* 1447 - Chenghua, Emperor of China (d. 1487)
* 1508 - Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (d. 1555)
* 1561 - Sir Edwin Sandys, British-born Virginian colonist (d. 1629)
* 1571 - Metius (Adriaan Adriaanszoon), Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. 1635)
* 1579 - Martin de Porres, Peruvian saint (d. 1639)
* 1594 - Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (d. 1632)
* 1608 - John Milton, English poet (d. 1674)
* 1610 - Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (d. 1680)
* 1652 - Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician (d. 1723)
* 1667 - William Whiston, English mathematician (d. 1752)
* 1748 - Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (d. 1822)
* 1842 - Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (d. 1921)
* 1847 - George Grossmith, English actor (d. 1912)
* 1850 - Emma Abbott, American soprano (d. 1891)
* 1868 - Fritz Haber, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)
* 1871 - Joe Kelley, American baseball player (d. 1943)
* 1876 - Berton Churchill, American actor (d. 1940)
* 1882 - Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (d. 1949)
* 1883 - Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (d. 1950)
* 1886 - Clarence Birdseye, American frozen food manufacturer (d. 1956)
* 1889 - Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish Olympic gold medalist (d. 1966)
* 1891 - Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (d. 1917)
* 1895 - Conchita Supervia, Spanish opera singer (d. 1936)
* 1897 - Hermione Gingold, British actress (d. 1987)
* 1898 - Emmett Kelly, American circus clown (d. 1979)
* 1899 - Jean de Brunhoff, French author (d. 1937)
* 1901 - Carol Dempster, American actress (d. 1991)
* 1901 - Ödön von Horváth, Hungarian-born writer (d. 1938)
* 1901 - Jean Mermoz, French pilot (d. 1936)
* 1902 - Margaret Hamilton, American actress (d. 1985)
* 1905 - Dalton Trumbo, American writer (d. 1976)
* 1906 - Grace Murray Hopper, American computer pioneer (d. 1992)
* 1909 - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (d. 2000)
* 1911 - Broderick Crawford, American actor (d. 1986)
* 1912 - Tip O'Neill, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1994)
* 1915 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-born soprano (d. 2006)
* 1916 - Kirk Douglas, American actor
* 1917 - James Rainwater, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
* 1918 - Jerome Beatty Jr., American author
* 1919 - William Lipscomb, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1920 - Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of the Italian Republic
* 1922 - Redd Foxx, American comedian (d. 1991)
* 1926 - Henry Way Kendall, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
* 1926 - Jan Křesadlo, Czech writer (d. 1995)
* 1927 - Pierre Henry, French composer
* 1928 - Dick Van Patten, American actor
* 1929 - John Cassavetes, American actor and film director (d. 1989)
* 1929 - Bob Hawke, twenty-third Prime Minister of Australia
* 1930 - Buck Henry, American actor
* 1931 - Ladislav Smoljak, Czech actor
* 1933 - Morton Downey Jr., American talk show host (d. 2001)
* 1934 - Judi Dench British actress
* 1934 - Junior Wells, American harmonica player (d. 1998)
* 1937 - Darwin Joston, American actor (d. 1998)
* 1938 - Deacon Jones, American football player
* 1941 - Beau Bridges, American actor
* 1941 - Dan Hicks, American musician
* 1942 - Dick Butkus, American football player
* 1946 - Sonia Gandhi, Italian-born Indian politician
* 1947 - Tom Daschle, American politician
* 1947 - Jaak Jõerüüt, Soviet-born Estonian politician
* 1949 - Tom Kite, American golfer
* 1950 - Joan Armatrading, West Indian-born British singer
* 1952 - Michael Dorn, American actor
* 1952 - Liaqat Baloch, Pakistani politician
* 1953 - John Malkovich, American actor
* 1954 - Herman Finkers, Dutch comedian
* 1957 - Donny Osmond, American singer and actor
* 1958 - Nick Seymour, Australian bassist (Crowded House)
* 1960 - Juan Samuel, Major League Baseball Player
* 1961 - David Anthony Higgins, American actor
* 1962 - Felicity Huffman, American actress
* 1964 - Paul Landers, German guitarist (Rammstein)
* 1966 - Toby Huss, American actor
* 1967 - Joshua Bell, American violinist
* 1967 - Gheorghe Popescu, Romanian footballer
* 1968 - Kurt Angle, American amateur and professional wrestler
* 1968 - Dave Harold, British snooker player
* 1968 - Brian Bell, American guitarist (Weezer)
* 1969 - Jakob Dylan, American singer (The Wallflowers)
* 1969 - Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer
* 1972 - Tre Cool, German-born American drummer (Green Day)
* 1972 - Reiko Aylesworth, American actress
* 1972 - Fabrice Santoro, Tahitian-born French tennis player
* 1976 - Imogen Heap, British singer and songwriter
* 1978 - Jesse Metcalfe, American actor (Desperate Housewives)
* 1979 - Olivia Lufkin, Japanese singer
* 1980 - Ryder Hesjedal, Canadian professional cyclist
* 1981 - Diya Mirza, Indian actress
* 1983 - Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer
* 1991 - Prince Joachim, Archduke of Austria-Este, Belgian Prince
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