Those born on this date include:

- French essayist Michel de Montaigne in 1533
- chemist/physicist Linus Pauling, twice winner of the Nobel Prize (peace and chemistry), in 1901
- movie director Vincente Minnelli in 1903
- actor Billie Bird in 1908
- actor Charles Durning in 1923
- Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, in 1926
- architect Frank Gehry in 1929 (age 91)
- actor Gavin MacLeod in 1931 (age 89)
- dancer Tommy Tune in 1939 (age 81)
- former race car driver Mario Andretti in 1940 (age 80)
- musician Brian Jones in 1942
- former U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu in 1948 (age 72)
- actor Bernadette Peters in 1948 (age 72)
- actor Mercedes Ruehl in 1948 (age 72)
- newspaper columnist/Nobel laureate Paul Krugman in 1953 (age 67)
- comedian Gilbert Gottfried in 1955 (age 65)
- actor John Turturro in 1957 (age 63)
- actor Rae Dawn Chong in 1961 (age 59)
- singer Patrick Monahan in 1969 (age 51)
- actor Robert Sean Leonard in 1969 (age 51)
- actor Tasha Smith in 1971 (age 49)
- hockey Hall of Fame member Eric Lindros in 1973 (age 47)
- actor Ali Larter in 1976 (age 44)
- country singer Jason Aldean in 1977 (age 43)
- actor Sarah Bolger in 1991 (age 29).

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