Those born on this date include:

- English playwright William Shakespeare in 1564
- James Buchanan, 15th president of the United States, in 1791
- Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Planck in 1858
- Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev in 1891
- Canadian Prime Minister/Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lester Pearson in 1897
- baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Warren Spahn in 1921
- actor/diplomat Shirley Temple Black in 1928
- distance runner/author Jim Fixx in 1932
- singer Roy Orbison in 1936
- actor Lee Majors in 1939 (age 76)
- actor David Birney in 1939 (age 76)
- actor Sandra Dee in 1942
- actor Herve Villechaize in 1943
- actor Joyce DeWitt in 1949 (age 66)
- documentarian Michael Moore in 1954 (age 61)
- actor Jan Hooks in 1957
- actor Valerie Bertinelli in 1960 (age 55)
- actor George Lopez in 1961 (age 54)
- actor Melina Kanakaredes in 1967 (age 48)
- Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in 1968
- actor Kal Penn in 1977 (age 38)
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