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Gregory of Tours
French bishop and saint
(probable;
Frederick II
Margrave of Meissen
(d. 1349)
John
Duke of Berry
(d. 1416)
John FitzAlan
2nd Baron Arundel, Scottish soldier
(d. 1390)
Johann IV Roth
Roman Catholic bishop
(d. 1506)
Casimir IV Jagiellon
King of Poland
(d. 1492)
Mingyi Nyo
founder of Toungoo dynasty of Burma
(d. 1530)
Andrea Doria
Italian admiral
(d. 1560)
Veronica Gambara
Italian poet and stateswoman
(d. 1550)
Andrea Palladio
Italian architect and theoretician, designed the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore and Teatro Olimpico
(d. 1580)
Sir Henry Savile
English scholar and mathematician
(d. 1622)
Philip Sidney
English soldier, courtier, and poet
(d. 1586)
Aubert Miraeus
Belgian historian
(d. 1640)
John Cosin
English bishop and academic
(d. 1672)
Andrea Sacchi
Italian painter
(d. 1661)
William Howard
1st Viscount Stafford
(d. 1680)
Jean Domat
French scholar and jurist
(d. 1696)
Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont
French historian and author
(d. 1698)
Andrea Pozzo
Jesuit Brother, architect and painter
(d. 1709)
Andreas Werckmeister
German organist, composer, and theorist
(d. 1706)
Jonathan Swift
Irish satirist and essayist
(d. 1745)
John Toland
Irish philosopher and author
(d. 1722)
Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller
Austrian field marshal
(d. 1744)
William Livingston
American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of New Jersey
(d. 1790)
Joachim Albertini
Italian-Polish composer
(d. 1838)
Ernst Chladni
German physicist and author
(d. 1827)
Franz Xaver Gerl
Austrian singer and composer
(d. 1827)
Jędrzej Śniadecki
Polish physician, chemist, and biologist
(d. 1838)
Alexander Berry
Scottish surgeon, merchant, and explorer
(d. 1873)
Count Franz Philipp von Lamberg
Austrian field marshal and politician
(d. 1848)
Carl Loewe
German singer, composer, and conductor
(d. 1869)
Oliver Winchester
American businessman and politician, founded the Winchester Repeating Arms Company
(d. 1880)
Louise-Victorine Ackermann
French poet and author
(d. 1890)
Charles-Valentin Alkan
French pianist and composer
(d. 1888)
Theodor Mommsen
German jurist, historian, and scholar, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1903)
Frederick Temple
English archbishop and academic
(d. 1902)
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
French painter and educator
(d. 1905)
James Dickson
English-Australian politician, 13th Premier of Queensland
(d. 1901)
Mark Twain
American novelist, humorist, and critic
(d. 1910)
Lord Frederick Cavendish
Anglo-Irish soldier and politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland
(d. 1882)
Henry Birks
Canadian businessman, founded Birks & Mayors
(d. 1928)
Martha Ripley
American physician
(d. 1912)
Afonso Pena
Brazilian lawyer and politician, 6th President of Brazil
(d. 1909)
Bobby Abel
English cricketer
(d. 1936)
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Indian physicist, biologist, botanist, and archaeologist
(d. 1937)
Andrés Bonifacio
Filipino activist and politician, co-founded Katipunan
(d. 1897)
Andrey Lyapchev
Bulgarian politician, Prime Minister of Bulgaria
(d. 1933)
Gustaf Dalén
Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1937)
James Hamilton
3rd Duke of Abercorn, English lawyer and politician, Governor of Northern Ireland
(d. 1953)
John McCrae
Canadian physician, soldier, and poet
(d. 1918)
Božena Benešová
Czech author and poet
