399 - Pulcheria, Byzantine empress (d. 453)
1544 - King Francis II of France (d. 1560)
1809 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet (d. 1849)
1839 - Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906)
1921 - Patricia Highsmith, American author (d. 1995)
1923 - Markus Wolf, German spy
1943 - Janis Joplin, American singer (d. 1970)
1943 - Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
1947 - Rod Evans, founding member of Deep Purple
1949 - Robert Palmer, English singer and guitarist (d. 2003)
1966 - Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player
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