1647 – Johannes Voet, Dutch lawyer, born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1713)
1789 – Francis Gregory, American Rear Admiral (Union Navy), born in Norwalk, Connecticut (d. 1866)
1804 – Townsend Harris, American diplomat (1st Western consul to reside in Japan), born in Washington County, New York (d. 1878)
1859 РEleonora Duse, Italian actress (Les Mis̩rables, Th̩r̬se Raquin), born near Vigevano, Italy (d. 1924)
1862 – Johnny Briggs, English cricket all-rounder (33 Tests; 118 wickets @ 17.75), born in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire (d. 1902)
1869 – Clara Noyes, American nurse (head of the American Red Cross WW1), born in Port Deposit, Maryland (d. 1936)
1944 – Bob Riley, American politician (52nd Governor of Alabama), born in Ashland, Alabama
1947 – John Perry Barlow, American lyricist (Grateful Dead – “Estimated Prophet”; “I Need A Miracle”; “Cassidy”), essayist, internet pioneer, and activist, born near Cora, Wyoming (d. 2018)
1953 – Karen Bass, American politician and social worker (1st woman elected Mayor of Los Angeles 2022-; Rep-(D)-California 2011-2022), born in Los Angeles, California
1963 – Dan Goldie, American tennis player and author (“The Investment Answer”, #1 NY Times bestselling book), born in Sioux City Iowa

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1550 – Pope Paul V [Camillo Borghese], 233rd pope (1605-21) and persecutor of Galileo, born in Rome (d. 1621)
1815 – Halfdan Kjerulf, Norwegian composer (Brudefaerden i Hardanger), born in Christiania, Norway (d. 1868)
1861 – Owen Seaman, British poet and editor (Punch), born in Shrewsbury, England (d. 1936)
1916 – Ove Abildgaard, Danish poet (Uglegylp), born in Lemvig, Denmark (d. 1990)
1930 – Thomas P. Stafford, American US Air Force officer and NASA astronaut (Gemini 6 and 9; Apollo 10 and 18), born in Weatherford, Oklahoma (d. 2024)
1940 – Jan Eliasson, Swedish diplomat (4th Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations), born in Gothenburg, Sweden
1958 – Daniel Nunez, Cuban weightlifter (Olympic gold 1980)
1959 – Hank Ilesic, Canadian CFL punter and place kicker (Edmonton, Toronto), born in Edmonton, Alberta
1985 – Alex Ovechkin, Russian ice hockey player (Moscow Dynamo; Washington Capitals) who is one of the greatest goal scorers of all time, born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
1986 – Landry Mulemo, Belgian footballer

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1855 – Anthony Francis Lucas, Croatian-American oil exploration pioneer, born in Split, Austria-Hungary (d. 1921)
1877 РJes̼s Castillo, Guatemalan composer (Quich̩ Vinak), born in San Juan Ostuncalco (d. 1946)
1892 – Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American silent film actress (The Dragon Painter), born in Tokyo, Empire of Japan (d. 1961)
1941 – Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist (created C programming language, helped developed Unix), born in Bronxville, New York (d. 2011)
1942 – Danny Kalb, American blues guitarist (The Blues Project), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2022)
1962 – Aleta Rzepecki Sill, American bowler (1983 WIBC single), born in Detroit, Michigan
1970 – Natalia Streignard, Venezuelan actress, born in Madrid, Spain
1972 – Goran ViÅ¡njić, Croatian actor, born in Å ibenik, Croatia
1975 – Michael Bublé, Canadian Grammy and Juno Award-winning singer (“Haven’t Met You Yet”; “It’s A Beautiful Day”), and actor, born in Burnaby, British Columbia
1977 – Soulja Slim [James Adarryl Tapp Jr.], American rapper (“Slow Motion”), born in Magnolia Projects, New Orleans (d. 2003)

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