| | 1350 - Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (d. 1419) |
| | 1719 - John Landen, English mathematician (d. 1790) |
| | 1737 - John Hancock, American Revolutionist (d. 1793) |
| | 1745 - William Jessop, English canal engineer (d. 1814) |
| | 1783 - Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842) |
| | 1786 - Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (d. 1858) |
| | 1813 - Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (d. 1895) |
| | 1827 - Takamori Saigo, Samurai, leader of Satsuma rebellion (d. 1877) |
| | 1832 - Edouard Manet, French artist (d. 1883) |
| | 1840 - Ernst Abbe, German physicist (d. 1905) |
| | 1857 - Andrija Mohorovicic, Croatian seismologist (d. 1936) |
| | 1862 - David Hilbert, German mathematician (d. 1943) |
| | 1872 - Gotse Delchev,Macedonian revolutionary (d. 1903) |
| | 1872 - Paul Langevin, French physicist (d. 1946) |
| | 1872 - Joze Plecnik, Slovenian architect (d. 1957) |
| | 1876 - Otto Diels, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954) |
| | 1884 - Ralph DePalma, Italian-born race car driver (d. 1956) |
| | 1888 - Leadbelly, American blues and folk musician |
| | 1896 - Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1985) |
| | 1897 - Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian independence fighter (d. 1945) |
| | 1897 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (d. 2000) |
| | 1898 - Sergei Eisenstein, Russian film director (d. 1948) |
| | 1898 - Randolph Scott, American actor (d. 1987) |
| | 1900 - William Ifor Jones, Welsh Conductor & Organist (d. 1988) |
| | 1903 - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (d. 1948) |
| | 1907 - Dan Duryea, American actor (d. 1968) |
| | 1907 - Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981) |
| | 1910 - Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist (d. 1953) |
| | 1915 - Arthur Lewis, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991) |
| | 1915 - Potter Stewart, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1985) |
| | 1918 - Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999) |
| | 1919 - Hans Hass, Austrian zoologist and underwater scientist |
| | 1919 - Ernie Kovacs, American comedian (d. 1962) |
| | 1923 - Walter M. Miller, Jr., American writer (d. 1996) |
| | 1928 - Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 2005) |
| | 1928 - Jeanne Moreau, French actress |
| | 1929 - John Charles Polanyi, Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| | 1929 - Patriarch Filaret (Mykhailo Denysenko) of Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate |
| | 1930 - Derek Walcott, West Indian writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| | 1933 - Chita Rivera, Puerto Rican actress and dancer |
| | 1936 - Jerry Kramer, American football player |
| | 1938 - Shohei Baba, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999) |
| | 1938 - Georg Baselitz, German painter and sculptor |
| | 1939 - Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor and martial artist |
| | 1943 - Gil Gerard, American actor |
| | 1943 - Millie Jackson, American singer |
| | 1944 - Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor |
| | 1947 - Thomas R. Carper, U.S. Senator from Delaware. |
| | 1947 - Megawati Sukarnoputri, 5th President of Indonesia |
| | 1948 - Anita Pointer, American singer |
| | 1950 - Richard Dean Anderson, American actor |
| | 1950 - Danny Federici, American musician (Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band) |
| | 1953 - Antonio Villaragoisa, American 52nd Mayor of Los Angeles |
| | 1953 - Robin Zander, American singer (Cheap Trick) |
| | 1954 - Franco De Vita, Venezuelan singer and songwriter |
| | 1957 - Princess Caroline of Monaco |
| | 1959 - Clive Bull Radio talk show host |
| | 1963 - Gail O'Grady, American actress |
| | 1964 - Mariska Hargitay, American actress |
| | 1967 - Naim Suleymanoglu, Bulgarian-born, Turkish weightlifter |
| | 1968 - Petr Korda, Czech tennis player |
| | 1969 - Andrei Kanchelskis, Ukrainian-Russian footballer |
| | 1969 - Brendan Shanahan, Canadian ice hockey player |
| | 1972 - Marcel Wouda, Dutch swimmer |
| | 1972 - Mark Curry, African American rapper |
| | 1974 - Tiffani Thiessen, American actress |
| | 1974 - Richard T. Slone, British artist |
| | 1975 - Tito Ortiz, American UFC Fighter |
| | 1979 - Larry Hughes, American basketball player |
| | 1983 - David Firth, British animator/musician |
| | 1983 - George Foreman III, American reality series star; son of George Foreman |
| | 1984 - Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer |
| | 1985 - Doutzen Kroes, Dutch supermodel |
| | 1986 - Felicia Brandström, Swedish singer |