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From 1793 - 1933, March 4 was Inauguration Day for the President of the United States. Beginning in 1937, Inauguration Day has been January 20.

Events

51 - Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).
303 or 304 - Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
852 - Croatian Duke Trpimir I of Croatia issued a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources.
932 - Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.
1152 - Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor is elected Germanic king of the Germany.
1215 - King John of England makes an oath to the Pope as a The Crusades to gain the support of Innocent III.
1238 - The Battle of the Sit River was fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Russia.
1275 - China astronomers observe a total eclipse of the sun.
1351 - Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
1386 - Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) was crowned King of Poland.
1461 - Wars of the Roses in Kingdom of England: House of Lancaster British monarchy Henry VI of England is deposed by his House of York cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV of England.
1492 - King James IV of Scotland concludes an Military alliance with France against England.
1493 - Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal aboard his ship Niña from his discovery voyage to the USA. He returned to Spain on March 15.
1519 - Hernan Cortes arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and their wealth.
1570 - King Philip II of Spain bans foreign Netherlands students.
1611 - George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury is appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.
1621 - Jakarta, Java (island) is renamed Batavia, Dutch East Indies.
1629 - Massachusetts Bay Colony, which had the role of colonizing the Americas, is granted a Royal charter.
1634 - Samuel Cole opens the first tavern in Boston, Massachusetts.
1665 - England King Charles II of England declares war on The Netherlands which marked the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1675 - John Flamsteed appointed first Astronomer Royal of England.
1681 - Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
1774 - First sighting of Orion Nebula by William Herschel.
1776 - The American American Revolutionary War: The Americans capture "Dorchester Heights" dominating the port of Boston, Massachusetts.
1778 - The Continental Congress voted to ratify both the Treaty of Amity and Commerce (USA-France) and the Treaty of Alliance with France. The two treaties were the first entered into by the United States government.
1789 - In New York, New York, the first Congress of the United States meets and declares the new United States Constitution is in effect.
1790 - France is divided into 83 département in Frances, which cut across the provinces of France in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on noble ownership of land.
1791 - Vermont is admitted as the 14th U.S. state.
1791 - A Constitutional Act is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
1793 - France troops conquer Geertruidenberg, Netherlands.
1794 - The Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Congress.
1797 - In the first ever peaceful transfer of power between elected leaders in modern times, John Adams is sworn in as President of the United States, succeeding George Washington.
1804 - The Castle Hill convict rebellion, colony of New South Wales (Australia), when Irish convicts (some of whom had been involved in Ireland’s Battle of Vinegar Hill in 1798) led the colony’s only significant convict uprising.
1813 - Russian troops fighting the army of Napoleon reach Berlin in Germany and the France garrison evacuate the city without a fight.
1814 - United States defeat the Armed Forces of the United Kingdom at the Battle of Longwoods between London and Thamesville near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.
1824 - The "National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck" was founded in the United Kingdom, later to be renamed The Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1858.
1837 - Chicago becomes incorporated as a city.
1848 - Charles Albert of Savoy signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Italy
1877 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake premiers at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
1882 - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland's first electric trams run in East London, England.
1887 - Gottlieb Daimler unveils his first automobile which he test runs in Esslingen and Cannstatt, Germany.
1890 - The longest bridge in the United Kingdom, the Forth Bridge (railway) (1,710 ft) in Scotland is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VII of England.
1893 - Congo Free State: The army of Francis, Baron Dhanis attacks the Lualaba, enabling him to transport his troops across the Upper Congo River and, capture Nyangwe almost without an effort.
1894 - Great fire in Shanghai. Over 1,000 buildings are destroyed.
1899 - Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 m wave that reaches up to 5 km inland - over 300 dead.
1902 - In Chicago, the American Automobile Association is established.
1904 - Russo-Japanese War: Russian troops in Korea retreat toward Manchuria followed by 100,000 Japanese troops.
