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[edit] Births
- 1632 - Albert Schap, composer
- 1766 - Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and painter (d. 1813)
- 1781 - Thomas Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore (d.1826)
- 1785 - William Jackson Hooker, English botanist (d. 1865)
- 1796 - Tsar Nicholas I of Russia (d. 1855)
- 1818 - Adolf Anderssen (d. 1879)
- 1838 - Vatroslav Jagic, Croatian scholar (d. 1923)
- 1859 - Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish writer (d. 1940)
- 1884 - Harold Vanderbilt, businessman
- 1887 - Walter Flex, writer (d. 1917)
- 1898 - Hanns Eisler, German composer (d. 1962)
- 1907 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
- 1915 - LaVerne Andrews, singer (the Andrews Sisters)
- 1918 - Sebastian Cabot, English actor (d. 1977)
- 1919 - Ernst Haefliger, Swiss tenor
- 1921 - Nancy Reagan, actress and First Lady of the United States
- 1923 - Wojciech Jaruzelski, President of Poland
- 1925 - Merv Griffin, American game show developer and television show host
- 1925 - Bill Haley, American singer (Bill Haley and the Comets) (d. 1981)
- 1927 - Janet Leigh, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1927 - Hein Donner, Dutch chess player
- 1927 - Dolores Claman, musician and composer
- 1927 - Pat Paulsen, American comedian and Presidential candidate (d. 1997)
- 1935 - Tenzin Gyatso, fourteenth Dalai Lama
- 1936 - Dave Allen, Irish comedian (d. 2005)
- 1937 - Ned Beatty, American actor
- 1937 - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian pianist and conductor
- 1946 - Sylvester Stallone, American actor
- 1946 - George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
- 1951 - Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor
- 1953 - Nanci Griffith, American singer and songwriter
- 1958 - Jennifer Saunders, British actress and comedian
- 1959 - Richard Dacoury, French basketball player
- 1967 - Heather Nova, British-Bermudan guitarist and singer
- 1970 - Inspectah Deck, American rapper
- 1976 - 50 Cent, American rapper
