So many candles…

* 976 – Sanjo, Emperor of Japan (d. 1017)
* 1505 – Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (d. 1572)
* 1519 – René of Châlon, Prince of the House of Orange (d. 1544)
* 1534 – Giovanni de’ Bardi, Italian writer, composer, and soldier (d. 1612)
* 1589 – Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Spanish poet (d. 1669)
* 1626 – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, French author (d. 1696)
* 1650 – Anne-Jules, 2nd duc de Noailles, French general (d. 1708)
* 1703 – Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader (d. 1764)
* 1725 – James Otis, American lawyer and patriot (d. 1783)
* 1788 – Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1850)
* 1795 – Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist (d. 1871)
* 1804 – Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (d. 1877)
* 1808 – Carl Spitzweg, German painter (d. 1885)
* 1810 – Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (d. 1880)
* 1837 – Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist (d. 1899)
* 1840 – John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor (d. 1921)
* 1848 – Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (d. 1907)
* 1848 – Belle Starr, American outlaw (d. 1889)
* 1878 – André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (d. 1935)
* 1880 – Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer (d. 1973)
* 1889 – Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (d. 1962)
* 1900 – Adlai Stevenson, American politician (d. 1965)
* 1906 – John Carradine, American actor (d. 1988)
* 1908 – Daisy and Violet Hilton, English conjoined twin actresses (d. 1969)
* 1910 – Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer
* 1911 – Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (d. 1960)
* 1914 – William S. Burroughs, American author (d. 1997)
* 1914 – Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1998)
* 1915 – Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
* 1918 – Tim Holt, American actor (d. 1973)
* 1919 – Red Buttons, American actor
* 1919 – Andreas Papandreou, Greek politician (d. 1996)
* 1921 – John Pritchard, English conductor (d. 1989)
* 1923 – Claude King, American musician
* 1927 – Ruth Fertel, American entrepreneur (d. 2002)
* 1928 – Andrew Greeley, American priest and novelist
* 1929 – Luc Ferrari, French composer (d. 2005)
* 1929 – Fred Sinowatz, Austrian politician
* 1929 – Al Worthington, baseball player
* 1930 – John A. Gambling, American radio show host (d. 2004)
* 1933 – Jörn Donner, Finnish writer, film director, producer and politician
* 1934 – Don Cherry, Canadian NHL Hockey player, and “CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada” Commentator
* 1934 – Hank Aaron, baseball player
* 1937 – Stuart Damon, American actor
* 1940 – H.R. Giger, Swiss artist
* 1941 – Jane Bryant Quinn, American journalist
* 1941 – David Selby, American actor
* 1941 – Kaspar Villiger, Swiss Federal Councilor
* 1942 – Roger Staubach, American football player
* 1943 – Nolan Bushnell, American video game pioneer
* 1943 – Michael Mann, American film director, writer, and producer
* 1943 – Craig Morton, American football player
* 1944 – Al Kooper, American musician
* 1945 – Charlotte Rampling, English actress
* 1947 – Darrell Waltrip, American race car driver
* 1948 – Christopher Guest, American actor, writer, director, and composer
* 1948 – Barbara Hershey, American actress
* 1948 – Errol Morris, American film director
* 1948 – V. Alexander Stefan, American physicist, educator, and writer
* 1949 – Nigel Olsson, drummer
* 1953 – John Beilein, American head coach of the West Virginia University men’s basketball team
* 1962 – Jennifer Jason Leigh, American actress
* 1964 – Laura Linney, American actress
* 1964 – Duff McKagen, American musician (Guns N’ Roses)
* 1965 – Gheorghe Hagi, Romanian footballer
* 1966 – Rok Petrovič, Slovenian skier (d. 1993)
* 1968 – Roberto Alomar, baseball player
* 1969 – Bobby Brown, American singer
* 1971 – Sara Evans, American singer
* 1972 – Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
* 1976 – Tony Jaa, Thai actor
* 1977 – Ben Ainslie, British sailor
* 1977 – Ahmad Merritt, American football player
* 1980 – Robin Vik, Czech tennis player
* 1984 – Carlos Tévez, Argentinine footballer
* 1985 – Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer
* 1989 – Jeremy Sumpter, American actor

An lil’ ole me

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