(d. 1936)
Winston Churchill
English colonel, journalist, and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1965)
Lucy Maud Montgomery
English-Canadian author and poet
(d. 1942)
Myron Grimshaw
American baseball player
(d. 1936)
Otto Strandman
Estonian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Estonia
(d. 1941)
Gustav Suits
Estonian-Swedish poet and politician
(d. 1956)
Andrej Gosar
Slovenian economist, lawyer, and politician
(d. 1970)
Beatrice Kerr
Australian swimmer and diver
(d. 1971)
Harry Altham
English cricketer and coach
(d. 1965)
Edgar Adrian
1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1977)
Reuvein Margolies
Ukrainian-Israeli author and scholar
(d. 1971)
Firpo Marberry
American baseball player and manager
(d. 1976)
Clyfford Still
American painter and educator
(d. 1980)
John Dickson Carr
American author and playwright
(d. 1977)
Andrés Henestrosa
Mexican poet, linguist, and politician
(d. 2008)
Jacques Barzun
French-American historian and author
(d. 2012)
Robert Nighthawk
American singer and guitarist
(d. 1967)
Carle Hessay
German-Canadian painter
(d. 1978)
Jorge Negrete
Mexican singer and actor
(d. 1953)
Jaan Hargel
Estonian flute player, conductor, and educator
(d. 1966)
Gordon Parks
American photographer and director
(d. 2006)
Brownie McGhee
American folk-blues singer and guitarist
(d. 1996)
Henry Taube
Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2005)
Dena Epstein
American musicologist and author
(d. 2013)
Michael Gwynn
English actor
(d. 1976)
Efrem Zimbalist
Jr., American actor
(d. 2014)
Jane C. Wright
American oncologist and cancer researcher
(d. 2013)
Virginia Mayo
American actress
(d. 2005)
Elliott Blackstone
American police officer and activist
(d. 2006)
Shirley Chisholm
American activist, educator and politician
(d. 2005)
Allan Sherman
American actor, comedian, singer, producer, and screenwriter
(d. 1973)
Maryon Pittman Allen
American journalist and politician
(d. 2018)
William H. Gates
Sr., American lawyer and philanthropist
(d. 2020)
Teresa Gisbert Carbonell
Bolivian architect and art historian
(d. 2018)
Richard Crenna
American actor, director, and producer
(d. 2003)
Andrew Schally
Polish-American endocrinologist
(d. 2024)
Robert Guillaume
American actor and singer
(d. 2017)
Takako Doi
Japanese scholar and politician 68th Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan
(d. 2014)
Joe B. Hall
American basketball player and coach
(d. 2022)
Steele Hall
Australian politician, 36th Premier of South Australia
(d. 2024)
Andres Narvasa
Filipino lawyer and jurist, 19th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
(d. 2013)
Dick Clark
American television host and producer, founded Dick Clark Productions
(d. 2012)
Joan Ganz Cooney
American screenwriter and producer, co-created Sesame Stree
t
G. Gordon Liddy
American lawyer, radio host, television actor and criminal
(d. 2021)
Vivian Lynn
New Zealand artist
(d. 2018)
Bill Walsh
American football player and coach
(d. 2007)
Margot Zemach
American author and illustrator
(d. 1989)
Bob Moore
American bassist
(d. 2021)
Cho Nam-chul
South Korean Go player
(d. 2006)
Norman Deeley
English footballer and manager
(d. 2007)
Sam Gilliam
American painter and educator
(d. 2022)
Marcel Prud'homme
Canadian politician
(d. 2017)
Woody Allen
American actor, director, and screenwrite
r
Dmitri Anosov
Russian mathematician and academic
(d. 2014)
Abbie Hoffman
American activist and author, co-founded the Youth International Party
(d. 1989)
