- 1602 Jules Mazarin, French cardinal, French 1st Minister (1642-61)
- 1608 George Goring, Lord Goring, English royalist soldier (d. 1657)
- 1610 Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1670)
- 1634 Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (d. 1719)
- 1671 Jacques D'Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1732)
- 1675 Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (d. 1747)
- 1676 Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (d. 1763)
- 1696 William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (d. 1761)
- 1721 John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (d. 1807)
- 1743 Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (d. 1816)
- 1756 Thomas Rowlandson, English painter/cartoonist/etcher
- 1762 Joseph Lakanal, Serres Ariège, French Politician and Educator
- 1785 Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (d. 1851)
- 1794 John G Lockhart, [Scorpion], biographer (Life of Sir Walter Scott)
- 1801 Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (d. 1858)
- 1804 Ludwig A Benedek, Austrian general
- 1816 Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (d. 1882)
- 1818 Nathaniel Lyon, American Brigadier General (Union Army), 1st Union General to die in battle, born in Ashford, Connecticut (d. 1861)
- 1830 Richard Henry Jackson, Irish-American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Kinnegad County, Westmeath, Ireland (d. 1892)
- 1831 William Dwight, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Springfield, Massachusetts (d. 1888)
- 1857 Frederick Louis Maytag, American businessman, head of Maytag, born in Elgin, Illinois (d. 1937)
- 1862 Florence Bascom, American geologist and 1st woman hired by the US Geological Survey, born in Williamstown, Massachusetts (d. 1945)
- 1862 Gustav Klimt, Austrian Art Nouveau painter
- 1865 Annie Jones, Virginia, bearded lady
Gertrude Bell
1868 Gertrude Bell, British archaeologist (Desert & The Sown), born in Washington Hall, County Durham, England (d. 1926)
Gertrude Bell
Ante Pavelić
1889 Ante Pavelić, Croatian leader of Nazi Germany puppet Independent State of Croatia, born in Bradina, Austria-Hungary (d. 1959)
Ante Pavelić
- 1890 Ossip Zadkine, [Zadkin], Russ/French sculptor (Destroyed City)
- 1893 John G Strijdom, premier of South-Africa (1954-58)
- 1893 Clarence J. Brown, Newspaper publisher and politician (d. 1965)
- 1895 Frank Raymond Leavis, British literary critic (Culture & Environment)
- 1896 Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (d. 1936)
- 1902 Richard Clarkson, aerodynamicist
- 1902 Truman J Hedding, US vice-admiral (WWII)
- 1903 Irving Stone, American author (Love is Eternal, Lust for Life)
- 1906 Tom Carvel, ice cream mogul (Carvels)
- 1908 Chaim Raphael, English Jewish scholar and novelist, born in Middlesbrough (d. 1994)
- 1911 J de Graaf, Dutch ethicist/president (Church & Peace)
- 1912 Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic (d. 1991)
- 1913 Fritz Erler, German politician (SDP)
Gerald Ford
1913 Gerald Ford [Leslie King], 38th US President (R: 1974-77) and 41st US Vice President (R: 1973-74), born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 2006)
Gerald Ford
Ben Enwonwu
1917 Ben Enwonwu, Nigerian painter (Portrait of Tutu), born in Onitsha, Nigeria (d. 1994)
Ben Enwonwu
- 1918 Jay Forrester, Engineer, invented random-access magnetic core memory, born near Anselmo, Nebraska (d. 2016)
- 1921 Geoffrey Wilkinson, chemist
- 1921 Leon Garfield, English children's author (d. 1996)
- 1921 Sixto Durán Ballén, Ecuadorian politician, President of Ecuador (1992-96), born in Boston, America (d. 2016)
- 1922 Robin Olds, American World War II and Vietnam War ace fighter pilot (d. 2007)
- 1922 Elfriede Rinkel, Nazi concentration camp guard
- 1923 Frances Lear, Larchmont NY, Woman's magazine publisher (Lears)
- 1924 James W. Black, Scottish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate
- 1928 Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher
- 1931 Donald Eugene Webb, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- 1933 Robert Bourassa, Prime Minister of Quebec province (1970-76, 85-93), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1996)
- 1934 Leo Joseph Koury, Pitts, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
- 1936 Robert F Overmyer, Lorain Ohio, Col USMC/astronaut (STS 5, STS 51B)
- 1937 Yoshiro Mori, Japanese politician
- 1938 Jerry Rubin, American activist (Chicago 7), stockbroker, born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1994)
- 1939 George E. Slusser, American scholar and writer
- 1939 Ljubisa Beara, Bosnian general convicted of overseeing Srebrenica Massacre, born in Sarajevo (d. 2017)
- 1940 Susan Howatch, English author
- 1941 Tatyana Dmitryevna Kuznetsova, cosmonaut
- 1941 Maulana Karenga, American author and activist
- 1941 Andreas Khol, Austrian politician
- 1942 Javier Solana, Spanish European Union foreign policy chief
- 1946 Maureen O'Connor, Mayor (San Diego)
- 1947 Claudia Kennedy, U.S. Army officer
- 1949 Lukas D Barnard, head of South Africa secret service (NIS)
- 1950 Bruce Oldfield, British mode-designer
- 1951 Esther Dyson, computer publisher (Release 1.0), born in Zurich, Switzerland
- 1952 Joel Silver, producer (Warriors, Xanadu, Die Hard), born in South Orange, New Jersey
- 1952 Franklin Graham, American evangelist
- 1955 L. Brent Bozell, American author and activist
- 1959 Susana Martinez, American politician (Governor of New Mexico) 1st female Hispanic US governor, born in El Paso, Texas
- 1960 Anna Bligh, Australian politician, 1st woman Premier of Queensland (2007-12), born in Warwick, Australia
- 1963 Phil Rosenthal, American newspaper columnist
- 1966 Brian Selznick, American author and illustrator
- 1967 Patrick J. Kennedy, politician
- 1973 Adam Quinn, American bagpipe player
- 1977 Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
- 1979 Axel Teichmann, German cross-country skier
- 1982 Dmitry Chaplin, So You Think You Can Dance finalist