Those born on this date include:

- Financier Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1794
- social reformer Amelia Bloomer, for whom the undergarment was named, in 1818
- poet Julia Ward Howe, who wrote the lyrics for The Battle Hymn of the Republic, in 1819
- financier/railroad developer Jay Gould in 1836
- frontiersman James Butler Wild Bill Hickok in 1837
- detective novelist Dashiell Hammett in 1894
- writer Rachel Carson in 1907
- composer Harold Rome in 1908
- Hubert Humphrey, U.S. Vice President (1965-69) and longtime U.S. senator, in 1911
- actor Vincent Price in 1911
- golfer Sam Snead in 1912
- author Herman Wouk in 1915 (age 100)
- actor Christopher Lee in 1922 (age 93)
- former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 1923 (age 92)
- writer Tony Hillerman in 1925
- writer Harlan Ellison in 1934 (age 81)
- jazz musician Ramsey Lewis in 1935 (age 80)
- actor Lee Meriwether in 1935 (age 80)
- actor Louis Gossett Jr. in 1936 (age 79)
- singer/songwriter Don Williams in 1939 (age 76)
- actor Bruce Weitz in 1943 (age 72)
- actor Peri Gilpin in 1961 (age 54)
- actor Todd Bridges in 1965 (age 50)
- actor Joseph Fiennes in 1970 (age 45).

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