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2007 Calendar

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1341 - Edmund of Langley, a younger son of King Edward III of England (d. 1402)
1606 - Pierre Corneille, French playwright d. 1684)
1718 - Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (d. 1779)
1723 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist (d. 1790)
1757 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (d. 1808)
1771 - King Ernest I of Hanover (d. 1851)
1781 - Christian August Lobeck, German classical scholar (d. 1860)
1819 - John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1892)
1850 - Pat Garrett, American Western lawman (d. 1908)
1876 - Tony Jackson, American musician (d. 1920)
1879 - Robert Mayer, philanthropist (d. 1985)
1883 - John Maynard Keynes, English economist (d. 1946)
1884 - Ralph Benatzky, composer (d. 1957)
1887 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923)
1894 - Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, English publisher(d. 1976)
1895 - William Boyd, American actor (d. 1972)
1898 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish lyricist and dramatist (d. 1936)
1912 - Josef Neckermann, entrepreneur and dressage equestrian (d. 1992)
1919 - Richard Scarry, children's author (d. 1994)
1925 - Art Donovan, American football star
1925 - Boy Gobert, actor (d. 1986)
1928 - Robert Lansing, actor (d. 1994)
1928 - Tony Richardson, British actor (d. 1991)
1931 - Jacques Demy, French playwright
1932 - Christy Brown, author (d. 1981)
1934 - Bill Moyers, American journalist
1938 - Karin Balzer, East German hurdler
1939 - Joe Clark, sixteenth Prime Minister of Canada
1939 - Margaret Drabble, English novelist
1941 - Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist
1941 - Spalding Gray, American actor, screenwriter, and monologue artist (d. 2004)
1944 - Tommie Smith, American athlete
1947 - Laurie Anderson, American performance artist, actress, composer
1949 - Ken Follett, Welsh author
1954 - Nicko McBrain, English musician (Iron Maiden)
1962 - Princess Astrid of Belgium
1967 - Joe DeLoach, American athlete
1970 - Martin Gelinas, Canadian ice hockey player
1971 - Mark Wahlberg ("Marky Mark"), American singer, actor
1972 - Mike Bucci (Nova, Simon Dean), American professional wrestler
1979 - David Bisbal, Spanish singer