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1875 – Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian artist, born in Veliky Novgorod, Russia (d. 1957)
1884 – Rómulo Gallegos, 48th President of Venezuela (1948), born in Caracas, Venezuela (d. 1969)
1892 – John Kieran, American columnist and author (Natural History of NYC), born in New York City (d. 1981)
1910 – Truus van Aalten [Geertruida van Aalten], Dutch silent and sound screen actress (Flaming Youth; The Beggar Student; The Girl in the Blue Hat), born in Arnhem, Netherlands (d. 1999)
1915 – Johan Limpers, Dutch sculptor and resistance fighter, born in Heemstede, Netherlands (d. 1944)
1919 – John Pinkerton, English computer scientist who designed the first business computer in England, the LEO computer, born in London (d. 1997)
1935 – John MacIvor Perkins, American composer, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2010)
1947 – Lawrence Wright, American author and journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize for his book “The Looming Tower” (2007), born in Oklahoma City
1952 – Les Dudek, American guitarist and singer (Steve Miller Band), born in Quonset Point Naval Air Station, Rhode Island
1969 – Richard Hallebeek, Dutch guitarist, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands

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1899 – William Steinberg, German-American conductor (Boston Symphony 1969-71), born in Cologne, Germany (d. 1978)
1922 – Maria Cole [née Hawkins], American jazz singer and wife of Nat King Cole, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2012)
1930 – Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian-American actor, choreographer, singer, director (Annie; The Wiz), and painter, born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2014)
1940 – Mervyn Kitchen, English cricketer and umpire, born in Nailsea, Somerset
1940 – Co Hoedeman, Dutch-Canadian animator and director (The Sand Castle, Oddball), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 2025)
1947 – Rick Coonce, American rock drummer (Grass Roots), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2011)
1956 – Tom Leykis, American radio personality (The Tom Leykis Show), born in The Bronx, New York
1962 – Gertjan Verbeek, Dutch soccer player (SC Heerenveen), born in Deventer, Netherlands
1973 – Eduardo Noriega, Spanish actor (Open Your Eyes), born in Santander, Cantabria, Spain
1990 – Landry Allbright, American actress (How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Bold and the Beautiful), born in San Dimas, California

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1578 – Catharina Belgica of Nassau, Countess of Hanau-Münzenberg and daughter of William the Silent, born in Antwerp (d. 1648)
1686 – Charles, Duke of Berry, French heir presumptive to the Spanish throne (1700-07), born at the Palace of Versailles, France (d. 1714)
1803 – John Ericsson, Swedish-American inventor (screw propeller, rotating turret), born in Långban, Sweden (d. 1889)
1844 – Ignazio Guidi, Italian orientalist and archaeologist, born in Rome, Italy (d. 1935)
1912 – Milton Friedman, American economist (Nobel Prize Economics 1976), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2006)
1914 – Louis De Funes, French actor and writer (The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacobs), born in Courbevoie, France (d. 1983)
1939 – France Nuyen, Vietnamese-French actress (St Elsewhere, Diamond Head), born in Marseilles, France
1958 – Bill Berry, American drummer (R.E.M., 1980-97 – “Losing My Religion”; “Stand”), born in Duluth, Minnesota
1962 – Troy Murray, Canadian NHL hockey center (Chicago Black Hawks, Colorado Avalanche, and 3 other teams), and broadcaster (Black Hawks), born in Calgary, Alberta (d. 2026)
1965 – Pat Finn, American television actor (The Middle, Marvin Marvin), born in Evanston, Illinois (d. 2025)