Jimmy Bowen
American record producer, songwriter, and pop singe
r
Praveen Chaudhari
Indian-American physicist and academic
(d. 2010)
Frank Ifield
English-Australian singer and guitarist
(d. 2024)
Luther Ingram
American R&B/soul singer-songwriter
(d. 2007)
Ridley Scott
English director, producer, and production designe
r
Tom Simpson
English cyclist
(d. 1967)
Adeline Yen Mah
Chinese-American physician and autho
r
Jean Eustache
French director, producer, and screenwriter
(d. 1981)
John M. Goldman
English haematologist and oncologist
(d. 2013)
Kevin Phillips
American political analyst and author
(d. 2023)
Dan Tieman
American basketball player and coach
(d. 2012)
Phil Willis
Baron Willis of Knaresborough, English politicia
n
Norma Alarcón
American author and professo
r
Terrence Malick
American director, producer, and screenwrite
r
George Graham
Scottish footballer and manage
r
Hilary Armstrong
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top, English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaste
r
Roger Glover
Welsh bass player, songwriter, and produce
r
Vani Jairam
Indian playback singer
(d. 2023)
John R. Powers
American author and playwright
(d. 2013)
George Duffield
English jockey and traine
r
Sergio Badilla Castillo
Chilean-Swedish poet and translato
r
David Mamet
American playwright, screenwriter, and directo
r
Jim Chones
American basketball playe
r
Matthew Festing
79th Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
(d. 2021)
Jimmy London
Jamaican singer-songwrite
r
Patricia Ann Tracey
American Naval Vice Admira
l
Paul Westphal
American basketball player and coach
(d. 2021)
Daniel Petrie
Jr., American director, producer, and screenwrite
r
Semyon Bychkov
Russian-American conducto
r
Mandy Patinkin
American actor and singe
r
Shuggie Otis
American singer-songwriter and musicia
n
June Pointer
American singer and actress
(d. 2006)
David Sancious
American rock and jazz keyboard player and guitaris
t
Wayne Bartholomew
Australian surfe
r
Lawrence Summers
American economist and academi
c
Michael Beschloss
American historian and autho
r
Richard Burr
American businessman, academic, and politicia
n
Kevin Conroy
American actor
(d. 2022)
Andy Gray
Scottish footballer and sportscaste
r
Billy Idol
English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and acto
r
John Ashton
English guitarist, songwriter, and produce
r
Richard Barbieri
English keyboard player and songwrite
r
Joël Champetier
Canadian author and screenwriter
(d. 2015)
Patrick McLoughlin
English miner and politician, Secretary of State for Transpor
t
Colin Mochrie
Scottish-Canadian comedian, actor, producer, and screenwrite
r
Margaret Spellings
American educator and politician, 8th United States Secretary of Educatio
n
Stacey Q
American pop singer-songwriter, dancer and actres
s
Cherie Currie
American singer-songwriter, musician, and actres
s
Lorraine Kelly
Scottish journalist and actres
s
Hugo Swire
English soldier and politician, Minister of State for Foreign Affair
s
Bill Halter
American scholar, activist, and politician, 14th Lieutenant Governor of Arkansa
s
Gary Lineker
English footballer and sportscaste
r
Michael O'Connor
Australian rugby playe
r
Bob Tewksbury
American baseball player and coac
h
Ron Simons
American theatre producer and actor
(d. 2024)
Innocent Egbunike
Nigerian sprinter and coac
h
Ian Morris
Trinidadian footballer and sprinte
r
Jimmy Del Ray
American wrestler and manager
(d. 2014)
Bo Jackson
American football and baseball playe
