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Those born on this date include:

• French King Louis XIV in 1638
• Outlaw Jesse James in 1847
• Distiller Jack Daniel in 1850
• Baseb all Hall of Fame member Napoleon Lajoie in 1874
• Marketing research engineer A.C. Nielsen in 1897
• Movie producer Darryl F. Zanuck in 1902
• Hungarian-born author Arthur Koestler in 1905
• Retired Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker in 1927 (age 83)
• Comedian Bob Newhart in 1929 (age 81)
• Singer/actor Carol Lawrence in 1932 (age 78)
• Film director Werner Herzog in 1942 (age 68)
• Singer/songwriter Al Stewart in 1945 (age 65)
• Singer/songwriter Loudon Wainwright III in 1946 (age 64)
• Rock singer Freddy Mercury in 1946
• Cartoonist Cathy Guisewite in 1950 (age 60)
• Actor William Devane in 1937 (age 73)
• Actor George Lazenby in 1939 (age 71)
• Raquel Welch in 1940 (age 70)
• Actor Dennis Dugan in 1946 (age 64)
• Actor Michael Keaton in 1951 (age 59)
• Rock musician Dweezil Zappa, son of Frank Zappa, in 1969 (age 41)

Those born on this date include:

• French novelist and politician Francois Rene de Chateaubriand in 1768
• Architect Daniel Burnham in 1846
• Engineer-inventor Lewis Latimer in 1848
• Composer Darius Milhaud in 1892
• Novelist and essayist Richard Wright in 1908
• Bandleader Jan Savitt in 1907
• Radio news commentator Paul Harvey in 1918
• Actor Dick York in 1928
• Dancer/actor Mitzi Gaynor in 1931 (age 79)
• Golf Hall of Fame member Raymond Floyd in 1942 (age 68)
• Golf Hall of Fame member Tom Watson in 1949 (age 61)
• Actor Judith Ivey in 1951 (age 59)
• Comedian Damon Wayans in 1960 (age 50)
• Actor Ione Skye, daughter of pop singer Donovan, in 1970 (age 40)

Those born on this date include:

• Teacher Prudence Crandall, controversial for her efforts to educate black girls, in 1803
• Architect Louis Sullivan, called the father of the skyscraper, in 1856
• Automobile designer Ferdinand Porsche in 1875
• Actor Alan Ladd in 1913
• Actor/singer Kitty Carlisle in 1910
• Cartoonist Mort Walker ( Beetle Bailey ) in 1923 (age 87)
• Albert DeSalvo, known as the Boston Strangler, in 1931
• Musician Al Jardine of the Beach Boys in 1942 (age 68)
• Actor Anne Jackson in 1926 (age 84)
• Actor Eileen Brennan in 1932 (age 78)
• Actor Pauline Collins in 1940 (age 70)
• Actor Valerie Perrine in 1943 (age 67)
• Actor Charlie Sheen in 1965 (age 45)
• Olympic gold medalist snowboarder Shaun White in 1986 (age 24)

Those born on this date include:

• Poet Eugene Field in 1850
• American inventor Hiram Maxim, who invented the first portable automatic machine gun, in 1869
• Basketball Hall of Fame Coach Adolph Rupp in 1901
• Authors Cleveland Amory in 1917 and Allen Drury in 1918
• Dancer Marge Champion in 1919 (age 91)
• Basketball Hall of Fame member John Thompson Jr. in 1941 (age 69)
• Christa McAuliffe, the school teacher who became an astronaut and died when the space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after liftoff in 1986 in 1948
• Basketball Hall of Fame member Nate Archibald (age 62) in 1948
• Football Hall of Fame member and sportscaster Terry Bradshaw in 1948 (age 62)
• Actor Mark Harmon in 1951 (age 59)
• Tennis Hall of Fame member Jimmy Connors in 1952 (age 58)
• Football Hall of Fame member Eric Dickerson in 1960 (age 50)
• Actor Keanu Reeves in 1964 (age 46)
• Actor Salma Hayek in 1966 (age 44)

Those born on this day are under the sign of Virgo. They include:

