Those born on this date include:

- English playwright William Shakespeare in 1564
- English painter J.M.W William Turner in 1775
- James Buchanan, 15th president of the United States, in 1791
- Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Planck in 1858
- Canadian Prime Minister/Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lester Pearson in 1897
- actor/diplomat Shirley Temple Black in 1928
- distance runner/author Jim Fixx in 1932
- singer Roy Orbison in 1936
- actor Lee Majors in 1939 (age 85)
- actor David Birney in 1939
- actor Sandra Dee in 1942
- actor Herve Villechaize in 1943
- actor Joyce DeWitt in 1949 (age 75)
- documentarian Michael Moore in 1954 (age 70)
- actor Judy Davis in 1955 (age 69)
- actor Jan Hooks in 1957
- actor Valerie Bertinelli in 1960 (age 64)
- actor George Lopez in 1961 (age 63)
- actor Melina Kanakaredes in 1967 (age 57)
- Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in 1968
- musician Stan Frazier (Sugar Ray) in 1968 (age 56)
- actor John Lutz in 1973 (age 51)
- comedian John Oliver in 1977 (age 47)
- actor Kal Penn in 1977 (age 47)
- actor/wrestler John Cena in 1977 (age 47)
- actor Jaime King in 1979 (age 45)
- model/actor Joanna Krupa in 1979 (age 45)
- actor Dev Patel in 1990 (age 34)
- model Gigi Hadid in 1995 (age 29)
- musician Jake Kiszka (Greta Van Fleet) in 1996 (age 28)
- musician Josh Kiszka (Greta Van Fleet) in 1996 (age 28)
- U.S. Olympic gold medal-winning snowboarder Chloe Kim in 2000 (age 24)
- Britain's Prince Louis in 2018 (age 6).

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