| | 973 - Al-Biruni, mathematician (d. 1048) |
| | 1254 - Marco Polo, Italian explorer (d. 1324) |
| | 1580 - Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (d. 1659) |
| | 1613 - François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (d. 1680) |
| | 1649 - Titus Oates, English minister and plotter (d. 1705) |
| | 1715 - Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery specialist (d. 1789) |
| | 1789 - James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist (d. 1851) |
| | 1828 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov, Russian chemist (d. 1886) |
| | 1830 - Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico (d. 1915) |
| | 1852 - Edward Bouchet, American physicist (d. 1918) |
| | 1857 - William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (d. 1930) |
| | 1858 - Jeno Hubay, Hungarian violinist (d. 1937) |
| | 1860 - Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya, Indian engineer |
| | 1867 - Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1920) |
| | 1876 - Bruno Walter, German conductor (d. 1962) |
| | 1879 - Joseph Lyons, tenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1939) |
| | 1881 - Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile engineer and designer (d. 1947) |
| | 1883 - Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist, and engineer (d. 1950) |
| | 1887 - Carlos Dávila, President of Chile and Secretary General of the Organization of American States (d. 1955) |
| | 1889 - Robert Benchley, American author (d. 1945) |
| | 1890 - Agatha Christie, English writer (d. 1976) |
| | 1890 - Frank Martin, Swiss composer (d. 1974) |
| | 1892 - Silpa Bhirasri, Italian sculptor (d. 1962) |
| | 1894 - Jean Renoir, French film director (d. 1979) |
| | 1894 - Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (d. 1977) |
| | 1898 - J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist (d. 1936) |
| | 1901 - Sir Donald Bailey, British engineer (d. 1985) |
| | 1903 - Roy Acuff, American musician (d. 1992) |
| | 1904 - King Umberto II of Italy (d. 1983) |
| | 1906 - Jacques Becker, French screenwriter and director (d. 1960) |
| | 1907 - Fay Wray, Canadian-born actress (d. 2004) |
| | 1908 - Penny Singleton, American actress (d. 2003) |
| | 1909 - C.N.Annadurai, Former Chief Minnister of Tamilnadu |
| | 1913 - John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal (d. 1988) |
| | 1914 - Creighton Abrams, American Army general (d. 1974) |
| | 1914 - Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (d. 1999) |
| | 1915 - Albert Whitlock, English artist in motion picture matte (d. 1999) |
| | 1916 - Margaret Lockwood, British actress (d. 1990) |
| | 1918 - Nipsey Russell, American comedian, actor, and television personality (d. 2005) |
| | 1919 - Nelson Gidding, American screenwriter (d. 2004) |
| | 1922 - Jackie Cooper, American actor and director |
| | 1923 - Anton Heiller, Austrian organist (d. 1979) |
| | 1924 - Bobby Short, American musician (d. 2005) |
| | 1926 - Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician |
| | 1928 - Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1975) |
| | 1929 - Eva Burrows, the 13th General of The Salvation Army |
| | 1929 - Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| | 1933 - Henry Darrow, American actor |
| | 1933 - Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor |
| | 1934 - Fred Nile, Australian Christian Politician |
| | 1937 - Robert Lucas, Jr., American economist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| | 1938 - Gaylord Perry, baseball player |
| | 1940 - Merlin Olsen, American football player and actor |
| | 1941 - Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer |
| | 1941 - Signe Toly Anderson, American Folk rock singer (ex-Jefferson Airplane) |
| | 1945 - Jessye Norman, American opera singer |
| | 1945 - Ron Shelton, American film director |
| | 1946 - Tommy Lee Jones, American actor |
| | 1946 - Freddie Mercury, British Asian musician (d. 1991) |
| | 1946 - Oliver Stone, American film director |
| | 1949 - Joe Barton, American politician |
| | 1951 - Johan Neeskens, Dutch football player |
| | 1951 - Pete Carroll, American football coach |
| | 1955 - Theodore Long, American professional wrestling general manager |
| | 1956 - Maggie Reilly, Scottish folk singer |
| | 1958 - Joel Quenneville, National Hockey League player |
| | 1958 - Wendie Jo Sperber, American actress (d. 2005) |
| | 1961 - Dan Marino, American football player |
| | 1961 - Terry Lamb, Australian rugby league player |
| | 1968 - Danny Nucci, American actor |
| | 1969 - Jim Curtiss, American writer |
| | 1971 - Nathan Astle, New Zealand cricket player |
| | 1972 - Princess Letizia of Spain |
| | 1972 - Jimmy Carr, British comedian |
| | 1975 - Jamie Stevens, German pop singer |
| | 1976 - Paul Thomson, Scottish drummer (Franz Ferdinand) |
| | 1977 - Sophie Dahl, British model |
| | 1978 - Eiður Guðjohnsen, Icelandic footballer |
| | 1979 - Amy Davidson, American actress |
| | 1980 - Jolin Tsai, Taiwanese pop singer |
| | 1980 - David Diehl, New York Giants starting guard |
| | 1984 - Prince Harry of Wales |