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225 - Gordian III, Roman Emperor (d. 244)
1292 - Elisabeth I of Bohemia (d. 1330)
1358 - Eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (d. 1382)
1435 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (d. 1490)
1554 - King Sebastian of Portugal (d. 1578)
1586 - Johann Hermann Schein, German composer (Fontana d'Israel)
1622 - Susanna van Baerle, Dutch poet/wife of Geeraert Burns
1651 - Edward Tyson, British Physician and father of comparative anatomy (The Anatomy of a Pygmy, 1698)
1654 - Michiel de Swaen, South Netherland physician/poet
1664 - Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (d. 1718)
1681 - Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, composer
1703 - Joseph-Hector Fiocco, composer
1716 - Carlos III, king of Naples/Spain (1759-88) Pompei/Jesuits
1716 - King Charles III of Spain (d. 1788)
1716 - Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (d. 1795)
1732 - Richard H Lee, US farmer (signed Declaration of Independence)
1743 - Pascal Boyer, composer
1761 - Giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer
1762 - Jerome-Joseph de Momigny, composer
1763 - Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish patriot
1775 - André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (d. 1836)
1781 - Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, Austrian politician (d. 1848)
1782 - Johan B J F S, archduke of Austria
1783 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
1798 - Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (d. 1858)
1804 - Eugène Sue, French novelist (d. 1857)
1806 - Nathaniel Willis, writer/editor/founder (American Monthly Mag)
1809 - Sebastian de Iradier, Spanish composer (La Paloma)
1812 - Ralph Pomeroy Buckland, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1812 - Thomas Meik, Scottish engineer (d. 1896)
1813 - Jacon Gartner Lauman, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
1820 - Anne Jemima Clough, England, promoted higher education for women
1831 - Pieter J Joubert, general (South Africa)
1834 - George D. Robinson, 34th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
1837 - David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910)
1843 - Pierre-Paul Cambon, French diplomat (Madrid, Constantinople, London)
1844 - Johan Peter Selmer, composer
1847 - W R Pettiford, Founder (Alabama Penny Savings Bank)
1855 - Amedee-Ernest Chausson, composer
1865 - Friedrich A H von Waldeck, brother of queen Emma/last ruler of Waldeck
1866 - Richard Le Gallienne, English writer (Maker of Gainborg)
1867 - Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (d. 1944)
1870 - Guillaume Jean Joseph Nicolas Lekeu, composer
1873 - Charles A Ellwood, US, sociologist/psychologist
1873 - Johannes V Jensen, Denmark, novelist/poet (Energy Storage, Nobel 1944)
1876 - Józef Hofmann, Polish pianist (d. 1967)
1877 - Ruth St Denis, Newark NJ, ballerina (Dances of the 5 Senses)
1878 - Finlay Currie, Scotland, actor (Quo Vadis, Ivanhoe, Avengers)
1880 - Walter W. Bacon, American politician (d. 1962)
1883 - Betram Home Ramsay, English admiral/Commander Allied Naval Forces
1884 - A[braham P] Merritt, US, sci-fi author (Moon Pool, Creep Shadow!)

Blues Musician Lead Belly(1888)1888 - Lead Belly, Louisiana, blues 12 string guitarist (Rock Island Line), (d. 1949)
1889 - Allan Haines Loughead, American aviation executive (d. 1969)
1891 - Mischa Elman, Talnoye Ukraine, US violinist
1892 - Roscoe Ates, Grange Miss, actor (Dep Roscoe-Marshal of Gunsight Pass)
1893 - Kaj Birket-Smith, Danish etnologist/anthropologist (Eskimos)
1893 - Georg Åberg, Swedish athlete (d. 1946)
1894 - Harold L Gray, creator (Little Orphan Annie)
1894 - Walter Hamor Piston, Rockland Maine, composer (Incredible Flutis)
1895 - Eva A Jessye, US singer/actress/songwriter (Hallelujah)
1896 - Elmer R Diktonius, Finnish musicologist/author (Janne Kubik)
1896 - George Burns, [Nathan Birnbaum], actor/comedian (Oh God), born in NYC, New York
1896 - Rolfe Sedan, actor (Mailman-George Burns Show), born in NYC, New York
1896 - Isabel Withers, American actress (d. 1968)
1897 - Mae Busch, Australian/US actress (Cowboy Socialist)
1898 - Colin Clive, [Greig], St Malo France, actor (Bride of Frankenstein)
1898 - U Razak, Burmese politician (d. 1947)
1899 - Alexander Tcherepnin, composer
1899 - Kenjiro Takayanagi, VP (JVC)
1900 - Boris Semyonovich Shekhter, composer
1900 - Doris Deane, WI, entertainer
1900 - Colin Clive, British actor (d. 1937)
1903 - Leon Ames, Portland Indiana, actor (Mr Ed, Father of the Bride)
1903 - Sybil Marion Rosenfeld, theatre historian
1904 - Alexandra Danilova, Peterhof Russia, ballerina (Turning Point)
1904 - Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician/grandson of Bakunin
1904 - Theodore Brameld, author/educator (Use of Explosive Ideas)
1907 - Roy Welensky, Premier (Rhodesia/Nyasaland 1956-63)
1908 - Ian Peebles, cricketer (Scottish leg-spinner, England 1927-31)
1908 - Paula Wessely, Austrian actress/producer (Masquerade)
1908 - Wilfred Conwell Bain, composer
1910 - Abram Hill, director/playwright/founder (American Negro Theater)
1910 - Ennio Porrino, composer

