1975 - Alexandre Daigle (hockey; NHL)
1973 - Victor Webster (Canadian actor; Days of Our Lives, Mutant X, NCIS)
1968 - Mark Roger Tewksbury (Is a Canadian former competitive swimmer, gold medal winner in the 100-metre backstroke at the 1992 Summer Olympics, hosted first season of How It's Made, a Canadian documentary series in 2001)
1965 - Jason Gedrick (actor; Iron Eagle, Backdraft)
1965 - Chris Rock (actor, comedian; Beverly Hills Cop II, Saturday Night Live, Beverly Hills Ninja; voice; Madagascar film series)
1962 - 'Troyal' Garth Brooks (Grammy Award-winning singer; first LP in history to debut at #1 on Billboard's pop and country charts)
1962 - Eddie Izzard (Emmy Award-winning writer, actor, comedian)
1955 - Miguel Ferrer (actor; Twin Peaks, Stephen King's The Stand, Point of No Return, Robocop, Crossing Jordan; died January 19, 2017)
1934 - King Curtis (Rock and Roll Hall of Famer; tenor sax; Memphis; stabbed to death outside his apartment in New York City August 13, 1971)
1867 - Laura Ingalls Wilder (writer; Little House series including Little House on the Prairie and Little House in the Big Woods; died February 10, 1957)
1849 - Marcellus Gilmore Edson (Was a Canadian chemist, pharmacist, he patented a way to make peanut paste, an early version of peanut butter in 1884; died March 6, 1940)
1812 - Charles Dickens (novelist; David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist; died June 9, 1870)