Those born on this date include:

- James Monroe, fifth president of the United States, in 1758
- Dutch legal scholar/Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tobias Michael Carel Asser in 1838
- British engineer, mathematician, physicist and inventor Hertha Marks Ayrton in 1854
- actor Lionel Barrymore in 1878
- German industrialist Oskar Schindler, credited with saving almost 1,200 Jews during the World War II Holocaust, in 1908
- novelist Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird) in 1926
- former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker in 1930 (age 87)
- actor Carolyn Jones in 1930
- Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 1937
- actor Madge Sinclair in 1938
- actor Ann-Margret in 1941 (age 76)
- actor Marcia Strassman in 1948
- author Terry Pratchett in 1948 (age 69)
- actor Bruno Kirby in 1949
- former Tonight Show host Jay Leno in 1950 (age 67)
- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan in 1960 (age 57)
- Hall of Fame baseball player Barry Larkin in 1964 (age 53)
- golfer John Daly in 1966 (age 51)
- actor Penelope Cruz in 1974 (age 43)
- actor Jessica Alba in 1981 (age 36).

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