Those born on this date include:

- English novelist William Makepeace Thackeray in 1811
- Titanic survivor Margaret Brown The Unsinkable Molly Brown in 1867
- playwright Clifford Odets in 1906
- comedian Red Skelton in 1913
- South African leader/Nobel Peace Price laureate Nelson Mandela in 1918
- astronaut/Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, in 1921
- gold medal ice skater Dick Button in 1929 (age 89)
- journalist/author Hunter S. Thompson in 1937
- pop singer Dion DiMucci in 1939 (age 79)
- actor James Brolin in 1940 (age 78)
- former baseball Manager Joe Torre in 1940 (age 78)
- singer Martha Reeves in 1941 (age 77)
- publisher Steve Forbes in 1947 (age 71)
- businessman Richard Branson in 1950 (age 68)
- country singer Ricky Skaggs in 1954 (age 64)
- actor Elizabeth McGovern in 1961 (age 57)
- talk show host Wendy Williams in 1964 (age 54)
- actor Vin Diesel in 1967 (age 51)
- rapper MIA, born Mathangi Maya Arulpragasam, in 1975 (age 43)
- actor Kristen Bell in 1980 (age 38)
- actor Michiel Huisman in 1981 (age 37)
- actor Priyanka Chopra in 1982 (age 36)
- actor Chace Crawford in 1985 (age 33)
- hockey player Jamie Benn in 1989 (age 29)
- singer Avery Wilson in 1995 (age 23).

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