Naturalist and Author Joy Adamson (1910)1910 - Joy Adamson, (born Friederike Viktoria Gessner) Troppau Austria-Hungary, naturalist/author (Born Free)
1910 - Lauritz Lauritzen, German politician
1910 - Nina Verchinina, dancer choreographer/teacher
1912 - Christopher Casson, Irish actor (Zardoz, Educating Rita)
1912 - Walter Briggs, Jr., American sports executive (d. 1970)
1914 - Wensley Pithey, Cape Town South Africa, actor (Winston Churchill-Ike)
1915 - C W Ceram, [Kurt W Marek], German/US writer (March of Archaeology)
1915 - Joe Hitchcock, darts player (leader of St Dunstan's Four)
1915 - Ghulam Ishaq Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 2006)
1916 - Jopie [Johan A] Pengel, premier of Suriname (1963-69)
1916 - Walter Bartley, biochemist
1919 - Alex Nicol, Ossining NY, actor (Man From Laramie, Air Cadet)
1919 - Royalton Kisch, British(?) conductor
1919 - Stepan Lucky, composer
1920 - DeForest Kelley, actor (Dr McCoy-Star Trek), born in Atlanta, Georgia
1920 - Peter Clemoes, anglo-Saxon scholar
1920 - Richard John Copeland Atkinson, archaeologist
1920 - Sam M Gibbons, (Rep-D-FL, 1963- )
1920 - Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (d. 2006)

Film director, ScriptwriterFederico Fellini (1920)1920 - Federico Fellini, Rimini, Kingdom of Italy, film director and scriptwriter (8 1/2, La Dolce Vita)
1921 - Bernt Engelmann, Germany, writer
1921 - Telmo Zarraonaindía, Spanish footballer (d. 2006)
1922 - Lord James Hanson, English industrialist/House of Lords (Conservative)
1922 - Ray Anthony, Bentleyville, Pennsylvania, American orchestra leader (Ray Anthony Show, Peter Gunn Theme)
1923 - Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer
1923 - Slim Whitman, American singer, (d. 2013)
1924 - Yvonne Loriod, Houilles France, pianist
1925 - E Cardenal, writer
1925 - Edwin Gordon, VOA correspondant, born in NYC, New York
1925 - Eugen Gomringer, writer
1925 - George Connol, NFL Hall-of-Famer
1926 - David Eugene Tudor, Phila Penn, composer
1926 - Michael Higgins, Brooklyn NY, actor (1918, Wanda, Black Stallion)

Actress Patricia Neal (1926)1926 - Patricia Neal, Packard Ky, actress (Hud, Subject Was Roses), (d. 2010)
1926 - Robert L Van Citters, cardiology/advisory panelist/UW dean
1926 - Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, essayist and columnist
1926 - Qurratulain Hyder, Pakistani novelist (d. 2007)
1927 - Geoffrey WT Atkins, British World Champion racket player (1954-72)
1927 - Olivier Strebelle, Belgian sculptor/ceramist
1928 - Peter Donat, Kentville Nova Scotia, (Flamingo Road, Different Story)
1928 - William Berger, Austria, actress (Adventure of Hercules)
1929 - Arte Johnson, comedian (Laugh-in, Don't Call Me Charlie), born in Chicago, Illinois
1929 - Bob Denard, French mercenary

