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Note: This list may include people born on this date under either the Julian or Gregorian Calendars. It is not intended to include everybody so please don't think we missed some people. It's only intended to include a selection of notable people. So if you think we missed somebody important please detail why they are important in your request to have them added. Thank you.
Here are some people:
Our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ the King of Kings and Lord of Lords
John IV Laskaris, Byzantine Emperor
Christina of Saxony, queen of Denmark and Norway
Orlando Gibbons, English composer
Margarita of Austria, queen of Philip III of Spain
Noėl Coypel, French painter
Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist, mathematician and Anglican priest who believed in Arianism!
Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician
Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter
Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general
Jean Joseph de Mondonville, French composer
Benjamin Pierce, U.S. politician
Claude Chappe, French telecommunications pioneer
Dorothy Wordsworth, English diarist and sister of William Wordsworth
Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman
Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross
Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian founder of Banaras Hindu University
Charles Pathé, French pioneer of film and record industries
Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano
Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Austrian archbishop
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, Nobel laureate
Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver
Robert Ripley, collector of odd facts
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester
Gerhard Herzberg, Nobel Prize laureate
Lew Grade, Ukrainian-born film producer
Ernst Ruska, Nobel laureate
Jo-Jo Moore, baseball player
Zora Arkus-Duntov, Belgian-American automotive engineer
Louise Bourgeois, sculptor
Henri Nannen, German journalist
James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist
Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, Nobel laureate
Ahmed Ben Bella, politician, first President of Algeria
Paul David, French Canadian cardiologist, founder of the Montreal Heart Institute
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former Prime Minister of India
Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born author
Stuart Hall, British radio and television presenter
Emmanuel Agassi, father of Andre Agassi
Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist
Princess Alexandra of Kent
Wilson Fittipaldi Jśnior, Brazilian racing driver
Jairzinho, Brazilian footballer
Rick Berman, Star Trek producer
Alia al Hussein, of Jordan
Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira, Singer of Brazilian music
CCH Pounder, Guyana-born actress
Alannah Myles, Canadian singer
Shane MacGowan, Irish musician
Michael P. Anderson, astronaut
Ingrid Betancourt, Colombian senator
Helena Christensen, Danish model
Jim Down, American ice hockey player
Hideki Okajima, Japanese baseball player
Tuomas Holopainen, Finnish keyboardist
Joel Porter, Australian footballer
Locó, Angolan footballer
Rob Edwards, Welsh footballer
Leon Pisani, Welsh singer