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Births

• 65 BC - Horace, Roman poet (d. 8 BC)
• 1542 - Mary Queen of Scots (d. 1587)
• 1861 - Aristide Maillol, French sculptor (d. 1944)
• 1861 - Georges Méliès, French filmmaker (d. 1938)
• 1862 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (d. 1921)
• 1864 - Camille Claudel, French graphic artist and sculptor (d. 1943)
• 1865 - Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (d. 1957)
• 1865 - Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (d. 1963)
• 1874 - Ernst Moro, Austrian physician (d. 1951)
• 1886 - Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (d. 1957)
• 1890 - Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer (d. 1959)
• 1894 - James Thurber, American writer (d. 1961)
• 1894 - E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye) (d. 1938)
• 1900 - Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (d. 1990)
• 1909 - Gratien Gélinas, Quebec playwright, actor, director and producer (d. 1999)
• 1911 - Lee J. Cobb, American actor (d. 1976)
• 1911 - Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and lyricist (d. 1992)
• 1913 - Delmore Schwartz, American poet (d. 1966)
• 1915 - Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (d. 2005)
• 1916 - Richard Fleischer, American film director (d. 2006)
• 1918 - Gérard Souzay, French baritone (d. 2004)
• 1919 - Peter Tali Coleman, American politician (d. 1997)
• 1922 - Jean Ritchie, American folk singer
• 1923 - Rudolph Pariser, Chinese-born American chemist
• 1925 - Sammy Davis Jr., American actor and singer (d. 1990)
• 1925 - Jimmy Smith, American jazz musician (d. 2005)
• 1927 - Vladimir Shatalov, Soviet Union-born cosmonaut
• 1930 - Maximilian Schell, Austrian-born Swiss actor, film director, and author
• 1933 - Flip Wilson, American comedian (d. 1998)
• 1935 - Dharmendra, Indian actor
• 1935 - Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Israeli chess player
• 1936 - David Carradine, American actor
• 1937 - James MacArthur, American actor
• 1937 - Arne Næss Jr., Norwegian mountain climber and businessman (d. 2004)
• 1939 - Red Berenson, National Hockey League player
• 1939 - Jerry Butler, American soul singer
• 1939 - Sir James Galway, Northern Irish flute player
• 1939 - Soko Richardson, American rhythm and blues drummer. (d. 2004)
• 1940 - Brant Alyea, baseball player
• 1941 - Ed Brinkman, baseball player
• 1941 - Bob Brown, American football player
• 1941 - Randall "Duke" Cunningham, US Navy fighter pilot and Congressman
• 1941 - Sir Geoff Hurst, ex-English footballer
• 1943 - Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (d. 1971)
• 1943 - Mary Woronov, American actress
• 1945 - John Banville, Irish novelist and journalist
• 1946 - John Rubinstein, American actor, composer, director
• 1947 - Gregg Allman, American musician
• 1947 - Kati-Claudia Fofonoff, Finnish writer
• 1947 - Thomas R. Cech, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
• 1949 - Mary Gordon, American writer
• 1949 - Ray Shulman, English musician
• 1949 - Robert Sternberg, Proposed the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
• 1950 - Rick Baker, American film makeup artist
• 1950 - Tim Foli, American baseball player
• 1950 - Dan Hartman, American musician (Edgar Winter Group) (d. 1994)
• 1951 - Jan Eggum, Norwegian singer-songwriter
• 1951 - Bill Bryson, American author
• 1952 - Khaw Boon Wan, Singapore Health Minister
• 1953 - Kim Basinger, American actress
• 1953 - Sam Kinison, American comedian (d. 1992)
• 1956 - Warren Cuccurullo, American musician
• 1957 - Phil Collen, British guitarist (Def Leppard)
• 1958 - Bird McIntyre, Thai pop singer / musician
• 1961 - Ann Coulter, American author, political commentator, and attorney
• 1962 - Marty Friedman, American guitarist
• 1963 - Toshiaki Kawada, Japanese professional wrestler
• 1964 - Sandy Burnett, British record producer
• 1964 - Teri Hatcher, American actress
• 1964 - James Blundell, Australian country singer
• 1965 - Carina Lau, Hong Kong actress
• 1966 - Sinéad O'Connor, Irish musician
• 1967 - Jeff George, American football player
• 1967 - Kotono Mitsuishi, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
• 1968 - Mike Mussina, American baseball player
• 1968 - Michael Cole, American professional wrestling commentator
• 1969 - Jeff Tremaine, American television & film director
• 1972 - Marco Abreu, Angolan footballer
• 1972 - Frank Shamrock, American MMA-Fighter and younger brother of MMA-Fighter Ken Shamrock
• 1973 - Corey Taylor, American singer (Slipknot, Stone Sour)
• 1973 - Doron Bell Jr., Canadian actor
• 1974 - Tony Simmons, American football player
• 1974 - Nick Zinner, American guitarist (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
• 1975 - Kevin Harvick, American NASCAR driver
• 1976 - Dominic Monaghan, German-born British actor
• 1976 - Naimee Coleman, Irish singer and songwriter
• 1976 - Reed Johnson, American baseball player
• 1977 - Ryan Newman, American NASCAR driver
• 1977 - Elsa Benítez, Mexican supermodel
• 1977 - Sébastien Chabal, French international rugby player
• 1978 - John Oster, Welsh footballer
• 1978 - Anwar Siraj, Ethiopian footballer
• 1978 - Ian Somerhalder, American actor
• 1978 - Vernon Wells, American baseball player
• 1979 - Johan Forssell, Swedish politician
• 1979 - Daniel Fitzhenry, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1979 - Christian Wilhelmsson, Swedish footballer
• 1981 - Jeremy Accardo, American baseball player
• 1981 - Philip Rivers, American football player
• 1982 - Dee Dee Trotter, American athlete
• 1983 - Neel Jani, Swiss racing driver
• 1983 - Liu Song, Chinese snooker player
• 1984 - Greg Halford, English footballer
• 1984 - Badr Hari, Dutch kickboxer
• 1985 - Dwight Howard, American basketball player
• 1986 - Amir Khan, British boxer
• 1993 - AnnaSophia Robb, American actress and singer

