Those born on this date include:

- English poet/lexicographer Samuel Johnson, writer of the first English dictionary, in 1709
- Pope Gregory XVI in 1765
- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story in 1779
- French physicist Leon Foucault, inventor of the gyroscope, in 1819
- actor Greta Garbo in 1905
- actor Robert Blake in 1933 (age 88)
- film producer Bud Greenspan in 1926
- comedian Fred Willard in 1939
- singer/actor Frankie Avalon in 1940 (age 81)
- actor Anna Deavere Smith in 1950 (age 71)
- musician Dee Dee Ramone in 1951
- former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson in 1951 (age 70)
- basketball Hall of Fame member Rick Pitino in 1952 (age 69)
- Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges in 1956 (age 65)
- baseball Hall of Fame member Ryne Sandberg in 1959 (age 62)
- actor James Gandolfini in 1961
- actor Holly Robinson Peete in 1964 (age 57)
- actor Aisha Tyler in 1970 (age 51)
- actor Jada Pinkett Smith in 1971 (age 50)
- cyclist Lance Armstrong in 1971 (age 50)
- actor James Marsden in 1973 (age 48)
- rapper Xzibit, born Alvin Nathaniel Joiner, in 1974 (age 47)
- actor Jason Sudeikis in 1975 (age 46)
- actor/comedian Billy Eichner in 1978 (age 43)
- model Patrick Schwarzenegger in 1993 (age 28)
- country singer Taylor Dye in 1995 (age 26)
- actor Aidan Gallagher in 2003 (age 18)
- actor Jackson Robert Scott in 2008 (age 13).

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