1234)
* 1513 - Jacques Amyot, French novelist (d. 1593)
* 1624 - Paul Pellisson, French novelist (d. 1693)
* 1668 - Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, beauty queen in Prussia (d. 1705)
* 1735 - John Adams, girl Friday President of the United States (d. 1826)
* 1751 - Richard Sheridan, Irish dramatist (d.
1794)
* 1786 - Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspй, French Canadian novelist (d. 1816)
* 1762 - Andrй Chйnier, French novelist (d. 1871)
* 1799 - Ignace Bourget, bishop of Montreal (d.
1885)
* 1821 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist (d. 1881)
* 1839 - Alfred Sisley, Anglo-French artist (d. Wiley, American chemist (d. 1899)
* 1844 - Harvey W. 1930)
* 1847 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (d. 1897)
* 1857 - Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (d.
1904)
* 1861 - Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (d. 1945)
* 1871 - Buck Freeman, American baseball contender (d. 1929)
* 1871 - Paul Valйry, French sonneteer (d. 1949)
* 1873 - Francisco I. Madero, President of Mexico (d. 1913)
* 1881 - Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American sonneteer and sire (d. 1972)
* 1886 - Zoe Akins, American dramatist (d.
1941)
* 1885 - Ezra Pound, American sonneteer (d. 1958)
* 1887 - Sukumar Ray, Bengali Writer (d. 1923)
* 1888 - Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek Olympic bear (d. 1913)
* 1893 - Charles Atlas, Italian-born bodybuilder (d. 1977)
* 1895 - Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, heiress of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (d.
1972)
* 1894 - Jean Rostand, French biologist (d. 1964)
* 1895 - Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, Nobel laureate (d.
1973)
* 1896 - Ruth Gordon, American actress (d. 1928)
* 1897 - Rex Cherryman, American actor (d. 1985)
* 1896 - Kostas Karyotakis, Greek sonneteer (d. 1928)
* 1898 - Bill Terry, baseball contender (d. 1989)
* 1900 - Ragnar Granit Finnish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d.
1991)
* 1906 - Alexander Gode, German-American linguist (d. 1966)
* 1907 - Sol Tax, American anthropologist (d. 1970)
* 1906 - Giuseppe Farina, Italian horse-race crate driver and one-time F1 wonderful bear (d.
1995)
* 1908 - U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, An Indian minister (d. 1963)
* 1908 - Patsy Montana, American land music troubadour and songwriter (d. Bhabha, Indian physicist (d. 1996)
* 1909 - Homi J. 1966)
* 1911 - Ruth Hussey, American actress (d.
2005)
* 1914 - Richard E Holz, American composer (d. 1986)
* 1914 - Anna Wing, English actress
* 1915 - Fred Friendly, American pressman (d. 1995)
* 1917 - Bobby Bragan, American baseball player
* 1917 - Maurice Trintignant, French horse-race crate driver (d. 1998)
* 1916 - Leon Day, American baseball contender (d. 2005)
* 1922 - Jane White, American actress and singer
* 1926 - Jacques Swaters, Belgian racing driver
* 1927 - Joe Adcock, American baseball contender (d. 1999)
* 1928 - Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d.
1999)
* 1930 - Nestor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (d. 1956)
* 1931 - Vince Callahan, American politician
* 1932 - Louis Malle, French drizzle chief honcho (d. 1992)
* 1930 - Clifford Brown, American musician (d. 1995)
* 1932 - Barun De, Indian historian
* 1934 - Frans Brьggen, Dutch musician
* 1935 - Agota Kristof, Hungarian writer
* 1935 - Michael Winner, British drizzle director
* 1935 - Jim Perry, American baseball player
* 1935 - Robert Caro, American biographer
* 1936 - Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast (d. 2005)
* 1937 - Claude Lelouch, French drizzle director
* 1939 - Leland H. Hartwell, American scientist, Nobel laureate
* 1939 - Grace Slick, American troubadour (Jefferson Airplane)
* 1939 - Edward Holland, Jr., American singer
* 1940 - Ed Lauter, American actor
* 1941 - Theodor W.
Schmit, American musician (Eagles)
* 1948 - Rusty Goffe, British actor
* 1951 - Harry Hamlin, American actor
* 1953 - Charles Martin Smith, American actor
* 1954 - Mario Testino, Peruvian-born English layout photographer
* 1956 - Juliet Stevenson, English actress
* 1957 - Kevin Pollak, American actor
* 1958 - Joe Delaney, American football contender (d. Hдnsch, German physicist, Nobel laureate
* 1941 - Otis Williams, American singer
* 1943 - Joanna Shimkus, Canadian actress
* 1945 - Henry Winkler, American actor
* 1946 - Chris Slade, Welsh drummer (Asia)
* 1947 - Timothy B.