1908 - The Collinwood School Fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
1911 - Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes the first socialist congressman in United States.
1917 - Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
1917 - Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia's renunciation of the throne is made public, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia publicly issues his abdication manifesto. The victory of the February Revolution.
1925 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio.
1929 - Charles Curtis becomes the first Native Americans in the United States Vice President.
1930 - Terrible floods ransack Languedoc and the surrounds in south-west France, resulting in twelve departments being submerged by water and causing the death of over 700 people.
1931 - The British Viceroy of India, Governor-General Edward Frederick Lindley Wood and Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) meet to sign an agreement envisaging the release of political prisoners and allowing that salt is freely used by the poorest layers of the population.
1933 - Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, first female member of the United States Cabinet.
1933 - Bertha Wilson is appointed as first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
1933 - The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure - Chancellor of Austria Engelbert Dollfuss initiates authoritarian rule by decree (see Austrofascism).
1941 - The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands, during World War II.
1941 - Adolf Hitler applies pressure on Yugoslavia to join the Tripartite Pact.
1944 - First United States daylight bombing of Berlin and Anti-Germany strikes in northern Italy.
1945 - In the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, later to become Queen Elizabeth II, joins the British Army as a driver.
1945 - Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany.
1954 - Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, announces the first successful kidney transplant.
1957 - The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
1959 - United States Pioneer IV misses Moon and becomes the second (United States first) artificial planet.
1960 - France freighter 'La Coubre' explodes in Havana, Cuba killing 100. Fidel Castro blames the U.S.
1962 - United States Atomic Energy Commission announces that the first atomic power plant at McMurdo Station in Antarctica is in operation.
1966 - Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
1970 - France submarine Eurydice (submarine) explodes.
1972 - Libya and the Soviet Union sign a cooperation treaty.
1976 - The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London via the British parliament.
1977 - The 1977 Bucharest Earthquake in southern and eastern Europe kills more than 1,500.
1977 - The first Cray-1 supercomputer is shipped to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico.
1979 - The first encyclical written by Pope John Paul II, Redemptor Hominis (Latin for "The Redeemer of Man") is promulgated less than five months after his installation as pope.
1980 - Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
1982 - NASA launches "Intelsat V".
1985 - The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
1991 - Sheikh Saad Al-Abdallah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, the Prime Minister of Kuwait, returned to his country for the first time since Iraq's invasion.
1994 - Space shuttle STS-62 (Shuttle Columbia 16) launches into orbit.
1994 - Bosnia and Herzegovina's Croats and Moslems sign an agreement to form a federation in a loose economic union with Croatia.
1997 - US President Bill Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research.
1998 - LGBT rights in the United States: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.
2001 - 4 March 2001 BBC bombing: a massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring 11 people. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
2001 - Hintze Ribeiro disaster, a bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
2002 - Canada bans human embryo cloning but permits government-funded scientists to use embryos left over from fertility treatment or abortions.
2002 - War in Afghanistan (2001–present): Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers are killed as they attempt to infiltrate the Shahi Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
2005 - The car of released Italy hostage Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by Military of the United States in Iraq, causing the death of an Italian Secret Service Agent and injuring two passengers.
2005 - United Nations warns that about 90 million Africans could be infected by the HIV virus in the future without further action against the spread of the disease.
2006 - Final contact attempt with Pioneer 10 by the Deep Space Network. No response was received.
2007 - Estonian parliamentary election, 2007: Approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of electronic voting in Estonia, the world's first nationwide voting where part of the votecasting is allowed in the form of remote electronic voting via the Internet.

