870 Alexander (Byzantine emperor), Byzantine emperor (d. 913)

912 Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 973)

1190 Pope Clement IV (d. 1268)

1221 Alfonso X of Castile (d. 1284)

1402 Jean de Dunois, French soldier (d. 1468)

1417 William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1487)

1496 Clément Marot, French poet (d. 1544)

1508 Francis, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, youngest son of Henry the Middle (d. 1549)

1553 Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1617)

1632 Jean Mabillon, French monk and scholar (d. 1707)

1641 Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch lawyer and politician (d. 1720)

1687 Jean Baptiste Senaillé, French violinist and composer (d. 1730)

1705 Thomas Birch, English historian and author (d. 1766)

1715 Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer and author (d. 1799)

1719 Spranger Barry, Irish actor (d. 1777)

1749 Edward Rutledge, American captain and politician, 39th Governor of South Carolina (d. 1800)

1760 François-Noël Babeuf, French journalist and activist (d. 1797)

1781 Theodor Valentin Volkmar, German lawyer and politician, 1st List of mayors of Marburg (d. 1847)

1785 Jan Roothaan, Dutch priest, 21st Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1853)

1803 Theodore Dwight Weld, American author and activist (d. 1895)

1804 Franklin Pierce, American general, lawyer, and politician, 14th President of the United States (d. 1869)

1820 Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and author (d. 1884)

1837 Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and thermodynamicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 1923)

1838 Stephanos Skouloudis, Greek banker and politician, 97th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1928)

1858 Albert Ranft, Swedish actor and director (d. 1938)

1860 Hjalmar Branting, Swedish journalist and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Sweden, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1925)

1864 Henry Bourne Joy, American businessman (d. 1936)

1868 Mary Brewster Hazelton, American painter (d. 1953)

1869 Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer (d. 1942)

1869 Johan Scharffenberg, Norwegian psychiatrist (d. 1965)

1871 William Watt (Australian politician), Australian accountant and politician, 24th Premier of Victoria (d. 1946)

1875 Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian journalist and politician (d. 1933)

1876 Sara Prinsep, British salon organiser (d. 1959)

1876 Manuel de Falla, Spanish pianist and composer (d. 1946)

1878 Frank Pick, English lawyer and businessman (d. 1941)

1883 José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (d. 1949)

1886 Eduards Smiļģis, Latvian actor and director (d. 1966)

1887 Boris Karloff, English actor (d. 1969)

1887 Henry Moseley, English physicist and chemist (d. 1915)

1888 Harpo Marx, American comedian and musician (d. 1964)

1889 Harry Sunderland, Australian-English journalist and businessman (d. 1964)

1890 El Lissitzky, Russian photographer and architect (d. 1941)

1892 Erté, Russian-French illustrator and designer (d. 1990)

1896 Klement Gottwald, Czechoslovak politician, List of Presidents of Czechoslovakia of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (d. 1953)

1896 Tsunenohana Kan'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 31st Yokozuna (sumo) (d. 1960)

1897 Nirad C. Chaudhuri, British-Indian historian, author, and critic (d. 1999)

1897 Karl Gebhardt, German physician and war criminal (d. 1948)

1899 Manuel dos Reis Machado, Brazilian martial artist and educator (d. 1974)

1901 Bennie Osler, South African rugby player (d. 1962)

1902 Aaron Bank, American colonel (d. 2004)

1902 Victor Jory, Canadian-American actor (d. 1982)

1903 Joe Nibloe, Scottish footballer (d. 1976)

1905 K. Alvapillai, Sri Lankan civil servant (d. 1979)

1906 Betti Alver, Estonian author and poet (d. 1989)

1907 Lars Leksell, Swedish physician and neurosurgeon (d. 1986)

1907 Run Run Shaw, Chinese-Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist, founded Shaw Brothers Studio and TVB (d. 2014)

1908 Nelson S. Bond, American author and playwright (d. 2006)

1909 Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (d. 2000)

