Births
- 1194 – Clare of Assisi, Italian saint (d. 1253)
- 1486 – Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (d. 1530)
- 1611 – Cecilia Renata of Austria (d. 1644)
- 1714 – Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French engineer and writer (d. 1800)
- 1722 – Joseph Wilton, English sculptor (d. 1803)
- 1723 – Joshua Reynolds, English painter (d. 1792)
- 1731 – Samuel Huntington, American politician, 3rd Governor of Connecticut and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1796)
- 1741 – Nikolai von Glehn, Baltic German landowner and activist (d. 1923)
- 1749 – Cyrus Griffin, American politician (d. 1810)
- 1796 – Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French painter (d. 1875)
- 1821 – Mary Baker Eddy, American writer, founder of Christian Science (d. 1910)
- 1858 – Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1931)
- 1862 – Ida B. Wells, American civil rights activist (d. 1931)
- 1870 – Lambert McKenna, Irish priest and scholar (d. 1956)
- 1871 – John Maxwell, American golfer (d. 1906)
- 1872 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (d. 1928)
- 1875 – Emil Voigt, American gymnast (d. 1961)
- 1880 – Kathleen Norris, American novelist (d. 1966)
- 1883 – Charles Sheeler, American photographer and artist (d. 1965)
- 1884 – Anna Vyrubova, Russian writer (d. 1964)
- 1888 – Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1951)
- 1888 – Percy Kilbride, American actor (d. 1964)
- 1888 – Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
- 1889 – Larry Semon, American actor (d. 1928)
- 1896 – Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German biologist and eugenicist (d. 1969)
- 1896 – Trygve Lie, Norwegian politician, 1st Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. 1968)
- 1896 – Evelyn Preer, American actress (d. 1932)
- 1902 – Alexander Luria, Russian psychologist (d. 1977)
- 1903 – Fritz Bauer, German judge (d. 1968)
- 1903 – Carmen Lombardo, Canadian singer and composer (d. 1971)
- 1903 – Mary Philbin, American actress (d. 1993)
- 1904 – Goffredo Petrassi, Italian composer (d. 2003)
- 1906 – Vincent Sherman, American director (d. 2006)
- 1907 – Frances Horwich, American educator and television host (d. 2001)
- 1907 – Orville Redenbacher, American farmer and businessman (d. 1995)
- 1907 – Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (d. 1990)
- 1910 – Stan McCabe, Australian cricketer (d. 1968)
- 1910 – Gordon Prange, American author (d. 1980)
- 1911 – Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (d. 1995)
- 1911 – Sonny Tufts, American actor (d. 1970)
- 1912 – Milt Bocek, American baseball player (d. 2007)
- 1915 – Barnard Hughes, American actor (d. 2006)
- 1918 – Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (d. 1989)
- 1919 – Hermine Braunsteiner, Austrian SS officer (d. 1999)
- 1919 – Choi Kyu-hah, South Korean politician, 4th President of South Korea (d. 2006)
- 1920 – Anatole Broyard, American critic and essayist (d. 1990)
- 1920 – Anwar Hussain, Pakistani cricketer (d. 2002)
- 1923 – Chris Argyris, American educator and theorist
- 1924 – Bess Myerson, American model, Miss America 1945
- 1925 – Cal Tjader, American musician and bandleader (d. 1982)
- 1926 – Ivica Horvat, Croatian footballer and manager (d. 2012)
- 1926 – Irwin Rose, American biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1927 – John Warr, English cricketer
- 1928 – Anita Brookner, English novelist
- 1928 – Robert Sheckley, American writer (d. 2005)
- 1928 – Bella Davidovich, Soviet-American pianist
- 1928 – Dave Treen, American politician, 51st Governor of Louisiana (d. 2009)
- 1928 – Ticho Parly, Danish tenor (d. 1993)
- 1928 – Andrzej Zawada, Polish mountaineer (d. 2000)
- 1929 – Charles Ray Hatcher, American serial killer (d. 1984)
- 1929 – Sheri S. Tepper, American author
- 1930 – Guy Béart, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter
- 1930 – Michael Bilirakis, American politician
- 1932 – Max McGee, American football player (d. 2007)
- 1932 – Dick Thornburgh, American politician
- 1934 – Donald M. Payne, American politician
- 1936 – Yasuo Fukuda, Japanese politician
- 1936 – Buddy Merrill, American guitarist
- 1936 – Jerry Norman, American sinologist and linguist (d. 2012)
- 1936 – Venkataraman Subramanya, Indian cricketer
- 1937 – Richard Bryan, American politician
- 1938 – Tony Jackson, English singer and bass player (The Searchers) (d. 2003)
- 1939 – Denise LaSalle, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1939 – Corin Redgrave, English actor and activist (d. 2010)
- 1939 – Mariele Ventre, Italian singer and conductor (d. 1995)
- 1941 – Desmond Dekker, Jamaican singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
- 1941 – Mišo Kovač, Croatian singer
- 1941 – Dag Solstad, Norwegian novelist and dramatist
- 1942 – Margaret Court, Australian tennis player
- 1943 – Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet (d. 1990)
- 1943 – Martin Huba, Slovak actor and director
- 1943 – Jimmy Johnson, American football coach
- 1946 – Toshio Furukawa, Japanese voice actor
- 1946 – Barbara Lee, American politician
- 1946 – Richard LeParmentier, American actor
- 1946 – Ron Yary, American football player
