Those born on this date include:

- French essayist Michel de Montaigne in 1533
- journalist and screenwriter Ben Hecht in 1894
- chemist and physicist Linus Pauling, twice winner of the Nobel Prize (peace and chemistry), in 1901
- movie director Vincente Minnelli in 1903
- cartoonist Milton Caniff (Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon) in 1907
- actor Billie Bird in 1908
- actor Zero Mostel in 1915
- actor Charles Durning in 1923
- Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, in 1926
- architect Frank Gehry in 1929 (age 88)
- actor Gavin MacLeod in 1931 (age 86)
- Hall of Fame basketball Coach Dean Smith in 1931
- dancer Tommy Tune in 1939 (age 78)
- former race car driver Mario Andretti in 1940 (age 77)
- musician Brian Jones (Rolling Stones) in 1942
- former U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu in 1948 (age 69)
- actor Bernadette Peters in 1948 (age 69)
- actor Mercedes Ruehl in 1948 (age 69)
- newspaper columnist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman in 1953 (age 64)
- comedian Gilbert Gottfried in 1955 (age 62)
- actor John Turturro in 1957 (age 60)
- actor Rae Dawn Chong in 1961 (age 56)
- actor Robert Sean Leonard in 1969 (age 48)
- former NHL player Eric Lindros in 1973 (age 44).

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