Walter Hunt
1796 Walter Hunt, American inventor (safety pin, sewing machine), born in Martinsburg, New York (d. 1859)
Walter Hunt
- 1797 Daniel Drew, American financier (d. 1879)
- 1801 George Bradshaw, British publisher, born in Manchester, England (d. 1853)
- 1805 Alexis de Tocqueville, French statesman/writer (Democracy in America)
- 1817 James Blair Steedman, American Major General (Union Army), born in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania (d. 1883)
- 1820 Clement Laird Vallandigham, MC (Union), (d. 1871)
- 1828 Cuvier Grover, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Bethel, Maine (d. 1885)
- 1830 Alvan Cullom Gillem, American Major General (Union Army), born in Gainesboro, Tennessee (d. 1875)
- 1843 Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (d. 1901)
- 1849 Max Nordau, Austrian author and Zionist leader (d. 1923)
- 1854 Georg Kerschensteiner, German educator (Theory of Education)
- 1861 Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, 1st wife of Theodore Roosevelt, born in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (d. 1884)
- 1861 Sergei D Sazonov, Russian minister of Foreign Affairs (1910-16)
- 1869 Booth Tarkington, American novelist (17, Magnificent Ambersons)
- 1872 Eric Alfred Knudsen, American folklorist (d. 1957)
- 1874 August Stramm, German poet and playwright, born in Cathedrals (d. 1915)
- 1874 James Shaver Woodsworth, Canadian politician (d. 1942)
- 1878 Don Marquis, Ill, journalist/poet (archy & mehitabel) (d. 1937)
Benito Mussolini
1883 Benito Mussolini [Il Duce], Fascist Italian dictator (1922-43), born in Predappio, Forlì, Italy (d. 1945)
Benito Mussolini
Vladimir Zworykin
1888 Vladimir K. Zworykin, Russian-American inventor (development of television, cathode ray tube), born in Murom, Russian Empire (d. 1982)
Vladimir Zworykin
- 1889 Karl Otten, German Expressionist writer, born in Oberkrüchten (d. 1963)
- 1891 Bernhard Zondek, German/Israeli gynaecologist
- 1892 Ernst van Raalte, Dutch journalist (Seen, heard... wrote), born in Rotterdam, South Holland (d. 1975)
- 1897 Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (d. 1983)
- 1898 Isidor Isaac Rabi, Polish physicist (explored atom, Nobel 1944)
- 1900 Eyvind Johnson, Swedish novelist (Return to Ithaca), Nobel Prize (1974), born in Svartbjörnsbyn (d. 1976)
- 1903 Diana Vreeland, French-American fashion editor (Harper's Bazaar, Vogue), born in Paris (d. 1989)
- 1904 J. R. D. Tata, Indian industrialist (d. 1993)
- 1905 Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish public servant, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations (1953-61) and posthumous Nobel Peace Prize winner (1961), born in Jönköping, Sweden (d. 1961)
- 1905 Stanley Kunitz, American poet (d. 2006)
- 1907 Melvin Belli, American lawyer known as "The King of Torts" and "Melvin Bellicose", born in Sonora, California (d. 1996)
- 1910 Henry Brian Boyne, journalist
- 1911 Foster Furcolo, 60th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1995)
- 1911 Iakovos, Archbishop of America (d. 2005)
- 1913 Erich Priebke, Nazi war criminal
- 1914 Abram Games, graphic artist
- 1914 Dovie Hudson, community activist in rural Mississippi
- 1915 Bruce R. McConkie, LDS apostle and author (d. 1985)
- 1915 Francis W. Sargent, 64th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1998)
- 1918 Vladimir Dudentzev, Russian writer
- 1919 Miltos Sachtouris, Greek poet (d. 2005)
- 1919 Robert Marsden Hope, Australian Justice and Royal Commissioner, born in Sydney, Australia (d. 1999)
- 1920 Neville Jeffress, Australian founder of Media Monitors Australia (d. 2007)
- 1921 Aled Eames, Welsh maritime historian, born in Llandudno (d. 1996)
- 1924 Arnold Weinstock, English industrial/multi-millionaire (GEC)
Elizabeth Short
1924 Elizabeth Short, American victim in the Black Dahlia case, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1947)
Elizabeth Short
- 1926 Russel Firestone, polo great (Circle F-1959 champs)
- 1927 Harry K V Mulisch, writer (Message to King Rat)
- 1928 Li Ka-Shing, Hong Kong-Chinese business magnate and entrepreneur (CK Holdings), born in Chao'an, Guangdong, China
- 1929 Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher
- 1932 Nancy Landon Kassebaum, (Sen-R-Kansas, 1979- )
- 1936 Elizabeth Hanford Dole, US Secretary of Transportation (1983-87)
- 1937 Daniel McFadden, American economist, Nobel Prize Laureate
Charles Schwab
1937 Charles Schwab, American investor and entrepreneur (Charles Schwab Corporation), born in Sacramento, California
Charles Schwab
- 1938 Jean Rochon, Quebec politician
- 1946 Bill Forsyth, director (Local Hero, Breaking In, Housekeeping)
- 1949 Marilyn Tucker Quayle, novelist/wife of Vice President Dan Quayle (1989-93)
- 1955 Dave Stevens, American illustrator
- 1956 Ronnie Musgrove, Former Governor of Mississippi
- 1957 Virginia Maria "Ginni" Rometty, American chairwoman, president and CEO of IBM, born in Chigago, Illinois
- 1959 Ruud Janssen, Dutch writer and artist
- 1963 Graham Poll, English football referee
- 1963 Jim Beglin, Irish football commentator
- 1965 Chang-Rae Lee, Korean-born author
- 1966 Richard Steven Horvitz, American comic voiceactor