The Ledge - happy birthday world

1423 - King Louis XI of France (d. 1483)
1442 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)
1530 - Claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601)
1567 - Samuel de Champlain, French explorer (d. 1635)
1676 - Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747)
1683 - Edward Young, English poet (d. 1765)
1685 - Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768)
1728 - Robert Adam, Scottish architect (d. 1792)
1738 - John Singleton Copley, American painter (d. 1815)
1851 - Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer (d. 1930)
1854 - Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (d. 1928)
1870 - Richard Bedford Bennett, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1947)
1875 - Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German surgeon (d. 1951)
1878 - George M. Cohan, American actor, director, singer and dancer (d. 1942)
1879 - Alfred Korzybski, Polish linguist (d. 1950)
1883 - Franz Kafka, Czech writer (d. 1924)
1900 - Alessandro Blasetti, Italian film director (d. 1987)
1903 - Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
1906 - George Sanders, Russian-born actor (d. 1972)
1908 - M. F. K. Fisher, American writer (d. 1992)
1908 - Robert B. Meyner, American politician (d. 1990)
1913 - Dorothy Kilgallen, American columnist (d. 1965)
1918 - S. V. Ranga Rao, Versatile Telugu Cinema Actor (d. 1974)
1920 - Paul O'Dea, Baseball player (d. 1978)
1921 - Susan Peters, American actress (d. 1952)
1924 - S. R. Nathan, 6th president of Singapore
1927 - Ken Russell, British director
1930 - Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 2004)
1930 - Tommy Tedesco, American musician (d. 1997)
1930 - Pete Fountain, American clarinettist
1935 - Harrison Schmitt, American astronaut and politician
1937 - Tom Stoppard, Czech-born, British playwright
1938 - Bolo Yeung, Hong Kong actor
1939 - László Kovács, Hungarian politician and diplomat
1940 - César Tovar, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 1994)
1940 - Lamar Alexander, American politician
1940 - Jerzy Buzek, Prime Minister of Poland
1940 - Fontella Bass, American soul singer
1942 - Eddy Mitchell, French singer and actor
1942 - Paco Stanley, a mexican TV personality (d. 1999)
1943 - Kurtwood Smith, American actor
1944 - Michel Polnareff, French singer and songwriter
1945 - Michael Cole, American TV actor
1946 - Leszek Miller, Prime Minister of Poland
1947 - Dave Barry, American writer
1947 - Betty Buckley, American actress
1949 - Jan Smithers, American actress
1949 - Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (Heatwave) (d. 2006)
1950 - James Hahn, American politician
1951 - Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
1951 - Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian politician
1952 - Alan Autry, American football player and politician
1955 - Sanma Akashiya, Japanese television performer
1956 - Don Vito, American Viva La Bam castmember
1957 - Laura Branigan, American singer (d. 2004)
1958 - Matthew Fraser, Canadian-British journalist
1958 - Aaron Tippin, American singer
1959 - Julie Burchill, British journalist and author
1959 - Stephen Pearcy, American singer (Ratt)
1960 - Vince Clarke, British songwriter (Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure)
1961 - Pedro Romeiras, Portuguese dancer
1961 - Tim Smith, English musician (Cardiacs)
1962 - Tom Cruise, American actor
1962 - Hunter Tylo, American actress
1964 - Joanne Harris, British author
1964 - Yeardley Smith, French-born American actress
1965 - Shinya Hashimoto, Japanese wrestler (d. 2005)
1965 - Connie Nielsen, American actress
1966 - Moises Alou, baseball player
1969 - Kevin Hearn, Canadian musician (Barenaked Ladies)
1970 - Teemu Selänne, Finnish ice hockey player
1970 - Shawnee Smith, American actress
1970 - Serhiy Honchar, Ukrainian cyclist
1973 - Johnny Terris, Canadian-born actor and director
1973 - Patrick Wilson, American actor
1976 - Andrea Barber, American actress
1976 - Wanderlei Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist
1979 - Ludivine Sagnier, French actress
1979 - Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Greek footballer
1980 - Roland Mark Schoeman, South African swimmer
1982 - Kanika, Indian actress
1984 - Corey Sevier, Canadian actor
1987 - Sebastian Vettel, German racing driver

hell, while we're at it...happy death day? y/n?

Deaths
683 - Pope Leo II
1570 - Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist
1642 - Maria de' Medici, wife of Henry IV of France (b. 1573)
1672 - Francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635)
1704 - Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657)
1749 - William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675)
1778 - Anna Maria Walburga Mozart née Pertl, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1720)
1790 - Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French chemist (b. 1736)
1795 - Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (b. 1714)
1795 - Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (b. 1716)
1809 - Joseph Quesnel, French Canadian composer, poet and playwright (b. 1746)
1858 - Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (b. 1806)
1863 - George Hull Ward, American general (b. 1826)
1904 - Theodor Herzl, Austrian Zionist (b. 1860)
1904 - Edouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881)
1914 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (b. 1836)
1916 - Hetty Green, American Businesswoman (b. 1834)
1918 - Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1844)
1933 - Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (b. 1852)
1935 - André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
1942 - Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (b. 1856)
1954 - Siegfried Handloser, German physician (b. 1895)
1957 - Dolf Luque, baseball player (b. 1890)
1969 - Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (drowned) (b. 1942)
1971 - Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (b. 1943)
1977 - Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and mathematician (b. 1891)
1979 - Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888)
1981 - Ross Martin, Polish-American actor (b. 1920)
1985 - Frank Selke, Canadian ice hockey manager (b. 1893)
1986 - Rudy Vallee, American singer (b. 1901)
1989 - Jim Backus, American actor (b. 1913)
1993 - Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (b. 1909)
1993 - Don Drysdale, baseball player (b. 1936)
1994 - Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (b. 1934)
1995 - Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (b. 1928)
1995 - Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
1998 - Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (b. 1949)
1999 - Mark Sandman, American musician (b. 1952)
2000 - Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor (b. 1944)
2001 - Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (b. 1931)
2001 - Johnny Russell, American country singer and songwriter (b. 1940)
2003 - Gaetano Alibrandi, Papal diplomat (b. 1914)
2004 - Andrian Nikolayev, cosmonaut (b. 1929)
2005 - Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (b. 1914)
2005 - Gaylord Nelson, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (b. 1916)
2006 - Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
2006 - Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (b. 1950)
2007 - Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (b. 1915)