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Cicero
106 BC Cicero, Roman statesman and philosopher, born in Arpinum (d. 43 BC)

Cicero
- 1196 Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1231)
- 1624 William Tucker, 1st African American child born in America
- 1680 Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German stucco worker
- 1698 Pietro Metastasio, Italian poet (d. 1782)
- 1710 Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (d. 1796)
- 1719 Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian (d. 1773)
- 1722 Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (d. 1752)
- 1730 Charles Palissot de Montenoy, French writer/politician
- 1757 Johann Abraham Sixt, composer
- 1760 John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (d. 1835)
- 1763 Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator
- 1777 Louis Poinsot, French instrument worker
- 1777 M A Elisa Bonaparte, Corsican monarch of Lucca/Piombino
- 1778 Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop (d. 1861)
- 1786 [Johann Christian] Friedrich Schneider, German composer and conductor (d. 1853)
- 1789 Carl G Carus, German physician/psychologist/philosopher
- 1793 Lucretia Coffin Mott, American teacher/minister/abolitionist/feminist
- 1802 Feliks Ostrowski, composer
- 1802 Charles Pelham Villiers, British House of Commons member (d. 1898)
- 1803 Douglas William Jerrold, author/playwright/wit (Punch Mag), born in London, England
- 1806 Henriette Sontag, German soprano (d. 1854)
- 1810 Antoine T. d'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1897)
- 1810 Eliza Von Bretton di Zerega, Danish West Indies, baroness
- 1819 Charles Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royal for Scotland (d. 1900)
- 1823 Jaak-Nikolaas Lemmens, Flemish composer
- 1828 Karl Collan, Finnish composer
- 1829 John G R Acquoy, theologist/church historian
- 1829 Konrad Duden, German linguist (Der grosse Duden)
- 1830 Alexander Ewing, composer
- 1835 Larkin Goldsmith Mead, sculptor
- 1836 Sakamoto Ryoma, Japanese revolutionary (d. 1867)
- 1840 Father Joseph Damien de Veuster, Belgian helped lepers in Hawaii
- 1853 Iwan Knorr, German composer, born in Mewe (d. 1916)
- 1855 Hubert Bland, English socialist (d. 1914)
- 1861 William Renshaw, British champion tennis player (d. 1904)
- 1862 Sir Matthew Nathan, British Governor of Queensland and other places (d. 1939)
- 1865 Henry Lytton, British actor and opera singer (The Mikado), born in London, England (d. 1936)
- 1868 Franz V M Cumont, Belgian religious historian
- 1869 Paul Charles Rene Landormy, composer
- 1870 Henry Eichheim, composer
- 1870 Henry Handel Richardson, Australia, novelist (Richard Mahoney)
- 1873 Ichizo Kobayashi, Japanese businessman (d. 1957)
- 1876 Wilhelm Pieck, co-founder German Communist Party/pres (1949-60)
- 1879 Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge, US First Lady (1923-29)
- 1882 Willem Benoy, Flemish actor and director (Pygmalion), born in Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgium (d. 1939)
Clement Attlee
1883 Clement Attlee, British Prime Minister (L-1945-51), born in Putney, London (d. 1967)

Clement Attlee
- 1884 Eli S Jones, American evangelist (Christ of Indian road)
- 1884 Raoul Armand Georg Koczalski, composer
- 1886 Arthur Mailey, cricketer (great Aussie leg-spinner & cartoonist)
- 1886 John G Fletcher, American poet (Epic of Arkansas)
- 1886 Josephine Hull, American Academy award actress (Harvey), born in Newtonville, Massachusetts (d. 1957)
- 1887 Helen Parkhurst, US educator (Education on the Dalton plan)
- 1887 August Macke, German painter (d. 1914)
- 1891 Osip E Mandelstam, Polish/Russian poet/author (Kamenj) [NS=Jan 15]
J. R. R. Tolkien
1892 J. R. R. Tolkien, British author (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings), born in Bloemfontein, South Africa (d. 1973)

