Those born on this date include:

- Roman Emperor Caligula in A.D. 12
- Italian educator Maria Montessori in 1870
- actor Fredric March in 1897
- entertainer Arthur Godfrey in 1903
- writer William Saroyan in 1908
- English astronomer Alfred Bernard Lovell in 1913
- actor Richard Basehart in 1914
- journalist Daniel Schorr in 1916
- lyricist Alan Jay Lerner in 1918
- comedian Buddy Hackett in 1924
- actor James Coburn in 1928
- baseball Hall of Fame member Frank Robinson, first African-American to manage a Major League Baseball team, in 1935 (age 79)
- black militant Eldridge Cleaver, also in 1935
- violinist Itzhak Perlman (age 69), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Van Morrison (age 69) and rock musician Bob Welch, all in 1945
- actor Richard Gere in 1949 (age 65)
- Olympic track star Edwin Moses in 1955 (age 59)
- Jordanian Queen Rania and singer/actor Debbie Gibson, both in 1970 (age 44)
- actor Chris Tucker in 1972 (age 42)
- and Olympic gold medal skier Ted Ligety in 1984 (age 30).

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