Those born on this date include:

- Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio in 1508
- Irish satirist Jonathan Swift in 1667
- novelist Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, in 1835
- British statesman Winston Churchill in 1874
- author Lucy Maud Montgomery in 1874
- photographer/writer Gordon Parks in 1912
- Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress, in 1924
- actor Robert Guillaume in 1927
- producer/TV music show host Dick Clark in 1929
- Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy in 1930
- comedian/filmmaker Woody Allen in 1935 (age 88)
- 1960s radical Abbie Hoffman in 1936
- filmmaker Ridley Scott in 1937 (age 86)
- filmmaker Terrence Malick in 1943 (age 80)
- playwright David Mamet in 1947 (age 76)
- singer/actor Mandy Patinkin in 1952 (age 71)
- singer June Pointer in 1953
- rock singer Billy Idol in 1955 (age 68)
- historian Michael Beschloss in 1955 (age 68)
- Heisman Trophy winner/football Hall of Fame member Bo Jackson in 1962 (age 61)
- actor Ben Stiller in 1965 (age 58)
- music producer Steve Aoki in 1977 (age 46)
- singer Clay Aiken in 1978 (age 45)
- actor Gael Garcia Bernal in 1978 (age 45)
- actor Elisha Cuthbert in 1982 (age 41)
- model Chrissy Teigen in 1985 (age 38)
- actor Kaley Cuoco in 1985 (age 38).

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