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1927 – Richard Johnson, British stage and screen actor and producer (Never So Few; Restless; Beyond the Door), born in Upminster, England (d. 2015)
1928 – Joe Nuxhall, American MLB baseball pitcher (youngest MLB player at 15 years, 316 days – Cincinnati Reds) and sportscaster, born in Hamilton, Ohio (d. 2007)
1947 – John Siomos, American session and touring rock drummer (Peter Frampton; Todd Rundgren), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2004)
1957 – Bert Oosterbosch, Dutch cyclist, born in Eindhoven, Netherlands (d. 1989)
1959 – Petra Felke, German javelin thrower (world record 1988), born in Saalfeld, East Germany
1961 – Reggie Roby, American NFL football punter (3 × Pro Bowl; NFL 1980s All-Decade Team; Miami Dolphins), born in Waterloo, Iowa (d. 2005)
1962 – Jay Feaster, American NHL hockey league executive, born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
1968 – Charles Gordon, CFL defensive back (Montreal Alouettes), born in Tampa, Florida
1973 – Markus Naslund, Swedish NHL right wing (Vancouver Canucks), born in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden
1977 – Jaime Pressly, American model and actress (Mom My Name is Earl), born in Kinston, North Carolina

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1758 – Antonius van Gils, Dutch Roman Catholic theologist (opposed Enlightenment), born in Tilburg, Netherlands (d. 1834)
1778 – Carl Borromaus Neuner, German composer, born in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria (d. 1830)
1820 – Clement Vallandigham, American politician (Rep-D-Ohio, convicted of opposing civil war, exiled to Confederate States), born in New Lisbon, Ohio (d. 1871)
1869 – Booth Tarkington, American novelist (17, The Magnificent Ambersons), born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 1946)
1874 – James Shaver Woodsworth, Canadian politician and pastor, born in Etobicoke, Ontario (d. 1942)
1916 – Rupert Hamer, Australian politician (39th Premier of Victoria, 1972-81; Member of Legislative Council, 1958-71), born in Kew, Australia (d. 2004)
1937 – Daniel McFadden, American economist and Nobel Prize Laureate who developed theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice, born in Raleigh, North Carolina
1945 – Michelle Angelo, American actress (Funny Girl), born in Kingsville, Texas
1959 – Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor (Vaastav), born in Bombay, India
1991 – Drew Baldridge, American country music singer-songwriter (“She’s Somebody’s Daughter”), born in Pakota, Illinois

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1866 – Beatrix Potter, English children’s author and illustrator (The Tale of Peter Rabbit), born in London (d. 1943)
1902 – Vibart Wight, West Indian cricket batsman (2 Tests; v/c WI first touring team v England 1928), born in Georgetown, British Guiana (d. 1969)
1914 – Carmen Dragon, American composer (Invasion of the Body Snatchers), and conductor (Hollywood Bowl Symphony), born in Antioch, California (d. 1984)
1925 – Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American scientist, (1976 Nobel laureate for Physiology or Medicine for work on Hepatitis B), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2011)
1931 – Johnny Martin, Australian cricket left-arm bowler (1960’s), born in Wingham, Australia (d. 1992)
1947 – Jimmy “Duck” Holmes, American blues musician (“Cypress Garden”) and juke joint proprietor (Blue Front Cafe), born in Bentonia, Mississippi.
1949 – Randall Wallace, American screenwriter and film producer (Braveheart), born in Jackson, Tennessee
1956 – Carol Higgins Clark, American suspense novelist (Regan Reilly series), born in Manhattan, New York (d. 2023)
1957 – Scott Pelley, American author (Truth Worth Telling) and reporter for CBS News (60 Minutes, CBS Evening News), born in San Antonio, Texas
1981 – Michael Carrick, English footballer, born in Wallsend, England

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1625 – Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, English soldier, admiral and patron to Samuel Pepys, born in Barnwell (d. 1672)
1768 – Charlotte Corday, French revolutionary who murdered Jean-Paul Marat in a bath, born in Saint-Saturnin, France (d. 1793)
1848 – Friedrich Ernst Dorn, German physicist who discovered that radon is emitted from radium, born in Guttstadt, Province of Prussia (now Warmia in Poland) (d. 1916)
1905 – Robert L. May, American advertising copy writer and creator of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, born in Arverne, New York (d. 1976)
1910 – Julien Gracq [Louis Poirier], French writer (Andre Breton), born in Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, Maine-et-Loire, France (d. 2007)
1924 – Vincent Canby, American movie critic (NY Times), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2000)
1943 – Stu Gilliam, American actor and comedian (Roll Out, Harris and Company), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2013)
1944 – Barbara Thompson, British jazz saxophonist and composer, born in Oxford, England (d. 2022)
1969 – Bryan Fuller, American television writer and producer (Hannibal; Pushing Daisies), born in Lewiston, Idaho
1970 – Tom Europe, Canadian football defensive back (Montreal Alouettes), born in Toronto, Ontario

