Those born on this date include:

- Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus in 1466
- rifle maker Eliphalet Remington in 1793
- Russian writer Ivan Turgenev in 1818
- eight-time Academy Award-winning costumer Edith Head in 1897
- actor Elsa Lanchester in 1902
- English novelist Evelyn Waugh in 1903
- Dr. Jonas Salk, a developer of the polio vaccine, in 1914
- former baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn in 1926
- country musician Charlie Daniels in 1936 (age 80)
- basketball Hall of Fame member Lenny Wilkens in 1937 (age 79)
- actors Jane Alexander in 1939 (age 77) and Dennis Franz in 1944 (age 72)
- rock singer Wayne Fontana in 1945 (age 71)
- singer/actor Telma Hopkins in 1948 (age 68)
- Olympic decathlon champion Caitlyn Jenner in 1949 (age 67)
- Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in 1955 (age 61)
- former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 1956 (age 60)
- actors Annie Potts in 1952 (age 64), Lauren Holly in 1963 (age 53), Jami Gertz in 1965 (age 51), Andy Richter in 1966 (age 50), Julia Roberts in 1967 (age 49) and Joaquin Phoenix in 1974 (age 42).

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