Those born on this date include:

- Botanist John Merle Coulter in 1851
- Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, first commissioner of baseball, in 1866
- Norman Thomas, six times the Socialist Party candidate for U.S. president, in 1884
- astronomer Edwin Hubble in 1889
- Dick Tracy creator Chester Gould in 1900
- TV commentator Alistair Cooke in 1908
- singer/actor Judy Canova in 1916
- U.S. Sens. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., in 1917 and Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y., in 1925
- actors Kaye Ballard in 1925 (age 90) and Estelle Parsons in 1927 (age 88)
- actor/TV game show host Richard Dawson in 1932
- musician and comedian Dick Smothers of the Smothers Brothers in 1939 (age 76)
- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in 1942 (age 73)
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members Duane Allman in 1946 and Joe Walsh in 1947 (age 68)
- former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton in 1948 (age 67)
- and actors Veronica Hamel in 1943 (age 72), Richard Masur in 1948 (age 67), Bo Derek in 1956 (age 59), Sean Young in 1959 (age 56) and Ming-Na Wen in 1963 (age 52).

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