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1801 - George Bradshaw, English publisher (d. 1853)
1805 - Alexis de Tocqueville, historian and political scientist (d. 1859)
1841 - Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Norwegian doctor and scientist (d. 1912)
1843 - Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (d. 1901)
1849 - Max Nordau, author, philosopher and Zionist leader (d. 1923)
1865 - Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer (d. 1936)
1869 - Booth Tarkington, author (d. 1946)
1871 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian spiritualist (d. 1916)
1874 - James Shaver Woodsworth, Methodist minister, social worker, and politician (d. 1942)
1876 - Maria Ouspenskaya, actress (d. 1949)
1878 - Don Marquis, author (d. 1937)
1883 - Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator (d. 1945)
1883 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer (d. 1942)
1884 - Ralph A. Bard, U.S. Navy Under Secretary (d. 1975)
1887 - Sigmund Romberg, composer (d. 1951)
1892 - William Powell, actor (d. 1984)
1897 - Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (d. 1983)
1898 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
1900 - Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer (d. 1976)
1905 - Clara Bow, actress (d. 1965)
1905 - Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary-General (d. 1961)
1905 - Thelma Todd, actress (d. 1935)
1905 - Stanley Kunitz, American poet
1906 - Diana Vreeland, fashion editor (d. 1989)
1907 - Melvin Belli, lawyer and actor (d. 1996)
1924 - Lloyd Bochner, Canadian actor
1926 - Don Carter, bowler
1930 - Paul Taylor, dancer, choreographer
1932 - Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker, U.S. Senator
1935 - Peter Schreier, German tenor
1938 - Peter Jennings, television news anchor
1941 - David Warner, actor
1942 - Tony Sirico, actor
1943 - David Taylor, English snooker player
1949 - Vida Blue, Major League Baseball player
1953 - Ken Burns, television producer and director
1953 - Geddy Lee, musician (Rush)
1957 - Nelli Kim, Soviet gymnast
1959 - Ruud Janssen, teacher, writer, and artist
1959 - Sanjay Dutt, actor
1965 - Chang-Rae Lee, author
1967 - Matthew C. Henderson, actor and baseball player
1972 - Wil Wheaton, actor
1973 - Stephen Dorff, actor
1974 - Steve-O, musician and actor
1979 - Abs Breen, singer
1981 - Fernando Alonso, race car driver

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238 - Pupienus and Balbinus, Roman emperors (assassinated)
1030 - King Olaf II
1099 - Pope Urban II
1108 - King Philip I of France (b. 1081)
1507 - Martin Behaim, navigator and geographer (b. 1459)
1644 - Pope Urban VIII
1833 - William Wilberforce, campaigner against slavery
1844 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, composer
1856 - Robert Schumann, German composer
1890 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (b. 1853)
1900 - King Umberto I of Italy
1951 - Hozumi Shigeto, Japanese author
1954 - Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater
1970 - John Barbirolli, conductor
1970 - George Szell, Hungarian conductor
1974 - Mama Cass Elliot, musician
1974 - Erich Kästner, German author
1975 - James Blish, science fiction writer
1979 - Bill Todman, game show producer
1981 - Robert Moses, New York public works official (b. 1888)
1982 - Vladimir Zworykin, physicist and inventor
1983 - David Niven, actor
1983 - Raymond Massey, actor
1983 - Luis Buñuel, director
1984 - Fred Waring, band leader, inventor
1990 - Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (b. 1911)
2001 - Edward Gierek, Polish politician
2001 - Henryk Jablonski, President of Poland
2001 - Wau Holland, German hacker
2003 - Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean rebel leader
2004 - Rena Vlahopoulou, Greek comedienne and actress (b. 1923)

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