Those born on this date include:

- Women's suffrage leader Mary Livermore in 1820
- novelist Eleanor Porter (Pollyanna) in 1868
- baseball Hall of Fame member Ford Frick in 1894
- British actor Ralph Richardson in 1902
- Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev in 1906
- French dramatist Jean Genet, a pioneer in the theater of the absurd, in 1910
- French singer Edith Piaf in 1915
- country singer Little Jimmy Dickens in 1920 (age 94)
- actor Cicely Tyson in 1933 (age 81)
- baseball Hall of Fame member Al Kaline in 1934 (age 80)
- folk singer Phil Ochs in 1940
- former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak in 1941 (age 73)
- British rock musician Alvin Lee in 1944
- bluegrass musician John McEuen in 1945 (age 69)
- actors Tim Reid in 1944 (age 70), Robert Urich in 1946, Jennifer Beals in 1963 (age 51), Robert MacNaughton in 1966 (age 48), Alyssa Milano in 1972 (age 42) and Jake Gyllenhaal in 1980 (age 34).

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