| | 1473 - Richard, Duke of York, one of the Princes in the Tower (d. 1483?) |
| | 1562 - Hans Leo Hassler (baptised), German composer (d. 1612) |
| | 1578 - Francesco Albani, Italian painter (d. 1660) |
| | 1601 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665) |
| | 1629 - King John III of Poland (d. 1696) |
| | 1768 - Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French general (d. 1800) |
| | 1786 - Davy Crockett, American frontiersman and soldier (d. 1836) |
| | 1828 - Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist (d. 1897) |
| | 1844 - Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia (d. 1913) |
| | 1863 - Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist (d. 1924) |
| | 1866 - Julia Marlowe, Shakespearean actress (d. 1950) |
| | 1882 - Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood producer (d. 1974) |
| | 1887 - Marcus Garvey, Jamaican leader, Rastafari prophet (d. 1940) |
| | 1887 - Emperor Charles I of Austria (d. 1922) |
| | 1890 - Harry Hopkins, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1946) |
| | 1890 - Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator, first flight in independent Poland (d. 1920) |
| | 1893 - Mae West, American actress and playwright (d. 1980) |
| | 1896 - Leslie Groves, American military engineer, built The Pentagon,directed Manhattan Project (d. 1970) |
| | 1904 - Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (d. 1991) |
| | 1911 - Mikhail Botvinnik, chess player (d. 1995) |
| | 1913 - W. Mark Felt, FBI associate director and Deep Throat Watergate informant |
| | 1913 - Rudy York, baseball player (d. 1970) |
| | 1920 - Maureen O'Hara, actress |
| | 1926 - Jiang Zemin, 3rd President of the People's Republic of China |
| | 1929 - Francis Gary Powers, U-2 pilot (d. 1977) |
| | 1930 - Glenn Corbett, actor (d. 1993) |
| | 1930 - Ted Hughes, English poet (d. 1998) |
| | 1932 - V. S. Naipaul, West Indian-born writer, Nobel Prize Laureate |
| | 1933 - Gene Kranz, NASA flight director |
| | 1935 - Oleg Tabakov, Russian actor |
| | 1938 - Abu Bakar Bashir, Indonesian Muslim cleric |
| | 1939 - Luther Allison, American blues guitarist |
| | 1943 - Robert De Niro, American actor |
| | 1943 - Dave "Snaker" Ray, American blues guitarist (d. 2002) |
| | 1948 - Rod MacDonald, American musician |
| | 1951 - Alan Minter, boxer |
| | 1952 - Nelson Piquet, Brazilian formula one driver |
| | 1952 - Guillermo Vilas, Argentinian tennis player |
| | 1954 - Eric Johnson, guitarist |
| | 1955 - Richard Hilton, American heir |
| | 1956 - Gail Berman, president of Paramount Pictures |
| | 1957 - Robin Cousins, British figure skater |
| | 1958 - Belinda Carlisle, American singer |
| | 1958 - Kirk Stevens, Canadian snooker player |
| | 1959 - David Koresh, American cult leader (d. 1993) |
| | 1959 - Jonathan Franzen, American author |
| | 1960 - Sean Penn, American actor, director |
| | 1962 - Gilby Clarke, American musician Guns N' Roses |
| | 1964 - Colin James, blues musician |
| | 1966 - Rodney Mullen, American skateboarder |
| | 1966 - William E. Dudley, American poet |
| | 1968 - Ed McCaffrey, American football player |
| | 1969 - Donnie Wahlberg, American actor and singer |
| | 1970 - Jim Courier, American tennis player |
| | 1970 - Rupert Degas, English actor and voice artist |
| | 1970 - Oyvind Leonhardsen, Norwegian footballer |
| | 1971 - Jorge Posada, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player |
| | 1971 - Uhm Jung-hwa, South Korean singer and actress |
| | 1977 - Thierry Henry, French footballer |
| | 1977 - Tarja Turunen, Finnish singer (Nightwish) |
| | 1977 - William Gallas, French footballer |
| | 1979 - Antwaan Randle El, American football player |
| | 1980 - Lene Marlin, Norwegian singer |
| | 1980 - Keith Dabengwa, Zimbabwean cricketer |
| | 1982 - Akisha Samia, Hawaiian professional wrestler |
| | 1982 - Melissa Anderson, independent professional wrestler |
| | 1985 - Reda Wahid, Lebanese footballer |
| | 1986 - Rudy Gay, American basketball player |
| | 1986 - Tyrus Thomas, American basketball player |
| | 1990 - Rachel Hurd-Wood, British actress |