Births[edit] 1473 – Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York (d. 1483) 1556 – Alexander Briant, English martyr (d. 1581) 1578 – Francesco Albani, Italian painter (d. 1660) 1601 – Pierre de Fermat, French lawyer and mathematician (d. 1665) 1629 – John III Sobieski, Polish–Lithuanian king (d. 1696) 1686 – Nicola Porpora, Italian composer (d. 1768) 1753 – Josef Dobrovský, Bohemian philologist and historian (d. 1828) 1768 – Louis Desaix, French general (d. 1800) 1786 – Davy Crockett, American soldier and politician (d. 1836) 1786 – Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1861) 1794 – Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (d. 1849) 1828 – Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist (d. 1897) 1840 – Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English poet (d. 1922) 1844 – Menelik II of Ethiopia (d. 1913) 1863 – Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and photographer (d. 1924) 1866 – Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI, Indian 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (d. 1911) 1866 – Julia Marlowe, English-American actress (d. 1950) 1873 – John A. Sampson, American gynecologist (d. 1946) 1877 – Ralph McKittrick, American golfer and tennis player (d. 1923) 1878 – Reggie Duff, Australian cricketer (d. 1911) 1880 – Percy Sherwell, South African cricketer (d. 1948) 1887 – Charles I of Austria (d. 1922) 1887 – Marcus Garvey, Jamaican journalist and activist, founded Black Star Line (d. 1940) 1888 – Monty Woolley, American actor and singer (d. 1963) 1890 – Stefan Bastyr, Polish pilot (d. 1920) 1890 – Harry Hopkins, American politician, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1946) 1893 – Mae West, American actress, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1980) 1894 – William Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes, English businessman, founded Rootes Group (d. 1964) 1895 – Aris Maliagros, Greek actor and singer (d. 1984) 1896 – Leslie Groves, American general and engineer (d. 1970) 1896 – Tõnis Kint, Estonian politician (d. 1991) 1896 – Oliver Waterman Larkin, American historian and author (d. 1970) 1904 – Mary Cain, American journalist and politician (d. 1984) 1904 – Leopold Nowak, Austrian composer (d. 1991) 1909 – Larry Clinton, American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1985) 1911 – Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (d. 1995) 1911 – Martin Sandberger, German colonel and lawyer (d. 2010) 1913 – Mark Felt, American agent, 2nd Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (d. 2008) 1913 – Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1989) 1913 – Rudy York, American baseball player and manager (d. 1970) 1914 – Bill Downs, American journalist (d. 1978) 1914 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1988) 1916 – Moses Majekodunmi, Nigerian politician (d. 2012) 1918 – Evelyn Ankers, Chilean-American actress (d. 1985) 1919 – Georgia Gibbs, American singer (d. 2006) 1920 – Maureen OHara, Irish-American actress and singer 1921 – Geoffrey Elton, German-English historian (d. 1994) 1922 – Roy Tattersall, England cricketer (d. 2011) 1926 – Valerie Eliot, English businesswoman (d. 2012) 1926 – George Melly, English singer (d. 2007) 1926 – Jean Poiret, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1992) 1926 – Jiang Zemin, Chinese politician, 5th President of the Peoples Republic of China 1927 – Sam Butera, American musician (d. 2009) 1928 – T. J. Anderson, American composer, conductor, and educator 1928 – Willem Duys, Dutch tennis player, sportscaster, and producer (d. 2011) 1929 – Augie Blunt, American actor (d. 1999) 1929 – Jimmy Donley, American singer-songwriter (d. 1963) 1929 – Francis Gary Powers, American pilot (d. 1977) 1930 – Harve Bennett, American screenwriter and producer 1930 – Ted Hughes, English poet, author, and playwright (d. 1998) 1932 – V. S. Naipaul, Trinidadian-English author, Nobel Prize laureate 1933 – Glenn