- 521 Saint Columba, Irish Christian missionary to Scotland (d. 597)
- 903 Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi, Persian astronomer (d. 986)
- 967 Abu Sa'id ibn Aboa al-Chair, Persian mystic
- 1302 Azzone Visconti lord of Milan (d. 1339)
- 1545 Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary I of Scotland (d. 1567)
- 1561 Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (d. 1625)
Giovanni Bernini
1598 Giovanni Bernini, Italian baroque sculptor (St Teresa in Ecstasy), born in Naples, Italy (d. 1680)
Giovanni Bernini
- 1670 John Aislabie, English director of the South Sea Company (d. 1742)
- 1731 Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil du Perron, French interpreter
- 1751 Jurrian F de Frederici, governor-General (Suriname)
- 1754 Jack Jouett, American patriot
- 1764 Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, French marshal (d. 1841)
- 1784 Allan Cunningham, British poet (d. 1842)
- 1803 Maria Josepha of Saxony, queen consort of Spain (d. 1829)
- 1808 Hugh McCulloch, US Treasury Secretary (1884-85, 85-69), born in Kennebunk, Maine (d. 1895)
- 1810 Theodor Schwann, German co-originator of cell theory
- 1810 Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (d. 1894)
- 1823 Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (Tensor of Kronecker)
- 1830 Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician/minister of Education
- 1839 Redvers H Buller, English general/large landowner: Natal
- 1842 Otto Ammon, German anthropologist/sociologist (schedelmetingen)
- 1847 Solomon Schechter, US Talmudic scholar/Jewish leader
- 1860 Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1947)
- 1862 Paul Adam, French writer (La Bataille d'Uhde)
- 1863 Svetolik Rankovic, Serbian writer (Forest King)
- 1863 Felix Calonder, Scuol, Swiss politician (Free Democratic Party)
- 1872 Johan Huizinga, Dutch culture historian (Homo Ludens)
- 1873 Willa Cather, American author (My Antonia)
- 1878 Akiko Yosano, Japan, poet (Tangled Hair)
- 1888 Hamilton Fish, US congress leader/isolationist
- 1888 Joyce Cary, Anglo-Irish (male) writer (House of Children)
- 1888 Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun, 1st President of American Newspaper Guild
- 1892 Stuart Davis, American modernist painter, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1964)
- 1901 A F [Tony] Pugsley, British rear-admiral (Walcheren attack (1944))
- 1903 Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician (d. 1987)
- 1904 Clarence Nash, American voice actor (Donald Duck), born in Watonga, Oklahoma (d. 1985)
- 1905 Gerard Kuiper, Dutch/US astronomer (moons of Uranus, Neptune)
- 1908 Jacques Gans, Dutch author/journalist
- 1909 Jacob Kainen, artist/curator
- 1909 Arch Oboler, American director, screen and radio writer, and producer (Lights Out, Bwana Devil), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1987)
- 1915 Brackett Hamilton Leigh, [Douglass], American sci-fi author (Ginger Star)
- 1916 Jean Carignan, French Canadian fiddler (d. 1988)
- 1920 Tatamkulu Afrika, South African poet and writer (d. 2002)
- 1921 Pramukh Swami Maharaj, Indian Hindu spiritual leader (BAPS), born in Chansad, Gujarat (d. 2016)
Mário Soares
1924 Mário Soares, 17th President of Portugal (1986-96) and Prime Minister (1976-78 and 1983-85), born in Lisbon, Portugal (d. 2017)
Mário Soares
Noam Chomsky
1928 Noam Chomsky, American linguist (founded transformational grammar), philospher and political activist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Noam Chomsky
- 1932 Paul Caponigro, American photographer
- 1936 Martha Layne Collins, Baghdad Ky, (Gov-D-Ky)
- 1937 Thad Cochran, (Sen-R-Miss)
- 1940 Kumar Shahani, writer/director (Kasbam Tarang, Maya Darpan)
- 1943 Göran Lennmarker, Swedish politician
- 1943 Bernard C. Parks, Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department
- 1943 James Tate, American poet (Pulitzer Prize 1992), born in Kansas City Missouri (d. 2015)
- 1944 Jamiel Chagra, American drug trafficker
- 1947 Mino Reitano, Italian entertainer
- 1952 Susan Collins, American politician, junior senator from Maine
- 1953 Bertin Osborne, Italian entertainer
- 1954 Gianfranco Jannuzzo, Italian entertainer
- 1954 Mark Hofmann, American forger, bomber and convicted murderer, born in Salt Lake City, Utah
- 1955 John Watkins, Australian politician
- 1957 Tom Winsor, British lawyer and economic regulator
- 1962 Grecia Colmenares, Italian entertainer
- 1967 Vaclav Chalupa, Czechoslovakia, rower (Henley Royal Regatta 1989)
- 1972 Hermann Maier, Austrian skier
- 1974 Kang Full, South Korean webcomic artist
- 1975 Nikola Wapzarow, writer
- 1978 Chad Dukes, Radio Personality
- 2003 Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands