* 1775 – Daniel O ' Connell, Irish politician ( d. 1847 )

* 1927 – Daniel Keyes, American author

* 1986 – Daniel Preussner, German rugby player

* 1963 – Daniel Pelosi, American convicted murderer

* 1961 – Daniel House, American bass player and producer ( 10 Minute Warning and Skin Yard )

* 1979 – Daniel Browne, New Zealand rugby player

* 1956 – Daniel Willems, Belgian cyclist

* 1994 – Daniel Gabori, Hungarian actor

* 1986 – Daniel Dickey, American comedian and writer

* 1945 – Daniel Hulet, Belgian cartoonist ( d. 2011 )

* 1948 – Daniel Okrent, American writer and editor

* 1974 – Håkan Hellström, Swedish musician ( Broder Daniel )

* 1957 – Daniel Stern, American actor

* 1981 – Daniel Gygax, Swiss footballer

* 1926 – Frank Daniel, Czech writer, director, and teacher ( d. 1996 )

* 1961 – Daniel Clowes, American cartoonist and screenwriter

* 1875 – Daniel Soubeyran, French rower ( d. 1959 )

* 1980 – Daniel Lloyd, English cyclist

* 1987 – Daniel Schuhmacher, German singer

* Daniel Boone ( November 2, 1734 October 22 – September 26, 1820 ) was an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States.

* 1952 – Daniel Hugh Kelly, American actor

* 1968 – Daniel Dae Kim, American actor

* 1980 – Daniel MacPherson, Australian actor

* 1784 – Peter Vivian Daniel, American jurist, Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court ( d. 1860 )

* 1731 – Daniel Defoe, English writer ( b. 1660 )

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

* 1965 – The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.

* 1878 – Henry Griswold adds a second set of needles ( horizontal needles ) to the circular knitting machine enabling knitting of rib fabrics as cuff for socks.

* Childe Hassam ( 1859 – 1935 ), American Impressionist, stayed in the Florence Griswold House as part of the Old Lyme Art Colony

* Wilson Irvine ( 1869 – 1936 ), American Impressionist, stayed in the Florence Griswold House as part of the Old Lyme Art Colony

* Willard Metcalf ( 1858 – 1925 ), American Impressionist, stayed in the Florence Griswold House as part of the Old Lyme Art Colony

* Henry Ward Ranger ( 1858 – 1916 ), American Impressionist, stayed in the Florence Griswold House as part of the Old Lyme Art Colony

* Edward Charles Volkert ( 1871 – 1935 ), American Impressionist, stayed in the Florence Griswold House as part of the Old Lyme Art Colony

* Clark Voorhees ( 1871 – 1933 ), American Impressionist, stayed in the Florence Griswold House as part of the Old Lyme Art Colony

* Ellen Axson Wilson ( 1860 – 1914 ), first wife of president Woodrow Wilson, came as an art student to the Florence Griswold House

* Griswold – A hamlet south of Darien.

And in the 109th Congress, President Bush's immigration plan – which was based on a proposal by Cato scholar Dan Griswold – went down to defeat largely due to the eventual opposition of conservative Republican congressmen.

* Rufus Wilmot Griswold ( 1815 – 1857 ), literary critic

* Samuel Griswold Goodrich ( 1793 – 1860 ), author, state legislator

Stanley Griswold ( DR ), May 18, 1809 – December 11, 1809

* Roger Griswold ( 1762 – 1812 ), Governor of Connecticut, practiced law for a time in Norwich.

* Alfred Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 )— President of Yale University.

Ethel Barrymore married Russell Griswold Colt ( 1882 – 1923 ), grandnephew of American arms maker Samuel Colt ( 1814 – 1862 ), on March 14, 1909.