Those born on this date include:

- Italian painter and inventor Leonardo da Vinci in 1452
- British polar explorer James Clark Ross in 1800
- distiller Joseph E. Seagram in 1841
- author Henry James in 1843
- former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in 1894
- singer Bessie Smith in 1894
- actor Marian Jordan, Molly in the long-running Fibber McGee and Molly radio show, in 1898
- former North Korean leader Kim Il Sung in 1912
- businessman Alfred S. Bloomingdale in 1916
- Harold Washington, the first black mayor of Chicago, in 1922
- country singer Roy Clark in 1933 (age 85)
- actor Elizabeth Montgomery in 1933
- actor Claudia Cardinale in 1938 (age 80)
- musician Dave Edmunds in 1944 (age 74)
- actor Amy Wright in 1950 (age 68)
- newspaper columnist Heloise Cruse Evans (Hints from Heloise) in 1951 (age 67)
- actor Emma Thompson in 1959 (age 59)
- country singer Chris Stapleton in 1978 (age 40)
- actor Luke Evans in 1979 (age 39)
- actor Seth Rogen in 1982 (age 36)
- singer/actor Ester Dean in 1986 (age 32)
- actor Samira Wiley in 1987 (age 31)
- actor Emma Watson in 1990 (age 28)
- actor Cody Christian in 1995 (age 23)
- actor Maisie Williams in 1997 (age 21).

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