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Frederick II
Holy Roman Emperor
(d. 1250)
Charles de Valois
Duke de Berry, French noble
(d. 1472)
Rose Lok
businesswoman and Protestant exile
(d. 1613)
Wilhelm Xylander
German scholar and academic
(d. 1576)
Yi I
Korean philosopher and scholar
(d. 1584)
Albert
Count of Nassau-Weilburg
(d. 1593)
Philip III
Landgrave of Hesse-Butzbach
(d. 1643)
Elisabeth of the Palatinate
German princess, philosopher, and Calvinist
(d. 1680)
John Page
English Colonia
l
Robert Bolling
English/English Colonia
l
Johann Georg Pisendel
German violinist and composer
(d. 1755)
Thomas Gray
English poet and scholar
(d. 1771)
Jean François de Saint-Lambert
French soldier and philosopher
(d. 1803)
Friedrich Melchior
Baron von Grimm, German-French author and playwright
(d. 1807)
Lord George Gordon
English lieutenant and politician
(d. 1793)
Clemens Maria Hofbauer
Austrian priest, missionary, and saint
(d. 1820)
Ernst Moritz Arndt
German writer and poet
(d. 1860)
Mary Somerville
Scottish mathematician, astronomer, and author
(d. 1872)
Étienne Constantin de Gerlache
Belgian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Belgium
(d. 1871)
Philaret Drozdov
Russian metropolitan and saint
(d. 1867)
Charles Babbage
English mathematician and engineer, invented the Difference engine
(d. 1871)
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald
Estonian physician and author
(d. 1882)
E. D. E. N. Southworth
American author and educator
(d. 1899)
Dion Boucicault
Irish actor and playwright
(d. 1890)
Morgan Bulkeley
American soldier and politician, 54th Governor of Connecticut
(d. 1922)
George Dewey
American admiral
(d. 1917)
Johannes François Snelleman
Dutch zoologist, orientalist, and ethnographer
(d. 1938)
René Bazin
French author and academic
(d. 1932)
José Yves Limantour
Mexican financier and politician, Mexican Secretary of Finance
(d. 1935)
William Stephens
American lawyer and politician, 24th Governor of California
(d. 1944)
Charles Pathé
French record producer, co-founded Pathé Records
(d. 1957)
Yun Chi-ho
Korean activist and politician
(d. 1945)
Phan Bội Châu
Vietnamese activist
(d. 1940)
Mathieu Cordang
Dutch cyclist
(d. 1942)
Virginia Bolten
Argentine feminist and trade unionist
(d. 1960)
Norman Angell
English journalist, academic, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1967)
Thomas Wass
English cricketer
(d. 1953)
Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah
Bangladeshi theologian and academic
(d. 1965)
Maurice Utrillo
French painter
(d. 1955)
Bazoline Estelle Usher
African-American educator
(d. 1992)
Arthur Percival
English general
(d. 1966)
Marius Canard
French orientalist and historian
(d. 1982)
Ragnhild Kaarbø
Norwegian painter
(d. 1949)
Konstantinos Georgakopoulos
Greek lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Greece
(d. 1973)
Percy Hodge
English runner
(d. 1967)
Henry Miller
American author and painter
(d. 1980)
Don Barclay
American actor and illustrator
(d. 1975)
Mao Zedong
Chinese politician, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party
(d. 1976)
Jean Toomer
American author and poet
(d. 1967)
Evelyn Bark
leading member of the British Red Cross, first female recipient of the CMG
(d. 1993)
Elmar Muuk
Estonian linguist and author
(d. 1941)
Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan
Russian painter and sculptor
(d. 1980)
Elisha Cook
Jr., American actor
(d. 1995)
Alejo Carpentier
Swiss-Cuban musicologist and author
(d. 1980)
William Loeb III
American publisher
(d. 1981)
Albert Gore
