Those born on this date include:

- British Methodist leader and hymnist Charles Wesley in 1707
- Britain's Joseph Grimaldi, known as the greatest clown in history, in 1778
- English physicist Joseph Thomson, discoverer of the electron, in 1856
- Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1863
- British short story writer Saki (H.H. Munro) in 1870
- Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1878
- Swiss modernist painter Paul Klee in 1879
- baseball Hall of Fame member Tyrus Ty Cobb in 1886
- film director George Stevens (Shane, A Place in the Sun, Giant) in 1904
- West German statesman Willy Brandt (Nobel Peace Prize laureate) and writer Alfred Bester, both in 1913
- actors Betty Grable in 1916 and Ossie Davis in 1917
- chef Jacques Pepin in 1935 (age 79)
- Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards in 1943 (age 71)
- South African activist Steve Biko and film director Steven Spielberg (age 68), both in 1946
- movie critic/historian Leonard Maltin in 1950 (age 64)
- actors Ray Liotta in 1954 (age 60), Brad Pitt in 1963 (age 51) and Katie Holmes in 1978 (age 36)
- wrestler and actor Steve Austin in 1964 (age 50)
- and singer Christina Aguilera in 1980 (age 34).

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