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2 Births

2.1 1400-1899

• 1483 - Zahir al-Din Mohammed Babur Shah, founder of the Moghul dynasty (d. 1530)
• 1766 - Thomas Malthus, economist (d. 1834)
• 1819 - Joshua A. Norton, Emperor Norton I of the United States of America and Protector of Mexico (d. 1880)
• 1856 - Frank Harris, author and editor (d. 1931)
• 1869 - Charles Wilson, physicist
• 1884 - Hezekiah M. Washburn, missionary (d. 1972)
• 1890 - Nina Hamnett, artist (d. 1956)
• 1894 - Jack Benny, actor, comedian (d. 1974)
• 1895 - Max Horkheimer, philosopher and sociologist (d. 1973)
• 1898 - Fritz Zwicky, physicist and astronomer (d. 1974)

2.2 1900-1999

• 1905 - Thelma Ritter, actress (d. 1969)
• 1912 - Tibor Sekelj, Croat explorer (d. 1988)
• 1913 - Jimmy Hoffa, labor union leader (d. 1975 (disappeared))
• 1913 - Mel Allen, sports reporter (d. 1996)
• 1916 - Masaki Kobayashi, director
• 1917 - Herbert A. Hauptman , biophysicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1985
• 1921 - Hugh Downs, game show host, journalist
• 1929 - Vic Morrow, actor (d. 1982)
• 1932 - Alexander Kluge, actor and film director
• 1934 - Michel Corboz, Swiss conductor
• 1934 - Florence Henderson, American television actress
• 1943 - Maceo Parker, musician ( P-Funk)
• 1944 - Alan Parker, director, writer
• 1944 - Carl Bernstein, journalist
• 1946 - Bernard Dowiyogo, former president of Nauru (d. 2003)
• 1946 - Gregory Hines, dancer, actor (d. 2003)
• 1948 - Raymond Teller, magician ( Penn and Teller)
• 1959 - Renee Fleming, Canadian soprano
• 1968 - Jules Asner, model, television personality
• 1970 - Simon Pegg, comedian, writer and actor
• 1973 - Steve McNair, American football quarterback
• 1978 - Richard Hamilton, basketball player
• 1980 - Fatima Leyva, Mexican women's soccer player

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