1912 George O'Hanlon, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1989)

1914 Donald Nixon, American businessman (d. 1987)

1914 Wilson Tucker (writer), American projectionist and author (d. 2006)

1915 Anne Burns, British aeronautical engineer and glider pilot (d. 2001)

1915 John Dehner, American actor (d. 1992)

1915 Marc Simont, French-American illustrator (d. 2013)

1916 Michael Gough, Malaysian-English actor (d. 2011)

1916 P. K. Page, English-Canadian author and poet (d. 2010)

1920 Paul Celan, Romanian-French poet and translator (d. 1970)

1921 Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (d. 1960)

1922 Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Spanish politician, 3rd President of the Xunta of Galicia (d. 2012)

1922 Võ Văn Kiệt, Vietnamese soldier and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2008)

1923 Daniel Brewster, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (d. 2007)

1923 Julien J. LeBourgeois, American admiral (d. 2012)

1923 Gloria Whelan, American author and poet

1924 Irvin J. Borowsky, American publisher and philanthropist (d. 2014)

1924 Josephine D'Angelo, American baseball player and educator (d. 2013)

1924 Paula Raymond, American model and actress (d. 2003)

1924 Colin Turnbull, English-American anthropologist and author (d. 1994)

1925 José Napoleón Duarte, Salvadoran engineer and politician, President of El Salvador (d. 1990)

1925 Johnny Mandel, American composer and conductor (d. 2020)

1926 Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philosopher (d. 2011)

1926 R. L. Burnside, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2005)

1927 John Cole (journalist), Irish-English journalist and author (d. 2013)

1927 Guy Davenport, American author and scholar (d. 2005)

1927 Angelo Sodano, Italian cardinal (d. 2022)

1928 Jerry Bock, American composer (d. 2010)

1928 John Coleman (Australian footballer), Australian rules footballer and coach (d. 1973)

1928 Elmarie Wendel, American actress and singer (d. 2018)

1928 Brendan Pereira, Indian advertising executive (d. 2024)

1930 Geeta Dutt, Indian singer and actress (d. 1972)

1930 Jack McKeon, American baseball player and manager

1932 Renato Martino, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 2024)

1932 Michel David-Weill, French-American banker (d. 2022)

1933 Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer and conductor (d. 2020)

1933 Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist and activist (d. 1977)

1934 Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (d. 1994)

1934 Robert Towne, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2024)

1935 Ken Eastwood, Australian cricketer

1935 Vladislav Volkov, Russian engineer and astronaut (d. 1971)

1938 Patrick Kelly (Archbishop of Liverpool), English archbishop

1939 Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (d. 2001)

1940 Luis Tiant, Cuban-American baseball player and coach (d. 2024)

1941 Alan Mullery, English footballer and manager

1941 Franco Nero, Italian actor and producer

1942 Susan Anspach, American actress (d. 2018)

1943 Andrew Goodman (activist), American activist (d. 1964)

1943 Sue Nicholls, English actress

1943 David Nolan (libertarian), American activist and politician (d. 2010)

1943 Petar Skansi, Croatian basketball player and coach (d. 2022)

1944 Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian-American screenwriter and producer

1944 Peter Lindbergh, German-French photographer and director (d. 2019)

1944 James Toback, American actor, director, and screenwriter

1945 Assi Dayan, Israeli actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2014)

1945 Jim Doyle, American lawyer and politician, 44th Governor of Wisconsin

1945 Tony Pond, English racing driver (d. 2002)

1946 Diana Quick, English actress

1946 Bobby Rush, American activist and politician

1947 Jean-Pierre Foucault, French radio and television host

1948 Bård Breivik, Norwegian sculptor and art instructor (d. 2016)

1948 Bruce Vilanch, American actor and screenwriter

1948 Frank Worthington, English footballer and manager (d. 2021)

1949 Alan Paul, American singer-songwriter and actor

1949 Sandra Stevens, English singer

1950 Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri, Indian indologist, author, and academic

