Those born on this date include:

- Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck in 1599
- author Louis L'Amour in 1908
- actor Leonard Chico Marx of the Marx Brothers comedy team in 1887
- actor Karl Malden in 1912
- French mime Marcel Marceau in 1923
- newspaper executive Allen Neuharth in 1924
- composer Stephen Sondheim in 1930 (age 88)
- televangelist Pat Robertson in 1930 (age 88)
- actor William Shatner in 1931 (age 87)
- U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, in 1934 (age 84)
- actor M. Emmet Walsh in 1935 (age 83)
- singer George Benson in 1943 (age 75)
- author James Patterson in 1947 (age 71)
- British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber in 1948 (age 70)
- television journalist Wolf Blitzer in 1948 (age 70)
- sportscaster Bob Costas in 1952 (age 66)
- actor Lena Olin in 1955 (age 63)
- actor Matthew Modine in 1959 (age 59)
- actor Keegan-Michael Key in 1971 (age 47)
- Canadian skater Elvis Stojko in 1972 (age 46)
- actor Guillermo Diaz in 1975 (age 43)
- actor Reese Witherspoon in 1976 (age 42)
- actor Constance Wu in 1982 (age 36)
- NFL player J.J. Watt in 1989 (age 29)
- actor Nick Robinson in 1995 (age 23).

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