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[edit] Births
- 1147 - Minamoto no Yoritomo Japanese shogun (d. 1199)
- 1439 - Pope Pius III (d. 1503)
- 1800 - John Brown, American abolitionist (d. 1859)
- 1837 - Adam Opel, German engineer and industrialist
- 1860 - J. M. Barrie, author (d. 1937)
- 1873 - Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago (d. 1933)
- 1874 - Howard Carter, British archaeologist (d. 1939)
- 1882 - Henry J. Kaiser, industrialist (d. 1967)
- 1882 - George Barker, United States painter (d. 1965)
- 1892 - Zita of Bourbon-Parma, empress of Austria-Hungary (d. 1989)
- 1895 - Richard Barthelmess, US actor (d. 1963)
- 1895 - Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher.
- 1907 - Baldur von Schirach, Nazi official (d. 1974)
- 1910 - Barbara Woodhouse, animal trainer (d. 1988)
- 1912 - Pedro Armendáriz, actor (d. 1963)
- 1914 - Hank Snow, country musician (d. 1999)
- 1918 - Mike Wallace, journalist
- 1918 - Orville L. Freeman, American politician (d. 2003)
- 1920 - Richard Adams, author
- 1920 - William Tenn, author
- 1921 - Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter with White Rose in Nazi Germany (d. 1943)
- 1927 - Wim Thoelke, show master (d. 1995)
- 1928 - Colin Chapman, engineer, founder of Lotus Cars (d. 1982)
- 1928 - Pancho Gonzalez, tennis player (d. 1995)
- 1928 - Barbara Ann Scott, figure skater
- 1930 - Joan Sims, British actress (d. 2001)
- 1934 - Alan Bennett, British author
- 1936 - Glenda Jackson, actress and politician
- 1936 - Albert Finney, British actor
- 1939 - Ralph Boston, athlete
- 1940 - James L. Brooks, producer, writer
- 1942 - John Ashcroft, United States Attorney General
- 1944 - Richie Furay, musician ("Poco", "Buffalo Springfield")
- 1946 - Candice Bergen, actress
- 1949 - Billy Joel, American musician
- 1955 - Anne-Sofie von Otter, Swedish mezzo-soprano
- 1964 - Kevin Saunderson, US music producer and DJ
- 1964 - David Gahan, Singer for Depeche Mode
- 1965 - Steve Yzerman, ice hockey player
- 1968 - Marie-José Perec, French athlete
- 1970 - Ghostface Killah, rapper
- 1979 - Pierre Bouvier, musician
- 1982 - Rachel Boston, actress