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin (1930)1930 - Edwin Aldrin Jr, Montclair NJ, USAF/astro (Gem 12, Ap 11)
1931 - Sawako Ariyoshi, Japanese writer (Compound Pollution, Doctor's Wife)
1931 - Thomas Roy Garrett, museum curator
1931 - Earl Grant, Idabel, Oklahoma, American musician and singer (Ebb Tide, Winter Wonderland)
1931 - Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese songwriter and pianist (d. 1992)
1932 - Lou Fontinato, Canadian ice hockey player
1933 - Ron Townson, St Louis Mo, rock vocalist (5th Dimension-Up Up & Away)
1934 - Tom Baker, British actor (Angels Die Hard, Vault of Horror)
1935 - Joan Weston, Roller Derby Queen (d. 1997)
1936 - Eldred G Maduro, minister (Netherland Antilles)
1937 - Dorothy Provine, Deadwood SD, actress (Good Neighbor Sam, Darn Cat)
1938 - William Berger, Austrian actor (d. 1993)
1939 - Murle Breer, LPGA golfer
1939 - Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe, Indian astronomer
1939 - Paul Coverdell, American politician (d. 2000)
1940 - Carol Heiss Jenkins, figure skater (Oly-gold/silver-56, 60), born in NYC, New York
1940 - Jorge Peixinho, composer
1940 - Krishnam Raju, Indian actor and politician
1941 - Pierre Lalonde, Quebec singer and television host
1942 - Slim Whitman, yoddler/country singer (Home on the Range)
1943 - Roeland HG "Roel" van Duyn, Dutch Provo politician
1943 - Farhad Mehrad, Iranian musician
1944 - Eddie Shah, English publisher (Today, Post)
1944 - Isao Okano, Japan, middleweight judo (Olympic-gold-1964)
1944 - Lieven Soete, Dutch publicist (Molotov-Ribbentrop-pact)
1945 - Eric Stewart, rock guitarist (10cc-I'm Not in Love)
1945 - Peter Beckwith, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
1945 - Christopher Martin-Jenkins, cricket commentator and correspondent
1946 - David Lynch, Missoula Montana, actor/director (Dune, Eraserhead)
1947 - George Grantham, rocker (Poco-Crazy Eyes)
1947 - Malcolm McLaren, founded rock group (Sex Pistols-God Save the Queen)
1947 - Ronald Townson, rock singer (5th Dimension-We Can Fly)
1947 - Cyrille Guimard, French cyclist and directeur sportif
1948 - Jerry Ross, Ind, Lt Col USAF/astronaut (STS 61B, 27, 37, 55, 74, sk:88)
1948 - Mel Pritchard, English rocker (Barclay James Harvest)
1948 - Natan Sharansky, Russian-born physicist and politician
1948 - Nancy Kress, American writer
1949 - Kieron Walsh, academic
1950 - Henk Batenburgh, cabaret performer/singer (Waaldrecht)
1950 - Liza Goddard, British actress
1950 - Edward Hirsch. American poet
1950 - Chuck Lefley, Canadian ice hockey player
1950 - Mahamane Ousmane, President of Niger
1951 - Magomed Omarovich Tolboyev, Russian cosmonaut
1951 - Ivan Fischer, Hungarian conductor
1952 - Ian Hill, bass guitarist (Judas Priest-Breakin the Law)
1952 - Paul Stanley, [Eisen], rock guitarist (KISS-Beth)
1955 - Joe Doherty, Ireland, IRA activist (jailed in US)
1955 - Wyatt Knight, American actor
1955 - Hiromi Ōta, Japanese singer

Political Commentator and Stand-up Comedian Bill Maher(1956)1956 - Bill Maher, New York New York, American comedian and political commentator (Real Time with Bill Maher, Politically Incorrect)
1956 - John McNally, Naha Okinawa, US rapid fire pistol (Oly-84, 88, 92, 96)
1956 - John Phillips Naber, Evanston Ill, swimmer (Olympic-4 gold/silver-76)
1956 - Maria Larsson, Swedish politician
1957 - Leonard C Clements, Cherry Point NC, PGA golfer (1994 Bob Hope-2nd)
1958 - Lorenzo Lamas, actor (Lance-Falcon Crest, California Fever), born in Los Angeles, California
1959 - Lea Antonoplis, West Covina Cat, tennis star
1963 - Scott Fisher, San Jose California, Australian basketball forward (Oly-96)
1963 - James Denton, American actor
1964 - Ozzie Guillen, Oculare del Tuy Venezuela, shortstop (Chicago White Sox)
1964 - Roger Smith, Freeport Bahamas, tennis doubles player
1964 - Ron Harper, NBA guard (Chicago Bulls)
1964 - Victoria Sellers, actress (Crime Zone, Warlords), born in London, England
1964 - Kazushige Nojima, Japanese game scenario writer
1965 - Brad Brink, US baseball pitcher (SF Giants, Philadelphia Phillies)
1965 - Anton Weissenbacher, Romanian footballer
1965 - Colin Calderwood, Scottish footballer
1965 - Greg Kriesel, American bassist (The Offspring)
1965 - John Michael Montgomery, American singer
1966 - Bert Weidner, NFL guard (Miami Dolphins)
1966 - Chris Morris, NBA forward (Utah Jazz)
1966 - Rich Gannon, NFL quarterback (KC Chiefs)
1966 - Tracii Guns, rock guitarist (LA Guns-It's Over Now)
1966 - Rainn Wilson, American actor (The Office, Juno), born in Seattle, Washington