J. R. R. Tolkien
- 1893 Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, French novelist/essayist (Gilles)
- 1894 ZaSu Pitts, American actress (Life With Father, Dames, Wedding March), born in Parsons, Kansas (d. 1963)
- 1895 Boris Mykolayovich Lyatoshyns'ky, composer
- 1895 Mihail Andricu, composer
- 1897 Marion Davies [Marion Cecelia Douras], American actress (Operator 13), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1961)
- 1897 Pola Negri, [Barbara A Chalupiec], Polish-American stage actress (Madame Dubarry), born in Lipno, Kingdom of Poland, Russian Empire (d. 1987)
- 1898 Johannes Hin, Holland, yachtsman (Olympic gold 1920)
- 1900 Dorothy Arnzer, director
- 1900 Maurice Jaubert, French composer, born in Nice (d. 1940)
- 1901 Eric Voegelin, German US philosopher (Order & History)
Ngô Đình Diệm
1901 Ngô Đình Diệm, President and authoritarian leader of South Vietnam (1954-63), born in Quảng Bình, French Indochina (d. 1963)

Ngô Đình Diệm
Ray Milland
1905 Ray Milland, Welsh actor (Lost Weekend-Academy Award 1945), born in Neath, Wales (d. 1986)

Ray Milland
- 1905 Anna May Wong, American actress, 1st Chinese-American movie star (Shanghai Express), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1961)
- 1906 Roman Brandstaetter, writer
- 1909 Victor Borge [Borge Rosenbaum], Danish-American comedian and pianist, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 2000)
- 1910 Thomas Stuart Willan, historian
- 1910 Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player (d. 2000)
- 1911 John Sturges, American director (Old Man & Sea, Magnificent 7)
- 1912 Robert Flemyng, British actor (The Deadly Affair, Funny Face), born in Liverpool, England (d. 1995)
- 1912 Renaude Lapointe, Canadian journalist and senator (d. 2002)
- 1912 Armand Lohikoski, Finnish director (d. 2005)
- 1914 Jean Louvel, Flemish pianist/conductor/composer
- 1915 Jack Levine, American social realist painter, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2015),
- 1916 Antonio Estevez, composer
- 1916 Elizabeth "Betty" Furness, American actress, journalist and consumer activist (Dangerous Corner, Studio 1), born in NYC, New York (d. 1994)
- 1916 Maxene Andrews, American singer (Andrew Sisters-Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 1995)
- 1916 Bernard Greenhouse, US cellist (Beaux Arts Trio), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 2011)
- 1917 Vernon A. Walters, American diplomat and US permanent rep to the UN (1989-91), born in NYC, New York (d. 2002)
- 1917 Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (d. 2004)
- 1919 Jesse White, American actor (Bedtime for Bonzo, Maytag repairman, Million Dollar Mermaid), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1997)
- 1920 Renato Carosone, Italian musician (d. 2001)
- 1921 John Russell, American actor (Pale Rider, Rio Bravo), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1991)
- 1922 Bill Travers [William Inge Lindon-Travers], British actor, director, officer and animal rights activist (Born Free, Gorgo), born in Sunderland, England (d. 1994)
- 1922 Jacques Wildberger, Swiss composer (In My End is My Beginning)
- 1922 Morten Nielsen, Danish poet/resistance fighter
- 1923 Dragutin Gostuski, composer
- 1923 Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Australian actor, pilot and radio announcer, born in Coogee, New South Wales, Australia (d. 2009)
- 1924 Andre Franquin, cartoonist
- 1924 Henry M Fazzie, South African Union/UDF-leader
- 1924 Roy Harding, British teacher
- 1924 Nell Rankin, American singer (d. 2005)
- 1924 Doug Ellis, British entrepreneur
- 1926 Danny Overbea, blues singer/guitarist
- 1926 George Martin, British record producer (The Beatles), born in London (d. 2016)
- 1928 Frank Ross Anderson, Canadian International Chess Master (1954)
- 1929 Marilyn Lloyd, (Rep-D-TN, 1975- )
- 1929 Sergio Leone, Italian, director (Fist Full of Dollars)
- 1929 Ernst Mahle, Brazilian composer
- 1930 Eddie Egan, American actor (Joe Forrester), born in NYC, New York
- 1930 Robert Loggia, actor (Officer & a Gentleman, Scarface), born in Staten Island, New York (d. 2015)
- 1930 Marcel Dubé, Quebec playwright
- 1932 Anatoli Petrovich Kuklin, Russian cosmonaut
- 1932 Jaswick Taylor, cricketer (WI pace bowler 50s, 10 wkts in 3 Tests)
- 1932 Mara Corday, actress (Foxfire, Black Scorpion), born in Santa Monica, California
- 1932 Coo Coo Marlin, American NASCAR race car driver, born in Columbia, Tennessee (d. 2005)
- 1934 Bryan George Kelly, composer
- 1934 Carla Hills, American lawyer and politician (Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1975-77), born in Los Angeles, California
- 1936 Betty Rollin, actress (Crossing Delancey)/author (Last Wish)
- 1936 David Vine, British sport commentator
- 1936 Jos Kunst, Dutch composer, born in Roermond (d. 1996)
- 1937 Glen Larson, American television producer & writer (Battlestar Galactica, Magnum PI, & Knight Rider), born in Long Beach, CA, (d. 2014)
Bobby Hull
1939 Bobby Hull, Canadian NHL forward (Chicago Blackhawk 1957-72), born in Pointe Anne, Ontario

