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2 Births

2.1 1500-1899

• 1553 - Michel de Montaigne, writer and philosopher (d. 1592)
• 1683 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, scientist (d. 1757)
• 1820 - John Tenniel, illustrator (d. 1914)
• 1827 - Blondin , French tightrope walker whose spectacular crossings of Niagara Falls (USA/Canada) made him world famous (d. 1897)
• 1833 - Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (d. 1913)
• 1862 - Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, Rector of Hexham Abbey and St Bartholomew the Great (d. 1947)
• 1882 - Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (d. 1967)
• 1894 - Ben Hecht, playwright, film writer (d. 1964)

2.2 1900-1999

• 1900 - Wolfram Hirth, pilot and designer of aircrafts (d. 1959)
• 1901 - Linus Pauling, the only winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954 and Peace 1962 (d. 1994)
• 1903 - Vincente Minnelli, director (d. 1986)
• 1906 - Bugsy Siegel, gangster (d. 1947)
• 1909 - Stephen Spender, poet (d. 1995)
• 1915 - Zero Mostel, actor (d. 1977)
• 1917 - Fidel Sánchez Hernández, former president of El Salvador ( 1967- 1972) (d. 2003)
• 1931 - Dean Smith, NCAA basketball coach
• 1938 - Klaus Staeck , graphic artist
• 1939 - Erika Pluhar , actress and singer
• 1939 - Tommy Tune, dancer, choreographer, actor
• 1940 - Mario Andretti, automobile driver
• 1942 - Brian Jones, musician (" The Rolling Stones") (d. 1969)
• 1942 - Joe South, musician
• 1942 - Dino Zoff, Italian legendary football goalkeeper
• 1945 - Bubba Smith, Football Hall of Famer
• 1946 - Robin Cook, British politician
• 1948 - Mike Figgis , director, writer, composer
• 1948 - Bernadette Peters, actress, singer
• 1948 - Mercedes Ruehl, actress
• 1973 - Eric Lindros, ice hockey star
• 1979 - Primož Peterka, Slovenian ski jumper
• 1987 - Michelle Horn, teen actress
• 2001 - Smarty Jones, winner of the 2004 Kentucky Derby

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