Sr., American lawyer and politician
(d. 1998)
Ralph Hill
American runner
(d. 1994)
Matt Gordy
American pole vaulter
(d. 1989)
Imperio Argentina
Argentine-Spanish actress and singer
(d. 2003)
Marguerite Churchill
American actress
(d. 2000)
Arsenio Lacson
Filipino journalist and politician, Mayor of Manila
(d. 1962)
Frank Swift
English footballer and journalist
(d. 1958)
Richard Widmark
American actor
(d. 2008)
Rolf Botvid
Swedish actor and screenwriter
(d. 1998)
Olga Lopes-Seale
Guyanese-Barbadian singer and radio host
(d. 2011)
Georgios Rallis
Greek lieutenant and politician, 173rd Prime Minister of Greece
(d. 2006)
Steve Allen
American actor, singer, talk show host, and screenwriter
(d. 2000)
John Severin
American illustrator
(d. 2012)
Richard Mayes
English actor
(d. 2006)
Richard Artschwager
American painter, illustrator, and sculptor
(d. 2013)
Frank Broyles
American football player, coach, and sportscaster
(d. 2017)
Earle Brown
American composer
(d. 2002)
Denis Gifford
English journalist and historian
(d. 2000)
Alan King
American actor, producer, and screenwriter
(d. 2004)
Stu Miller
American baseball player
(d. 2015)
Denis Quilley
English actor
(d. 2003)
Martin Cooper
American engineer, invented the mobile phon
e
Kathleen Crowley
American actress
(d. 2017)
Régine Zylberberg
Belgian-French singer and actress
(d. 2022)
Jean Ferrat
French singer-songwriter and poet
(d. 2010)
Harry Gamble
American football player, coach, and manager
(d. 2014)
Donald Moffat
English-American actor
(d. 2018)
Caroll Spinney
American puppeteer and voice actor
(d. 2019)
Rohan Kanhai
Guyanese crickete
r
Norm Ullman
Canadian ice hockey playe
r
Peep Jänes
Estonian architec
t
Trevor Taylor
English race car driver
(d. 2010)
John Horton Conway
English mathematician, known for Conway's Game of Life
(d. 2020)
Bahram Beyzai
Iranian director, producer, and screenwrite
r
Robert Hamerton-Kelly
South African-American pastor, scholar, and author
(d. 2013)
Alamgir Kabir
Bangladeshi director, producer, and screenwriter
(d. 1989)
Mirko Kovač
Yugoslav-Croatian author, playwright, and screenwriter
(d. 2013)
Fred Schepisi
Australian director and screenwrite
r
Phil Spector
American singer-songwriter and producer
(d. 2021)
Edward C. Prescott
American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2022)
Ray Sadecki
American baseball player
(d. 2014)
Daniel Schmid
Swiss actor, director, and screenwriter
(d. 2006)
Vinicio Cerezo
Guatemalan politician, 28th President of Guatemal
a
Catherine Coulter
American autho
r
Gray Davis
American captain, lawyer, and politician, 37th Governor of Californi
a
William Ayers
American academic and activis
t
John Walsh
American television host, producer, and activist, created America's Most Wante
d
Alan Frumin
American lawyer and politicia
n
Tiit Rosenberg
Estonian historian and academi
c
James T. Conway
American genera
l
Jean Echenoz
French autho
r
Carlton Fisk
American baseball playe
r
Josef Janíček
Czech singer-songwriter, guitarist, and keyboard playe
r
Liz Lochhead
Scottish poet and playwrigh
t
Richard Levis McCormick
American historian and academi
c
Candy Crowley
American journalis
t
José Ramos-Horta
East Timorese lawyer and politician, 2nd President of East Timor, Nobel Prize laureat
e
Raja Pervaiz Ashraf
Pakistani businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Pakista
n
Mario Mendoza
Mexican baseball player and manage
r
Leonel Fernández
Dominican lawyer and politician, 51st President of the Dominican Republi
c
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Swedish-Estonian journalist and politician, 4th President of Estoni
