| | 1451 - Queen Isabella of Castile and Leon (d. 1504) |
| | 1550 - Edward de Vere, Lord Great Chamberlain of England (d. 1604) |
| | 1610 - Pope Alexander VIII (d. 1691) |
| | 1658 - Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (d. 1709) |
| | 1690 - John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (d. 1763) |
| | 1692 - James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (d. 1770) |
| | 1707 - Henry Fielding, English author (d. 1754) |
| | 1711 - Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College (d. 1779) |
| | 1724 - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (d. 1804) |
| | 1766 - Madame de Staël, French author (d. 1817) |
| | 1812 - Solomon Caesar Malan, British orientalist (d. 1894) |
| | 1816 - Charles Denis Bourbaki, French general |
| | 1832 - Julius Sterling Morton, Arbor Day founder (d. 1902 |
| | 1840 - Odilon Redon, French painter (d. 1916) |
| | 1844 - Lewis Thornton Powell, would-be assassin of Secretary of State William Seward (d. 1865) |
| | 1852 - Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1912) |
| | 1854 - Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer, Nobel laureate (d. 1943) |
| | 1860 - Ada Rehan, American stage actress (d. 1916) |
| | 1870 (N.S.) - Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary (d. 1924) |
| | 1873 - Ellen Glasgow, American author (d. 1945) |
| | 1876 - Robert Bárány, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1936) |
| | 1876 - Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler (d. 1920) |
| | 1881 - Alexander Kerensky, Russian politician (d. 1970) |
| | 1884 - Otto Rank, Austrian psychologist (d. 1939) |
| | 1889 - Richard Glücks, German SS officer (d. 1945) |
| | 1891 - Harold Jeffreys, English astronomer (d. 1989) |
| | 1891 - Nicola Sacco, American anarchist (d. 1927) |
| | 1899 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (d. 1977) |
| | 1904 - Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (d. 1967) |
| | 1906 - Eddie Albert, American actor (d. 2005) |
| | 1906 - Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Westrobothnia, second in line to the Swedish throne (d. 1946) |
| | 1907 - Ivan Efremov, Russian paleontologist and author (d. 1972) |
| | 1909 - Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist, Nobel laureate |
| | 1910 - Norman Steenrod, American mathematician (d. 1971) |
| | 1912 - Kathleen Ferrier, British singer (d. 1953) |
| | 1914 - Jan de Hartog, Dutch writer (d. 2002) |
| | 1916 - Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (d. 1999) |
| | 1918 - Mickey Vernon, baseball player |
| | 1919 - Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2001) |
| | 1922 - Charles Mingus, American musician (d. 1979) |
| | 1922 - Wolf V. Vishniac, American microbiologist (d. 1973) |
| | 1923 - Bettie Page, American model |
| | 1923 - Aaron Spelling, American television producer (d. 2006) |
| | 1925 - George Cole, British actor |
| | 1926 - Charlotte Rae, American actress |
| | 1926 - James Stirling, British architect (d. 1992) |
| | 1935 - Paul Chambers, American jazz bassist (d. 1969) |
| | 1936 - Glen Campbell, American musician |
| | 1937 - Jack Nicholson, American actor |
| | 1937 - Jack Nitzsche, American composer (d. 2000) |
| | 1939 - Jason Miller, American playwright (d. 2001) |
| | 1943 - Louise Glück, American poet and 12th US Poet Laureate |
| | 1944 - Steve Fossett, American adventurer |
| | 1946 - John Waters, American film writer |
| | 1950 - Peter Frampton, British musician |
| | 1950 - Zygi Wilf, owner of the Minnesota Vikings |
| | 1951 - Paul Carrack, British musician |
| | 1952 - Marilyn Chambers, American actress |
| | 1953 - Juhani Komulainen, Finnish composer |
| | 1955 - Johnnie To, Hong Kong film director and producer |
| | 1958 - Ken Olandt, American actor |
| | 1959 - Catherine Mary Stewart, Canadian actress |
| | 1959 - Ryan Stiles, Canadian-born actor |
| | 1962 - Jeff Minter, British video game programmer |
| | 1965 - Lauri Hendler, actress |
| | 1965 - Peter Zezel, Canadian ice hockey player |
| | 1966 - Mariana Levy, Mexican actress (d. 2005) |
| | 1967 - Sheryl Lee, American actress |
| | 1967 - Harvey Williams, American football player |
| | 1968 - Zarley Zalapski, Canadian ice hockey player |
| | 1969 - Dion Dublin, English footballer |
| | 1970 - Andrea Giani, Italian volleyball player |
| | 1970 - Regine Velasquez, Filipino singer |
| | 1971 - Daisuke Enomoto, first Japanese space tourist |
| | 1972 - Owen Finegan, Australian rugby player |
| | 1974 - Shavo Odadjian, Armenian-born bassist (System of a Down) |
| | 1975 - Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (d. 1999) |
| | 1976 - Michał Żewłakow, Polish footballer |
| | 1976 - Paul Henderson, Australian footballer |
| | 1977 - Mark van Bommel, Dutch football player |
| | 1977 - Aaron Fink, Guitarist for Breaking Benjamin |
| | 1978 - Esteban Tuero, Argentinian race car driver |
| | 1979 - Daniel Johns, Australian musician (Silverchair) |
| | 1980 - Courtney Friel, presenter of World Poker Tour |
| | 1981 - Ken Dorsey, American football player |
| | 1982 - Kaká, Brazilian footballer |
| | 1982 - Tim Hamilton, Slovak adult movie actor |
| | 1983 - Matt Jones, American football player |
| | 1984 - Amelle Berrabah, British singer (Sugababes) |