1950 Carlos Eire, Cuban-born American author and academic

1950 Charles Schumer, American lawyer and politician

1950 Paul Wilson (footballer, born 1950), Scottish footballer (d. 2017)

1951 Maik Galakos, Greek footballer and manager

1953 Rick Bayless, American chef and author

1953 Francis Cabrel, French singer-songwriter and guitarist

1953 Johan de Meij, Dutch trombonist, composer, and conductor

1953 Martin Kent, Australian cricketer

1954 Pete Allen (musician), English clarinet player and saxophonist

1954 Glenn Brummer, American baseball player

1954 Bruce Hornsby, American singer-songwriter and pianist

1954 Aavo Pikkuus, Estonian cyclist

1955 Steven Brust, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and author

1955 Ludovico Einaudi, Italian pianist and composer

1955 Mary Landrieu, American politician

1956 Bruce Edgar, New Zealand cricketer

1956 Shane Gould, Australian swimmer and coach

1956 Karin Guthke, German diver

1957 Andrew Toney, American basketball player

1958 Martin Snedden, New Zealand cricketer and lawyer

1959 Maxwell Caulfield, English-American actor

1960 Robin Roberts (newscaster), American sportscaster and journalist

1961 Keith Ablow, American psychiatrist and author

1961 Nicolas Bacri, French composer

1961 Merv Hughes, Australian cricketer

1961 Peter Stanford, English journalist and author

1962 Nicolás Maduro, Venezuelan union leader and politician, List of Presidents of Venezuela

1963 Arto Heiskanen, Finnish professional hockey player (d. 2023)

1963 Gwynne Shotwell, American businesswoman, President and Chief Operating Officer of SpaceX

1964 Steve Alford, American basketball player and coach

1964 Marilyn Kidd, Australian rower

1964 Frank Rutherford, Bahamian triple jumper

1965 Jennifer Michael Hecht, American historian, author, and poet

1966 Vincent Cassel, French actor and producer

1966 Kevin Gallacher, Scottish footballer and sportscaster

1966 Michelle Gomez, Scottish actress

1966 Jerry Kelly, American golfer

1967 Gary Kirsten, South African cricketer and coach

1967 Salli Richardson, American actress, director, and producer

1968 Miloš Babić, Serbian basketball player

1968 Robert Denmark, English runner and coach

1968 Anthony Sullivan (rugby), English rugby league and union player

1968 Kirsty Young, Scottish journalist

1969 Olivier Beretta, Monégasque racing driver

1969 Mike Lünsmann, German footballer

1969 Robin Padilla, Filipino actor, martial artist, and screenwriter

1970 Zoë Ball, English radio and television host

1970 Oded Fehr, Israeli-American actor

1970 Danny Hoch, American actor and screenwriter

1970 Karsten Müller, German chess player and author

1971 Khaled Al-Muwallid, Saudi Arabian footballer

1971 Ashraf Amaya, American basketball player

1971 Vin Baker, American basketball player and coach

1971 Chris Hardwick, American comedian, actor, producer, and television host

1972 Christopher James Adler, American drummer

1972 Kurupt, American rapper and producer

1972 Helen Luz, Brazilian basketball player

1974 Saku Koivu, Finnish ice hockey player

1974 Malik Rose, American basketball player, sportscaster, and executive

1976 Page Kennedy, American actor and rapper

1976 Tony Renna, American race car driver (d. 2003)

1976 Murat Salar, German-Turkish footballer and manager

1976 Kohei Suwama, Japanese wrestler

1977 Myriam Boileau, Canadian diver

1977 Adam Eaton (pitcher), American baseball player

1979 Kelly Brook, English model and actress

1979 Ivica Kostelić, Croatian skier

1980 Ishmael Beah, Sierra Leonean child soldier and American author

1980 Jonathan Papelbon, American baseball player

1980 Kirk Penney, New Zealand basketball player

1982 Colby Armstrong, Canadian ice hockey player

1982 Asafa Powell, Jamaican sprinter

1983 Fatih Yiğituşağı, Turkish footballer

1984 Lucas Grabeel, American actor, singer, and songwriter

1984 Amruta Khanvilkar, Indian actress and dancer

1984 Justin Turner, American baseball player

1985 Viktor An, South Korean speed skater

