Today's Famous Birthdays - per Wikipedia

July 3

• 1423 – King Louis XI of France (d. 1483)
• 1442 – Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)
• 1530 – Claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601)
• 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)
• 1743 – Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, queen consort of Sweden (d. 1813)
• 1851 – Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer (d. 1930)
• 1854 – Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (d. 1928)
• 1866 – Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (d. 1907)
• 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)
• 1880 – Carl Schuricht, Polish-born German conductor (d. 1967)
• 1883 – Franz Kafka, Czech-German writer (d. 1924)
• 1886 – Raymond A. Spruance, American Navy admiral (d. 1969)
• 1888 – Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Spanish writer (d. 1963)
• 1893 – Mississippi John Hurt, country blues singer and guitarist (d. 1966) (some confusion about date of birth)
• 1900 – Alessandro Blasetti, Italian film director (d. 1987)
• 1903 – Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
• 1906 – George Sanders, British actor (d. 1972)
• 1906 – Jack Earle, American actor and sideshow performer (d. 1952)
• 1908 – M. F. K. Fisher, American writer (d. 1992)
• 1908 – Robert B. Meyner, American politician (d. 1990)
• 1910 – Fritz Kasparek, Austrian mountaineer (d. 1954)
• 1913 – Dorothy Kilgallen, American columnist (d. 1965)
• 1916 – John Kundla, American college and professional basketball coach
• 1917 – João Saldanha, Brazilian journalist and football manager (d. 1990)
• 1918 – S. V. Ranga Rao, South Indian actor (Telugu Cinema Actor) (d. 1974)
• 1920 – Paul O'Dea, American baseball player (d. 1978)
• 1921 – Susan Peters, American actress (d. 1952)
• 1922 – Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Belgian painter, called Corneille (d. 2010)
• 1924 – S. R. Nathan, 6th president of Singapore
• 1926 – Johnny Coles, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1997)
• 1927 – Ken Russell, British director
• 1928 – Roger Horchow, American entrepreneur and Broadway producer
• 1930 – Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 2004)
• 1930 – Tommy Tedesco, American musician (d. 1997)
• 1930 – Pete Fountain, American clarinetist
• 1931 – Frits Helmuth, Danish actor (d. 2004)
• 1932 – Richard Mellon Scaife, American newspaper publisher
• 1933 – Edward Brandt, American doctor and public health official (d. 2007)
• 1935 – Harrison Schmitt, American astronaut and politician
• 1936 – Baard Owe, Norwegian-born Danish actor
• 1937 – Tom Stoppard, Czech-born, British playwright
• 1938 – Bolo Yeung, Hong Kong actor
• 1939 – László Kovács, Hungarian politician and diplomat
• 1939 – Brigitte Fassbaender, German mezzo-soprano
• 1940 – César Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1994)
• 1940 – Lamar Alexander, American politician
• 1940 – Jerzy Buzek, Prime Minister of Poland
• 1940 – Fontella Bass, American soul singer
• 1941 – Gloria Allred, American Attorney
• 1942 – Eddy Mitchell, French singer and actor
• 1942 – Paco Stanley, Mexican TV personality (d. 1999)
• 1943 – Kurtwood Smith, American actor
• 1943 – Judith Durham, Australian singer and songwriter
• 1944 – Michel Polnareff, French singer and songwriter
• 1945 – Michael Cole, American TV actor
• 1946 – Johnny Lee, American country-and-western singer
• 1946 – Leszek Miller, Prime Minister of Poland
• 1947 – Dave Barry, American humorist and author
• 1947 – Betty Buckley, American actress
• 1947 – Anthony "Top" Topham, English musician
• 1948 – Tarmo Koivisto, Finnish comics artist
• 1948 – Paul Barrere, American guitarist & songwriter (Little Feat)
• 1949 – Jan Smithers, American actress
• 1949 – Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (Heatwave) (d. 2006)
• 1950 – James Hahn, American politician
• 1950 – Ewen Chatfield, New Zealand cricketer
• 1951 – Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
• 1951 – Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian politician
• 1952 – Amit Kumar, Indian singer
• 1955 – Sanma Akashiya, Japanese television performer
• 1956 – Montel Williams, American talk show host
• 1956 – Don Vito, American Viva La Bam castmember
• 1957 – Laura Branigan, American singer (d. 2004)
• 1957 – Ken Ober, American game show host (d. 2009)
• 1958 – Matthew Fraser, Canadian-British journalist
• 1958 – Siân Lloyd, Welsh weather presenter
• 1958 – Didier Mouron, Swiss artist
• 1958 – Aaron Tippin, American singer
• 1958 – Charlie Higson, English author and actor
• 1959 – Julie Burchill, British journalist and author
• 1959 – David Shore, Canadian-born writer
• 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
• 1962 – Thomas Gibson, American actor
• 1962 – Hugh Page, former South African cricketer
• 1964 – Joanne Harris, British author
• 1964 – Yeardley Smith, French-born American actress
• 1965 – Shinya Hashimoto, Japanese wrestler (d. 2005)
• 1965 – Connie Nielsen, Danish actress
• 1966 – Moisés Alou, Dominican baseball player
• 1966 – Robin Burgener, Canadian programmer, inventor of 20Q
• 1967 – Brian Cashman, American major league baseball executive
• 1967 – Spiros Marangos, Greek footballer
• 1968 – Aku Louhimies, Finnish film director and screenwriter
• 1969 – Kevin Hearn, Canadian musician (Barenaked Ladies)
• 1970 – Teemu Selänne, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1970 – Shawnee Smith, American actress
• 1970 – Serhiy Honchar, Ukrainian cyclist
• 1971 – Julian Assange, Australian journalist, publisher and Internet activist
• 1972 – Warren Furman, British television personality
• 1972 – Tim Rose, Australian Artist
• 1973 – Johnny Terris, Canadian actor and director
• 1973 – Patrick Wilson, American actor
• 1973 – Emma Cunniffe, British actress
• 1973 – Ólafur Stefánsson, Icelandic handball player
• 1976 – Andrea Barber, American actress
• 1976 – Wade Belak, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1976 – Henry Olonga, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1976 – Shane Lynch, Boyzone singer
• 1976 – Wanderlei Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist
• 1976 – Bobby Skinstad, Springbok rugby player
• 1977 – David Bowens, American football player
• 1978 – Mizuki Noguchi, Japanese long-distance runner
• 1979 – Ludivine Sagnier, French actress
• 1980 – Roland Mark Schoeman, South African swimmer
• 1980 – Trae, American rapper
• 1980 – Bostjan Nachbar, Slovenian basketball player
• 1980 – Harbhajan Singh, Indian cricketer
• 1980 – Olivia Munn, American television hostess
• 1980 – Georgios Theodoridis, Greek footballer
• 1980 – Melisa Young, American Rapper ("Kid Sister")
• 1981 – Justin Torkildsen, American actor
• 1982 – Kanika, Indian actress
• 1983 – Steph Jones, American singer and model
• 1983 – Edinson Volquez, Dominican baseball player
• 1984 – Syed Rasel, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1984 – Corey Sevier, Canadian actor
• 1984 – Manny Lawson, American football player
• 1984 – Nicolas Roche, Irish cyclist
• 1985 – Minami Keisuke, Japanese singer and actor
• 1986 – Greg Paulus, American basketball and football player
• 1987 – Sebastian Vettel, German racing driver
• 1988 – Winston Reid, New Zealand-Danish footballer
• 1992 – Nathalia Ramos, Spanish actress and singer
• 1994 – Brahn Perez, Philippine Mapua Architecture Frosh, South Merville School Graduate