Corbett, American actor (d. 1993) 1933 – Mark Dinning, American singer (d. 1986) 1933 – Gene Kranz, American NASA flight director and manager 1934 – João Donato, Brazilian pianist and composer 1934 – Ron Henry, English footballer 1935 – Oleg Tabakov, Russian actor 1936 – Floyd Red Crow Westerman, American actor, singer, and activist (d. 2007) 1937 – Ronnie Butler, Bahamian singer 1937 – Spiros Focás, Greek actor 1938 – Abu Bakar Bashir, Indonesian cleric 1938 – Theodoros Pangalos, Greek politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece 1939 – Luther Allison, American singer and guitarist (d. 1997) 1940 – Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian director and screenwriter (d. 2006) 1941 – Lothar Bisky, German politician (d. 2013) 1941 – Jean Pierre Lefebvre, Canadian director and screenwriter 1942 – Muslim Magomayev, Azerbaijani singer 1943 – Robert De Niro, American actor, director, and producer 1943 – John Humphrys, Welsh journalist and author 1943 – Dave Snaker Ray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Koerner, Ray & Glover) (d. 2002) 1945 – Rachel Pollack, American author 1944 – Larry Ellison, American businessman, co-founded the Oracle Corporation 1946 – Martha Coolidge, American director, producer, and screenwriter 1946 – Patrick Manning, Trinidadian-Tobagonian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago 1947 – Sylvia Nasar, German-American economist and author 1947 – Jennifer Rhodes, American actress 1947 – Gary Talley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Box Tops) 1948 – Alexander Ivashkin, Russian-English cellist and conductor (d. 2014) 1948 – Rod MacDonald, American singer-songwriter 1949 – Norm Coleman, American lawyer and politician, 52nd Mayor of St. Paul 1949 – Sue Draheim, American fiddler 1949 – Julian Fellowes, Egyptian-English actor, director, screenwriter, and politician 1949 – Sib Hashian, American drummer (Boston) 1951 – Robert Joy, Canadian actor 1951 – Richard Hunt, American puppeteer and actor (d. 1992) 1951 – Alan Minter, English boxer 1951 – Elba Ramalho, Brazilian singer-songwriter and actress 1952 – Aleksandr Maksimenkov, Russian footballer and coach (d. 2012) 1952 – Nelson Piquet, Brazilian race car driver 1952 – Mario Theissen, German businessman 1952 – Guillermo Vilas, Argentinian tennis player 1953 – Mick Malthouse, Australian footballer and coach 1953 – Kevin Rowland, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dexys Midnight Runners) 1953 – Herta Müller, Romanian-German poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate 1954 – Andrés Pastrana Arango, Colombian lawyer and politician, 38th President of Colombia 1954 – Eric Johnson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1955 – Richard Hilton, American businessman 1956 – Gail Berman, American businessman, co-founded BermanBraun 1956 – Álvaro Pino, Spanish cyclist 1957 – Robin Cousins, English figure skater 1957 – Ken Kwapis, American director and screenwriter 1957 – Laurence Overmire, American poet, author, and actor 1958 – Belinda Carlisle, American singer-songwriter (The Go-Gos) 1958 – Fred Goodwin, Scottish banker and accountant 1958 – Kirk Stevens, Canadian snooker player 1958 – Maurizio Sandro Sala, Brazilian racing driver 1959 – Jonathan Franzen, American author 1959 – David Koresh, American cult leader (d. 1993) 1959 – Chika Sakamoto, Japanese voice actress and singer 1959 – Eric Schlosser, American journalist and author 1960 – Stephan Eicher, Swiss singer-songwriter (Grauzone) 1960 – Sean Penn, American actor and director 1961 – Larry B. Scott, American actor, director, and producer 1962 – Gilby Clarke, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Guns N Roses, Rock Star Supernova, and Candy) 1962 – John Marshall Jones, American actor 1962 – Buddy Landel, American wrestler 1962 – Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, German actor and director 1963 – Shankar, Indian director and producer 1963 – Jon Gruden, American football