Taizu (927-976 AD)
Founder and 1st Emperor of the Song Dynasty (960-976) who reunified most of China by conquering the states of Southern Tang, Later Shu, Southern Han and Jingnan, born in Luoyang, Henan, China
- 1466 French van Brederode, leader Hoeksen
- 1474 Angela Merici, Italian monastery founder/saint
- 1521 Maurice, Duke and later Elector of Saxony (1547-53), (d. 1553)
- 1713 Francis Lewis, signer (Declaration of Independence)
- 1763 Jean Paul, German romantic writer (Titan), born in Wunsiedel, Franconia (d. 1825)
- 1765 Henry Fagel, Dutch/English baron/diplomat
- 1768 Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician/Egyptologist
- 1801 Maria Theresa of Tuscany, Queen of Sardinia (d. 1855)
- 1806 Benito Pablo Juarez, president of Mexico (1858-72), born in Oaxaca, Mexico
- 1811 Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (d. 1891)
- 1813 James Jesse Strang, King of Mormons on Beaver Is, MI (1850-56)
Henry Ossian Flipper (1856-1940)
American soldier, former slave and first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1877, born in Thomasville, Georgia
Albert Kahn (1869-1942)
American architect known as the "architect of Detroit", born in Rhaunen, Kingdom of Prussia
- 1869 Florenz Ziegfeld, producer (Ziegfield Follies)
- 1880 Hans Hofmann, German/American painter (Search for the Real)
- 1880 Wilhelm Pessler, German sociologist
- 1884 George D Birkhoff, American mathematician (Aesthetic measure)
- 1887 Edwin Scharff, German "entartet" painter/sculptor
- 1889 Otto Forst de Battaglia, Austrian diplomat and genealogist, born in Vienna (d. 1965)
- 1893 Geoffrey Dearmer, poet
- 1900 Eugenie Leontovitch, Russian actress (Homicidal, The Rains of Ranchipur), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1993)
- 1901 Karl Arnold, German politician (d. 1958)
- 1901 Richard Leslie Hill, historian
- 1902 William Downie Forrest, journalist
- 1904 Forrest Mars Sr., American candymaker (d. 1999)
- 1905 Phyllis McGinley, American poet (Pulitzer 1961, Love Letters)
- 1906 Jim Thompson, American designer and businessman
- 1906 John D. Rockefeller III, billionaire philanthropist (oil)
- 1910 M S Khan, Bangladeshi intellectual (d. 1978)
- 1910 Nick Castle, American choreographer (Dinah Shore, Judy Garland), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1968)
- 1913 George Ghita Ionescu, academic
- 1913 Max Youngstein, American producer (United Artists), born in NYC, New York
- 1914 Herman Siles Zuazo, politician
- 1917 Frank Hardy, Australian author (d. 1994)
- 1919 Geoffrey Pinnington, journalist
- 1920 Georg Ots, Estonian singer (d. 1975)
- 1921 Abdul Salam Arif, Iraqi politician and President of Iraq (1963-66), born in Baghdad, Mandatory Iraq (d. 1966)
- 1921 Joe Sutter, American engineer and head of the Boeing 747 program, born in Seattle, Washington (d. 2016)
- 1923 Shri Mataji Nirmala Srivastava, Founder of Sahaja Yoga
- 1925 John E. Grotberg, American politician (Rep-R-IL, 1985-86), born in Winnebago, Minnesota (d. 1986)
- 1927 Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German Minister of Foreign Affairs (FDP), worked to re-unify Germany, born in Reideburg (d. 2016)
- 1928 James W Kinnear, CEO (Texaco), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- 1928 Peter Hacks, German playwright (Tie Windloch)
- 1931 Ivan William Hannaford, sociologist
- 1933 John Hall, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
- 1933 Michael Heseltine, UK Secretary of State for Defence (1986)/MP
- 1935 Hubert Fichte, German writer, born in Perleberg (d. 1986)
- 1936 Ed Broadbent, Canadian politician
- 1938 Wilf Corrigan, English/US electronic manufacturer (LSI Logic)
- 1941 Dirk D Frimout, Belgian cosmonaut
- 1942 Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemeni politician and 1st President of Yemen (1990-2012), born in Bait el-Ahmar, Kingdom of Yemen (d. 2017)
- 1949 Slavoj Žižek, Slovenian sociologist, philosopher and cultural critic, born in Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 1950 Elena Firsova, Russian classical omposer (The Scent of Absence; Requiem), born in Leningrad, USSR (now Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Sergey Lavrov (72 years old)
1950 Russian politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs (2004-), born in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union
Jair Bolsonaro (67 years old)
1955 Brazilian politician and President of Brazil (2019-22), born in Glicério, São Paulo, Brazil
- 1962 Mark Waid, American comic book writer
- 1965 Xavier Bertrand, French politician
- 1967 Adrian Chiles, British television and radio presenter, and sportscaster, born in Quinton, Birmingham, England
- 1968 DJ Premier (Preemo), hip hop producer
- 1972 Large Professor [William Mitchell], American hip hop artist (Main Source), born in New York City
- 1978 Charmaine Dragun, Australian news anchor (d. 2007)
- 1978 Kevin Federline, American dancer/hip hop artist
- 2004 Count Claus-Casimir of Orange-Nassau, Jonkheer van Amsberg
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