r
Daniel Keys Moran
American computer programmer and autho
r
Jushin Thunder Liger
Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artis
t
Aldair
Brazilian footballe
r
Fumihito
Prince Akishino, Japanese royal
(younger brother of Emperor Naruhito and first in line to the Chrysanthemum throne)
David Laws
English banker and politician, Chief Secretary to the Treasur
y
Ben Stiller
American actor, director, producer and screenwrite
r
Nigel Adams
English businessman and politicia
n
David Berkoff
American swimme
r
John Bishop
English comedian, presenter, and acto
r
Philippe Bozon
French ice hockey playe
r
David Nicholls
English author and screenwrite
r
Mika Salo
Finnish racing drive
r
Joseph Corré
English fashion designer and businessman, co-founded Agent Provocateu
r
Rajiv Dixit
Indian author and activist
(d. 2010)
Richard Harry
Australian rugby playe
r
Des'ree
English R&B singer-songwrite
r
Laurent Jalabert
French cyclist and sportscaste
r
Marc Forster
German-Swiss director, producer, and screenwrite
r
Marc Goossens
Belgian racing drive
r
Chris Weitz
American actor, director, producer, and screenwrite
r
Phil Babb
English footballer and manage
r
Walter Emanuel Jones
American actor and dance
r
Natalie Williams
American basketball player and executiv
e
Ray Durham
American baseball playe
r
Christophe Beck
Canadian television and film score composer and conducto
r
Dan Jarvis
English soldier and politicia
n
Stanislav Kitto
Estonian footballe
r
Abel Xavier
Portuguese footballer and manage
r
Christian Cage
Canadian wrestler, actor, and podcaste
r
Mark Blount
American basketball playe
r
Mindy McCready
American singer-songwriter
(d. 2013)
Ben Thatcher
English footballe
r
Marta Burgay
Italian astronome
r
Marco Castro
Peruvian-American director and cinematographe
r
Andres Lacson
Filipino politicia
n
Josh Lewsey
English rugby playe
r
Paul Nuttall
British politicia
n
Richard Elias Anderson
Canadian basketball player and coac
h
Steve Aoki
American DJ and producer, founded Dim Mak Record
s
Iván Guerrero
Honduran footballer and manage
r
Kazumi Saito
Japanese baseball player and coac
h
Olivier Schoenfelder
French ice dancer and coac
h
Clay Aiken
American singe
r
Gael García Bernal
Mexican actor and produce
r
Benjamin Lense
German footballe
r
Chris Atkinson
Australian racing drive
r
Andrés Nocioni
Italian-Argentine basketball playe
r
Cem Adrian
Turkish singer-songwriter, producer, and directo
r
Jamie Ashdown
English footballe
r
Shane Victorino
American baseball playe
r
Rich Harden
Canadian baseball playe
r
Elisha Cuthbert
Canadian actres
s
Jason Pominville
Canadian-American ice hockey playe
r
Adrian Cristea
Romanian footballe
r
Vladislav Polyakov
Kazakhstani swimme
r
Nigel de Jong
Dutch footballe
r
Alan Hutton
Scottish footballe
r
Olga Rypakova
Kazakhstani triple jumpe
r
Francisco Sandaza
Spanish footballe
r
Kaley Cuoco
American actres
s
Hikari Mitsushima
Japanese actress and singe
r
Chrissy Teigen
American mode
l
Luis Valbuena
Venezuelan baseball player
(d. 2018)
Jordan Farmar
American basketball playe
r
Evgenia Linetskaya
Israeli tennis playe
r
Vasilisa Bardina
Russian tennis playe
r
Christel Khalil
American actres
s
Naomi
American wrestler, model, and dance
r
Daniel Noboa
President-elect of Ecuador and businessma
n
Dougie Poynter
English singer-songwriter and bass playe
r
Phillip Hughes
Australian cricketer
(d. 2014)
Vitaliy Polyanskyi
Ukrainian footballe
r
Rebecca Rittenhouse
American actres
s
Tomi Saarelma
Finnish footballe
r
