| | 1517 - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French church leader (d. 1586) |
| | 1561 - Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (d. 1633) |
| | 1601 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665) |
| | 1625 - Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1709) |
| | 1632 - Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (d. 1704) |
| | 1710 - Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (d. 1761) |
| | 1719 - Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (d. 1783) |
| | 1719 - Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1791) |
| | 1779 - Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (d. 1848) |
| | 1833 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (d. 1901) |
| | 1845 - St. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic Saint (d. 1916) |
| | 1847 - Boleslaw Prus, Polish writer (d. 1912) |
| | 1856 - Jakub Bart-Cišinski, Sorbian writer (d. 1909) |
| | 1860 - Raymond Poincaré, French statesman (d. 1934) |
| | 1873 - Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1950) |
| | 1881 - Edgar Guest, English poet (d. 1959) |
| | 1897 - Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian writer (d. 1970) |
| | 1890 - H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (d. 1937) |
| | 1901 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968) |
| | 1905 - Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (d. 1973) |
| | 1905 - Jack Teagarden, American musician (d. 1964) |
| | 1908 - Al Lopez, baseball player and manager (d. 2005) |
| | 1910 - Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1961) |
| | 1913 - Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994) |
| | 1916 - Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian–German chess player (d. 1984) |
| | 1918 - Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (d. 1974) |
| | 1923 - Jim Reeves, American singer (d. 1964) |
| | 1930 - Mario Bernardi, Canadian conductor |
| | 1932 - Anthony Ainley, British actor (d. 2004) |
| | 1932 - Vasily Aksyonov, Russian novelist |
| | 1934 - Armi Kuusela, Finnish beauty queen |
| | 1935 - Ron Paul, American politician |
| | 1936 - Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| | 1937 - Andrei Konchalovsky, Russian film director |
| | 1939 - Fernando Poe Jr., Filipino actor and presidential candidate |
| | 1940 - Rubén Hinojosa, American politician |
| | 1941 - Slobodan Miloševic, President of Serbia (d. 2006) |
| | 1941 - Rich Brooks, American football coach |
| | 1941 - Robin Oakley, British journalist |
| | 1942 - Isaac Hayes, American singer, songwriter, and actor |
| | 1942 - Fred Norman, baseball player |
| | 1943 - Sylvester McCoy, Scottish actor |
| | 1944 - Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1991) |
| | 1946 - Connie Chung, American journalist |
| | 1946 - N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian businessman |
| | 1948 - Robert Plant, English singer (Led Zeppelin) |
| | 1948 - John Noble, Australian actor |
| | 1949 - Phil Lynott, Irish musician (d. 1986) |
| | 1951 - Greg Bear, American author |
| | 1952 - John Hiatt, American musician |
| | 1954 - Al Roker, American television broadcaster |
| | 1955 - Agnes Chan, Hong Kong singer and writer |
| | 1956 - Joan Allen, American actress |
| | 1961 - Greg Egan, Australian author |
| | 1962 - Sophie Aldred, English actress |
| | 1962 - James Marsters, American actor |
| | 1965 - KRS-One, American rapper |
| | 1966 - Dimebag Darrell, American guitarist (Pantera and Damageplan) (d. 2004) |
| | 1967 - Andy Benes, Baseball player |
| | 1968 - Yuri Shiratori, Japanese voice actress and singer |
| | 1969 - Duke Droese, American Professional Wrestler |
| | 1970 - John Carmack, American computer game programmer |
| | 1970 - Fred Durst, American singer (Limp Bizkit) |
| | 1971 - Steve Stone, English footballer |
| | 1971 - Jonathan Ke Quan, Vietnamese American actor |
| | 1971 - David Walliams, British comedian |
| | 1973 - Todd Helton, baseball player |
| | 1974 - Maxim Vengerov, Russian violinist |
| | 1975 - Amy Adams, American actress |
| | 1975 - Andy Strachan, Australian musician (The Living End) |
| | 1976 - Chris Drury, American hockey player |
| | 1977 - Mayra Veronica, Cuban model and actress |
| | 1979 - Cory Sullivan, baseball player |
| | 1981 - Bernard Mendy, French footballer |
| | 1982 - Joshua Kennedy, Australian footballer |
| | 1984 - Mirai Moriyama, Japanese actor |
| | 1986 - Robert Clark, Canadian actor |
| | 1987 - Catalina Ponor, Romanian gymnast |