Edward II (1284-1327)
King of England (1307-27), born in Caernarfon Castle, Gwynedd, Wales
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658)
English general and puritan Lord Protector of England (1653-58), born in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England
- 1608 Gaston, Duke of Orleans, brother of French King Louis XIII, born in Palace of Fontainebleau, France (d. 1660)
- 1614 Hieronymus van Beverningk, Dutch general, born in Gouda, Netherlands (d. 1690)
- 1621 Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist, born in Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland (d. 1679)
- 1677 Guillaume Coustou Sr, French sculptor (Chevaux the Marly), born in Lyon, France (d. 1746)
- 1694 Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect, born in London (d. 1753)
- 1710 James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer, born in Banffshire, Scotland (d. 1776)
- 1725 Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral, born in Caversham, Reading, England (d. 1786)
- 1767 Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal, born in Bar-le-Duc, France (d. 1847)
- 1769 Marc Isambard Brunel, French-born English engineer (Thames Tunnel), born in Hacqueville, France (d. 1849)
- 1770 Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian statesman, born in Nærøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway (d. 1850)
- 1776 Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, born in Buckingham Palace, London (d. 1857)
- 1792 John Keble, Anglican priest and founder (Oxford Movement), born in Fairford, Gloucestershire, England (d. 1886)
- 1824 Gustave Boulanger, French painter, born in Paris (d. 1888)
- 1825 Charles Dowd, American principal who was the 1st to propose standardized time zones (for America's railways), born in Madison, Connecticut (d. 1904)
- 1840 James Dearing, U.S. Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Campbell County, Virginia (d. 1865)
- 1842 Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer and poet (Il santo, Leila), born in Vicenza, Italy (d. 1911)
- 1843 Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, Grand Duchess of Hesse, born in Buckingham Palace, London (d. 1878)
- 1849 Felix Klein, German mathematician (Evanston Colloquium), born in Düsseldorf, Germany (d. 1925)
- 1851 Leopoldo Alas, Spanish novelist (La Regenta), born in Zamora, Spain (d. 1901)
- 1854 Charles Sumner Tainter, American inventor of sound-recording instruments (graphophone, dictaphone), born in Watertown, Massachusetts (d. 1940) [1]
Edward Grey (1862-1933)
British Liberal statesman and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1905-16), born in London
- 1867 Jean Demoor, Belgian physician and physiologist, born in Etterbeek, Belgium (d. 1941)
- 1868 John Bevins Moisant, American pioneer aviator, first to cross English Channel with passenger and a cat, killed in New Orleans whose present day airport was originally name for him, born in Kankakee, Illinois (d. 1910)
- 1873 Walter de la Mare, British poet and author (The Listeners, Memoirs of a Midget), born in Charlton, Kent (d. 1956)
Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937)
Italian inventor and electrical engineer who pioneered work on long distance radio transmission (Nobel 1909), born in Bologna, Kingdom of Italy
- 1881 Hans Windisch, German New Testament scholar, born in Leipzig, Germany (d. 1935)
- 1897 Abraham van Oosten, Dutch architect, and stained glass designer, born in Assen, Netherlands (d. 1937)
- 1897 Mary [Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary], Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, born in York Cottage, Sandringham (d. 1965)
- 1900 Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn, British politician and diplomat, born in Firbeck Hall, England (d. 1996)
- 1900 Wolfgang Pauli, Swiss-American theoretical physicist (Pauli inhibition, Nobel 1945), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1958)
- 1902 Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist, one of the main organizers of Nazi Germany's T-4 Euthanasia Program, born in Forst, Germany (d. 1964)
- 1903 Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (theory of probability), born in Tambov, Russia (d. 1987)
- 1905 Walter Hassan, British automotive engineer, born in London (d. 1996)
- 1906 Sally Salminen, Finnish writer (Katrina), born in Vårdö, Finland (d. 1976)
- 1906 William J. Brennan, Jr, American Supreme Court judge (1956-90), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1997)