Deaths

• 899 - Arnulf of Carinthia (b. 850)
• 1626 - John Davies, English poet (b. 1569)
• 1632 - Philippe van Lansberge, Flemish astronomer (b. 1561)
• 1638 - Ivan Gundulic, Croatian poet (b. 1589)
• 1643 - John Pym, English statesman (b. 1583)
• 1649 - Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1613)
• 1680 - Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, English politician (b. 1606)
• 1691 - Richard Baxter, English clergyman (b. 1615)
• 1695 - Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (b. 1625)
• 1709 - Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (b. 1625)
• 1722 - Liselotte von der Pfalz, Duchess of Orléans (b. 1652)
• 1744 - Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, mistress of King Louis XV of France (b. 1717)
• 1745 - Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (b. 1683)
• 1746 - Charles Radclyffe, British politician (b. 1693)
• 1756 - William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, British statesman and diplomat
• 1768 - Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1702)
• 1779 - Nathan Alcock, English physician (b. 1707)
• 1830 - Benjamin Constant, Swiss writer (b. 1767)
• 1859 - Thomas de Quincey, British author (b. 1785)
• 1864 - George Boole, British inventor of Boolean algebra (b. 1815)
• 1885 - William Henry Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1821)
• 1894 - Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (b. 1821)
• 1907 - Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829)
• 1914 - Maximilian von Spee, German naval officer (b. 1861)
• 1917 - Mendele Moykher Sforim, Russian writer (b. 1836)
• 1938 - Friedrich Glauser, German-language Swiss writer (b. 1896)
• 1952 - Charles Lightoller, British second officer on the Titanic (b. 1874)
• 1958 - Tris Speaker, American baseball player (b. 1888)
• 1963 - Field Marshal Sarit Dhanarajata, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1908)
• 1975 - Gary Thain, New Zealand bassist (Uriah Heep) (b. 1948)
• 1978 - Golda Meir, Russian-born Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1898)
• 1980 - John Lennon, English musician and peace activist (b. 1940)
• 1982 - Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist (b. 1951)
• 1983 - Slim Pickens, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1984 - Luther Adler, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1984 - Robert Jay Mathews, White Nationalist (b. 1953)
• 1991 - Buck Clayton, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1911)
• 1992 - William Shawn, American magazine editor (b. 1917)
• 1994 - Tom Jobim, Brazilian composer and arranger (b. 1927)
• 1996 - Howard Rollins, American actor (b. 1950)
• 1999 - Péter Kuczka, Hungarian writer (b. 1923)
• 2001 - Don Tennant, American advertising executive (b. 1922)
• 2003 - Rubén González, Cuban pianist (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1919)
• 2004 - Dimebag Darrell (Darrell Abbott), American guitarist (b. 1966)
• 2005 - Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and author (b. 1915)
• 2006 - Martha Tilton, American singer (b. 1915)
• 2006 - José Uribe, Dominican baseball player (b. 1959)

Notes

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