German composer Engelbert Humperdinck in 1854
• Tarzan author Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1875
• Dancer/singer Marilyn Miller in 1898
• Labor leader Walter Reuther in 1907
• Actor Richard Farnsworth in 1920
• Actor Yvonne De Carlo in 1922
• Actor George Maharis in 1928 (age 72)
• Undefeated heavyweight boxing champ Rocky Marciano in 1923
• Country music singer Boxcar Willy in 1931
• Country music singer Conway Twitty in 1933
• Symphony conductor Seiji Ozawa in 1935 (age 75)
• Attorney Alan Dershowitz in 1938 (age 72)
• Comedian/actor Lily Tomlin in 1939 (age 71)
• Conductor Leonard Slatkin in 1944 age 66)
• Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees pop music group in 1946 (age 64)
• Talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw in 1950 (age 60)
• Singer Gloria Estefan in 1957 (age 53)

Those born on this date include:

• Italian educator Maria Montessori in 1870
• Actor Fredric March in 1897
• Entertainer Arthur Godfrey in 1903
• Writer William Saroyan in 1908
• Astronomer Alfred Bernard Lovell in 1913
• Actor Richard Basehart in 1914
• Journalist Daniel Schorr in 1916
• Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner in 1918
• Comedian Buddy Hackett in 1924
• Actor James Coburn in 1928
• Baseball Hall of Fame member Frank Robinson, first African-American to manage a major league team, in 1935 (age 75)
• Black militant Eldridge Cleaver, also in 1935
• Violinist Itzhak Perlman in 1945 (age 65)
• Rock singer Van Morrison in 1945 (age 65)
• Actor Richard Gere in 1949 (age 61)
• Olympic track star Edwin Moses in 1955 (age 55)
• Jordanian Queen Rania in 1970 (age 40)
• Singer/actor Debbie Gibson in 1970 (age 40)
• Olympic gold medal skier Ted Ligety in 1984 (age 26)

Those born on this date are under the sign of Virgo. They include:

• German poet, novelist and dramatist Johann von Goethe in 1749
• Elizabeth Ann Seton, first U.S.-born saint of the Roman Catholic Church, in 1774
• Actor Charles Boyer in 1899
• Psychologist Bruno Bettelheim in 1903
• Actor Nancy Kulp in 1921
• Actor/dancer Donald O’Connor in 1925
• Actor Ben Gazzara in 1930 (age 80)
• Former Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen in 1940 (age 70)
• Baseball manager Lou Piniella and singer/actor David Soul, both in 1943 (age 67)
• Actor Daniel Stern in 1957 (age 53)
• Ice skater Scott Hamilton in 1958 (age 52)
• Actor Emma Samms in 1960 (age 50)
• Actor Billy Boyd in 1968 (age 42)
• Actor Jack Black and Jason Priestley, both in 1969 (age 41)
• Figure skating Hall of Fame member Todd Eldredge and Olympic gold medal swimmer Janet Evans, both in 1971 (age 39)
• country singer Shania Twain in 1965 (age 45)
• Country singer LeAnn Rimes in 1982 (age 28)
• Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, held captive since June 2006, in 1986 (age 24)

Those born on this date include:

• German philosopher Georg Hegel in 1770
• Novelist Theodore Dreiser in 1871
• English automaker Charles Rolls in 1877
• Novelist C.S. Forester in 1899
• Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th president of the United States, in 1908
• Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa in 1910
• Singer/actress Martha Raye in 1916
• Singer/actor Tommy Sands in 1937 (age 73)
• Actress Tuesday Weld in 1943 (age 67)
• Actor Paul Reubens (Pee-Wee Herman) in 1952 (age 58)
• Actress Sarah Chalke in 1976 (age 34)

Those born on this date include:

• British statesman Robert Walpole in 1676
• French scientist Antoine Lavoisier, the founder of modern chemistry, in 1743
• Lee De Forest, known as the father of radio, in 1873
• Charlie Chan detective series author Earl Derr Biggers in 1884
• Poet/novelist Christopher Isherwood in 1904
• Bacteriologist Albert Sabin, discoverer of an oral vaccine for polio, in 1906
• Geraldine Ferraro, Democratic vice presidential candidate and first woman to seek so high a position on a major U.S. political party ticket, in 1935 (age 75)
• Jazz musician Branford Marsalis in 1960 (age 50)
• Actor Macaulay Culkin in 1980 (age 30)