Those born on this day include:

- British diarist Samuel Pepys in 1633
- German composer George Frideric Handel in 1685
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild, European banker/founder of the Rothschild financial dynasty, in 1744
- writer/philosopher W.E.B. DuBois in 1868
- film director Victor Fleming (Gone With The Wind, The Wizard of Oz) in 1889
- journalist/author William Shirer in 1904
- Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay on the 1945 flight that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1915
- former congressman/longtime University of Nebraska football Coach Tom Osborne in 1937 (age 78)
- actor Peter Fonda in 1940 (age 75)
- football Hall of Fame member Fred Biletnikoff in 1943 (age 72)
- musician Johnny Winter in 1944
- novelist John Roswell Camp (who writes as John Sandford) in 1944 (age 71)
- former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko in 1954 (age 61)
- actor Patricia Richardson in 1951 (age 64)
- actor Emily Blunt in 1983 (age 32)
- actor Dakota Fanning in 1994 (age 21).

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