| | 1178 - Emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185) |
| | 1639 - Jean Racine, French dramatist (d. 1699) |
| | 1666 - Guru Gobind Singh, Sikh guru (d. 1708) |
| | 1690 - Meidingnu Pamheiba, King of Manipur (d. 1751) |
| | 1694 - Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (d. 1768) |
| | 1696 - James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (d. 1785) |
| | 1723 - Karl Friedrich Abel, German composer (d. 1787) |
| | 1765 - Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician (d. 1825) |
| | 1805 - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (d. 1893) |
| | 1807 - Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (d. 1873) |
| | 1819 - Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer (d. 1870) |
| | 1819 - Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (d. 1892) |
| | 1853 - Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan pianist (d. 1917) |
| | 1853 - Yevgraf Fyodorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1919) |
| | 1856 - Frank B. Kellogg, U.S. Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1937) |
| | 1858 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (d. 1924) |
| | 1860 - Austin Norman Palmer, American penmanship innovator (d. 1927) |
| | 1862 - Connie Mack, baseball executive and manager (d. 1956) |
| | 1869 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (d. 1935) |
| | 1869 - Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1931) |
| | 1872 - Camille Guérin, French veterinarian and bacteriologist (d. 1961) |
| | 1874 - Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer (d. 1939) |
| | 1876 - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian poet and editor (d. 1944) |
| | 1883 - Edgard Varèse French-born composer (d. 1965) |
| | 1887 - Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (d. 1920) |
| | 1888 - J. Arthur Rank, British film producer (d. 1972) |
| | 1898 - Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist (d. 1974) |
| | 1899 - Gustav Gründgens, German actor and director (d. 1963) |
| | 1901 - André Kostelanetz, American popular music orchestra leader and arranger (d. 1980) |
| | 1903 - Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983) |
| | 1905 - Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (d. 1982) |
| | 1905 - Pierre Brasseur, French actor (d. 1972) |
| | 1907 - Dame Peggy Ashcroft, English actress (d. 1991) |
| | 1909 - Patricia Hayes, actress on 'Carry On' series, Mama The Turk in "Superbitch"(1973) (d. 1998) |
| | 1912 - Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States |
| | 1915 - Barbara Billingsley, American actress |
| | 1917 - Gene Rayburn, American game show host (d. 1999) |
| | 1921 - Hawkshaw Hawkins, American country singer (d. 1963) |
| | 1922 - Jack Brooks, American politician |
| | 1922 - Ruth Roman, American actress (d. 1999) |
| | 1925 - Lewis Glucksman, American financier and philantrophist (d. 2006) |
| | 1934 - David Pearson, NASCAR Driver 1960-1986 |
| | 1936 - Wojciech Frykowski, Polish actor, writer, and Manson murder victim (d. 1969) |
| | 1937 - Eduard Uspensky, Russian writer |
| | 1938 - Matty Alou, Baseball player |
| | 1938 - Lucien Bouchard, Quebec politician, Premier of Quebec |
| | 1939 - James Gurley, American musician |
| | 1942 - Dick Parry, English musician (Pink Floyd) |
| | 1943 - Paul Wolfowitz, American politician |
| | 1944 - Steve Carlton, baseball player |
| | 1945 - Diane Sawyer, American journalist |
| | 1946 - Rick Nielsen, American musician (Cheap Trick) |
| | 1948 - Lynne Thigpen, American actress (d. 2003) |
| | 1948 - Noel Edmonds, UK game show host |
| | 1948 - Patricia Hewitt, Senior British Labour Politician |
| | 1948 - Steve Garvey, Major League Baseball player |
| | 1949 - Maurice Gibb, English musician (The Bee Gees) (d. 2003) |
| | 1949 - Robin Gibb, English musician (The Bee Gees) |
| | 1951 - Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster |
| | 1953 - BernNadette Stanis, African American Actress and Author |
| | 1953 - Ian Turnbull, Canadian ice hockey player |
| | 1955 - Lonnie Smith, Major League Baseball player |
| | 1957 - Carole James, Canadian politician |
| | 1958 - Frank Gambale, Australian guitarist |
| | 1958 - Mikael Nordfors, Swedish physician and author |
| | 1959 - Bernd Schuster, German footballer |
| | 1960 - Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist |
| | 1960 - Patrick Fitzgerald, US Attorney |
| | 1961 - Andrew Fastow, Enron CFO, convicted of fraud |
| | 1962 - Ralph Fiennes, English actor |
| | 1966 - Dmitry Bilozerchev, Soviet gymnast |
| | 1967 - Dan Petrescu, Romanian footballer |
| | 1967 - Richey James Edwards, Manic Street Preachers songwriter/guitarist, (missing since 1995) |
| | 1967 - Stéphane Gendron, Quebec politician and radio and television host |
| | 1969 - Myriam Bédard, Canadian athlete |
| | 1972 - Big Tigger, African American T.V. Host |
| | 1972 - Vanessa Paradis, French singer and actress |
| | 1974 - Heather Donahue, American actress, famous for her role in The Blair Witch Project |
| | 1975 - Crissy Moran, American erotic actress |
| | 1975 - Stanislav Neckár, Czech ice hockey player |
| | 1977 - Steve Kariya, Canadian ice hockey player |
| | 1980 - Devin Anderson, American composer |
| | 1980 - Lee Eun-ju, South Korean actress (d. 2005) |
| | 1983 - Jennifer Hawkins, Miss Universe 2004 |
| | 1984 - Jonas Altberg, Swedish musician (Basshunter) |
| | 1993 - Aliana Lohan, American singer, model and actress |