| | 384 - Flavius Honorius, Roman Emperor (d. 423) |
| | 1349 - Duke Albert III of Austria (d. 1395) |
| | 1427 - Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (d. 1464) |
| | 1466 - Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (d. 1523) |
| | 1558 - Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (d. 1602) |
| | 1585 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (d. 1642) |
| | 1629 - Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (d. 1691) |
| | 1711 - Thomas Hutchinson, American colonial governor of Massachusetts (d. 1780) |
| | 1737 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798) |
| | 1754 - William Bligh, British naval officer (d. 1817) |
| | 1755 - Benjamin Bourne, American politician (d. 1808) |
| | 1828 (N.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (d. 1910) |
| | 1834 - Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (d. 1903) |
| | 1855 - Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-born oil exploration pioneer (d. 1921) |
| | 1868 - Mary Hunter Austin, American writer (d. 1934) |
| | 1873 - Max Reinhardt, German film director and actor (d. 1943) |
| | 1877 - Frank Chance, American baseball player (d. 1924) |
| | 1878 - Adelaide Crapsey, American poet (d. 1914) |
| | 1887 - Alf Landon, American politician (d. 1987) |
| | 1890 - Colonel Harland Sanders, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1980) |
| | 1892 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (d. 1961) |
| | 1894 - Arthur Freed, American songwriter and film producer (d. 1973) |
| | 1894 - Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (d. 1976) |
| | 1898 - Frankie Frisch, baseball player (d. 1973) |
| | 1899 - Waite Hoyt, baseball player (d. 1984) |
| | 1899 - Neil Hamilton, American actor (d. 1984) |
| | 1900 - James Hilton, English novelist (d. 1954) |
| | 1903 - Phyllis Whitney, American writer |
| | 1904 - Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005) |
| | 1908 - Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist (d. 1950) |
| | 1911 - John Gorton, nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2002) |
| | 1911 - Paul Goodman, American poet, writer, and public intellectual (d. 1972) |
| | 1918 - Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder, American bookmaker and sports commentator (d. 1996) |
| | 1920 - Robert Wood Johnson III, American philanthropist (d. 1970) |
| | 1922 - Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| | 1923 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| | 1924 - Jane Greer, American actress (d. 2001) |
| | 1924 - Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003) |
| | 1925 - Cliff Robertson, American actor |
| | 1927 - Elvin Jones, American jazz drummer (d. 2004) |
| | 1929 - Claude Nougaro, French singer (d. 2004) |
| | 1932 - Sylvia Miles, American actress |
| | 1935 - Chaim Topol, Israeli actor |
| | 1939 - Ron McDole, American football player |
| | 1939 - Carlos Ortiz, Puerto Rican boxer |
| | 1941 - Peter Bonetti, British footballer |
| | 1941 - Otis Redding, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967) |
| | 1941 - Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist |
| | 1942 - Inez Foxx, American R&B singer |
| | 1945 - Dee Dee Sharp, American R&B singer |
| | 1946 - Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield) (d. 2004) |
| | 1949 - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, 6th President of Indonesia |
| | 1949 - Garry Maddox, American baseball player |
| | 1949 - Joe Theismann, American football player and commentator |
| | 1951 - Alexander Downer, Australian politician |
| | 1951 - Tom Wopat, American actor and singer |
| | 1952 - David A. Stewart, English musician (Eurythmics) |
| | 1952 - Angela Cartwright, actress |
| | 1954 - Jeffrey Combs, American actor |
| | 1955 - John Kricfalusi, Canadian animator |
| | 1957 - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, French pianist |
| | 1960 - Hugh Grant, British actor |
| | 1960 - Mario Batali, American chef and restaurateur |
| | 1965 - Dan Majerle, American basketball player |
| | 1966 - Georg Hackl, German luger |
| | 1966 - Adam Sandler, American actor and comedian |
| | 1967 - Anna Malle, Adult film star (d. 2006) |
| | 1969 - Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model and actress |
| | 1971 - Henry Thomas, American actor and musician |
| | 1972 - James Farmer, American educator and artist |
| | 1972 - Mike Hampton, American baseball player |
| | 1972 - Félix Rodríguez, Baseball player |
| | 1972 - Goran Visnjic, actor |
| | 1973 - Mark Parry, Welsh Guitarist (The Manvils) |
| | 1974 - Mathias Färm, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin) |
| | 1974 - Shane Crawford, Australian Footballer |
| | 1975 - Michael Bublé, Canadian pop jazz singer and actor |
| | 1976 - Chace Ambrose, American actor and writer |
| | 1976 - Kristoffer Rygg, Norwegian musician (Ulver, ex-Borknagar) |
| | 1977 - Chae Jung-an, South Korean actress and singer |
| | 1977 - Soulja Slim, American musician |
| | 1978 - Kurt Ainsworth, American baseball player |
| | 1978 - Shane Battier, American basketball player |
| | 1980 - Michelle Williams, American actress |
| | 1980 - Todd Coffey, baseball pitcher |
| | 1982 - Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer and songwriter |
| | 1986 - Justice Chibhabha, Zimbabwean cricketer |
| | 1988 - Katie Bowden, American actress |