Those born on this date include:

- Welsh poet/writer William Henry Davies (The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp) in 1871
- actor/singer/composer George M. Cohan in 1878
- Czech novelist Franz Kafka in 1883
- actor George Sanders in 1906
- journalist/columnist Dorothy Kilgallen in 1913
- Jerry Gray, bandleader/arranger for Glenn Miller, in 1915
- English filmmaker Ken Russell in 1927
- jazz clarinetist Pete Fountain in 1930 (age 85)
- English playwright Tom Stoppard in 1937 (age 78)
- singer Fontella Bass in 1940
- former Polish Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek in 1940, (age 75)
- celebrity attorney Gloria Allred in 1941 (age 74)
- humorist Dave Barry in 1947 (age 68)
- actor Betty Buckley in 1947 (age 68)
- overthrown Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Baby Doc Duvalier in 1951
- talk show host Montel Williams in 1956 (age 59)
- pop singer Laura Branigan in 1957
- actor Tom Cruise in 1962 (age 53)
- actor Thomas Gibson in 1962 (age 53)
- actor Yeardley Smith in 1964 (age 51)
- actor/singer Audra McDonald in 1970 (age 45)
- champion Formula 1 driver Sebastian Vettel in 1987 (age 28).

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