Those born on this date include:

- Macedonian leader Alexander the Great in 356 B.C.
- Austrian monk/pioneering botanist Gregor Johann Mendel in 1822
- New Zealand explorer Edmund Hillary, who in 1953 reached the summit of Mount Everest, in 1919
- actor Sally Ann Howes in 1930 (age 88)
- author Cormac McCarthy in 1933 (age 85)
- U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., the longest serving woman in U.S. Congress history, in 1936 (age 82)
- actor Diana Rigg in 1938 (age 80)
- actor Natalie Wood in 1938
- singer Kim Carnes in 1945 (age 73)
- guitarist Carlos Santana in 1947 (age 71)
- actor Donna Dixon in 1957 (age 61)
- rock singer Chris Cornell in 1964
- Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto in 1966 (age 52)
- actor Josh Holloway in 1969 (age 49)
- actor Sandra Oh in 1971 (age 47)
- actor Omar Epps in 1973 (age 45)
- actor Judy Greer in 1975 (age 43)
- hockey player Pavel Datsyuk in 1978 (age 40)
- model Gisele Bundchen in 1980 (age 38)
- actor John Francis Daley in 1985 (age 33)
- actor Osirc Chau in 1986 (age 32)
- dancer/actor Julianne Hough in 1988 (age 30).

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