| | 1118 - Thomas Becket, Lord Chancellor of England and Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1170) |
| | 1401 - Tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (d. 1428) |
| | 1596 - Petro Mohyla, Moldovan Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop of Kiev and Galicia (d. 1646) |
| | 1603 - Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (d. 1684) |
| | 1714 - John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (d. 1774) |
| | 1804 - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1881) |
| | 1805 - Thomas Graham, British chemist (d. 1869) |
| | 1811 - Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1882) |
| | 1815 - Thomas Couture French painter and teacher (d. 1879) |
| | 1843 - Thomas Bracken, Irish-born New Zealander poet (d. 1898) |
| | 1850 - Zdenek Fibich, Bohemian composer (d. 1900) |
| | 1859 - Gustave Kahn, French poet (d. 1936) |
| | 1872 - Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (d. 1956) |
| | 1872 - Albert Payson Terhune, American author (d. 1942) |
| | 1876 - Jack Lang (John Thomas Lang), Premier of New South Wales (d. 1975) |
| | 1878 - Jan Lukasiewicz, Polish philosopher and mathematician (d. 1956) |
| | 1885 - Frank Patrick, National Hockey League player and head coach (d. 1960) |
| | 1889 - Sewall Wright, American biologist (d. 1988) |
| | 1890 - Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967) |
| | 1892 - Walter Hagen, American golfer (d. 1969) |
| | 1892 - Rebecca West, American writer (d. 1983) |
| | 1896 - Leroy Robertson, American composer (d. 1971) |
| | 1911 - Josh Gibson, African-American baseball player (d. 1947) |
| | 1914 - Ivan Generalic, Austro-Hungarian-born Croatian painter (d. 1992) |
| | 1917 - Heinrich Böll, German writer and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985) |
| | 1918 - Donald Regan, White House Chief of Staff and United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 2003) |
| | 1918 - Kurt Waldheim, Austrian United Nations Secretary-General and Federal President of Austria |
| | 1920 - Jean Gascon, Canadian actor, director and administrator (d. 1988) |
| | 1921 - Vampira (Maila Nurmi), Finnish-born actress |
| | 1921 - Alicia Alonso (Alicia Ernestina de la Caridad del Cobre Martinez Hoya), Cuban ballerina |
| | 1922 - Paul Winchell, American ventriloquist (d. 2005) |
| | 1926 - Joe Paterno, American Football coach |
| | 1935 - John G. Avildsen, American film director and editor |
| | 1935 - Yusuf Bey (Joseph Stephens), American activist and businessman (d. 2003) |
| | 1935 - Phil Donahue, American talk show host |
| | 1935 - Edward Schreyer, Canadian politician, Premier of Manitoba |
| | 1937 - Jane Fonda, American actress and activist |
| | 1939 - Lloyd Axworthy, Canadian politician |
| | 1940 - Frank Zappa, American singer, guitarist and composer (d. 1993) |
| | 1940 - Ray Hildebrand, American singer (Paul & Paula) |
| | 1942 - Hu Jintao, President of the People's Republic of China |
| | 1942 - Reinhard Mey, German singer |
| | 1942 - Carla Thomas, American singer |
| | 1943 - André Arthur. Quebec radio host and politician |
| | 1944 - Michael Tilson Thomas, American conductor |
| | 1944 - Bill Atkinson, English footballer |
| | 1946 - Carl Wilson, American singer and guitarist (The Beach Boys) (d. 1998) |
| | 1947 - Paco de Lucía, Spanish guitarist |
| | 1947 - Bryan Hamilton, Northern Irish footballer and football manager |
| | 1948 - Samuel L. Jackson, American actor |
| | 1948 - Willi Resetarits, Austrian musician and cabaret artist |
| | 1948 - Dave Kingman, Major League Baseball player |
| | 1950 - Jeffrey Katzenberg, American producer |
| | 1952 - Joaquín Andújar, Baseball player |
| | 1953 - Betty Wright, American singer |
| | 1954 - Chris Evert, American tennis player |
| | 1955 - Jane Kaczmarek, American actress |
| | 1955 - Kazuyuki Sekiguchi, Japanese musician |
| | 1956 - Lee Roy Parnell, American country singer |
| | 1957 - Tom Henke, American baseball player |
| | 1957 - Ray Romano, American comedian and actor |
| | 1959 - Florence Griffith Joyner, American sprinter, Olympic gold medalist and 100 m & 200 m world record holder (d. 1998) |
| | 1960 - Louis Demetrius Alvanis, London-based pianist |
| | 1960 - Andy Van Slyke, Major League Baseball player |
| | 1961 - Francis Ng, Hong Kong actor |
| | 1964 - Rob Kelly, English football manager |
| | 1965 - Andy Dick, American actor and comedian |
| | 1965 - Anke Engelke, German comedienne |
| | 1966 - Kiefer Sutherland, British-born Canadian actor |
| | 1966 - Karri Turner, American actress |
| | 1967 - Mikhail Saakashvili, Soviet-born President of Georgia |
| | 1969 - Julie Delpy, French actress |
| | 1969 - Mihails Zemlinskis, Latvian footballer |
| | 1971 - Mathieu Chedid, French musician, singer and songwriter |
| | 1971 - Brett Scallions, American singer (Fuel) |
| | 1972 - Latroy Hawkins, professional baseball player |
| | 1972 - Dustin Hermanson, baseball player |
| | 1973 - Karmen Stavec, German-born Slovenian singer |
| | 1973 - Mike Alstott, American football player |
| | 1974 - Karrie Webb, Australian golfer |
| | 1975 - Paloma Herrera, Argentine ballet dancer (American Ballet Theatre) |
| | 1977 - Jim Carson, American music producer and disc jockey |
| | 1978 - Mike Vitar, American actor |
| | 1980 - Lee Eun Ju, Korean actress (d. 2005) |
| | 1981 - Dima Bilan, Russian singer |
| | 1981 - Cristian Zaccardo, Italian Footballer |
| | 1982 - Mike Gansey, American basketball player |
| | 1984 - Darren Potter, Irish footballer |