- 1912 Gladys Presley, mother of Elvis, born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 1958)
- 1914 Claude Mauriac, French writer (Le Temps immobile), born in Paris (d. 1996)
- 1914 Marcos Pérez Jiménez, President of Venezuela (1953-58), born in Michelena, Venezuela (d. 2001)
- 1914 Ross Lockridge, Jr., American novelist (Raintree County), born in Bloomington, Indiana (d. 1948)
- 1915 Aksel Quintus Bosz, Surinamese lawyer, born in Pasuruan, Java, Indonesia (d. 1993)
- 1915 William Goyen, American writer, born in Trinity, Texas (d. 1983)
- 1918 Gérard de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer, born in Paris (d. 1995)
- 1921 Jean Mogin, Belgian poet (Pastures of Silence), and playwright, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1986)
- 1921 Karel Appel, Dutch painter (Vragende Children), born in Amsterdam (d. 2006)
- 1923 Francis Graham-Smith, British astronomer and 13th Astronomer Royal (1982-90)
- 1926 Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (Social Democratic Party of Austria), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2008)
Albert Uderzo (1927-2020)
French cartoonist and script writer (Asterix comic books), born in Fismes, Marne, France
- 1927 Corín Tellado, Spanish romance novelist, sold the most books in Spanish (400 million), born in El Franco, Spain (d. 2009)
- 1929 José Ángel Valente, Spanish poet (A modo the esperanza), born in Orense, Spain (d. 2000)
- 1930 Paul Mazursky, American writer/director (Moscow on the Hudson), born in Brooklyn, New York, (d. 2014)
- 1931 David Shepherd, British painter (paintings of steam locomotives), born in Hendon, London (d. 2017)
- 1931 Felix Berezin, Russian physicist and mathematician (Berezin integral), born in Moscow (d. 1980)
- 1932 Frene Ginwala, South African politician and ANC activist (1st post-apartheid Speaker of the National Assembly), born in Johannesburg, South Africa (d. 2023) [1]
- 1935 James Peebles, Canadian American astrophysicist (Ostriker–Peebles criterion), 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba
- 1938 Roger Boisjoly, American aerodynamicist (anticipated challenger disaster), born in Lowell, Massachusetts (d. 2012)
- 1938 Ton Schulten, Dutch painter (landscapes using bright blocks of colour), born in Ootmarsum, Overijssel, Netherlands
- 1939 Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, English photographer (d. 2005)
- 1939 Ted Kooser, American poet and US Poet Laureate, born in Ames, Iowa
- 1941 Lawrence J. Smith, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from Florida (1983-93), born in Brooklyn, New York
- 1941 Princess Muna al-Hussein, mother of King Abdullah II of Jordan, born in Chelmondiston, Suffolk, England
- 1942 Jon Kyl, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona (1987-95), born in Oakland, Nebraska
- 1945 Jean Purdy, British embryologist and nurse (pioneer in developing IVF), born in Cambridge, England (d. 1985)
- 1946 Peter Sutherland, Irish businessman (Allied Irish Banks) and politician (Fine Gael), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 2018)
- 1946 Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian nationalist and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, born in Almaty, Kazakhstan
- 1948 Yu Shyi-kun, Premier of the Republic of China (2002-05), born in Dongshan, Yilan County, China
- 1949 Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French economist, lawyer, and politician, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
- 1949 James Fenton, English poet and journalist, born in Lincoln, England
- 1951 Ian McCartney, British MP for Makerfield (1987-10), born in Lennoxtown, Scotland
Haider al-Abadi (72 years old)
1952 Iraqi politician, Prime Minister of Iraq (2014-present), born in Baghdad, Iraq
- 1953 Ron Clements, American animation director (Moana), born in Sioux City, Iowa
- 1961 Dinesh D'Souza, Indian-American author (2016: Obama's America), born in Mumbai, India
- 1969 Jon Olsen, American 100m freestyle/400m/800m medley (Olymp-gold-1992, 96), born in New Britain, Connecticut
- 1971 Pablo Helguera, Mexican-born artist (The School of Panamerican Unrest), born in Mexico City
- 1980 Kazuhito Tadano, Japanese basaball player, born in Tokyo
- 1983 DeAngelo Williams, American National Football League runningback, born in Wynne, Arkansas
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima (35 years old)
1989 11th Panchen Lama, born in Lhari County, Tibet, China
- 1994 Samuel Carvalho, British activist and mental health advocate, born in Cambridge, England
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