Those born on this date include:

- Poet Eugene Field and sporting goods entrepreneur Albert Spalding, both in 1850
- inventor Hiram Maxim, who invented the first portable automatic machine gun, in 1869
- basketball Hall of Fame Coach Adolph Rupp in 1901
- authors Cleveland Amory in 1917 and Allen Drury in 1918
- dancer Marge Champion in 1919 (age 95)
- Snapple co-founder Arnold Greenberg in 1932
- horse racing Hall of Fame member D. Wayne Lukas in 1935 (age 79)
- basketball Hall of Fame member John Thompson Jr. in 1941 (age 73)
- Christa McAuliffe, the schoolteacher who became an astronaut and died in the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986, basketball Hall of Fame member Nate Archibald (age 66) and football Hall of Fame member and broadcaster Terry Bradshaw (age 66), all in 1948
- actor Mark Harmon in 1951 (age 63)
- tennis Hall of Fame member Jimmy Connors in 1952 (age 62)
- Cirque de Soleil co-founder Guy Laliberte in 1959 (age 55)
- football Hall of Fame member Eric Dickerson in 1960 (age 54)
- actors Keanu Reeves in 1964 (age 50) and Salma Hayek in 1966 (age 48).

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