| | 480 BC - Euripides, Greek playwright (d. 406 BC) |
| | 63 BC - Augustus Caesar, Roman Emperor (d. 14) |
| | 1158 - Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1186) |
| | 1161 - Emperor Takakura of Japan (d. 1181) |
| | 1215 - Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire (d. 1294) |
| | 1598 - Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1655) |
| | 1647 - Joseph Dudley, American statesman (d. 1720) |
| | 1650 - Jeremy Collier, English bishop (d. 1726) |
| | 1713 - King Ferdinand VI of Spain (d. 1759) |
| | 1740 - Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1813) |
| | 1771 - Emperor Kokaku of Japan (d. 1840) |
| | 1791 - Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (d. 1865) |
| | 1819 - Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (d. 1896) |
| | 1838 - Victoria Woodhull, American suffragist (d. 1927) |
| | 1852 - William Stewart Halsted, American surgeon (d. 1922) |
| | 1861 - Robert Bosch, German inventor and industrialist (d. 1942) |
| | 1863 - Mary Eliza Church Terrell, American writer (d. 1954) |
| | 1864 - Draga Mašin, Queen of Serbia (d. 1903) |
| | 1865 - Emmuska Orczy, British novelist (d. 1947) |
| | 1880 - John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1971) |
| | 1889 - Walter Lippmann, American journalist (d. 1974) |
| | 1890 - Friedrich Paulus, German general (d. 1957) |
| | 1895 - Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (d. 1985) |
| | 1897 - Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (d. 1984) |
| | 1900 - Louise Nevelson, American sculptor (d. 1988) |
| | 1901 - Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1986) |
| | 1907 - Dominique Aury, French novelist (d. 1998) |
| | 1911 - Frank Moss, United States Senator from Utah (d. 2003) |
| | 1915 - Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 2001) |
| | 1916 - Aldo Moro, Italian politician (d. 1978) |
| | 1917 - Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta Mexican wrestler and film actor (d. 1984) |
| | 1920 - Mickey Rooney, American actor |
| | 1923 - Timber Wolf, Chinese-Vietnamese revolutionary |
| | 1924 - Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan newspaper editor (d. 1978) |
| | 1925 - Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (d. 2006) |
| | 1926 - John Coltrane, American saxophonist (d. 1967) |
| | 1930 - Ray Charles, American musician (d. 2004) |
| | 1931 - Gerald Stairs Merrithew, Canadian educator (d. 2004) |
| | 1936 - Valentín Paniagua, Peruvian politician |
| | 1938 - Tom Lester, American actor |
| | 1938 - Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (d. 1982) |
| | 1939 - Roy Buchanan, American guitarist (d. 1988) |
| | 1939 - Janusz Gajos, Polish actor |
| | 1942 - Sila María Calderón, Puerto Rican politician |
| | 1943 - Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer |
| | 1943 - Marty Schottenheimer, American football coach |
| | 1945 - Paul Petersen, American actor |
| | 1946 - Franz Fischler, Austrian politician |
| | 1947 - Mary Kay Place, American actress |
| | 1947 - Jerry Corbetta, American singer and musician (Sugarloaf) |
| | 1949 - Bruce Springsteen, American singer and songwriter |
| | 1954 - Charlie Barnett, American actor (d. 1996) |
| | 1956 - Paolo Rossi, Italian footballer |
| | 1956 - Peter David, American writer |
| | 1957 - Rosalind Chao, American actress |
| | 1957 - Tony Fossas, Cuban baseball player |
| | 1958 - Danielle Dax, British musician |
| | 1958 - Marvin Lewis, American football coach |
| | 1959 - Jason Alexander, American actor |
| | 1959 - Elizabeth Peña, American actress |
| | 1960 - Jason Carter, British actor |
| | 1960 - Jeff Groteboer, American writer (d. 2003) |
| | 1961 - Willie McCool, American astronaut (d. 2003) |
| | 1964 - Koshi Inaba, Japanese singer (B'z) |
| | 1966 - LisaRaye, American actress |
| | 1969 - Michelle Thomas, American actress (d. 1998) |
| | 1969 - Patrick Fiori, French singer |
| | 1969 - Tapio Laukkanen, Finnish rally driver |
| | 1969 - Donald Audette, National Hockey League player |
| | 1970 - Ani DiFranco, American musician |
| | 1972 - Karl Pilkington, British radio personality |
| | 1974 - Matt Hardy, American professional wrestler |
| | 1974 - Harumi Inoue, Japanese actress and model |
| | 1975 - Jaime Bergman, American model and actress |
| | 1975 - Chris Hawkins, British radio personality |
| | 1975 - Layzie Bone, American rapper, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony |
| | 1977 - Matthieu Descoteaux, Canadian ice hockey player |
| | 1979 - Ricky Davis, American basketball player |
| | 1981 - Natalie Horler, German singer (Cascada) |
| | 1981 - Robert Doornbos, Dutch race car driver |
| | 1984 - Anneliese van der Pol, American actress |
| | 1984 - Louie Stephens, American Musician, keyboardist for Rooney |
| | 1985 - Maki Goto, Japanese pop idol |
| | 1985 - Brian Brohm, American football player |
| | 1985 - Jared High, bully victim, killed himself due to the bullying problems{ |