a
Makis Katsavakis
Greek footballer and manage
r
Henning Schmitz
German drumme
r
Peter Hillary
New Zealand mountaineer and philanthropis
t
Ozzie Smith
American baseball player and sportscaste
r
Evan Bayh
American lawyer and politician, 46th Governor of Indian
a
David Sedaris
American comedian, author, and radio hos
t
Dermot Murnaghan
English-Northern Irish journalist and game show hos
t
Adrian Newey
English aerodynamicist and enginee
r
Wang Lijun
Chinese police officer and politicia
n
Kōji Morimoto
Japanese animator and directo
r
Hans Nielsen
Danish motorcycle race
r
Keith Martin Ball
American mathematician and academi
c
Ruud Kaiser
Dutch footballer and manage
r
Cem Uzan
Turkish businessman and politicia
n
Andrew Lock
Australian mountainee
r
James Kottak
American drummer
(d. 2024)
Mark Starr
English wrestler
(d. 2013)
Craig Teitzel
Australian rugby league playe
r
Lars Ulrich
Danish-American drummer, songwriter, and produce
r
Elizabeth Kostova
American autho
r
Jay Farrar
American singer-songwriter and guitaris
t
Tim Legler
American basketball player and sportscaste
r
Matt Zoller Seitz
American film critic and autho
r
Isaac Viciosa
Spanish runne
r
James Mercer
American singer-songwriter and guitaris
t
Jared Leto
American actor and musicia
n
Mika Nurmela
Finnish footballe
r
Tatiana Sorokko
Russian-American model and journalis
t
Gaby Colebunders
Belgian politicia
n
Esteban Fuertes
Argentinian footballe
r
Robert Muchamore
English autho
r
Paulo Frederico Benevenute
Brazilian footballe
r
Gianluca Faliva
Italian rugby playe
r
Nobuhiko Matsunaka
Japanese baseball playe
r
Steve Prescott
English rugby player
(d. 2013)
Joshua John Miller
American actor, director, and screenwrite
r
Chris Calaguio
Filipino basketball playe
r
Marcelo Ríos
Chilean tennis playe
r
María Vasco
Spanish race walke
r
Simon Goodwin
Australian footballer and coac
h
Fatih Akyel
Turkish footballer and manage
r
Adrienn Hegedűs
Hungarian tennis playe
r
Karel Rüütli
Estonian lawyer and politicia
n
Kaoru Sugayama
Japanese volleyball playe
r
Fabián Carini
Uruguayan footballe
r
Chris Daughtry
American singer-songwriter and guitaris
t
Dimitry Vassiliev
Russian ski jumpe
r
Craig Wing
Australian rugby playe
r
Todd Dunivant
American soccer playe
r
Ceylan Ertem
Turkish singe
r
Pablo Canavosio
Argentine-Italian rugby playe
r
Omar Infante
Venezuelan baseball playe
r
Kenneth Darby
American football playe
r
Noel Hunt
Irish footballe
r
Aksel Lund Svindal
Norwegian skie
r
Jeroen Soete
Belgian politicia
n
Yu Takahashi
Japanese singer-songwrite
r
Alexander Wang
American fashion designe
r
Ahmed Barusso
Ghanaian footballe
r
Leonardo Ghiraldini
Italian rugby playe
r
Alex Schwazer
Italian race walke
r
Damir Markota
Croatian basketball playe
r
Joe Alexander
American-Israeli basketball playe
r
Kit Harington
English acto
r
Hugo Lloris
French footballe
r
Selen Soyder
Turkish actress and beauty quee
n
Oskar Osala
Finnish ice hockey playe
r
Yohan Blake
Jamaican sprinte
r
Tomáš Kundrátek
Czech ice hockey playe
r
Denis Cheryshev
Russian footballe
r
Cory Jefferson
American basketball playe
r
Aaron Ramsey
Welsh footballe
r
Brandon Scherff
American football playe
r
Eden Sher
American actres
s
Trevor Siemian
American football playe
r
Cecilia Costa Melgar
Chilean tennis playe
r
Jade Thirlwall
English singe
r
Colby Cave
Canadian ice hockey player
(d. 2020)
Souleymane Coulibaly
Ivorian footballe
r
Tamara Zidanšek
Slovenian tennis playe
r
Aleksej Pokuševski
Serbian basketball playe
r
Dionysius
