Those born on this date include:

- English playwright William Shakespeare in 1564
- James Buchanan, 15th president of the United States, in 1791
- Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Planck in 1858
- Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev in 1891
- Canadian Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lester Pearson in 1897
- baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Warren Spahn in 1921
- actor/diplomat Shirley Temple Black in 1928
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- distance runner and author Jim Fixx in 1932
- singer Roy Orbison in 1936
- actors Lee Majors and David Birney, both in 1939 (age 75), Sandra Dee in 1942, Herve Villechaize in 1943, Joyce DeWitt in 1949 (age 65), Jan Hooks in 1957 (age 57), Valerie Bertinelli in 1960 (age 54), George Lopez in 1961 (age 53)
- Melina Kanakaredes in 1967 (age 47) and Kal Penn in 1977 (age 37)
- documentarian Michael Moore in 1954 (age 60)
- and Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in 1968.

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