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Births

624 – Wu Zetian, Empress of the Zhou Dynasty of China (d. 705)
1490 – Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Constable of France (d. 1527)
1519 – Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (d. 1563)
1524 – Charles of Guise, French cardinal (d. 1574)
1581 – Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (d. 1653)
1646 – Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (d. 1714)
1653 – Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (d. 1713)
1718 – Matthew Tilghman, American Continental Congressman (d. 1790)
1723 – Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (d. 1762)
1740 – Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, Swiss physicist and founder of alpinism (d. 1799)
1752 – Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (d. 1831)
1754 – Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (d. 1803)
1781 – René Laënnec, French physician (d. 1826)
1792 – Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (d. 1876)
1796 – Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (d. 1866)
1816 – Haller Nutt, Southern Plantation owner (d. 1864)
1820 – Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Catholic cardinal (d. 1898)
1820 – Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer (d. 1881)
1821 – Lola Montez, Irish dancer (d. 1861)
1836 – Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish poet (d. 1870)
1844 – Aaron Montgomery Ward, American department store founder (d. 1913)
1848 – Albert Gustaf Dahlman, Swedish executioner, the last to carry out capital punishment in Sweden (d. 1920)
1848 – Louisa Lawson, Australian suffragist and writer (d. 1920)
1854 – Friedrich Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (d. 1902)
1860 – Tom Seeberg, Norwegian rifle shooter (d. 1938)
1861 – Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont (d. 1922)
1862 – Mori Ōgai, Japanese novelist and poet (d. 1922)
1862 – Eugen Schmidt, Danish athlete (d. 1931)
1863 – Fyodor Sologub, Russian symbolist novelist and poet (d. 1927)
1864 – Jozef Murgaš, Slovak inventor (d. 1929)
1864 – Banjo Paterson, Australian poet (d. 1941)
1874 – Thomas J. Watson, American computer manufacturer (d. 1956)
1877 – Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and writer (d. 1904)
1877 – André Maginot, French politician (d. 1932)
1877 – Isidora Sekulić, Serbian prose writer, novelist and essayist (d. 1958)
1880 – Ernest Linton, Canadian football player (d. 1957)
1883 – George Edwin Cooke, American soccer player (d. 1969)
1885 – Steve Evans, American baseball player (d. 1943)
1887 – Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (d. 1947)
1888 – Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1969)
1890 – Sir Ronald Fisher, English statistician and geneticist (d. 1962)
1891 – Abraham Fraenkel, German-born Israeli mathematician and recipient of the Israel Prize (d. 1965)
1893 – Wally Pipp, American baseball player (d. 1965)
1903 – Sadegh Hedayat, Iranian writer (d. 1951)
1904 – Hans Morgenthau, German political philosopher (d. 1980)
1908 – Red Barber, American baseball announcer (d. 1992)
1908 – Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (d. 2005)
1910 – Arthur Hunnicutt, American actor (d. 1979)
1910 – Marc Lawrence, American actor (d. 2005)
1911 – Oskar Seidlin, Silesian-born American literary scholar (d. 1984)
1911 – Orrin Tucker, American bandleader and composer (d.2011)
1912 – Andre Norton, American author (d. 2005)
1913 – Jean Le Moyne, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1996)
1914 – Arthur Kennedy, American actor (d. 1990)
1914 – Wayne Morris, American actor (d. 1959)
1916 – Raf Vallone, Italian actor (d. 2002)
1916 – Alexander Obolensky, Russian prince and Rugby Union footballer (d. 1940)
1917 – Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian philosopher (d. 2002)
1917 – Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor (d. 1965)
1918 – Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, Ukrainian politician (d. 1990)
1919 – J.M.S. Careless, Canadian historian (d. 2009)
1919 – Kathleen Freeman, American actress (d. 2001)
1920 – Ivo Caprino, Norwegian animated film director (d. 2001)
1922 – Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (d. 2007)
1922 – Tommy Edwards, American singer (d. 1969)
1922 – Valentino Mazzia, American forensic anesthesiologist (d. 1999)
1923 – John Marco Allegro, English scholar (d. same day 1988)
1924 – Margaret Truman, American novelist (d. 2008)
1925 – Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (d. 2003)
1925 – Hal Holbrook, American actor
1928 – Marta Romero, Puerto Rican actress & singer
1929 – Paul Meger, Canadian ice hockey player
1929 – Chaim Potok, American author (d. 2002)
1929 – Nicholas Ridley, British politician (d. 1993)
1929 – Patricia Routledge, English actress
1930 – Roger Craig, American baseball player and manager
1930 – Ruth Rendell, English writer
1933 – Bobby Lewis, American singer
1933 – Craig L. Thomas, American politician (d. 2007)
1933 – Larry Jennings, American magician (d. 1997)
1934 – Alan Bates, English actor (d. 2003)
1934 – Barry Humphries, Australian actor and comedian
1935 – Christina Pickles, UK-born American actress
1936 – Jim Brown, American football player
1938 – Buck Trent, American banjo player
1938 – Martha Henry, American/Canadian actress
1938 – Yvonne Romain, British film and television actress
1939 – John Leyton, British singer
