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• b. 1998Randal Kolo MuaniFrench footballerTurns 28 this year
• 1443–1513Pope Julius IIHead of the Catholic Church from 1503 to 1513
• b. 1946José CarrerasSpanish tenorTurns 80 this year
• b. 1985André-Pierre GignacFrench association football playerTurns 41 this year
• 1911–2000Władysław SzpilmanPolish pianist, composer and Holocaust survivor
• b. 1998Conan GrayAmerican singer-songwriterTurns 28 this year
• 1902–2003Strom ThurmondAmerican politician
• 1907–1971Lin BiaoChinese marshal and politician
• b. 1982Keri HilsonAmerican singer and songwriterTurns 44 this year
• b. 1969Catherine TateBritish actress, comedian and writerTurns 57 this year
• 1905–1986Otto PremingerAustrian-American director, producer, and actor
• 1938–2013JJ CaleAmerican musician
• 1830–1894Christina RossettiEnglish poet
• b. 1979Nick StahlAmerican actorTurns 47 this year
• 1925–1980Anastasio Somoza DebaylePresident of Nicaragua (1967–72; 1974–79)
• b. 1945Moshe KatsavPresident of Israel from 2000 to 2007Turns 81 this year
• b. 1944Jeroen KrabbéDutch actor, film director and painterTurns 82 this year
• b. 2009Owen CooperEnglish actorTurns 17 this year
• b. 1969Sajid JavidBritish politicianTurns 57 this year
• b. 1984Lauren LondonAmerican actressTurns 42 this year
• b. 1968Margaret ChoAmerican comedian and actressTurns 58 this year
• 1868–1951Arnold SommerfeldGerman theoretical physicist
• 1377–1402Jianwen EmperorEmperor of China from 1398 to 1402
• b. 1982Gabriel LunaAmerican actorTurns 44 this year
• b. 1980Jessica ParéCanadian actressTurns 46 this year
• b. 1968Lisa MarieAmerican actress and modelTurns 58 this year
• b. 1989Kwon Yu-riSouth Korean singer and actressTurns 37 this year
• b. 1985Shikhar DhawanIndian cricketerTurns 41 this year
• b. 1995Levy RozmanAmerican chess player and commentatorTurns 31 this year
• b. 1932Sheldon GlashowAmerican theoretical physicistTurns 94 this year
• b. 1978Neil DruckmannAmerican video game designerTurns 48 this year
• b. 1985Latifa bint Mohammed Al MaktoumSheikha of DubaiTurns 41 this year
• 1981–2024Adan CantoMexican actor
• b. 1954Hanif KureishiBritish playwrightTurns 72 this year
• 1886–1968Rose Wilder LaneAmerican journalist, writer, and political theorist
• 1859–1935John Jellicoe, 1st Earl JellicoeRoyal Navy Admiral of the Fleet
• b. 1971Karl-Theodor zu GuttenbergGerman businessman, journalist, podcaster and politicianTurns 55 this year
• b. 1985Josh SmithAmerican basketball playerTurns 41 this year
• 1803–1873Fyodor TyutchevRussian poet
• 1901–1980Milton H. EricksonAmerican psychiatrist
• b. 1962Fred RuttenDutch football player and managerTurns 64 this year
• 1963–2002Carrie HamiltonAmerican dramatist
• b. 1988Tina CharlesAmerican basketball playerTurns 38 this year
• 1897–1982Gershom ScholemIsraeli philosopher and historian
• b. 1971Kali RochaAmerican actressTurns 55 this year
• b. 1982Eddy CurryAmerican basketball playerTurns 44 this year
• b. 1994Ondrej DudaSlovak footballerTurns 32 this year
• b. 1956Krystian ZimermanPolish classical pianistTurns 70 this year
• b. 1956Klaus AllofsGerman football player and executiveTurns 70 this year
• b. 1965John RzeznikAmerican singer-songwriter and record producerTurns 61 this year
• b. 1993Luciano ViettoArgentine footballerTurns 33 this year
• 1903–2011Johannes HeestersDutch actor, singer and entertainer
• b. 1965Manish MalhotraIndian fashion designerTurns 61 this year
• 1898–1947Grace MooreAmerican operatic soprano and actress
• 1912–1965Sonny Boy Williamson IIAmerican blues musician
• 1896–1984Carl Ferdinand CoriAustrian-American Nobel prize laureate and scientist