Births

1188 - Blanche of Castile, wife of Louis VIII of France (d. 1252)
1394 - Henry the Navigator (d. 1460)
1492 - Francesco de Layolle, Italian composer (d. c.1540)
1525 - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer of Renaissance music (d. 1594)
1610 - William Dobson, English portraitist and painter (d. 1646)
1651 - John Somers, 1st Baron Somers (d. 1716)
1665 - Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, Swedish soldier (d. 1694)
1678 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (d. 1741)
1702 - Jack Sheppard, English burglar and escapee (d. 1724)
1706 - Lauritz de Thurah, Danish architect and architectural writer (d. 1759)
1715 - James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, British statesman (d. 1763)
1719 - George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (d. 1777)
1745 - Charles Dibdin, English composer (d.1814)
1746 - Kazimierz Pułaski, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1779)
1756 - Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (d. 1823)
1781 - Rebecca Gratz, American educator and philanthropist (d. 1869)
1782 - Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss folklorist (d. 1830)
1792 - Samuel Slocum, American inventor (d. 1861)
1793 - Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851)
1817 - Edwards Pierrepont, American statesman, jurist and lawyer; 34th United States Attorney General (d. 1892)
1819 - Charles Oberthur, German-born harpist (d. 1895)
1822 - Jules Antoine Lissajous, French mathematician (d. 1880)
1826 - John Buford, American Civil War Union cavalry officer (d. 1863)
1826 - Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (d. 1863)
1835 - John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (d. 1911)
1847 - Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (d. 1904)
1854 - Sir Napier Shaw, British meteorologist (d. 1945)
1856 - Toru Dutt, English and French poet and author (d. 1877)
1856 - Alfred William Rich, English painter (d. 1921)
1859 - Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1905)
1862 - Jacob Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist (d. 1940)
1863 - Reginald Innes Pocock, British zoologist (d. 1947)
1863 - John Henry Wigmore, American jurist and expert in the law of evidence (d. 1943)
1864 - David W. Taylor, U.S. Navy architect (d. 1940)
1870 - Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (d. 1944)
1871 - Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (d. 1945)
1873 - Guy Wetmore Carryl, American humorist and poet (d. 1904)
1873 - John H. Trumbull, 54th Governor of the U.S. state of Connecticut (d. 1961)
1875 - Mihály Károlyi, former Prime Minister of Hungary and President of Hungary (d. 1955)
1876 - Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (d. 1947)
1876 - Theodore Hardeen, Magician and stunt performer, founder of the Magician's Guild (d. 1945)
1877 - Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, Russian composer (d. 1957)
1877 - Fritz Graebner, German ethnologist (d. 1934)
1877 - Garrett Morgan, American inventor (d. 1963)
1878 - Egbert Van Alstyne, American songwriter and pianist (d. 1951)
1878 - Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian philosopher (d. 1947)
1878 - Arishima Takeo, Japanese novelist, short-story writer and essayist (d. 1923)
1879 - Josip Murn Aleksandrov, Slovenian poet (d. 1901)
1880 - Channing Pollock (writer), American playwright and critic (d. 1946)
1881 - Todor Aleksandrov, 19th century Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1924)
1881 - Maude Fealy, American actor (d. 1971)
1881 - Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American writer (d. 1965)
1881 - Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (d. 1948)
1882 - Nicolae Titulescu, Romanian diplomat, government minister, and former President of the League of Nations (d. 1941)
1883 - Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (d. 1956)
1884 - Red Murray, American professional baseball player (d. 1958)
