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*[[1822]] - [[Matthew Arnold]], English poet (d. [[1888]]) *[[1822]] - [[Matthew Arnold]], English poet (d. [[1888]])
-*[[1837]] - [[Elisabeth of Bavaria]] a.k.a [[Sissi]], Empress of Austria (d. [[1898]]) 
-*[[1843]] - [[Lydia Koidula]], Estonian poet (d. [[1886]]) 
-*[[1845]] - King [[George I of Greece]] (d. [[1913]]) 
-*[[1867]] - [[Kantaro Suzuki]], 42nd [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (d. [[1948]])  
-*[[1868]] - [[Emanuel Lasker]], German chess player (d. [[1941]]) 
-*[[1879]] - [[Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin|Queen Alexandrine of Denmark]], Queen Consort to [[Christian X of Denmark|Christian X]] (d. [[1952]]) 
-* 1879 - [[Émile Nelligan]], Quebec poet (d. [[1941]]) 
-*[[1880]] - [[Johnny Gruelle]], American cartoonist, children's book writer and creator of [[Raggedy Ann]] (d. [[1939]]) 
-*[[1881]] - [[Juan Ramón Jiménez]], Spanish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1958]]) 
-*[[1886]] - [[Michael Curtiz]], Hungarian-born director (d. [[1962]]) 
-*[[1887]] - [[Louis Jouvet]], French actor and producer (d. [[1951]])  
-*[[1893]] - [[Harry Warren]], American composer and lyricist ([[Chattanooga Choo Choo]] - [[I Only Have Eyes for You]]) (d. [[1981]]) 
-*[[1894]] - [[Georges Guynemer]], French aviator (d. [[1917]]) 
-*[[1895]] - [[E. Roland Harriman]], American financier (d. [[1978]]) 
-*[[1898]] - [[Héctor Scarone]], Uruguayan footballer (d. [[1967]]) 
-* 1898 - [[Baby Dodds]], American jazz drummer (d. [[1959]]) 
-*[[1900]] - [[Joey Smallwood]], Canadian politician, Premier of Newfoundland (d. [[1991]]) 
*[[1905]] - [[Howard Hughes]], American film producer and inventor (d. [[1976]]) *[[1905]] - [[Howard Hughes]], American film producer and inventor (d. [[1976]])
-*[[1906]] - [[Franz Waxman]], German film composer (d. [[1967]]) 
-*[[1910]] - [[Fritz Leiber]], American writer (d. [[1992]]) 
-*[[1914]] - [[Ralph Marterie]], American trumpet player and big band leader (d. [[1978]]) 
-* 1914 - [[Herbert Reinecker]], German writer 
-*[[1917]] - [[Kim Jong-suk]], Wife of Kim Il-sung, mother of Kim Jung-Il, "The Heroine of the Anti-Japanese Revolution" (d. [[1949]]) 
-*[[1920]] - [[Evgeniya Rudneva]], Russian World War II heroine (d. [[1944]]) 
*[[1922]] - [[Ava Gardner]], American actress (d. [[1990]]) *[[1922]] - [[Ava Gardner]], American actress (d. [[1990]])
*[[1923]] - [[George Patton IV]], American general (d. [[2004]]) *[[1923]] - [[George Patton IV]], American general (d. [[2004]])

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  7. James Hadley Chase
  8. Wolfgang Kayser
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  11. Ad Reinhardt
  12. Vittorio Giardino
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  17. Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky
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