Those born on this date include:

- Italian painter and inventor Leonardo da Vinci in 1452
- British polar explorer James Clark Ross in 1800
- distiller Joseph E. Seagram in 1841
- author Henry James in 1843
- painter Thomas Hart Benton in 1889
- former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and singer Bessie Smith, both in 1894
- actor Marian Jordan, Molly in the long-running Fibber McGee and Molly radio show, in 1898
- North Korean leader Kim Il Sung in 1912
- businessman Alfred S. Bloomingdale in 1916
- Harold Washington, the first black mayor of Chicago, in 1922
- country singer Roy Clark in 1933 (age 81)
- actors Elizabeth Montgomery in 1933, Claudia Cardinale in 1938 (age 76) and Amy Wright in 1950 (age 64)
- musician Dave Edmunds in 1944 (age 70)
- newspaper columnist Heloise Cruse Evans (Hints from Heloise) in 1951 (age 63)
- and actors Emma Thompson in 1959 (age 55), Seth Rogen in 1982 (age 32) and Emma Watson in 1990 (age 24).

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