1886 - Paul Bazelaire, French cellist (d. 1958)
1887 - Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress (d. 1953)
1888 - Jeff Pfeffer, American professional baseball pitcher (d. 1972)
1888 - Knute Rockne, American football player and coach (d. 1931)
1889 - Oscar Chisini, Italian mathematician (d. 1967)
1889 - Oren E. Long, 10th Territorial Governor of Hawai'i (d. 1965)
1889 - Pearl White, American actress (d. 1938)
1891 - Dazzy Vance, American Major League Baseball pitcher (d. 1961)
1891 - Lois Wilson (activist), founder of Al-Anon (d. 1988)
1895 - Bjarne Brustad, Norwegian violinist (d. 1978)
1895 - Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator (d. 1953)
1895 - Shemp Howard, American comedian (Three Stooges) (d. 1955)
1897 - Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player (d. 1969)
1898 - Georges Dumézil, French philologist (d. 1940)
1899 - Emilio Prados, Spanish poet and editor (d. 1962)
1900 - Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter (d. 1971)
1901 - Charles Goren, American bridge player and writer (d. 1991)
1901 - Jean Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy/French poet (d. 1937)
1903 - Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish statesman (d. 1973)
1903 - William C. Boyd, American immunochemist (d. 1983)
1903 - Dorothy Mackaill, British-born actress (d. 1990)
1903 - John Scarne, American magician (d. 1985)
1904 - George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (d. 1968)
1904 - Joseph Schmidt Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (d. 1942)
1904 - Chief Tahachee (actor), American-born Old Settler Cherokee Indian stage and film actor (d. 1978)
1906 - Meindert DeJong American author (d. 1991)
1906 - Georges Ronsse, Belgian national cyclo-cross and world champion road bicycle racer (d. 1969)
1906 - Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr., American businessman (d. 2007)
1907 - Eleanor "Sis" Daley, wife of Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley (d. 2003)
1908 - T.R.M. Howard, American civil rights leader (d. 1976)
1909 - Harry Helmsley, American real estate entrepreneur (d.1997)
1912 - Afro Basaldella, Italian painter (d. 1976)
1912 - Judith Furse, British character actress (d. 1974)
1912 - Carl Marzani, American documentarian (d. 1994)
1913 - Taos Amrouche, Algerian writer and singer (d. 1976)
1913 - John Garfield, American actor (d. 1952)
1913 - Willie Johnson (guitarist), American guitarist (d. 1995)
1914 - Gino Colaussi (Luigi Colaussi), Italian footballer (d. 1991)
1914 - Ward Kimball, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
1914 - Robert R. Wilson, American physicist, sculptor and architect (d. 2000)
1915 - Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (d. 1997)
1916 - William Alland, American actor, producer, writer and director (d. 1997)
1916 - Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (d. 2000)
1916 - Hans Eysenck, German-born psychologist (d. 1997)
1917 - Clyde McCullough, American baseball player (d. 1982)
1918 - Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player
1919 - Buck Baker, American racecar driver (d. 2002)
1920 - Jean Lecanuet, French politician (d. 1993)
1920 - Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (d. 2002)
1921 - Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-born composer
1921 - Joan Greenwood, English actress (d. 1987)
1921 - Wilson Harris, Guyanese writer
1921 - Dinny Pails, Australian tennis player
1922 - Richard E. Cunha, American cinematographer and film director (d. 2005)
1922 - Martha O'Driscoll, American film actress (d. 1998)
1922 - Dina Pathak (Deena Pathak), Veteran Gujarati theatre and film actress (d. 2002)
1923 - Sir Patrick Moore, British astronomer
1924 - Kenneth O'Donnell, aide to US President John F. Kennedy (d. 1977)
1925 - Paul Mauriat, French musician (d. 2006)
1926 - Richard DeVos, American billionaire, co-founder of Amway
1926 - James J. Eagan, Former Mayor of Florissant, Missouri (d. 2000)