Adelaide Clemens
Australian actres
s
Vladimír Weiss
Slovak footballe
r
Magnus Carlsen
Norwegian chess playe
r
Antoine N'Gossan
Ivorian footballe
r
Agnatius Paasi
Tongan rugby league playe
r
Sofia Araújo
Portuguese tennis playe
r
Marko Daňo
Austrian-Slovak ice hockey playe
r
Grant Williams
American basketball playe
r
Edmund Ironside
English king
(b. 993)
Emeric
King of Hungar
y
Kanezawa Sanetoki
Japanese member of the Hōjō clan
(b. 1224)
John of Vercelli
Master General of the Dominican Order
(b. c. 1205)
Andrew Stratford
English verderer and landowne
r
Guillaume Crétin
French poet
(b. c. 1460)
Giovanni dalle Bande Nere
Italian captain
(b. 1498)
Richard Farrant
English playwright and composer
(b. 1530)
Nanda Bayin
Burmese king
(b. 1535)
William Gilbert
English scientist
(b. 1544)
Thomas Weelkes
English organist and composer
(b. 1576)
Bonaventura Cavalieri
Italian mathematician and astronomer
(b. 1598)
Giovanni Lanfranco
Italian painter
(b. 1582)
John Selden
English jurist and scholar
(b. 1584)
Cecil Calvert
2nd Baron Baltimore, English lawyer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland
(b. 1605)
Marcello Malpighi
Italian physician and biologist
(b. 1628)
Nicolas de Grigny
French organist and composer
(b. 1672)
Friederike Caroline Neuber
German actress
(b. 1697)
John Dollond
English optician and astronomer
(b. 1706)
George Glas
Scottish merchant and explorer
(b. 1725)
Kamehameha IV
Hawaiian King
(b. 1834)
Patrick Cleburne
Irish-American general
(b. 1828)
Dimitrios Valvis
Greek judge and politician, 69th Prime Minister of Greece
(b. 1814)
Oscar Wilde
Irish playwright, novelist, and poet
(b. 1854)
Edward John Eyre
English explorer and politician, Governor of Jamaica
(b. 1815)
Ludwig Levy
German architect
(b. 1854)
Nishinoumi Kajirō I
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 16th Yokozuna
(b. 1855)
Vladimir May-Mayevsky
Russian general
(b. 1867)
John Maclean
Scottish educator and revolutionary socialist activist
(b. 1879)
Ponnambalam Ramanathan
Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 3rd Solicitor General of Sri Lanka
(b. 1851)
Mary Harris Jones
American Labor organizer
(b. 1837)
Henry Walters
American art collector and philanthropist
(b. 1848)
Arthur Currie
Canadian general
(b. 1875)
Hélène Boucher
French pilot
(b. 1908)
Fernando Pessoa
Portuguese poet, philosopher, and critic
(b. 1888)
Anthony M. Rud
American journalist and author
(b. 1893)
Etty Hillesum
Dutch author
(b. 1914)
Paul Masson
French cyclist
(b. 1876)
Frank Cooper
Australian politician, 25th Premier of Queensland
(b. 1872)
Francis Picabia
French painter and poet
(b. 1879)
Wilhelm Furtwängler
German conductor and composer
(b. 1886)
Josip Štolcer-Slavenski
Croatian composer and educator
(b. 1896)
Hubert Wilkins
Australian pilot, ornithologist, geographer, and explorer
(b. 1888)
Salah Suheimat
Jordanian lawyer and politician
(b. 1914)
Patrick Kavanagh
Irish poet and author
(b. 1904)
Compton Mackenzie
English-Scottish actor, author, and academic
(b. 1883)
Terence Rattigan
English playwright and screenwriter
(b. 1911)
Laura Gilpin
American photographer
(b.1891)
Zeppo Marx
American actor and comedian
(b. 1901)
Simon Carmiggelt
Dutch journalist and author
(b. 1913)
Pannonica de Koenigswarter
English-American singer-songwriter
(b. 1913)
Ahmadou Ahidjo
Cameroonian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Cameroon
(b. 1924)
Alfred Herrhausen
German banker
(b. 1930)
Fritz Eichenberg
German-American illustrator and arts educator
