Those born on this date include:

- Adlai E. Stevenson I, U.S. vice president under Grover Cleveland, in 1835
- pioneering college football Coach John Heisman, for whom the Heisman Trophy is named
- in 1869
- William Coolidge, inventor of the X-ray tube, in 1873
- vaudevillian Milton Gummo Marx in 1893
- Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel, in 1905
- former Tonight Show host Johnny Carson in 1925
- pro golfer Juan Chi Chi Rodriguez in 1935 (age 82)
- Brazilian soccer star Pele (Edson Arantes do Nascimento) in 1940 (age 77)
- author Michael Crichton in 1942
- filmmaker Ang Lee in 1954 (age 63)
- singer Dwight Yoakam in 1956 (age 61)
- civil rights activist Martin Luther King III in 1967 (age 60)
- singer Weird Al Yankovic in 1959 (age 58)
- television talk show host Nancy Grace, in 1959 (age 58)
- former football star Doug Flutie in 1962 (age 55)
- actor Kate del Castillo in 1972 (age 45)
- actor Ryan Reynolds in 1976 (age 41)
- author and television personality Meghan McCain in 1984 (age 33)
- actor Emilia Clarke in 1986 (age 31)
- actor Amandla Stenberg in 1998 (age 19).

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