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Those born on this date include:

- Confederate guerrilla leader William Quantrill in 1837
- Kmart founder S.S. Kresge in 1867
- pollster Elmo Burns Roper Jr. in 1900
- economist Milton Friedman in 1912
- former TV talk-show host Irv Kupcinet in 1912: sports announcer Curt Gowdy in 1919
- actor Don Murray in 1929 (age 86)
- actor Ted Cassidy in 1932
- actor France Nuyen in 1939 (age 76)
- actor Geraldine Chaplin in 1944 (age 71)
- musician Gary Lewis in 1946 (age 69)
- Australian tennis star Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1951 (age 64)
- businessman/NBA team owner Mark Cuban in 1958 (age 57)
- actor Wesley Snipes in 1962 (age 53)
- actor Dean Cain in 1966 (age 49)
- author J.K. Rowling in 1965 (age 50).

 


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