Is it December already?

On this day, these people were born :

* 245 - Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra
* 1173 - Louis I, Duke of Bavaria
* 1513 - Thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar
* 1537 - King John III of Sweden
* 1621 - Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham,
Lord Chancellor of England
* 1732 - Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor
* 1743 - Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet
* 1750 - King Frederick Augustus I of Saxony
* 1777 - Tsar Alexander I of Russia
* 1805 - Joseph Smith, Jr., American founder of The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
* 1864 - Zorka of Montenegro, Princess of Serbia
* 1891 - Alexandr Rodchenko, Russian painter and photographer
* 1911 - Niels Kaj Jerne, English-born immunologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* 1918 - Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany
* 1933 - Akihito, Emperor of Japan
* 1938 - Bob Kahn, American Internet pioneer
* 1943 - Harry Shearer, American actor
* 1943 - Silvia Sommerlath, Queen of Sweden
* 1944 - Wesley Clark, U.S. general, NATO Supreme Allied
Commander, and former US Presidential candidate
* 1946 - Susan Lucci, American actress
* 1946 - Cristiana is born.
* 1963 - Jim Harbaugh, American football player
* 1964 - Eddie Vedder, American musician (Pearl Jam)
* 1971 - Corey Haim, Canadian actor
* 1975 - Sky Lopez, American actress
* 1977 - Alge Crumpler, American football player