Those born on this date include:

- Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens, founder of the wave theory of light, in 1629
- Anne Sullivan, the miracle worker who taught a blind and deaf Helen Keller, in 1866
- English historian Arnold Toynbee in 1889
- Haitian dictator Francois Papa Doc Duvalier in 1907
- actor Rod Steiger in 1925
- actor Bradford Dillman in 1930
- country singer Loretta Lynn in 1932 (age 89)
- writer Erich von Daniken in 1935 (age 86)
- crusading New York police detective Frank Serpico in 1936 (age 85)
- actor Julie Christie in 1940 (age 81)
- Pete Rose, former baseball star and manager, in 1941 (age 80)
- actor Peter Capaldi in 1958 (age 63)
- actor Robert Carlyle in 1961 (age 60)
- actor Anthony Michael Hall in 1968 (age 53)
- actor Adrien Brody in 1973 (age 48)
- rapper Da Brat, born Shawntae Harris, in 1974 (age 47)
- actor Sarah Michelle Gellar in 1977 (age 44)
- actor Rob McElhenney in 1977 (age 44)
- actor Chris Wood in 1988 (age 33)
- actor Graham Phillips in 1993 (age 28)
- actor Abigail Breslin in 1996 (age 25).

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