| | 1288 - Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (d. 1336) |
| | 1472 - Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1510) |
| | 1479 - Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (d. 1574) |
| | 1523 - Blaise de Vigenère, French cryptographer (d. 1596) |
| | 1588 - Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (d. 1679) |
| | 1604 - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1675) |
| | 1622 - Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician (d. 1703) |
| | 1649 - Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (d. 1721) |
| | 1692 - Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (d. 1730) |
| | 1732 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (d. 1806) |
| | 1784 - Louis Spohr, German violinist (d. 1859) |
| | 1816 - Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1890) |
| | 1827 - Joseph Lister, English surgeon (d. 1912) |
| | 1832 - Jules Ferry, French statesman (d. 1893) |
| | 1837 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (d. 1909) |
| | 1856 - Booker T. Washington, American educator (d. 1915) |
| | 1869 - Sergei Chaplygin, Russian physicist and engineer (d. 1942) |
| | 1871 - Mirko Seljan, Croatian explorer |
| | 1875 - Mistinguett, French vaudeville performer (d. 1956) |
| | 1893 - Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (d. 1973) |
| | 1900 - Spencer Tracy, American actor (d. 1967) |
| | 1901 - Melvyn Douglas, American actor (d. 1981) |
| | 1906 - Lord Buckley, American monologist (d. 1960) |
| | 1908 - Bette Davis, American actress (d. 1989) |
| | 1908 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (d. 1989) |
| | 1908 - Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (d. 1986) |
| | 1909 - Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (d. 1996) |
| | 1911 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (d. 1960) |
| | 1912 - John Le Mesurier, British actor (d. 1983) |
| | 1916 - Gregory Peck, American actor (d. 2003) |
| | 1917 - Robert Bloch, American author (d. 1994) |
| | 1920 - Arthur Hailey, American writer (d. 2004) |
| | 1920 - Rafique Zakaria, Indian author (d. 2005) |
| | 1922 - Tom Finney, English footballer |
| | 1922 - Christopher Hewett, British actor (d. 2001) |
| | 1922 - Gale Storm, American singer |
| | 1923 - Michael V. Gazzo, American actor (d. 1995) |
| | 1923 - Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam (d. 2001) |
| | 1926 - Roger Corman, American film director |
| | 1929 - Hugo Claus, Belgian writer |
| | 1929 - Ivar Giaever, Norwegian physicist, Nobel laureate |
| | 1929 - Nigel Hawthorne, British actor (d. 2001) |
| | 1929 - Joe Meek, English record producer |
| | 1933 - Larry Felser, American sports columnist |
| | 1934 - Frank Gorshin, American actor (d. 2005) |
| | 1934 - Roman Herzog, German politician |
| | 1935 - Peter Grant (music manager), British manager (Led Zeppelin, Bad Company) (d. 1995) |
| | 1937 - Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State |
| | 1941 - Michael Moriarty, American actor |
| | 1942 - Peter Greenaway, Welsh film director |
| | 1943 - Max Gail, American actor |
| | 1944 - Pedro Rossello, Puerto Rican politician |
| | 1945 - Tommy Smith, English footballer |
| | 1946 - Jane Asher, British actress |
| | 1947 - Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, 14th President of the Philippines |
| | 1948 - Les Binks, British musician, former drummer for Judas Priest |
| | 1948 - Dave Holland, British musician (Judas Priest) |
| | 1949 - Judith Resnik, astronaut (d. 1986) |
| | 1950 - Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish singer (ABBA) |
| | 1951 - Dean Kamen, Inventor |
| | 1952 - Mitch Pileggi, American actor |
| | 1954 - Stan Ridgway, American musician (Wall of Voodoo) |
| | 1955 - Janice Long, English broadcaster |
| | 1955 - Akira Toriyama, Japanese manga artist |
| | 1961 - Lisa Zane, American actress |
| | 1962 - Lana Clarkson, American actress (d. 2003) |
| | 1964 - Christopher "Kid" Reid, American rapper (Kid 'n Play) |
| | 1965 - Mike McCready, American musician (Pearl Jam) |
| | 1965 - Cris Carpenter, baseball player |
| | 1968 - Paula Cole, American musician |
| | 1970 - Miho Hatori, Japanese singer and songwriter (Cibo Matto) |
| | 1972 - Tom Coronel, Dutch racing driver |
| | 1973 - Pharrell Williams, American producer (The Neptunes) |
| | 1974 - Uhm Tae Woong, South Korean actor |
| | 1975 - John Hartson, Welsh footballer |
| | 1976 - Fernando Morientes, Spanish footballer |
| | 1976 - Kim Collins, Nevisian sprinter |
| | 1976 - Ross Gload, professional baseball player |
| | 1976 - Ryan Drese, baseball player |
| | 1978 - Stephen Jackson, American basketball player |
| | 1978 - Franziska van Almsick, German swimmer |
| | 1979 - Timo Hildebrand, German footballer |
| | 1980 - Matt Bonner, NBA player |
| | 1980 - Lee Jae Won, South Korean actor, singer, and rapper |
| | 1982 - Thomas Hitzlsperger, German footballer |
| | 1982 - Alexandre Prémat, French racing driver |
| | 1984 - Shin Min-a, South Korean model and actress |
| | 1985 - Lastings Milledge, baseball player |
| | 1988 - Asumi Nakata, Japanese voice actress (seiyū) |