pope of the Catholic Churc
h
Zosimus
pope of the Catholic Churc
h
Euthymius of Sardis
Byzantine bishop and saint
(b. 754)
Zheng
empress of the Tang Dynast
y
Masrur al-Balkhi
Abbasid genera
l
Gao Qiong
Chinese general
(b. 935)
Reginald Fitz Jocelin
archbishop-elect of Canterbur
y
Valdemar
king of Sweden
(b. 1239)
Philip I
Prince of Taranto, titular Latin Emperor
(b. 1278)
Jean de Marigny
French archbisho
p
John
3rd Earl of Kent, English politician
(b. 1330)
Thomas Holland
1st Earl of Kent, English commander
(b. 1314)
Michele Steno
doge of Venice
(b. 1331)
Niccolò III d'Este
marquess of Ferrar
a
Arthur III
duke of Brittany
(b. 1393)
Galeazzo Maria Sforza
duke of Milan
(b. 1444)
Babur
Mughal emperor
(b. 1483)
Charles de Lorraine
French cardinal
(b. 1524)
Henri de Bourbon
prince of Condé
(b. 1588)
Antoine Houdar de la Motte
French author
(b. 1672)
Claude Adrien Helvétius
French philosopher and activist
(b. 1715)
John Fothergill
English physician and botanist
(b. 1712)
Seth Warner
American colonel
(b. 1743)
Gasparo Gozzi
Italian playwright and critic
(b. 1713)
Francis Caulfeild
2nd Earl of Charlemont, Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone
(b. 1775)
Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille
French physician and physiologist
(b. 1797)
Heinrich Schliemann
German-Italian archaeologist and author
(b. 1822)
Mary Hartwell Catherwood
American author and poet
(b. 1849)
Frederic Remington
American painter and illustrator
(b. 1861)
Dietrich Eckart
German journalist, poet, and politician
(b. 1868)
Jan Letzel
Czech architect, designed the Hiroshima Peace Memorial
(b. 1880)
Albert Giraud
Belgian poet
(b. 1860)
Melvil Dewey
American librarian and educator, created the Dewey Decimal Classification
(b. 1851)
Anatoly Lunacharsky
Russian journalist and politician
(b. 1875)
Henry Watson Fowler
English lexicographer and educator
(b. 1858)
Jack Tresadern
English footballer and manager
(b. 1890)
Tetsuro Watsuji
Japanese historian and philosopher
(b. 1889)
Gorgeous George
American wrestler
(b. 1915)
Ina Boudier-Bakker
Dutch author
(b. 1875)
Herbert Otto Gille
German general
(b. 1897)
Guillermo Stábile
Argentinian footballer and manager
(b. 1905)
Weegee
Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist
(b. 1898)
Lillian Board
South African-English runner
(b. 1948)
Harry S. Truman
American colonel and politician, 33rd President of the United States
(b. 1884)
Harold B. Lee
American religious leader, 11th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
(b. 1899)
Farid al-Atrash
Syrian-Egyptian singer-songwriter, oud player, and actor
(b. 1915)
Jack Benny
American comedian, vaudevillian, actor, and violinist
(b. 1894)
Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton
Scottish admiral
(b. 1890)
Howard Hawks
American director and screenwriter
(b. 1896)
Tony Smith
American sculptor and educator
(b. 1912)
Richard Chase
American cannibalistic serial killer and necrophile
(b. 1950)
Amber Reeves
New Zealand-English author and scholar
(b. 1887)
Suat Hayri Ürgüplü
Turkish politician, Prime Minister of Turkey
(b. 1903)
Savitri
Indian actress, playback singer, dancer, director and producer
(b. 1936)
Hans Liska
Austrian-German artist
(b. 1907)
Elsa Lanchester
English-American actress
(b. 1902)
Dorothy Bliss
American invertebrate zoologist, curator at the American Museum of Natural History
(b. 1916)
Glenn McCarthy
American businessman, founded the Shamrock Hotel
(b. 1907)
Pablo Sorozábal
German-Spanish composer and conductor
(b. 1897)
Doug Harvey
Canadian ice hockey player and coach