1987 Nicklas Bäckström, Swedish ice hockey player

1987 Snooki, American reality television personality

1990 Shaun Hutchinson, English footballer

1990 Eddy Kim, South Korean singer-songwriter and guitarist

1990 Alena Leonova, Russian figure skater

1990 Christopher Quiring, German footballer

1991 Ahmed Shehzad, Pakistani cricketer

1992 Miley Cyrus, American singer-songwriter and actress

1992 Gabriel Landeskog, Swedish ice hockey player

1994 Wes Burns, Welsh footballer

1995 Kelly Rosen, Estonian footballer

1996 Alexis Ren, American social media personality, model, and actress

1996 Anna Yanovskaya, Russian ice dancer

1998 Caoimhín Kelleher, Irish footballer

386 Emperor Fei of Jin, emperor of the Jin dynasty (266–420) (b. 342)

947 Berthold, Duke of Bavaria (b. 900)

955 Eadred, English king (b. 923)

1161 Adam of Ebrach, Abbot of Ebrach Abbey

1183 William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester (b. 1116)

1407 Louis I, Duke of Orléans (b. 1372)

1457 Ladislaus the Posthumous, Hungarian king (b. 1440)

1464 Blessed Margaret of Savoy (b. 1390)

1499 Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English throne (b. c. 1474)

1503 Bona of Savoy (b. 1449)

1503 Margaret of York (b. 1446)

1534 Beatriz Galindo, Spanish Latinist and educator (b. c. 1465)

1572 Bronzino, Italian painter and poet (b. 1503)

1585 Thomas Tallis, English composer (b. c.1505)

1616 Richard Hakluyt, English priest and author (b. 1552)

1682 Claude Lorrain, French-Italian painter and engraver (b. 1604)

1763 Friedrich Heinrich von Seckendorff, German field marshal and diplomat (b. 1673)

1769 Constantine Mavrocordatos, Greek prince (b. 1711)

1803 Roger Newdigate, English politician (b. 1719)

1804 Richard Graves, English minister and author (b. 1715)

1804 Ivan Mane Jarnović, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1747)

1807 Jean-François Rewbell, French lawyer and politician (b. 1747)

1814 Elbridge Gerry, American merchant and politician, 5th Vice President of the United States (b. 1744)

1844 Thomas Henderson (astronomer), Scottish astronomer (b. 1798)

1833 Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French general and politician, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (France) (b. 1762)

1890 William III of the Netherlands (b. 1817)

1896 Ichiyō Higuchi, Japanese writer (b. 1872)

1899 Thomas Henry Ismay, English businessman, founded White Star Line (b. 1837)

1905 John Burdon-Sanderson, English physiologist and academic (b. 1828)

1907 Naimuddin, Bengali writer and Islamic scholar (b. 1832)

1910 Hawley Harvey Crippen, American physician and murderer (b. 1862)

1923 Andy O'Sullivan (Irish republican), Irish republicanism Hunger Striker

1934 Giovanni Brunero, Italian cyclist (b. 1895)

1937 Jagadish Chandra Bose, Bangladeshi-Indian physicist, biologist, botanist, and archaeologist (b. 1858)

1937 George Albert Boulenger, Belgian-English zoologist and botanist (b. 1858)

1940 Stanley Argyle, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of Victoria (b. 1867)

1958 Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower (b. 1880)

1966 Seán T. O'Kelly, Irish politician, 2nd President of Ireland (b. 1882)

1970 Yusof Ishak, Singaporean journalist and politician, 1st President of Singapore (b. 1910)

1972 Marie Wilson (American actress), American actress (b. 1916)

1973 Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor, director, and producer (b. 1889)

1974 Notable victims of the Massacre of the Sixty:

- Abiye Abebe, Ethiopian general and politician (b. 1918)

- Aman Andom, Ethiopian general and politician, List of Presidents of Ethiopia (b. 1924)

- Aklilu Habte-Wold, Ethiopian politician, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1912)

- Asrate Kassa, Ethiopian commander (b. 1922)

- Endelkachew Makonnen, Ethiopian politician, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1927)

1974 Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American journalist and author (b. 1920)

