Those born on this date include:

- French composer Camille Saint-Saens in 1835
- French officer Alfred Dreyfus, who was accused of treason, in 1859
- Charles Rudolph Walgreen, drugstore chain founder, in 1873
- baseball Hall of Fame member Rube Marquard in 1886
- American evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson in 1890
- Civil War historian Bruce Catton in 1899
- Scottish actor Alastair Sim in 1900
- baseball Hall of Fame member Walter O'Malley in 1903
- convicted Watergate burglar, novelist and lecturer E. Howard Hunt Jr. in 1918
- former Beatle John Lennon in 1940
- C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb in 1941 (age 74)
- The Who bassist John Entwistle in 1944
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Jackson Browne in 1948 (age 67)
- Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Williams in 1950 (age 65)
- writer/actor Robert Wuhl in 1951 (age 64)
- television personality Sharon Osbourne in 1952 (age 63)
- football Hall of Fame member Mike Singletary in 1958 (age 57)
- film director Guillermo del Toro in 1964 (age 51)
- actors Tony Shalhoub in 1953 (age 62)
- Scott Bakula and John O'Hurley, both in 1954 (age 61), Michael Pare in 1958 (age 57) and Zachery Ty Bryan in 1981 (age 34)
- British Prime Minister David Cameron in 1966 (age 49)
- and golf Hall of Fame member Annika Sorenstam in 1970 (age 45).

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