Those born on this date include:

- German composer Johannes Bach in 1604
- English clergyman and college benefactor John Harvard in 1607
- English poet William Cowper in 1731
- surgeon and women's rights leader Mary Walker Edwards in 1832
- gambler, frontier lawman and sports columnist William Bat Masterson in 1853
- air conditioning engineer Willis Carrier in 1876
- baseball Hall of Fame member Lefty Gomez in 1908
- French playwright Eugene Ionesco in 1909
- TV journalist Eric Sevareid in 1912
- science fiction writer Frederik Pohl in 1919
- cartoonist Charles Schulz (Peanuts) in 1922
- Argentine pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel in 1931 (age 83)
- singer Robert Goulet in 1933
- impressionist Rich Little in 1938 (age 76)
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members Tina Turner in 1939 (age 75) and John McVie in 1945 (age 69)
- and football Hall of Fame member Art Shell in 1946 (age 68).

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