball player
- 1951 - John Jarratt, Australian actor
- 1953 - Rick Mahler, American baseball player (d. 2005)
- 1953 - Samantha Sang, Australian singer
- 1956 - Maureen McCormick, American actress
- 1959 - Pete Burns, British singer
- 1960 - Seth Swirsky, American songwriter
- 1961 - Tawny Kitaen, American actress
- 1961 - Clayton Rohner, American actor
- 1961 - Mark O'Connor, American violinist
- 1962 - Patrick Ewing, American basketball player
- 1964 - Adam Yauch, American musician
- 1966 - Jonathan Silverman, American actor
- 1968 - John Olerud, American baseball player
- 1968 - Oleg Luzhny, Ukrainian footballer
- 1968 - Tokimitsu Ishizawa, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1968 - Terri Clark, Canadian country singer
- 1971 - Evil Jared Hasselhoff, American bassist (The Bloodhound Gang)
- 1972 - Christian Olde Wolbers, Belgian bassist (Fear Factory)
- 1974 - Antoine Sibierski, French footballer
- 1974 - Alvin Ceccoli, Australian footballer
- 1975 - Kajol Mukherjee, Indian actress
- 1975 - Ami Foster, American actress
- 1976 - Jeff Friesen, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1976 - Kwon Sang-woo, South Korean actor
- 1977 - Mark Mulder, American baseball player
- 1977 - Eric Hinske, American baseball player
- 1978 - Nektaria Karantzi, Greek singer
- 1978 - Kim Gevaert, Belgian sprint athlete
- 1979 - David Healy, Northern Irish footballer
- 1980 - Wayne Bridge, English footballer
- 1980 - Jason Čulina, Australian footballer
- 1981 - Carl Crawford, American baseball player
- 1981 - Rachel Scott, American murder victim (d. 1999)
- 1981 - Kō Shibasaki, Japanese singer
- 1981 - Travis McCoy, American singer (Gym Class Heroes)
- 1982 - LoLo Jones, American track and field athlete
- 1982 - Ryu Seung Min, Korean table tennis player
- 1982 - Tobias Regner, German singer
- 1983 - Dawn Richard, American singer (Danity Kane)
- 1985 - Salomon Kalou, Ivory Coast footballer
- 1987 - Genelia D'Souza , Indian actress
- 1987 - Xenia Tchoumitcheva, Swiss model
- 1993 - Suzuka Ohgo, Japanese actress
- 1993 - Corey J. Smith, English television actor
- 2000 - Maya Bond, Japanese-born American singer and musician
Deaths
- 882 - King Louis III of France (b. 863)
- 1063 - Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd
- 1364 - Emperor Kogon of Japan (b. 1313)
- 1572 - Isaac Luria, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1534)
- 1579 - Stanislaus Hosius, Polish Catholic cardinal (b. 1504)
- 1610 - Alonso García de Ramón, Spanish soldier and twice Royal Governor of Chile
- 1633 - Archbishop George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1562)
- 1678 - Juan García de Zéspedes, Mexican musician and composer (b. 1619)
- 1743 - John Hervey, Lord Hervey, English statesman and writer (b. 1696)
- 1778 - Charles Clémencet, French historian (b. 1703)
- 1792 - Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1732)
- 1799 - Richard Howe, British admiral (b. 1726)
- 1868 - Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (b. 1788)
- 1880 - Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Austrian physician (b. 1816)
- 1895 - Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (b. 1820)
- 1911 - Bob Caruthers, baseball player (b. 1864)
- 1923 - Vatroslav Jagić, Croatian slavist (b. 1835)
- 1929 - Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist and feminist (b. 1847)
- 1946 - Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863)
- 1952 - Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (b. 1917)
- 1955 - Carmen Miranda, Portuguese actress and singer (b. 1909)
- 1957 - Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1877)
- 1959 - Edgar Guest, English poet (b. 1881)
- 1960 - Arthur Meighen, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
- 1962 - Marilyn Monroe, American actress (b. 1926)
- 1963 - Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (b. 1898)
- 1964 - Art Ross, professional ice hockey player and executive (b. 1886) (Art Ross Trophy)
- 1978 - Jesse Haines, baseball player (b. 1893)
- 1984 - Richard Burton, British actor (b. 1925)
- 1991 - Paul Brown, American football coach (b. 1908)
- 1991 - Soichiro Honda, founder of the Honda Motor Company (b. 1906)
- 1992 - Jeff Porcaro, American drummer (b. 1954)
- 1994 - Alain de Changy, Belgian racing driver (b. 1922)
- 1998 - Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian Communist dictator from 1956 to 1989 (b. 1911)
- 2000 - Sir Alec Guinness, British actor (b. 1914)
- 2000 - Otto Buchsbaum, writer and ecological activist (b. 1920)
- 2002 - Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (b. 1982)
- 2002 - Chick Hearn, American basketball announcer (b. 1916)
- 2002 - Franco Lucentini, Italian writer (b. 1920)
- 2005 - Polina Astakhova, Russian gymnast (b. 1936)
- 2005 - Jim O'Hora, American football coach (b. 1915)
- 2005 - Raul Roco, Philippine senator (b. 1941)
- 2006 - Susan Butcher, American Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
Notes
- Joseph Merrick
- Guy de Maupassant
- John Willie
- Marilyn Monroe
- Claude Autant-Lara
- Joe Boyd
- Alexandre Alexeieff
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