Those born on this date include:

- William Henry Harrison, ninth president of the United States, in 1773
- former Secretary of State Dean Rusk in 1909
- actor Carmen Miranda in 1909
- country singer Ernest Tubb in 1914
- baseball entrepreneur Bill Veeck in 1914
- actor Kathryn Grayson in 1922
- Irish playwright Brendan Behan in 1923
- television journalist Roger Mudd in 1928 (age 90)
- South African author J. M. Coetzee, Nobel laureate, in 1940 (age 78)
- singer/songwriter Carole King in 1942 (age 76)
- Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz in 1943 (age 75)
- actor Joe Pesci in 1943 (age 75)
- author Alice Walker in 1944 (age 74)
- actor Mia Farrow in 1945 (age 73)
- actor Judith Light in 1949 (age 69)
- actor Ciaran Hinds in 1953 (age 65)
- actor Charles Shaughnessy in 1955 (age 63)
- country singer Travis Tritt in 1963 (age 55)
- actor Charlie Day in 1976 (age 42)
- actor Tom Hiddleston in 1981 (age 37)
- American Taliban John Walker Lindh in 1981 (age 37)
- actor Michael B. Jordan in 1987 (age 31)
- actor Rose Leslie in 1987 (age 31).

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