1926 - Pascual Pérez (boxing), Argentine flyweight boxer (d. 1977)
1926 - Don Rendell, English jazz musician and arranger
1926 - Fran Warren, American singer
1927 - Philip Batt, 29th Governor of the U.S. state of Idaho
1927 - Thayer David, American actor (d. 1978)
1927 - Robert Orben, American magician
1927 - Dick Savitt, American tennis player
1927 - Cy Touff, American jazz musician (d. 2003)
1928 - Samuel Adler (composer), American composer
1928 - Alan Sillitoe, English writer
1929 - Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor
1929 - Josep Mestres Quadreny, Catalan composer
1931 - Wally Bruner, American journalist and television host (d. 1997)
1931 - Bob Johnson (ice hockey), American ice hockey coach (d. 1991)
1931 - William Henry Keeler, American Roman Catholic Archbishop and Cardinal
1931 - Alice Rivlin, American economist
1932 - Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist (d. 2007)
1932 - Miriam Makeba, South African singer
1932 - Ed Roth, American car designer (d. 2001)
1932 - Frank Wells, American entertainment businessman (d. 1994)
1933 - Ann Burton, Dutch jazz singer (d. 1989)
1933 - John W Mills, British sculptor
1933 - Nino Vaccarella, former Italian sports car racing and Formula One driver
1934 - Mario Davidovsky, Argentinian composer
1934 - John Duffey, American bluegrass musician (d. 1996)
1934 - Anne Haney, American actress (d. 2001)
1934 - Barbara McNair, American singer and actress (d. 2007)
1934 - Janez Strnad, Slovenian physicist
1934 - Gleb Yakunin, Russian priest and dissident
1935 - Bent Larsen, Danish chess player
1935 - Nancy Whiskey, Scottish folk singer (d. 2003)
1936 - Jim Clark, Scottish Formula One racing driver (d. 1968)
1936 - Aribert Reimann, German composer
1937 - Graham Dowling, New Zealand cricketer
1937 - Leslie Gelb, American foreign policy advisor
1937 - Yuri Senkevich, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2003)
1937 - Barney Wilen, French jazz saxophonist (d. 1996)
1938 - Angus MacLise, American percussionist (d. 1979)
1938 - Don Perkins, American football player
1938 - Paula Prentiss, American actress
1938 - Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Polish diplomat and researcher
1939 - Jack Fisher, American baseball player
1939 - Carlos Vereza, Brazilian actor
1940 - Volodymyr Morozov, Ukrainian flatwater canoer
1941 - John Aprea, American actor
1941 - Adrian Lyne, English film director
1941 - Bobby Shew, American jazz musician
1942 - Gloria Gaither, American gospel songwriter
1942 - Charles C. Krulak, 31st Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
1942 - David Matthews (keyboardist), American keyboardist, pianist, and arranger
1943 - Lucio Dalla, Italian singer and songwriter
1943 - Zoltan Jeney, Hungarian composer
1944 - Ulrich Roski, German singer-songwriter (d. 2003)
1944 - Harvey Postlethwaite, English engineer and race car designer (d. 1999)
1944 - Bobby Womack, American singer
1945 - Tara Browne, British socialite (d. 1966)
1945 - Dieter Meier, Swiss singer
1945 - Tommy Svensson, Swedish football manager
1945 - Gary Williams, American basketball coach
1946 - Michael Ashcroft, English entrepreneur
1946 - Haile Gerima, Ethiopian filmmaker
1946 - Harvey Goldsmith, British impresario
1947 - David Franzoni, American screenwriter
1947 - Jan Garbarek, Norwegian musician
1947 - Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic actor
1947 - Gwen Welles, American actress (d. 1993)
1948 - Lindy Chamberlain, Australian author
1948 - James Ellroy, American writer
1948 - Tom Grieve, American baseball player
1948 - Leron Lee, American baseball player
1948 - Jean O'Leary, American gay and lesbian rights activist and politician (d. 2005)
1948 - Chris Squire, English bassist (Yes (band))
1948 - Shakin' Stevens, Welsh singer
1949 - Carroll Baker (singer), Canadian country singer and songwriter
1950 - Ofelia Medina, Mexican actress and screenwriter
1950 - Rick Perry, Governor of Texas
1951 - Edelgard Bulmahn, German politician
1951 - Kenny Dalglish, Scottish footballer and manager
