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[edit] Births
- 1530 - Ivan IV of Russia ("Ivan the Terrible") (d. 1584)
- 1635 - Sir Henry Morgan, privateer (d. 1688)
- 1724 - George Stubbs, British painter (d. 1806)
- 1744 - Johann Gottfried Herder, German writer (d. 1803)
- 1767 - Antoine Louis Léon de Richebourg de Saint-Just, French revolutionary and writer (d. 1794)
- 1786 - King Ludwig I of Bavaria (d. 1868)
- 1796 - James Lick, California land baron (d. 1876)
- 1819 - Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (d. 1884)
- 1836 - Bret Harte, American writer (d. 1902)
- 1841 - Emil Kocher, medical researcher (d. 1917)
- 1845 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria (d. 1886)
- 1850 - Charles Richet, scientist
- 1882 - Sean O'Kelly, President of Ireland (d. 1966)
- 1898 - Helmut Hasse, German mathematican
- 1900 - Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, scientist
- 1902 - Stefan Wolpe, composer (d. 1972)
- 1909 - Ruby Keeler, singer and actress (d. 1993)
- 1909 - Michael Rennie, actor (d. 1971)
- 1912 - Erich Honecker, head of state of East Germany (d. 1994)
- 1913 - Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (d. 1973)
- 1916 - Van Johnson, actor
- 1917 - Mel Ferrer, American actor
- 1918 - Leonard Bernstein, American conductor and composer (d. 1990)
- 1918 - Richard Greene, actor
- 1919 - George Wallace, Governor of Alabama (d. 1998)
- 1921 - Monty Hall, game show host
- 1921 - Brian Moore, Irish-born Canadian writer (d. 1999)
- 1927 - Althea Gibson, American tennis player (d. 2003)
- 1928 - Herbert Kroemer, German physicist
- 1929 - Gordon Sherwood, composer
- 1930 - Sir Sean Connery, Scottish actor
- 1933 - Regis Philbin, television host
- 1933 - Wayne Shorter, jazz musician
- 1933 - Tom Skerritt, actor
- 1935 - Charles Wright, American poet
- 1938 - David Canary, actor
- 1938 - Frederick Forsyth, author
- 1939 - John Badham, film director
- 1940 - José Van Dam, Belgian baritone
- 1941 - Marshall Brickman, screenwriter
- 1944 - Anthony Heald, actor
- 1946 - Rollie Fingers, baseball player
- 1947 - Anne Archer, actress
- 1949 - Martin Amis, novelist
- 1949 - John Savage, actor
- 1949 - Gene Simmons, bassist
- 1951 - Robert Joseph Glass, artist
- 1952 - Peter Wolf, singer and composer
- 1954 - Elvis Costello, musician
- 1958 - Tim Burton, film director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1961 - Billy Ray Cyrus, singer
- 1962 - Viv Campbell, guitarist (Def Leppard)
- 1964 - Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician
- 1964 - Blair Underwood, actor
- 1965 - Mia Zapata, singer
- 1968 - Rafet El Roman, singer, composer
- 1968 - Rachael Ray, cook and television host
- 1970 - Claudia Schiffer, German model
- 1972 - Marvin Harrison, American football player
- 1980 - Ryan Horn, writer and commentator
- 1985 - Nick English, Rugby League player