1976 André Malraux, French theorist and author (b. 1901)

1979 Merle Oberon, Indian-born British actress (b. 1911)

1979 Judee Sill, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944)

1982 Grady Nutt, American minister and author (b. 1934)

1983 Juhan Muks, Estonian painter (b. 1899)

1983 Waheed Murad, Pakistani actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1938)

1984 Leonard Baker, American historian and author (b. 1931)

1990 Roald Dahl, British novelist, poet, and screenwriter (b. 1916)

1991 Klaus Kinski, German-American actor and director (b. 1926)

1992 Roy Acuff, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (b. 1903)

1992 Jean-François Thiriart, Belgian politician (b. 1922)

1994 Art Barr, American wrestler (b. 1966)

1994 Irwin Kostal, American songwriter, screenwriter, and publisher (b. 1911)

1995 Louis Malle, French-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1932)

1995 Junior Walker, American singer and saxophonist (b. 1931)

1996 Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photographer and journalist (b. 1943)

1996 Art Porter, Jr., American saxophonist and songwriter (b. 1961)

1996 Idries Shah, Indian author, thinker and teacher in the Sufism tradition.

1997 Jorge Mas Canosa, Cuban-American businessman (b. 1939)

2001 Bo Belinsky, American baseball player (b. 1936)

2001 Mary Whitehouse, English educator and activist (b. 1910)

2002 Roberto Matta, Chilean-Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1911)

2004 Pete Franklin, American radio host (b. 1928)

2005 Constance Cummings, American-English actress (b. 1910)

2005 Frank Gatski, American football player and soldier (b. 1919)

2006 Jesús Blancornelas, Mexican journalist, co-founded ''Zeta (magazine)'' (b. 1936)

2006 Nick Clarke, English journalist (b. 1948)

2006 Betty Comden, American actress, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1917)

2006 Alexander Litvinenko, Russian spy and defector (b. 1962)

2006 Philippe Noiret, French actor (b. 1930)

2006 Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919)

2006 Willie Pep, American boxer and referee (b. 1922)

2007 Joe Kennedy (baseball), American baseball player (b. 1979)

2007 Óscar Carmelo Sánchez, Bolivian footballer and manager (b. 1971)

2007 Robert Vesco, American-Cuban financier (b. 1935)

2007 Pat Walsh (rugby union), New Zealand rugby union player (b. 1936)

2009 José Arraño Acevedo, Chilean journalist and historian (b. 1921)

2010 Nassos Daphnis, Greek-American painter and sculptor (b. 1914)

2010 Joyce Howard, English-American actress (b. 1922)

2011 Jim Rathmann (race car driver), American race car driver (b. 1928)

2012 José Luis Borau, Spanish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1929)

2012 Chuck Diering, American baseball player (b. 1923)

2012 Larry Hagman, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1931)

2012 Diana Isaac, English-New Zealand businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1921)

2013 Connie Broden, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1932)

2013 Costanzo Preve, Italian philosopher and theorist (b. 1943)

2014 Marion Barry, American lawyer and politician, 2nd Mayor of the District of Columbia (b. 1936)

2014 Dorothy Cheney, American tennis player (b. 1916)

2014 Murray Oliver, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1937)

2014 Pat Quinn (ice hockey), Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1943)

2015 Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1925)

2015 Manmeet Bhullar, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1980)

2015 Douglass North, American economist and academic, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate (b. 1920)

2016 Rita Barberá Nolla, Spanish politician (b. 1948)

2016 Ralph Branca, American baseball player (b. 1926)

2016 Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor (b. 1930)

2016 Joe Esposito (author), road manager for Elvis Presley (b. 1938)

2017 Stela Popescu, Romanian actress (b. 1935)

2020 Tarun Gogoi, Indian Chief Minister of Assam (b. 1934)

Christian feast day:

- Alexander Nevsky (Repose, Russian Orthodox Church)

- Beatification Miguel Agustín Pro – one of Saints of the Cristero War (Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran Church)

- Columbanus

- Felicitas of Rome

- Paulinus of Wales

- Pope Clement I (Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and the Lutheran Church)

- Trudo (or Trond)

- Vulfetrude

Labor Thanksgiving Day (Japan)

Repudiation Day (Frederick County, Maryland, United States)

Rudolf Maister Day (Slovenia)

St George's Day (Georgia) or ''Giorgoba'' (Georgia (country))