*copy-pastes from Wikipedia*
* 1471 Albrecht Dürer, German painter (d. 1528)
* 1527 King Philip II of Spain (d. 1598)
* 1653 Eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria, queen consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1697)
* 1664 Giulio Alberoni, Italian cardinal (d. 1754)
* 1688 Alexander Pope, English poet (d. 1744)
* 1755 Alfred Moore, American judge (d. 1810)
* 1763 Joseph Fouché, French statesman (d. 1820)
* 1775 Lucien Bonaparte, French politician, soldier and academic (d. 1840)
* 1780 Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer (d. 1845)
* 1792 Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (d. 1843)
* 1827 William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (d. 1899)
* 1832 Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (d. 1917)
* 1835 Frantiek Chvostek, Moravian physician (d. 1884)
* 1843 Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician (d. 1914)
* 1844 Henri Rousseau, French artist (d. 1910)
* 1850 Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (d. 1914)
* 1851 Léon Bourgeois, French statesman, Nobel laureate (d. 1925)
* 1853 Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (d. 1905)
* 1856 José Batlle y Ordóñez, Uruguayan president (d. 1929)
* 1860 Willem Einthoven, Dutch inventor, Nobel laureate (d. 1927)
* 1863 Archduke Eugen of Austria, Austrian field marshal (d. 1954)
* 1864 Princess Stephanie of Belgium (d. 1945)
* 1873 Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (d. 1941)
* 1878 Glenn Curtiss, American aviation pioneer (d. 1930)
* 1880 Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (d. 1967)
* 1884 Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (d. 1920)
* 1885 Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, wife of Prince William of Wied (d. 1936)
* 1898 Armand Hammer, American physician (d. 1990)
* 1898 Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and President of the European Court of Justice (d. 1967)
* 1901 Manfred Aschner, German-born Israeli microbiologist and entomologist and Israel Prize recipient (d. 1989)
* 1901 Horace Heidt, American band leader (d. 1986)
* 1901 Sam Jaffe, American film producer (d. 2000)
* 1901 Suzanne Lilar, Belgian essayist, novelist and playwright (d. 1992)
* 1902 Earl Averill, baseball player (d. 1983)
* 1902 Marcel Lajos Breuer, Hungarian-born architect (d. 1981)
* 1903 Manly Wade Wellman, American author (d. 1986)
* 1904 Robert Montgomery, American actor (d. 1981)
* 1904 Fats Waller, American pianist (d. 1943)
* 1907 John C. Allen, American roller coaster designer (d. 1979)
* 1909 François-Albert Angers, Quebec economist (d. 2003)
* 1912 John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist (d. 1986)
* 1912 Monty Stratton, baseball player (d. 1982)
* 1912 Akiva Vroman, Dutch-born Israeli geologist and Israel Prize recipient (d. 1989)
* 1913 Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (d. 1976)
* 1916 Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (d. 2002)
* 1916 Harold Robbins, American novelist (d. 1997)
* 1917 Raymond Burr, Canadian actor (d. 1993)
* 1918 Dennis Day, American singer and comedian (d. 1988)
* 1920 Anthony Steel, British actor (d. 2001)
* 1921 Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist (d. 1989)
* 1923 Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (d. 2003)
* 1923 Ara Parseghian, American football coach
* 1924 Peggy Cass, American actress (d. 1999)
* 1926 Robert Creeley, American poet (d. 2005)
* 1928 Tom Donahue, American disc jockey (freeform radio) (d. 1975)
* 1929 Alice Drummond, American actress
* 1930 Malcolm Fraser, Australian politician
* 1933 Maurice André, French trumpeter
* 1933 Yevgeni Minaev, Soviet (Russian) weightlifter (d. 1993)
* 1934 Bengt I. Samuelsson, Swedish biochemist, Nobel laureate
* 1936 Günter Blobel, German biologist, Nobel laureate
* 1939 Heinz Holliger, Swiss musician
* 1941 Martin Carthy, English musician
* 1941 Ronald Isley, American singer (The Isley Brothers)