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1855 – Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist and philosopher, born in Oldenswort, Germany (d. 1936)
1874 – Serge Koussevitzky, Russian-American conductor (Boston Symphony, 1924-49), born in Vyshny Volochyok, Russia (d. 1951)
1911 – Jerry Burke, American easy-listening pianist and organ player (Lawrence Welk Orchestra, 1934-65), born in Marshalltown, Iowa (d. 1965)
1929 – Marc Lalonde, French Canadian politician (30th Minister of Finance, 1982-84), born in Île Perrot, Quebec (d. 2023)
1950 – Rich Vogler, American auto racer (most combined wins in USAC history [171]), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1990)
1961 – Keiko Matsui (née Doi), Japanese jazz pianist and composer, born in Tokyo, Japan
1965 – Jim Lindberg, American musician (Pennywise), born in Hermosa Beach, California
1985 – Gaël Clichy, French footballer (İstanbul Başakşehir), born in Toulouse, France
1990 – Zach Serleth, American jazz, bluegrass, and klezmer bassist and banjo player, born in Baltimore, Maryland
2004 – Dilano van ‘t Hoff, Dutch racingcar driver (F4 Spanish Championship, 2021), born in Dordrecht, Netherlands (d. 2023)

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1901 – Walter Breedveld, Dutch writer (Een schip vergaat), born in Den Bosch, Netherlands (d. 1977)
1917 – Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian professional wrestler, born in East York, Ontario, Canada (d. 1990)
1924 – Frank Church, American lawyer and politician (United States Senator from Idaho), born in Boise, Idaho (d. 1984)
1935 – Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi businessman (arms dealing), born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia (d. 2017)
1941 – Nate Thurmond, American Basketball HOF center (7 x NBA All Star SF/Golden State Warriors), born in Akron, Ohio (d. 2016)
1942 – Krister Kristensson, Swedish soccer defender (38 caps; Malmö FF, Trelleborgs FF) and manager (Trelleborgs FF, Lunds BK, Höllvikens GIF), born in Malmö, Sweden (d. 2023)
1971 – Roger Creager, American country music singer-songwriter (“Bad Friend to a Good Man”), born in Corpus Christi, Texas
1973 – Kevin Phillips, English soccer striker (8 caps; EPL top scorer [30 goals] 1999–2000 Sunderland), born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England
1973 – Mur Lafferty, American podcaster and writer, born in Durham, North Carolina
1988 – Anthony Stokes, Irish soccer striker (9 caps Republic of Ireland; Celtic FC), born in Dublin, Ireland

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1709 – James Harris, British politician and grammarian, born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England (d. 1780)
1816 – Józef Michał Poniatowski [Giuseppe Michele Luci], Poilsh-Italian-French nobleman, diplomat, operatic tenor, and composer, born in Rome, Papal States (d. 1873)
1917 – John Hillaby, English writer and traveller, born in England (d. 1996)
1920 – Alexander H. Cohen, Broadway producer (Beyond the Fringe), born in New York City (d. 2000)
1925 – Ignacio Aldecoa, Spanish writer (Gran Sol, Caballo the Pica), born in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain (d. 1969)
1933 – John Aniston, American actor (Search for Tomorrow, Days of Our Lives), born in Crete, Greece (d. 2022)
1961 – Paul Geary, American heavy metal drummer (Extreme – “Nore Than Words”), born in Medford, Massachusetts
1968 – John P. Navin Jr, American actor (Joey Elliot-Jennifer Slept Here), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1981 – Nayib Bukele, Salvadoran politician (President of El Salvador 2019-), born in San Salvador, El Salvador
1982 – Thiago Medeiros, Brazilian auto racer (Infiniti Pro Series 2004), born in São Paulo, Brazil

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