- 1010 Emperor Renzong of China, Emperor of the Song dynasty (d. 1063)
Alexander Nevsky (1220-1263)
Prince of Novgorod and Grand Prince of Vladimir, considered the key figure in medieval Rus (1252-63), born in Pereslavl-Zalessky, Vladimir-Suzdal (now Russia)
- 1423 Georg von Purbach, Austrian mathematician and astronomer (best known for his streamlined presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Theoricae Novae Planetarum), born in Peuerbach, Austria (d. 1461)
- 1623 John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (d. 1686)
- 1623 Wallerant Vaillant, French painter and engraver, born in Lille, France (d. 1677)
- 1653 Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Empress consort of Germany, born in Florence, Tuscany (d. 1676)
- 1664 Giulio Alberoni, Spanish-Italian minister and cardinal, born in Piacenza, duchy of Parma (d. 1752)
- 1718 Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, British politician, born in Fairford, Gloucestershire (d. 1793)
Henry Addington (1757-1844)
1st Viscount Sidmouth, British Prime Minister (Tory: 1801-04), born in London
- 1800 Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, German mathematician (Position of Feuerbach), born in Jena, Saxe-Weimar, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1834)
- 1812 John Alexander McClernand, American politician and Major General (Union Army), born in Breckinridge County, Kentucky (d. 1900)
- 1814 Eugène Charles Catalan, French-Belgian mathematician (worked on continued fractions, descriptive geometry, number theory and combinatorics), born in Bruges, Belgium (d. 1894)
- 1819 William McMurdo, British army officer (d. 1894)
- 1820 Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, French Canadian politician (1st Premier of Quebec), born in Charlesbourg, Quebec (d. 1890)
- 1829 Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert, born in Gdańsk, Poland (d. 1897)
- 1830 Edward Winslow Hinks, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Bucksport, Maine (d. 1894)
- 1832 George Doherty Johnston, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Hillsborough, North Carolina (d. 1910)
- 1835 Alfred Austin, English poet laureate of England (Garden), born in Headingley, Yorkshire, England (d. 1913)
- 1845 Amadeus/Amadeo I, duke of Aosta and King of Spain (1870-73), born in Turin, Italy (d. 1890)
- 1846 Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler (famous for Fabergé eggs), born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1920)
- 1847 Alice Stopford Green, Irish historian and proponent of Irish independence, born in Kells, Ireland (d. 1929)
- 1859 Pierre Janet, French psychologist and neurologist (contributed to the modern concept of mental and emotional disorders involving anxiety, phobias, and other abnormal behaviour), born in Paris (d. 1947)
- 1867 Arthur Vining Davis, American industrialist and CEO (Alcoa-1910-57), born in Sharon, Massachusetts (d. 1962)
- 1875 Giovanni Gentile, Italian philosopher (The Doctrine of Fascism), born in Castelvetrano, Italy (d. 1944)
- 1881 Georg von Küchler, German field marshal and WWII war criminal, born in Schloss Philippsruh, German Empire (d. 1968)
- 1886 Randolph Bourne, American writer (Education and Living), born in Bloomfield, New Jersey (d. 1918)
- 1887 Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian-American sculptor and lithographer, born in Kyiv, Russian Empire (d. 1964)
- 1888 James A Farley, postmaster general (1932-38)
- 1891 Iman J van den Bosch, Belgian resistance fighter
- 1892 Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (d. 1972)
- 1894 Hubertus J van Mook, Dutch minister of Colonies (1942-45)
- 1901 Cornelia Otis Skinner, Chic, writer (When Our Hearts Were Young & Gay)
- 1902 Seton Howard Frederick Lloyd, English Archaeologist (Arzawa civilization, Turkey)
- 1903 Countee Cullen, African American poet of the Harlem Renaissance (Black Christ & Other Poems), born in Baltimore, Maryland
- 1903 Ray Howard-Jones, artist
- 1904 Ernesto de la Guardia Jr, President of Panama (1956-60)
- 1906 Bruno Gröning, German faith healer (d. 1959)
- 1907 Elly Beinhorn, German pilot (d. 2007)
- 1907 Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (d. 2008)
- 1912 Alexander Langsdorf, physicist
