- 1257 Przemysł II, King of Poland (1295-96), born in Poznań, Kingdom of Poland (d. 1296)
- 1404 Marie of Anjou, Queen of France (1422-61), born in Angers, France (d. 1463)
- 1420 Tomas de Torquemada, Castilian Grand Inquisitor during Spanish Inquisition, born in Torquemada (or Valladolid), Kingdom of Castile (d. 1498)
- 1493 Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (d. 1568)
- 1499 Claude of France, Duchess of Brittany amd wife of Francis I of France, born in Romorantin-Lanthenay, France (d. 1524)
- 1606 Joan Maetsuyker, Dutch governor-general of Ceylon (1653-78), born in Amsterdam (d. 1678)
- 1630 Sophia of Hanover, Princess Palatine and Electress of Saxony, born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1714)
James II (1633-1701)
King of England, Scotland and Ireland (1685-88), born in St. James's Palace, London
William Penn (1644-1718)
English Philosopher, Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania (No cross, no crown), born in London
- 1687 Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (Simson line), born in West Kilbride, Ayrshire, Scotland (d. 1768)
George Grenville (1712-1770)
British Prime Minister (1763-65) who introduced the Stamp Act (1st international tax to the colonies in America), born in Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire, England
- 1726 Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, English sailor and politician, born in Leith, Midlothian, Scotland (d. 1813)
- 1733 François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal, born in Hainaut, Austrian Netherlands (d. 1798)
- 1734 Francis Lightfoot Lee, American advocate for independence (signed US Declaration of Independence), born in Stratford Hall Plantation, Westmoreland County, Virginia Colony (d. 1797)
- 1740 Joannes Siberg, Dutch Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1801-05), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1817)
- 1774 Hubert Matthijs Adriaan Jan van Asch van Wijck, Dutch lawyer and politician, born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1843)
Ferdinand VII (1784-1833)
King of Spain (1808, 1813-33) who lost nearly all of Spain's possessions in Latin America, born in El Escorial, Spain
- 1789 Constant van Crombrugghe, Flemish monastery founder, born in Geraardsbergen, Belgium (d. 1865)
- 1790 Thursday October Christian, son of Fletcher Christian (leader of the historical mutiny on the Bounty), born in Pitcairn Island (d. 1831)
- 1801 Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist (Plateau's Law), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1883)
- 1806 Preston King, U.S. Senator from New York (1857-63), born in Ogdensburg, New York (d. 1865)
- 1827 James Sidney Robinson, American politician and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Mansfield, Ohio (d. 1892)
- 1827 William Harcourt, British Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, born in York, England (d. 1904)
- 1837 Ellison Capers, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Charleston, South Carolina (d. 1908)
- 1857 Elwood Haynes, American automotive pioneer (built one of 1st US autos), born in Portland, Indiana (d. 1925)
- 1861 Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer, born in Split, Austria-Hungary (d. 1944)
- 1864 Maurice de Plessys, French poet (Palace Occidental), born in Paris (d. 1924)
- 1867 Masaoka Shiki, Japanese haiku & tanka poet and diarist (Salt Water Ballads), born in Matsuyama, Japan (d. 1902)
- 1869 Joseph Duveen, British art connoisseur (Elgin marbles), born in Hull, Yorkshire, England (d. 1939)
- 1873 Jules Rimet, French football administrator (3rd President of FIFA 1921-54), born in Theuley, Franche-Comté, France (d. 1956)
- 1874 Margarete Susman, German-Jewish writer, born in Hamburg (d. 1966)
- 1880 Vilhelm Ekelund, Swedish poet and writer (Sak och sken) (d. 1940)
Éamon de Valera (1882-1975)
Irish republican politician and President of Ireland (1937-48, 51-54, 57-59), born in NYC, New York
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
New Zealand short story writer (The Garden Party), born in Wellington, New Zealand
- 1889 Jean Canneel, Flemish sculptor, born in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Brussels, Belgium (d. 1963)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)
34th US President (Republican: 1953-61) and World War II general, born in Denison, Texas
- 1891 Paul de Keyser, Flemish philologist and folklorist, born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 1966)
- 1892 Sumner Welles, American diplomat (Good neighbor policy), born in New York (d. 1961)
- 1894 E.E.Cummings (Edward Estlin), poet (Tulips & Chimneys), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- 1901 Willem A. Wagenaar, Dutch journalist and writer (Shanghai) (d. 1968)
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
German-American political theorist and historian (Origins of Totalitarianism), born in Hanover, Germany
- 1906 Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, born in Mahmoudiyah, Beheira, Egypt (d. 1949)
- 1910 Jozef Keuleers, Belgian worker's union leader, born in Watermael-Boitsfort, Brussels (d. 1986)
- 1911 Lê Ðức Thọ, Vietnamese revolutionary general, politician and negotiator in Paris (1975), born in Nam Định Province, French Indochina (d. 1990)
- 1912 Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist (Sociology of Sex), born in Chemnitz, Saxony (d. 1984)
- 1916 C. Everett Koop, 13th US Surgeon General (1982-89), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2013)
- 1918 Marcel Chaput, French Canadian politician, born in Hull, Quebec (d. 1991)
- 1919 Edward L. Feightner, American rear-admiral (WW II-Santa Cruz Islands), born in Lima, Ohio
- 1925 Lawrence Herkimer, "Grandfather of Cheerleading" (founded National Cheerleading Association, patented the pom-pom), born in Muskegon, Michigan (d. 2015)
- 1925 Phillip Tobias, South African palaeoanthropologist and three time Nobel Prize nominee (hominid fossil sites), born in Durban, South Africa (d. 2012)
- 1928 Frank E. Resnik, American business executive (Philip Morris USA), born in Pleasant Unity, Pennsylvania (d. 1995)
Mobutu Sese Seko (1930-1997)
Dictator and President of Zaire (1965-97), born in Lisala, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ralph Lauren (83 years old)
1939 American fashion designer (Chaps, Polo Ralph Lauren), born in The Bronx, New York
- 1941 Alexander Burdonsky, Russian theater director and Joseph Stalin's grandson, born in Samara, Russia (d. 2017)
- 1941 Jim Courter, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey), born in Montclair, New Jersey
- 1946 Craig Venter, American biotechnologist and geneticist (involved with the first draft sequence of the human genome), born in Salt Lake City, Utah
- 1947 Lukas Resetarits, Austrian cabaret artist, born in Stinatz, Austria
- 1948 David Ruprecht, American game show host, born in St. Louis, Missouri
- 1948 Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist, born in Istanbul (d. 2007)
- 1949 Katha Pollitt, American poet and writer, born in Brooklyn Heights, New York
- 1953 Marcel Zeeuw, Surinamese soldier (coup 1982), born in Paramaribo, Suriname (d. 2015)
- 1954 Carole Malone, English newspaper columnist
- 1957 Michel Després, Quebec politician
- 1964 Olu Oguibe, Nigerian born American artist, born in Aba, Eastern Nigera
- 1965 Jüri Jaanson, Estonian rower
- 1973 Fabián O'Neill, Uruguayan soccer midfielder (19 caps; Nacional, Cagliari, Juventus), born in Paso de los Toros, Uruguay (d. 2022)
George Floyd (1973-2020)
African American bouncer murdered while restrained in police custody by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, born in Fayetteville, North Carolina
- 1973 Lasha Zhvania, Georgian politician
- 1976 Ben Pridmore, World Memory Champion