1951 - Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, American novelist (d. 1982)
1951 - Sam Perlozzo, American Major League Baseball manager (Baltimore Orioles)
1951 - Mike Quarry, American light heavyweight boxer (d. 2006)
1951 - Chris Rea, English singer
1951 - Linda Yamamoto, Japanese singer
1952 - Ronn Moss, American actor
1952 - Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer
1953 - Emilio Estefan, Cuban percussionist
1953 - Scott Hicks, Ugandan-born film director
1953 - Paweł Janas, Polish football manager and former footballer
1953 - Kay Lenz, American actress
1953 - Chris Smith (US politician), American politician
1954 - Mark Chorvinsky, American author and editor (d. 2005)
1954 - François Fillon, French politician, Prime Minister of France
1954 - Peter Jacobsen, American professional golfer
1954 - Catherine O'Hara, Canadian actress
1954 - Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian writer and dissident
1954 - Willie Thorne, English snooker player
1954 - Adrian Zmed, American actor
1955 - Rowland Charles Gould (Boon Gould) English musician (Level 42)
1955 - Dominique Pinon, French actor
1956 - Kermit Driscoll, American jazz bassist
1957 - Jim Dwyer, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner
1957 - Rick Mast, American NASCAR driver
1958 - Patricia Heaton, American actress
1958 - Lennie Lee, British artist
1959 - Rick Ardon, Australian news presenter
1960 - Mikko Kuustonen, Finnish singer and songwriter
1960 - John Mugabi, Ugandan boxer
1960 - Christina Sussiek, former German athlete
1960 - Mykelti Williamson, American actor
1961 - Sabine Everts, former German track athlete
1961 - Ray Mancini, American boxer
1961 - Steven Weber (actor), American actor
1961 - Roger Wessels, South African golfer
1962 - Simon Bisley, British comic book artist
1962 - Lolo Ferrari, French actress (d. 2000)
1962 - Greg Kragen, American footballer
1962 - David Sparrow, English actor
1963 - Barbara Bubula, Polish politician
1963 - Janey Lee Grace, English singer, author, television presenter and radio disc jockey
1963 - Jason Newsted, American bassist (Metallica)
1963 - Daniel Roebuck, American actor
1964 - Tom Lampkin, American baseball player
1965 - Paul W. S. Anderson, English filmmaker
1965 - Andrew Collins (broadcaster), English journalist, scriptwriter and broadcaster
1965 - Stacy Edwards, American actress
1965 - Gary Helms, American country singer
1965 - Khaled Hosseini, Afghan author and physician
1965 - WestBam (Maximillian Lenz), German rave techno DJ
1965 - Yuri Lonchakov, Russian cosmonaut
1966 - Daniela Amavia, American actress and international model
1966 - Steve Bastoni, Italian Australian actor
1966 - Sophia Ferrari, Italian actress
1966 - Emese Hunyady, Hungarian speed skater
1966 - Kevin Johnson, American basketball player
1966 - Dav Pilkey, American author
1966 - Grand Puba, American rapper
1966 - Wash West, English gay porn film director
1967 - Daryll Cullinan, South African cricketer
1967 - Evan Dando, American musician (The Lemonheads)
1967 - Andrew Osmond, English writer
1967 - Kubilay Türkyılmaz, former Turkish-Swiss footballer
1968 - Giovanni Carrara, Venezuelan baseball player
1968 - Patsy Kensit, English actress
1969 - Chastity Bono, American actress and gay rights activist
1969 - Pierluigi Casiraghi, Italian football manager
1969 - Annie Shizuka Inoh, Taiwanese actress
1969 - Stina Nordenstam, Swedish experimental pop singer, songwriter and musician
1969 - Patrick Roach, Canadian actor
1969 - Jason Townsend, American artist and record producer
1970 - Andrea Bendewald, American actress
1970 - Àlex Crivillé, Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer
1971 - Iain Baird, Canadian soccer player
1971 - Fergal Lawler, Irish drummer (The Cranberries)
1971 - Satoshi Motoyama, Japanese racing driver
1971 - Shavar Ross, American actor-turned film director, writer, film producer and editor
1971 - Nick Stabile, American actor
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