Those born on this date include:

- Persian poet Omar Khayyam in 1048
- Russian Czar Nicholas II in 1868
- English philosopher/mathematician Bertrand Russell in 1872
- Italian operatic singer Ezio Pinza in 1892
- film director Frank Capra (It Happened One Night, It's a Wonderful Life) in 1897
- composer Meredith Willson (The Music Man) in 1902
- blues singer Big Joe Turner in 1911
- singer Perry Como in 1912
- director/screenwriter Richard Brooks (Key Largo, Elmer Gantry) in 1912
- British ballet star Margot Fonteyn in 1919
- Pope John Paul II, born Karol Wojtyla, in 1920
- actor Pernell Roberts in 1928
- actor Robert Morse in 1931 (age 86)
- Mad magazine cartoonist Don Martin in 1931
- Baseball Hall of Fame member Brooks Robinson in 1937 (age 80) baseball Hall of Fame member Reggie Jackson in 1946 (age 71)
- British rock keyboardist Rick Wakeman in 1949 (age 68)
- country singer George Strait in 1952 (age 65)
- actor Chow Yun-Fat in 1955 (age 62)
- actor Tina Fey in 1970 (age 47)
- singer-songwriter Jack Johnson in 1975 (age 42).

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