- 1947 – Alexis Herman, American politician, 23rd United States Secretary of Labor
- 1947 – Assata Shakur, American activist and criminal
- 1948 – Rubén Blades, Panamanian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
- 1948 – Pierre Koffmann, French-English chef
- 1948 – Kevin McKenzie, South African cricketer
- 1948 – Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli violinist and conductor (National Arts Centre Orchestra)
- 1949 – Angharad Rees, Welsh actress (d. 2012)
- 1950 – Pierre Paradis, Canadian politician
- 1950 – Dennis Priestley, English darts player
- 1950 – Tom Terrell, American journalist (d. 2007)
- 1951 – Jean-Luc Mongrain, Canadian journalist
- 1952 – Stewart Copeland, American drummer (The Police, Animal Logic, Curved Air and Oysterhead)
- 1952 – Momir Karadžić, Serbian footballer
- 1952 – Ken McEwan, South African cricketer
- 1952 – Robert David Steele, American spy
- 1953 – Douglas J. Feith, American politician
- 1954 – Jeanette Mott Oxford, American politician
- 1955 – Annie Whitehead, English trombone player
- 1956 – Jerry Doyle, American actor
- 1956 – Tony Kushner, American playwright
- 1957 – Faye Grant, American actress
- 1957 – Alexandra Marinina, Russian writer
- 1958 – Michael Flatley, Irish-American dancer, choreographer, and actor
- 1958 – Pierre Roland Renoir, Monaco-Canadian painter
- 1958 – Mike D. Rogers, American politician
- 1959 – Gary Anderson, American football player
- 1959 – Doug Herzog, American television executive
- 1959 – Zoran Jolevski, Macedonian diplomat and ambassador
- 1960 – Terry Pendleton, American baseball player
- 1963 – Phoebe Cates, American actress
- 1963 – Srečko Katanec, Slovenian footballer and coach
- 1964 – Phil Hellmuth, American poker player
- 1964 – Miguel Indurain, Spanish cyclist
- 1965 – Claude Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1965 – Billy Mitchell, American gamer
- 1965 – Tina Tyler, Canadian porn actress
- 1966 – Johnny Vaughan, English writer and broadcaster
- 1967 – Will Ferrell, American comedian and actor
- 1967 – Christophe Rocancourt, French con-artist
- 1968 – Henry Hate, American-English tattoo artist
- 1968 – Dhanraj Pillay, Indian field hockey player
- 1968 – Barry Sanders, American football player
- 1968 – Larry Sanger, American philosopher, co-founder of Wikipedia and founder of Citizendium
- 1969 – Kathryn Harby-Williams, Australian netball player
- 1969 – Daryl Mitchell, American actor
- 1969 – Rain Pryor, American actress
- 1970 – Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thai director
- 1971 – Corey Feldman, American actor and singer
- 1971 – Ed Kowalczyk, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Live)
- 1973 – Stefano Garzelli, Italian cyclist
- 1973 – Shaun Pollock, South African cricketer
- 1973 – Graham Robertson, American director and author
- 1973 – Tim Ryan, American politician
- 1974 – Jeremy Enigk, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sunny Day Real Estate and The Fire Theft)
- 1974 – Ryan McCombs, American singer-songwriter and musician (Soil and Drowning Pool)
- 1974 – Chris Pontius, American actor and stuntman
- 1974 – Wendell Sailor, Australian rugby player
- 1975 – Ana Paula Arósio, Brazilian actress
- 1975 – Bas Leinders, Belgian race car driver
- 1975 – Jamie Oliver, Welsh singer and musician (Lostprophets)
- 1976 – Tomasz Kuchar, Polish race car driver
- 1976 – Bobby Lashley, American wrestler, mixed martial artist, and actor
- 1976 – Carlos Humberto Paredes, Paraguyan footballer
- 1976 – Anna Smashnova, Israeli tennis player
- 1977 – Bryan Budd, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2006)
- 1978 – Taj Anwar, American model, philanthropist, and activist
- 1979 – Jayma Mays, American actress
- 1979 – Chris Mihm, American basketball player
- 1979 – Mai Nakamura, Japanese swimmer
- 1979 – Nathan Rogers, Canadian singer-songwriter and musician
- 1979 – Konstantin Skrylnikov, Russian footballer
- 1980 – Jesse Jane, American porn actress and model
- 1980 – Justine Joli, American porn actress and model
- 1980 – Adam Scott, Australian golfer
- 1981 – Giuseppe Di Masi, Italian footballer
- 1981 – Zach Randolph, American basketball player
- 1981 – Vicente Rodríguez, Spanish footballer
- 1982 – André Greipel, German cyclist
- 1982 – Michael Umaña, Costa Rican footballer
- 1983 – Duncan Keith, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1984 – Katrina Kaif, English actress
- 1984 – Hayanari Shimoda, Japanese race car driver
- 1985 – Yōko Hikasa, Japanese voice actress and singer
- 1985 – Taryn Southern, American actress and singer
- 1985 – Denis Tahirović, Croatian footballer
- 1986 – Calum Gittins, New Zealand actor
- 1987 – Andrew James Allen, American actor
- 1987 – Moussa Dembélé, Belgian footballer
- 1987 – AnnaLynne McCord, American actress
- 1988 – Sergio Busquets, Spanish footballer
- 1989 – Gareth Bale, Welsh footballer
- 1990 – Radka Bártová, Slovak figure skater
- 1990 – James Maslow, American actor, singer, and dancer (Big Time Rush)
- 1991 – Randall Bentley, American actor
- 1991 – Andros Townsend, English footballer
- 1994 – Mark Indelicato, American actor and singer
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