Those born on this date include:

- HMS Bounty mutiny leader Fletcher Christian in 1764
- novelist William Faulkner in 1897
- sports columnist Walter Red Smith in 1905
- Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich in 1906
- convicted spy Ethel Rosenberg in 1915
- baseball Hall of Fame member Phil Rizzuto in 1917
- actor Aldo Ray in 1926
- TV personality Barbara Walters in 1929 (age 86)
- humorist Shel Silverstein in 1930
- Canadian composer Glenn Gould in 1932
- actor Juliet Prowse in 1936
- actor Robert Walden in 1943 (age 73)
- actor/producer Michael Douglas in 1944 (age 72)
- model Cheryl Tiegs in 1947 (age 69)
- actor Anson Williams in 1949 (age 67)
- actor Mark Hamill in 1951 (age 65)
- actor Christopher Reeve in 1952
- actor Heather Locklear in 1961 (age 55)
- actor Tate Donovan in 1963 (age 53)
- basketball Hall of Fame member Scottie Pippen in 1965 (age 51)
- actor Will Smith in 1968 (age 48)
- actor Catherine Zeta-Jones in 1969 (age 47).

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