Bobby Hull
- 1939 Nikos Alefantos, Greek football manager
- 1939 Janice Crosio, Australian politician
- 1940 Thelma Schoonmaker, actress/editor (Casino, Cape Fear, Good Fellas)
- 1941 Shima Iwashita, actress (Red Lion, Hara-Kiri, Double Suicide)
- 1941 Van Dyke Parks, Alabama, actor/musician (Bonino, Billy Crystal Hour)
- 1942 John Thaw, British actor (d. 2002)
- 1942 John Marsden, Australian lawyer, gay activist (d. 2006)
- 1944 Christina von Saltza, American swimmer (Olympic-3 gold/silver-1960)
- 1944 David Atherton, English conductor
- 1944 Blanche d'Alpuget, Australian novelist, biographer and second wife of Bob Hawke
- 1945 Stephen Stills, songwriter/guitarist (Cosby Stills & Nash), born in Dallas, Texas
John Paul Jones
1946 John Paul Jones [John Baldwin], English rock bassist and songwriter (Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven), born in London

John Paul Jones
- 1946 Cissy King, American entertainer
- 1947 Sergey Filipovich Protchenko, Russian cosmonaut
- 1948 Larry McNeeley, banjo player (Glen Campbell Hour), born in Lafayette, Indiana
- 1948 Manfred Kokot, East German runner (world record 50 m indoor)
- 1949 Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (d. 1965)
- 1950 Victoria Principal, American actress (Earthquake, Pamela-Dallas), born in Fukuoka, Japan
- 1950 Beth Anderson, American composer, born in Lexington, Kentucky
- 1951 Frank Chikane, sec-gen of South African Council of Churches
- 1951 Gary Nairn, Australian politician
- 1952 Jim Ross, American wrestling announcer
- 1953 Angelo Parisi, French heavyweight judo (Olympic gold 1980)
- 1954 Ross The Boss [Ross Friedman], American guitarist (The Dictators), born in the Bronx, New York
- 1954 Dean Hart, Canadian wrestler (d. 1990)
- 1954 Ned Lamont, American businessman
- 1955 Palmolive, English musician (The Slits, The Raincoats)
Mel Gibson
1956 Mel Gibson, American actor (Mad Max, Mrs Soffel, Lethal Weapon) and filmmaker, born in Peekskill, New York

