Those born on this date include:

- Mexican revolutionary and military commander Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (conqueror of the Alamo) in 1794
- Roman Catholic Cardinal John Henry Newman in 1801
- German bacteriologist August von Wassermann, who developed the blood test for syphilis, in 1866
- classical guitarist Andres Segovia in 1893
- writer Anais Nin in 1903
- poet/author W.H. Auden in 1907
- filmmaker Sam Peckinpah in 1925
- humorist Erma Bombeck in 1927
- King Harald V of Norway in 1937 (age 80)
- actor Rue McClanahan in 1934
- actor Gary Lockwood in 1937 (age 80)
- film/record executive David Geffen in 1943 (age 74)
- actor Tyne Daly in 1946 (age 71)
- Tricia Nixon Cox, daughter of former U.S. President Richard Nixon, in 1946 (age 71)
- actor Anthony Daniels in 1946 (age 71)
- actor Alan Rickman in 1946
- former U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, in 1947 (age 70)
- author Jeffrey Shaara in 1952 (age 65)
- actor Kelsey Grammer in 1955 (age 62)
- singer Mary Chapin Carpenter in 1958 (age 59)
- actor Christopher Atkins in 1961 (age 56)
- actor William Baldwin in 1963 (age 54)
- Chinese dissident Chen Wei in 1969 (age 48)
- actor Jennifer Love Hewitt in 1979 (age 38)
- singer Charlotte Church in 1986 (age 31)
- actor Ellen Page in 1987 (age 30).

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