Those born on this date include:

- Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio in 1508
- Irish satirist Jonathan Swift in 1667
- novelist Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, in 1835
- British statesman Winston Churchill in 1874
- Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress, in 1924
- actor Robert Guillaume in 1927
- producer/TV music show host Dick Clark in 1929
- Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy in 1930 (age 87)
- 1960s radical Abbie Hoffman in 1936
- filmmaker Ridley Scott in 1937 (age 80)
- playwright David Mamet in 1947 (age 70)
- singer/actor Mandy Patinkin in 1952 (age 65)
- singer June Pointer in 1953
- rock singer Billy Idol in 1955 (age 62)
- historian Michael Beschloss in 1955 (age 62)
- Heisman Trophy winner and football Hall of Fame member Bo Jackson in 1962 (age 55)
- actor Ben Stiller in 1965 (age 52)
- singer Clay Aiken in 1978 (age 39)
- actor Elisha Cuthbert in 1982 (age 35)
- model Chrissy Teigen in 1985 (age 32)
- actor Kaley Cuoco in 1985 (age 32).

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