Mel Gibson
- 1956 Willy T. Ribbs, American race car driver, San Jose California
- 1957 Frank Dicopoulos, actor (Frank Cooper-Guiding Light), born in Akron, Ohio
- 1957 Bojan Križај, Slovenian skier
- 1958 Shim Hyung-rae, South Korean filmmaker
- 1959 Rusty Golden, rocker (Boys Band)
- 1960 Sandeep Marwah Founder of Film City, Noida, India
- 1961 Erwin Blom, Dutch singer/guitarist (Eton Crop)
- 1962 Darren Daulton, American baseball player (catcher for the Philadelphia Phillies), born in Arkansas City, Kansas (d. 2017)
- 1962 Gavin Hastings, WLAF kicker (Scottish Claymores)
- 1962 Mark Gardner, American baseball player (Florida Marlins)
- 1962 Francesca Lia Block, American author
- 1963 Aamer Malik, cricketer (Pakistani batsman in 13 Tests 1987-90)
- 1963 Ashley Chinner, golfer (1992 CGIA Canadian Tour), born in Cape Town, South Africa
- 1963 Jim Everett, NFL quarterback (LA Raiders, New Orleans Saints, San Diego Chargers)
- 1963 Vic Grimes, American professional wrestler, born in NYC, New York
- 1963 Jerome Young, American professional wrestler
- 1963 Alex Wheatle MBE, black British novelist
- 1964 Cheryl Miller, basketball player (Olympic gold 1984), born in Riverside, California
- 1964 Bruce LaBruce, Canadian filmmaker
- 1965 Daniel Stubbs, NFL defensive end (Philadelphia Eagles, Miami Dolphins)
- 1965 Mark Dewey, pitcher (SF Giants), born in Grand Rapids Michigan
- 1966 Chetan Sharma, cricketer (Ind Test bowler, World Cup hat-trick 1987)
- 1966 John Kropke, CFL defensive tackle (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
- 1966 Luis Sojo, Venezuelan-born MLB infielder (Seattle Mariners), born in Petare, Edo Miranda
- 1966 Wendell Davis, NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
- 1966 Martin Galway, Northern Ireland composer
- 1967 Demetri Davis, WLAF tight end (Barcelona Dragons)
- 1967 Magnus Gustafsson, Swedish tennis star
- 1968 Kent Carlsson, Swedish tennis star
- 1968 Kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Philadelphia Flyers, Ottawa)
- 1968 Shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah)
- 1968 Thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)
- 1969 Matt LaBounty, defensive end (Seattle Seahawks)
- 1969 Nikki Nelson, Topaz Lake Nev, country singer (Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry)
- 1969 Steve Poapst, Cornwall, NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals)
Michael Schumacher
1969 Michael Schumacher, German Formula 1 racing driver and seven time world champion, born in Hürth, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Michael Schumacher
- 1970 James Brown, NFL tackle (NY Jets)
- 1970 Tony Farmer, NBA forward (Charlotte Hornets)
- 1970 Trudi Jeffrey, Brisbane QLD, golfer (1990 Australian Jr Champion)
- 1970 Yogi Johl, 130 kg Greco Roman wrestler (Olympics 1996), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
- 1970 Mahaya Petrosian, Iranian actress
- 1970 Christian Duguay, American comic actor
- 1970 Matt Ross, American actor
- 1971 Cory Cross, Lloydminster, NHL defenseman (Tampa Bay Lightning)
- 1971 Ku'ualoha Taylor, Hawaii, Miss USA (Hawaii-Miss Congeniality-1996)
- 1971 Rene van Rijswijk, Dutch soccer player (RKC)
- 1972 Charles Johnson, NFL wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)
- 1972 Deborah Carter, WNBA forward (Utah Starzz)
- 1972 Jacques Wildberger, composer
- 1972 Yoon Chan, South Korean actor