(b. 1901)
Peter Blume
American painter and sculptor
(b. 1906)
David Houston
American singer-songwriter
(b. 1938)
Guy Debord
French theorist and author
(b. 1931)
Lionel Stander
American actor
(b. 1908)
Til Kiwe
German actor and screenwriter
(b. 1910)
Tiny Tim
American singer and ukulele player
(b. 1932)
Kathy Acker
American author, poet, and playwright
(b. 1947)
Janet Lewis
American novelist and poet
(b. 1899)
Margaret Walker
American author and poet
(b. 1915)
Eloise Jarvis McGraw
American author
(b. 1915)
Scott Smith
Canadian bass player
(b. 1955)
Gertrude Ederle
American swimmer
(b. 1905)
Pierre Berton
Canadian journalist and author
(b. 1920)
Seungsahn
South Korean spiritual leader, founded the Kwan Um School of Zen
(b. 1927)
Jean Parker
American actress
(b. 1915)
Elhadi Adam
Sudanese poet and songwriter
(b. 1927)
Rafael Buenaventura
Filipino banker
(b. 1938)
Shirley Walker
American composer and conductor
(b. 1945)
Engin Arık
Turkish physicist and academic
(b. 1948)
Evel Knievel
American motorcycle rider and stuntman
(b. 1938)
Munetaka Higuchi
Japanese drummer and producer
(b. 1958)
Rajiv Dixit
Indian author and activist
(b. 1967)
Garry Gross
American photographer
(b. 1937)
Rogelio Álvarez
Cuban-American baseball player
(b. 1938)
I. K. Gujral
Indian lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of India
(b. 1919)
Munir Malik
Pakistani cricketer
(b. 1931)
Susil Moonesinghe
Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 4th Chief Minister of Western Province
(b. 1930)
Merv Pregulman
American football player and businessman
(b. 1922)
Homer R. Warner
American cardiologist and academic
(b. 1922)
Mitchell Cole
English footballer
(b. 1985)
Paul Crouch
American broadcaster, co-founded Trinity Broadcasting Network
(b. 1934)
Jean Kent
English actress
(b. 1921)
Tabu Ley Rochereau
Congolese-Belgian singer-songwriter
(b. 1937)
Doriano Romboni
Italian motorcycle racer
(b. 1968)
Paul Walker
American actor
(b. 1973)
Qayyum Chowdhury
Bangladeshi painter and academic
(b. 1932)
Jarbom Gamlin
Indian lawyer and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh
(b. 1961)
Martin Litton
American rafter and environmentalist
(b. 1917)
Anthony Dryden Marshall
American CIA officer and diplomat
(b. 1924)
Go Seigen
Chinese-Japanese Go player
(b. 1914)
Kent Haruf
American novelist
(b. 1943)
Pío Caro Baroja
Spanish director and screenwriter
(b. 1928)
Minas Hatzisavvas
Greek actor and screenwriter
(b. 1948)
Marcus Klingberg
Polish-Israeli physician and biologist
(b. 1918)
Fatema Mernissi
Moroccan sociologist and author
(b. 1940)
Shigeru Mizuki
Japanese author and illustrator
(b. 1922)
Eldar Ryazanov
Russian director and screenwriter
(b. 1927)
Nigel Buxton
British travel writer and wine critic
(b. 1924)
Jim Nabors
American actor and comedian
(b. 1930)
Surin Pitsuwan
Thai politician and diplomat
(b. 1949)
Marina Popovich
Soviet pilot, engineer and military officer
(b. 1931)
Alfie Curtis
British actor
(b. 1930)
George H. W. Bush
American politician, 41st President of the United States
(b. 1924)
Irina Antonova
Russian art historian
(b. 1922)
Jiang Zemin
Chinese politician, former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
(paramount leader) and President of China (b. 1926)
Christine McVie
English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
(b. 1943)
Alistair Darling
British Politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer
(b. 1953)
Shane MacGowan
Irish singer-songwriter and frontman of The Pogues
(b. 1957)