- 1289 Wenceslaus III of Bohemia, King of Hungary (1301-05) and King of Bohemia and Poland (1305-06), born in Prague, Czech Republic (d. 1306)
- 1459 Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer, born in Nuremberg, Germany (d. 1507)
- 1510 Rowland Taylor, English clergyman, born in Northumberland, England (d. 1555)
- 1510 John Caius, English physician, born in Norwich, England (d. 1573)
- 1552 Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (China), born in Macerata, Italy (d. 1610)
- 1573 Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater, born in Cowdray House, Sussex, England (d. 1624)
- 1610 Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (d. 1690)
- 1706 Pieter Steyn, Dutch grand pensionary (1749-72), born in Haarlem, Netherlands (d. 1772)
- 1716 George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman, born in Dover, England (d. 1771)
- 1738 Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, second child of Francis I Holy Roman Emperor, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1789)
- 1744 James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1813)
- 1767 Henri Christophe, President of Haiti (1807-11) and King of Haiti (1811-20), born in Grenada (d. 1820)
Isaac Brock
1769 Isaac Brock, British Army officer (successfully defended Upper Canada in War of 1812), born in St Peter Port, Guernsey (d. 1812)
Isaac Brock
- 1773 Louis-Philippe, King of France (1830-48), born in Palais Royal, Paris (d. 1850)
- 1801 Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman, born in Saint-Omer, France (d. 1888)
- 1803 Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Prussian physicist and meteorologist, born in Legnica, Poland (d. 1879)
- 1808 Frederik VII, 1st constitutional king of Denmark (1848-63), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1863)
- 1819 Willem A Scholten, Dutch potato-flour manufacturer (d. 1892)
- 1831 Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (Nature & Meaning of Numbers), born in Braunschweig, Germany (d. 1916)
- 1838 Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer, born in Cairo Montenotte, Italy (d. 1910)
George Westinghouse
1846 George Westinghouse, American entrepreneur and engineer (air brakes, alternating current system), born in Central Bridge, New York (d. 1914)
George Westinghouse
- 1847 Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor, born in Marburg, Germany (d. 1921)
- 1849 Basil Zaharoff, Greek arms dealer (merchant of death), born in Muğla, Turkey (d. 1936)
- 1860 Oscar L Helfrich, Dutch governor (Curacao)
- 1860 Reneke de Marees van Swinderen, Dutch foreign minister (1908-13)
- 1862 Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, American politician/author (Progressive)
- 1872 Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (d. 1936)
- 1874 Frank G. Allen, 51st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1950)
- 1876 Ernest Lapointe, French-Canadian politician (d. 1941)
Le Corbusier
1887 Le Corbusier [Charles Jeanneret], Swiss French architect, city planner and artist (Urbanisme), born in La Chaux-de-Fonds (d. 1965))
Le Corbusier
- 1887 MartinLuis Guzman, Mexican novelist (Eagle & the Serpent)
- 1888 Li Ta-chao, co-founder with Mao Zedong (Chinese Communist Party)
- 1888 Roland Garros, French pilot (d. 1918)
- 1889 Maria Dabrowska, Polish writer (Noce I Dnie)
- 1895 Caroline Gordon, Kentucky, writer (Green Centuries)
- 1903 Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
- 1904 Horst Lange, German writer (The Long Lament), born in Liegnitz, Silesia (d. 1971)
- 1908 Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (d. 1989)
- 1910 Barbara Castle, British politician (d. 2002)
- 1912 Anthony Cuthbert Baines, English music scholar (d. 1997)
- 1912 Joop Zwart, Dutch political activist and resistance fighter, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1991)
- 1913 Meret Oppenheim, writer
Thor Heyerdahl
1914 Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian anthropologist and explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku), born in Larvik (d. 2002)
Thor Heyerdahl
Fannie Lou Hamer
1917 Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (Freedom Summer, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), born in Montgomery County, Mississippi (d. 1977)
Fannie Lou Hamer
Hafez al-Assad
1930 Hafez al-Assad, General and President of Syria (1971-2000), born in Qardaha, Alawite State, Syria (d. 2000)
Hafez al-Assad
- 1931 Riccardo Giacconi, Italian American astrophysicist, Nobel Prize for Physics 2002 for X-ray astronomy, born in Genoa, Italy (d. 2018)
- 1932 Gloria Lane, educator/author/founder (Women's International Center)
- 1936 Rob Touber, [Robert J Noordervliet], cabaret director (Capers)
- 1938 Serge Nubret, French bodybuilder
- 1939 Douglas K Bereuter, (Rep-R-Nebraska, 1979- )
- 1939 John J LaFalce, (Rep-D-NY, 1975- )
- 1940 Boris Dmitriyevich Andreyev, Russian cosmonaut
- 1940 Wyche Fowler Jr, (Rep-D-GA, 1977-87)
- 1943 Alexander Maxovich Shilov, Russian painter
- 1944 Merzak Allouache, director (Salut Cousin, Amour a Paris)
- 1945 Domonic Barber, American celebrity attorney (Howard Stern, Jessica Hahn, Joe Buttafucco)
- 1946 Eddie Villanueva, JIL Spiritual Director, Owner of ZOE Broadcasting Network
- 1946 Lloyd Doggett, American attorney and politician (US Representative, Democrat, Texas), born in Austin, Texas
- 1947 Aleksandr Stepanovich Andryushkov, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
- 1948 Dan Hamburg, (Rep-D-California)
- 1948 Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician
- 1952 Ayten Mutlu, Turkish poet and writer
- 1953 Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord (d. 1991)
- 1956 Kathleen Webb, American comic book writer and artist
- 1958 Joseph Finder, American novelist
- 1959 Walter Ray Williams Jr, bowler (twice Player of the Year)
- 1959 Brian Higgins, American politician, Member of US House of Representatives
- 1965 Jim "Razor" Sharp, American rodeo rider (Las Vegas 1988), Kermit, Texas
- 1967 Svend Karlsen, Norwegian strongman
- 1982 MC Lars, American hip-hop artist
- 1995 Jessica Lunsford, American kidnapping victim (d. 2005)
- 2000 Jazz Jennings, American transgender activist, born in South Florida (probable date)