| | 1588 - Ole Worm, Danish physician (d. 1654) |
| | 1638 - Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (d. 1712) |
| | 1655 - Pope Innocent XIII (d. 1724) |
| | 1699 - Marquis of Pombal, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1782) |
| | 1712 - Johann Hartwig Ernst, Count von Bernstorff, Danish statesman (d. 1772) |
| | 1717 - Empress Maria Theresa of Austria (d. 1780) |
| | 1730 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1782) |
| | 1753 - Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (d. 1823) |
| | 1792 - Pope Pius IX (d. 1878) |
| | 1794 - Louis-Leopold Robert, French painter (d. 1835) |
| | 1795 - Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (d. 1875) |
| | 1826 - Christian Kramp, French mathematician (b. 1760) |
| | 1830 - Zebulon Baird Vance, three-time governor of North Carolina (d. 1894) |
| | 1840 - Alphonse Daudet, French novelist (d. 1897) |
| | 1842 - Arthur Sullivan, English composer (d. 1900) |
| | 1857 - Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1932) |
| | 1882 - Georges Braque, French painter (d. 1963) |
| | 1894 - Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, 2nd President of Iceland (d. 1972) |
| | 1907 - Dame Daphne du Maurier, English author (d. 1989) |
| | 1913 - Gil Evans, Canadian musician (d. 1988) |
| | 1913 - William R. Tolbert, Jr., Liberian president (d. 1980) |
| | 1914 - Joe Louis, American boxer (d. 1981) |
| | 1922 - Michael Ainsworth, British cricketer (d. 1978) |
| | 1923 - Beatrice Arthur, American actress |
| | 1926 - Wallace Breem, British author |
| | 1927 - Herbert Ross, American director (d. 2001) |
| | 1928 - Jim Shoulders, Champion Rodeo Cowboy |
| | 1931 - Jim Jones, American cult leader (d. 1978) |
| | 1934 - Leon Wagner, baseball player (d. 2004) |
| | 1937 - Madeleine Albright, 64th American Secretary of State |
| | 1937 - Roch Carrier, Canadian novelist |
| | 1937 - Roger Zelazny, American author (d. 1995) |
| | 1937 - Trevor Baylis, English inventor of the wind-up radio |
| | 1939 - Harvey Keitel, American actor |
| | 1940 - Bruce Chatwin, British writer (d. 1989) |
| | 1941 - Senta Berger, Austrian actress |
| | 1941 - Ritchie Valens, American singer (d. 1959) |
| | 1944 - Armistead Maupin, American author |
| | 1947 - Stephen R. Donaldson, American author |
| | 1949 - Zoë Wanamaker, English-American actress |
| | 1950 - Stevie Wonder, American singer and musician |
| | 1951 - Sharon Sayles Belton, Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| | 1951 - Paul Thompson, British rock drummer (Roxy Music) |
| | 1954 - Johnny Logan, Irish singer and songwriter |
| | 1956 - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Founder of the Art of Living Foundation |
| | 1957 - Alan Ball, American screenwriter, director, producer |
| | 1957 - Koji Suzuki, Japanese writer (Ring, Dark Water) |
| | 1961 - Dennis Rodman, American basketball player and actor |
| | 1962 - Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (d. 2003) |
| | 1962 - Kathleen Jamie, Scottish poet |
| | 1964 - Stephen Colbert, American comedian and actor |
| | 1964 - Ronnie Coleman, American bodybuilder and an eight-time Mr. Olympia title winner |
| | 1964 - Tom Verica, American actor |
| | 1965 - José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountain climber (d. 2006) |
| | 1965 - Hikari Ota, Japanese comedian |
| | 1966 - Darius Rucker, American singer (Hootie & The Blowfish) |
| | 1967 - Chuck Schuldiner, American musician (Death, Control Denied) (d. 2001) |
| | 1968 - Alison Goldfrapp, English musician |
| | 1969 - André Schmechta, German musician (X Marks the Pedwalk) |
| | 1973 - Steffen Fischlein, German footballer |
| | 1976 - Mark Delaney, Welsh footballer |
| | 1977 - Ilse DeLange, Dutch singer |
| | 1977 - Neil Hopkins, American actor |
| | 1977 - Samantha Morton, English actress |
| | 1978 - Barry Zito, baseball player |
| | 1978 - Mike Bibby, American basketball player |
| | 1979 - Prince Carl Philip of Sweden |
| | 1980 - Waka Inoue, Japanese gravure idol and actress |
| | 1981 - Jimmy Yang, American professional wrestler |
| | 1981 - Sunny Leone, Canadian model |
| | 1982 - Yoko Kumada, Japanese gravure idol |
| | 1982 - Oguchi Onyewu, American footballer |
| | 1983 - Grégory Lemarchal, French singer, winner of Star Academy 4 |
| | 1983 - Yaya Touré, Ivorian footballer |
| | 1986 - Robert Pattinson, English actor |
| | 1988 - Casey Donovan, Australian singer |