* 1941 Bobby Cox, Manager of the Atlanta Braves (MLB)
* 1942 Danny Ongais, American race car driver
* 1943 Hilton Valentine, British guitarist (The Animals)
* 1944 Mary Robinson, President of Ireland
* 1944 Marcie Blane, American singer
* 1945 Ernst Messerschmid, German astronaut
* 1947 Bill Champlin, American singer
* 1947 Jonathan Hyde, Australian-born actor
* 1948 Leo Sayer, English musician
* 1951 Al Franken, American comedian and politician
* 1952 Mr. T, American actor
* 1954 Marc Ribot, American musician
* 1955 Paul Barber, British field hockey player
* 1955 Stan Lynch, American drummer
* 1956 Sean Kelly, Irish cyclist
* 1957 Bruce Buffer, American Mixed Martial Arts Announcer
* 1957 Nadine Dorries, British politician
* 1957 Judge Reinhold, American actor
* 1957 Renée Soutendijk, Dutch actress
* 1958 Jefery Levy, American television director
* 1959 Nick Cassavetes, American actor and director
* 1960 Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (d. 1994)
* 1960 Kent Hrbek, American baseball player
* 1960 Mohanlal, Indian actor
* 1960 Jeffrey Toobin, American writer and political analyst
* 1960 Vladimir Salnikov, Russian swimmer
* 1963 Richard Appel, American writer
* 1963 Kevin Shields, Musician (My Bloody Valentine)
* 1964 Danny Bailey, English footballer
* 1964 Danny Lee Clark, American football player and American Gladiator "Nitro"
* 1964 Nancy Daus, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
* 1964 Carolyn Lawrence, American actress
* 1966 Lisa Edelstein, American actress
* 1967 Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2007)
* 1968 Julie Vega, Filipino child actress and singer (d. 1985)
* 1968 Matthias Ungemach, German rower
* 1969 Masayo Kurata, Japanese voice actress
* 1969 Pierluigi Brivio, Italian footballer
* 1969 Georgiy R. Gongadze, Ukrainian/Georgian journalist
* 1969 George LeMieux, American politician and junior senator from Florida
* 1970 Dorsey Levens, former American football player
* 1970 Carl Veart, Australian former footballer
* 1972 Adriano Cintra, Brazilian musician (CSS)
* 1972 The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper (d. 1997)
* 1972 Alesha Oreskovich, American model
* 1973 Noel Fielding, British comedian
* 1974 Fairuza Balk, American actress
* 1974 Havoc, American rapper (Mobb Deep)
* 1975 Lee Gaze, Welsh guitarist
* 1976 Aditi Gowitrikar, Indian model, actress and a physician
* 1976 Deron Miller, American rock musician
* 1976 Kardinal Offishall, Canadian rapper
* 1977 Quinton Fortune, South African footballer
* 1977 Ricky Williams, American football player
* 1978 Briana Banks, German/American pornographic actress
* 1978 Adam Gontier, Canadian singer (Three Days Grace)
* 1978 Jamaal Magloire, Canadian basketball player
* 1979 Damián Ariel Álvarez, Argentinian footballer
* 1979 Jesse Capelli, Canadian pornographic actress
* 1979 Gaspard Augé, French DJ
* 1979 Jamie Hepburn, Scottish politician
* 1979 James Clancy Phelan, Australian novelist
* 1979 Scott Smith, American mixed martial arts fighter
* 1980 Chris Raab, American television personality
* 1981 Belladonna, American pornographic actress
* 1981 Josh Hamilton, American baseball player
* 1981 Maximilian Mutzke, German singer
* 1981 Edson Buddle, American soccer player
* 1982 Brian Klemm, American musician (Suburban Legends)
* 1984 Lorena Ayala, Dutch/Spanish model
* 1984 Brandon Fields, American football player
* 1985 Mutya Buena, English singer (Sugababes)
* 1985 Marco Carta, Italian singer
* 1985 Isa Guha, English cricketer & World Cup Winner
* 1985 Kano, British rapper
* 1985 Andrew Miller, American baseball player
* 1985 Mark Cavendish, Manx cyclist
* 1986 Mario Mandukić, Croatian footballer
* 1986 Myra, American singer
* 1986 Alexander Noyes, American drummer for the band Honor Society
* 1988 Jonathan Howson, English footballer
* 1991 Sarah Ramos, American actress
* 1992 Olivia Olson, American singer and actress
* 1992 Hutch Dano, American actor
* 1994 Tom Daley, English diver