- 1488 Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot
- 1555 Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1619)
- 1619 Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch colonial administrator and founder of Cape Colony (Cape Town), born in Culemborg (d. 1677)
- 1651 Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (d. 1711)
- 1652 Michel Rolle, French mathematician (d. 1719)
- 1671 John Law, Scottish economist (d. 1729)
- 1673 Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1742)
- 1713 Louis Duke de Noailles, marshal of France
- 1774 Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist/astronomer (balloonist)
- 1775 Alexander Anderson, American engraver/illustrator (Shakespeare)
- 1795 Vincenzo Pallotti, Italian saint
- 1803 Levin Minn Powell, Commander (Union Navy), (d. 1885)
- 1806 Peter van Schendel, Dutch painter
- 1809 Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, Secy State (Confederacy)
- 1810 John Putnam Chapin, American politician (d. 1864)
- 1811 Alson Sherman, American politician (d. 1903)
- 1814 Angela Burdett-Coutts, English philanthropist extrordinaire and "the richest heiress in England", born in London (d. 1906)
Charlotte Brontë
1816 Charlotte Brontë,English novelist (Jane Eyre), born in Thornton, West Yorkshire
Charlotte Brontë
- 1816 Louis Trezevant Wigfall, Confederate Army, (d. 1874)
- 1828 Hippolyte Taine, French philosopher/historian (Voyage in Italy)
- 1834 William Rufus Terrill, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Covington City, Virginia (d. 1862)
- 1837 Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1908)
- 1849 Oskar Hertwig, German embryologist, discovered fertilization
- 1851 Charles Barrois, French geologist (d. 1939)
- 1854 Eusapia Palladino, Italian spiritual medium, born in Minervino Murge, Apulia (d. 1918)
- 1854 William Stang, Roman Catholic Bishop (d. 1907)
- 1864 Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian (Ancient Judaism)
- 1867 Benjamin A Jesurun, Antillian literary
- 1868 Robert Herrick, American novelist (Common lot), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 1938)
- 1872 GW Bitzer, [Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Bitzer], Roxbury MA
- 1878 Albert Weisgerber, German painter and graphic artist
- 1879 Kartini, Indonesian national figure (d. 1904)
- 1881 Jules-Marie Canneel, Flemish painter/caricaturist (Rocks of Oran)
- 1882 Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)
- 1887 Lillian Walker, entertainer, born in Brooklyn, New York
- 1889 Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
- 1896 Henry M de Montherlant, French novelist and stage author (La Reine Morte)
- 1902 Bernard J H "Ben" Stroman, recensent/writer (Jomtof & Blue Beard)
- 1903 Hans Hedtoft, premier Denmark (1947..55)
- 1904 Gijsbert van Hall, banker/mayor of Amsterdam (1957-67)
- 1905 Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown, American politician and Governor of California (D: 1959-67), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1996)
- 1906 Tom Burns, British-Chilean publisher and editor, born in Chile (d. 1995)
- 1909 Rollo May, American psychologist, Love & Will)
- 1911 Ivan Combe, American inventor (d. 2000)
- 1912 Marcel Camus, French director, Orfeu negro)
- 1912 Eve Arnold, photojournalist (Marilyn Monroe) (d. 2012), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 1913 Choh Hao Li, bio-chemist professor, isolated growth hormones)
- 1913 Kai-Uwe von Hassel, German politician
- 1913 Norman Parkinson, English fashion photographer (Harper's Bazaar), born in London (d. 1990)
- 1915 Frick, [W Groebli], Swiss clown, Frick & Frack)
- 1917 Emanuel Vardi, Jerusalem Israel, violist, SD Symph 1978-82)
- 1918 Edward Stanley, 18th earl of Derby, English landowner and multi-millionaire (d. 1994)
- 1919 Franc [Franklin E] Essed, Suriname agricultural eng, Oper Grasshopper)
- 1923 John Mortimer, English barrister and writer
- 1924 Daniel Melnick, American producer, Get Smart), born in NYC, New York
Elizabeth II
1926 Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland, 1952- ), born in London, England
Elizabeth II
- 1927 Robert Brustein, American dean, Yale School of Drama), born in NYC, New York
- 1930 Don Tyson, founder, Tyson Foods)
- 1935 Thomas Kean, American politician
- 1936 James Dobson, American evangelist
- 1937 Charles Lee Herron, Ky, FBI most wanted fugitive (Jan 1 1986)
- 1939 Helen Prejean, American writer
- 1940 Souleymane Cisse, director (Waati, Yeelen, Finye, Baara)
- 1941 David Lyle Boren, American politician, Governor and Senator from Oklahoma, born in Washington, D.C.
- 1947 Alan Warner, rocker (Foundations)
- 1948 Gary A Condit, (Rep-D-California)
- 1948 Lord Egremont, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
- 1951 Aleksandr Ivanovich Laveykin, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-2)
- 1951 Tony Danza, (Tony Banta-Taxi, Tony Micelli-Who's the Boss), born in Brooklyn, New York
- 1951 Michael Hartley Freedman, American mathematician
- 1956 Phillip Longman, American demographer
- 1958 Michael Zarnock, American author and columnist
- 1958 Yoshito Usui, Japanese manga artist
- 1959 Tim Jacobus, American artist (Goosebumps)
- 1962 Sergei Viktorovich Zalyotin, Russian major/cosmonaut
- 1965 Fiona Kelleghan, American academic and critic
- 1969 Robin Meade, American reporter
- 1971 Alexander Kravchenko, Russian professional poker player
- 1971 Hasan Akbar, American convicted murderer
- 2007 Princess Isabella of Denmark