player, coach, and sportscaster 1964 – Colin James, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1965 – Steve Gorman, American drummer (The Black Crowes and Trigger Hippy) 1964 – Maria McKee, American singer-songwriter (Lone Justice) 1964 – Dave Penney, English footballer and coach 1966 – Maysa Leak, American singer and producer (Incognito) 1966 – Jüri Luik, Estonian diplomat and politician 1966 – Rodney Mullen, American skateboarder 1966 – Don Sweeney, Canadian ice hockey player and manager 1967 – David Conrad, American actor 1968 – Andrew Koenig, American actor (d. 2010) 1968 – Ed McCaffrey, American football player 1968 – Helen McCrory, English actress 1969 – Christian Laettner, American basketball player and coach 1969 – Wayne Mills, American singer-songwriter (d. 2013) 1969 – Donnie Wahlberg, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (New Kids on the Block) 1970 – Jim Courier, American tennis player 1970 – Rupert Degas, English actor and producer 1970 – Andrus Kivirähk, Estonian author 1970 – Øyvind Leonhardsen, Norwegian footballer 1970 – Bob Golding, English actor 1971 – Gonzalo Inzunza Inzunza, Mexican drug lord (d. 2013) 1971 – Uhm Jung-hwa, South Korean singer and actress 1971 – Ed Motta, Brazilian singer and keyboard player 1971 – Jorge Posada, Puerto Rican baseball player 1971 – Shaun Rehn, Australian footballer and coach 1972 – Habibul Bashar, Bangladeshi cricketer 1974 – Tony Hajjar, Lebanese-American drummer (At the Drive-In and Sparta) 1974 – Nicola Kraus, American author 1975 – Giuliana Rancic, Italian-American journalist and actress 1976 – Eric Boulton, Canadian ice hockey player 1976 – Scott Halberstadt, American actor 1976 – Geertjan Lassche, Dutch journalist 1977 – Nathan Deakes, Australian race walker 1977 – William Gallas, French footballer 1977 – Thierry Henry, French footballer 1977 – Mike Lewis, Welsh guitarist (Lostprophets and Public Disturbance) 1977 – Tarja Turunen, Finnish singer-songwriter (Nightwish) 1978 – Karena Lam, Canadian-Hong Kong actress and singer 1978 – Ebon Moss-Bachrach, American actor 1978 – Vibeke Stene, Norwegian singer (Tristania) 1979 – Marcus Patric, English actor 1979 – Antwaan Randle El, American football player 1980 – Keith Dabengwa, Zimbabwean cricketer 1980 – Daniel Güiza, Spanish footballer 1980 – Jan Kromkamp, Dutch footballer 1980 – Lene Marlin, Norwegian singer-songwriter 1980 – Van Tuong Nguyen, Thai-Australian drug trafficker (d. 2005) 1981 – Kristin Adams, American television host 1982 – Phil Jagielka, English footballer 1982 – Cheerleader Melissa, American wrestler 1982 – Mark Salling, American actor and singer 1983 – Dustin Pedroia, American baseball player 1984 – Dee Brown, American basketball player 1984 – Oksana Domnina, Russian ice dancer 1984 – Garrett Wolfe, American football player 1985 – Yū Aoi, Japanese actress 1985 – Brock Kelly, American actor 1986 – Rudy Gay, American basketball player 1986 – Bryton James, American actor and singer 1986 – Tyrus Thomas, American basketball player 1987 – Kemp Muhl, American model, actress, and singer 1988 – Aidan Coleman, Irish jockey 1988 – Bianca Collins, American actress 1988 – Brady Corbet, American actor 1988 – Erika Toda, Japanese actress 1989 – Lil B, American rapper (The Pack) 1989 – Elena Hight, American snowboarder 1989 – Frederick Lau, German actor 1990 – Colin Bates, American actor, singer, and dancer 1990 – Lauren Diewold, Canadian actress 1990 – Rachel Hurd-Wood, English actress 1991 – Austin Butler, American actor and singer 1991 – Qory Sandioriva, Indonesian model, Puteri Indonesia 2009 1992 – Paige, English wrestler 1992 – Alex Elisala, New Zealand-Australian rugby player (d. 2013) 1993 – Cinta Laura, German-Indonesian actress and singer 1993 – Madison McReynolds, American actress 1993 – Sarah Sjöström, Swedish swimmer 1994 – Taissa Farmiga, American actress 1995 – Gracie Gold, American figure skater 1996 – Ella Cruz, Filipino actress
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