- 1912 Joseph Stein, American dramatist and playwright (Fiddler on the Roof), born in NYC, New York (d. 2010)
- 1912 Julian Gustave Symons, writer
- 1915 Jerome Bert Weisner, military scientist/disarmer
- 1916 Joseph W Kennedy, American chemist (Manhattan Project; 1 of 4 discoverers of plutonium), and educator, born in Nacogdoches, Texas (d. 1957)
- 1918 Bob Evans, American restaurateur (d. 2007)
- 1918 Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (d. 2000)
- 1919 René Barrientos, President of Bolivia (d. 1969)
- 1922 Hal Clement [Harry Clement Stubbs], US sci-fi author (Needle, Iceworld), born in Somerville, Massachusetts
- 1925 Eddy Bruma, Suriname politician
- 1925 Gerard John Toorenaar, political commissar in Amsterdam (1975-79)
- 1926 Christine Jorgensen, pioneer transsexual (born George William Jorgensen, Jr)
- 1926 James Whitman McLamore, businessman
- 1927 Evelyn Wesler Zemel, American author (American Glass Animals)
- 1928 Agnès Varda, Belgium-born French director (Vagabond), born in Ixelles, Belgium (d. 2019)
- 1928 John Keith Wright, English economist, Assistant Secretary of State (1971-84)
- 1928 Pro Hart, Australian artist (d. 2006)
- 1930 Mark Birley, British nightclub owner (d. 2007)
- 1930 Robert Ryman, American painter
- 1933 Sid Mark [Fliegelman], American disc jockey and 'Frank-ophile' (The Sounds of Sinatra, 1960-2022), born in Camden, New Jersey (d. 2022)
Alexey Leonov (88 years old)
1934 Russian cosmonaut (Voskhod 2, first person to walk in space), born in Listvyanka, Soviet Union (d. 2019)
- 1937 Arthur C. Jacobs, Scottish poet, born in Glasgow (d. 1994)
- 1938 Wilfried de Pree, Dutch politician and theologian (PvdA)/theologist, born in Amstelveen, North Holland, Netherlands
- 1942 Dan Miller, American politician (Rep-R-Florida 1993-2003), born in Highland Park, Michigan
- 1945 Barry Clifford, American underwater explorer (discovered 1st verified pirate shipwreck the Whydah), born in Hyannis, Massachusetts
- 1945 Richard Divila, Brazilian motorsports designer (Fittipaldi Automotive; Ligier, Nissan), born in São Paulo, Brazil (d. 2020)
- 1946 Candy Lightner, American political activist/founder (MADD), born in Pasadena, California
- 1950 Bertrand Delanoë, French politician
- 1951 Fernando Lugo, Paraguayan politician
Brian Kobilka (67 years old)
1955 American physiologist who won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (G protein-coupled receptors), born in Little Falls, Minnesota
- 1956 Allison Roe MBE, New Zealand marathon runner (NYC, Boston 1981; Seoul 1982), born in Auckland, New Zealand
- 1956 David-Maria Sassoli, Italian politician and journalist, European Parliament President (2019-22), born in Florence, Italy (d. 2022)
- 1956 Jonathan Idema, Poughkeepsie, New York, torturer, kidnapper and con artist (d. 2012)
- 1956 Katerina Sakellaropoulou, Greek politician (1st female President of Greece 2020-), born in Thessaloniki, Greece
- 1957 Hervé Leroux, French fashion designer and founder of Hervé Léger fashion house, born in Bapaume, France (d. 2017)
- 1958 Michael E Lopez-Alegria, Lt Cmdr/astro (STS 73, sk 92), born in Madrid, Spain
- 1958 Steve Israel, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (D-New York)
- 1959 Claudia Alexander, Canadian-born American NASA Scientist (led Galileo mission to Jupiter), born in Vancouver, British Columbia (d. 2015)
- 1959 Frank Vanhecke, Belgian politician, born in Bruges, Belgium
- 1962 Kevin Eastman, American comic book creator
- 1963 Helen Patricia Sharman, Great Britain, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-12)
- 1963 Nasrin Sotoudeh, Iranian human rights lawyer, born in Langarud, Iran
- 1968 Kelley Armstrong, Canadian novelist (Women of the Otherworld), born in Sudbury, Ontario
- 1968 Zacarias Moussaoui, French citizen found guilty relating to September 11, 2001 attacks
- 1970 Ness Wadia, Indian industrialist
- 1972 Soichiro Hoshi, Japanese seiyuu
- 1975 Marissa Mayer, American technology executive (CEO of Yahoo, designed Google home page), born in Wausau, Wisconsin
- 1978 Lyoto Machida, Brazilian mixed martial artist
- 1984 Matt Maguire, Australian rules footballer
- 1986 Ashley Slaney, daughter of Olympians Mary Decker & Richard Slaney
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