(b. 1924)
Gene Callahan
American art director and production designer
(b. 1923)
Sylva Koscina
Italian actress
(b. 1933)
Cahit Arf
Turkish mathematician and academic
(b. 1910)
Cornelius Castoriadis
Greek economist and philosopher
(b. 1922)
Ram Swarup
Indian writer on Hindu philosophy and religion
(b. 1920)
Curtis Mayfield
American singer-songwriter and producer
(b. 1942)
Shankar Dayal Sharma
Indian academic and politician, 9th President of India
(b. 1918)
Jason Robards
American actor
(b. 1922)
Nigel Hawthorne
English actor
(b. 1929)
Herb Ritts
American photographer and director
(b. 1952)
Armand Zildjian
American businessman, founded the Avedis Zildjian Company
(b. 1921)
Virginia Coffey
American civil rights activist
(b. 1904)
Jonathan Drummond-Webb
South African surgeon and academic
(b. 1959)
Angus Ogilvy
English businessman
(b. 1928)
Reggie White
American football player and wrestler
(b. 1961)
Troy Broadbridge
Australian footballer
(b. 1980)
Sigurd Køhn
Norwegian saxophonist and composer
(b. 1959)
Muriel Costa-Greenspon
American soprano
(b. 1937)
Ted Ditchburn
English footballer and manager
(b. 1921)
Kerry Packer
Australian publisher and businessman
(b. 1937)
Viacheslav Platonov
Russian volleyball player and coach
(b. 1939)
Vincent Schiavelli
American actor
(b. 1948)
Erich Topp
German commander
(b. 1914)
Gerald Ford
American commander, lawyer, and politician, 38th President of the United States
(b. 1913)
Ivar Formo
Norwegian skier and engineer
(b. 1951)
Munir Niazi
Indian-Pakistani poet
(b. 1928)
Felix Wurman
American cellist and composer
(b. 1958)
Salvador Jorge Blanco
48th President of the Dominican Republic
(b. 1926)
Edward Bhengu
South African activist
(b. 1934)
Teena Marie
American singer-songwriter and producer
(b. 1956)
Houston Antwine
American football player
(b. 1939)
Pedro Armendáriz
Jr., Mexican-American actor and producer
(b. 1940)
Sarekoppa Bangarappa
Indian politician, 15th Chief Minister of Karnataka
(b. 1932)
Joe Bodolai
American screenwriter and producer
(b. 1948)
James Rizzi
American painter and illustrator
(b. 1950)
Gerry Anderson
English director, producer, and screenwriter
(b. 1929)
Gerald McDermott
American author and illustrator
(b. 1941)
Ibrahim Tannous
Lebanese general
(b. 1929)
Paul Blair
American baseball player and coach
(b. 1944)
Marta Eggerth
Hungarian-American actress and singer
(b. 1912)
Stanisław Barańczak
Polish-American poet, critic, and scholar
(b. 1946)
James B. Edwards
American dentist, soldier, and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Energy
(b. 1927)
Leo Tindemans
Belgian politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Belgium
(b. 1922)
Sidney Mintz
American anthropologist and academic
(b. 1922)
Jim O'Toole
American baseball player
(b. 1937)
Ricky Harris
American comedian, actor
(b. 1962)
George S. Irving
American actor, singer and dancer
(b. 1922)
Irv Weinstein
American broadcaster and television news anchor
(b. 1930)
Brodie Lee
American Professional Wrestler
(b. 1979)
Giacomo Capuzzi
Italian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lodi
(b. 1929)
Paul B. Kidd
Australian author, journalist, and radio show host
(b. 1945)
Karolos Papoulias
Greek politician, President of Greece from 2005 to 2015
(b. 1929)
Desmond Tutu
South African Anglican bishop, theologian and anti-apartheid and human rights activist
(b. 1931)
Edward O. Wilson
American biologist
(b. 1929)
Lukas Enembe
Indonesian politician, Governor of Papua from 2013 to 2023
(b.1967)
Tom Smothers
American comedian, actor, and activist
(b. 1937)