1939 – Mary Ann Mobley, American actress and beauty queen
1939 – Clément Richard, Canadian businessman and politician
1941 – Gene Pitney, American singer (d. 2006)
1941 – Julia McKenzie, English actress and theatre director
1942 – Huey P. Newton, American political activist (d. 1989)
1943 – Costas Azariadis, Greek economist
1943 – Claire Malis, American actress (d. 2012)
1944 – Karl Jenkins, Welsh composer
1945 – Zina Bethune, American actress and dancer (d. 2012)
1945 – Brenda Fricker, Irish actress
1946 – Dodie Stevens, American singer
1948 – José José, Mexican singer and actor
1948 – Rick Majerus, American basketball coach
1948 – Don Scardino, American television director and actor
1949 – Fred Frith, English musician and composer (Henry Cow, Art Bears, Massacre and Skeleton Crew)
1951 – Rashid Minhas, Pilot officer in Pakistan Air Force during Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 (d. 1971)
1952 – Karin Janz, East German gymnast
1952 – Vladimír Padrůněk, Czech rock bass guitar player (d. 1991)
1953 – Norman Pace, British actor and comic
1954 – Rene Russo, American actress
1955 – Mo Yan, Chinese author, Nobel Prize laureate
1956 – Richard Karn, American actor
1957 – Loreena McKennitt, Canadian musician
1958 – Alan Wiggins, American baseball player d. 1991
1959 – Aryeh Deri, Israeli rabbi and politician
1959 – Rowdy Gaines, American swimmer
1959 – Neil Lomax, American football player
1962 – Samuel Bayer, American music video director
1962 – David McComb, Australian musician (The Triffids) (d. 1999)
1962 – Lou Diamond Phillips, American actor
1963 – Alison Hargreaves, British mountaineer (d. 1995)
1963 – Jen-Hsun Huang, American entrepreneur and businessman
1963 – Larry the Cable Guy, American comedian and actor
1963 – Michael Jordan, American basketball player
1963 – Rene Syler, American journalist
1964 – Buster Olney, American sports columnist
1965 – Michael Bay, American film director
1966 – Michael Lepond, American musician (Symphony X)
1966 – Quorthon, Swedish musician (Bathory) (d. 2004)
1966 – Luc Robitaille, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 – Chanté Moore, American singer
1968 – Bryan Cox, American football player
1969 – David Douillet, French judoka
1969 – Tuesday Knight, American actress
1969 – Willi Kronhardt, German footballer
1970 – Tommy Moe, American skier
1970 – Dominic Purcell, English/Australian actor
1971 – Martyn Bennett, Canadian composer (d. 2005)
1971 – Jeremy Edwards, British actor
1971 – SaRenna Lee, American pornographic actress
1971 – Denise Richards, American actress
1972 – Billie Joe Armstrong, American musician (Green Day)
1972 – Philippe Candeloro, French figure skater
1972 – Taylor Hawkins, American musician (Foo Fighters and Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders)
1972 – Yuki Isoya, Japanese singer (Judy and Mary)
1972 – Ralphie May, American comedian
1972 – Valeria Mazza, Argentinian model
1972 – LG Petrov, Swedish singer (Entombed)
1973 – Drew Barry, American basketball player
1973 – Raphaël Ibañez, French rugby player
1974 – Kaoru, Japanese musician (Dir en grey)
1974 – Jerry O'Connell, American actor
1974 – Bryan White, American singer
1975 – Harisu, South Korean singer, model and actress
1975 – Kaspars Astašenko, Latvian ice hockey player (d. 2012)
1975 – Todd Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 – Vaclav Prospal, Czech ice hockey player
1976 – Kelly Carlson, American actress
1976 – William Roussel, French musician (Mütiilation)
1976 – Scott Williamson, American baseball player
1977 – Wong Choong Hann, Malaysian badminton player
1978 – Jacob Wetterling, American kidnapping victim
1979 – Dee, Puerto Rican pornographic actress
1979 – Josh Willingham, American baseball player
1980 – Al Harrington, American basketball player
1980 – Jason Ritter, American actor
1980 – Klemi Saban, Israeli footballer
1981 – Joseph Gordon-Levitt, American actor
1981 – Paris Hilton, American actress, singer, and heiress
1982 – Adriano, Brazilian footballer
1982 – Brian Bruney, American baseball player
1982 – Daniel Merriweather, Australian singer
1983 – Gérald Cid, French footballer
1983 – Marios Kaperonis, Greek boxer
1983 – Kevin Rudolf, American singer-songwriter
1983 – Nguyen Tien Minh, Vietnamese badminton player
1984 – Jimmy Jacobs, American professional wrestler
1984 – Stefan Jarosch, German footballer
1984 – Kenta Kamakari, Japanese actor and voice actor
1984 – Drew Miller, American ice hockey player
1984 – Sadha, Indian film actress
1984 – AB de Villiers, South African cricketer
1985 – Anne Curtis, Filipino actress and model
1985 – Anders Jacobsen, Norwegian ski jumper
1986 – Joey O'Brien, Irish footballer
1986 – Ricardo Rodriguez, American wrestler and ring announcer
1987 – Thomas Ayasse, French footballer
1987 – Aseem Trivedi, Indian cartoonist and activist
1988 – Natascha Kampusch, Austrian kidnapping victim
1989 – Rebecca Adlington, English swimmer
1989 – Stacey McClean, British singer (S Club 8)
1989 – Chord Overstreet, American actor
1990 – Marianne St-Gelais, Canadian short track speed skater
1991 – Ed Sheeran, English singer
1991 – Bonnie Wright, English actress
1992 – Meaghan Jette Martin, American actress and singer
1993 – AJ Perez, Filipino actor and model (d. 2011)
1993 – Nicola Leali, Italian footballer
1993 – Philip Wiegratz, German actor
1993 – Marc Marquez, Spanish motorcyclist
1996 – Sasha Pieterse, South African/American actress