Those born on this date include:

- German painter Albrecht Durer in 1471
- King Philip II of Spain, who launched the Spanish Armada, in 1527
- English poet and satirist Alexander Pope in 1688
- French painter Henri Rousseau in 1844
- French diplomat/Nobel Peace Prize laureate Leon Bourgeois in 1851
- industrialist Armand Hammer in 1898
- architect Marcel Breuer in 1902
- composer and barrelhouse piano player Thomas Fats Waller in 1904
- author Harold Robbins in 1916
- singer Dennis Day in 1916
- actor Raymond Burr in 1917
- Soviet physicist-turned-humanitarian Andrei Sakharov in 1921
- Hall of Fame football Coach Ara Parseghian in 1923 (age 92)
- actor Peggy Cass in 1924
- former baseball Manager Bobby Cox in 1941 (age 74)
- singer Ronald Isley in 1941 (age 74)
- romance novelist Janet Dailey in 1944 (age 71)
- comedian/U.S. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., in 1951 (age 64)
- convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in 1960
- actor Mr. T, born Lawrence Tureaud, in 1952 (age 63)
- actor Judge Reinhold in 1957 (age 58)
- actor Lisa Edelstein in 1966 (age 49)
- rapper The Notorious B.I.G. in 1972.

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