Births

• 225 - Gordian III, Roman Emperor (d. 244)
• 1292 - Elisabeth I of Bohemia (d. 1330)
• 1358 - Eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (d. 1382)
• 1435 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (d. 1490)
• 1554 - King Sebastian of Portugal (d. 1578)
• 1586 - Johann Schein, German composer (d. 1630)
• 1664 - Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (d. 1718)
• 1716 - King Charles III of Spain (d. 1788)
• 1716 - Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (d. 1795)
• 1775 - André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (d. 1836)
• 1781 - Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, Austrian politician (d. 1848)
• 1783 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
• 1798 - Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (d. 1858)
• 1804 - Eugène Sue, French novelist (d. 1857)
• 1812 - Thomas Meik, Scottish engineer (d. 1896)
• 1834 - George D. Robinson, 34th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
• 1837 - David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910)
• 1855 - Ernest Chausson, French composer (d. 1899)
• 1867 - Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (d. 1944)
• 1873 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish Nobel laureate (d. 1950)
• 1876 - Józef Hofmann, Polish pianist (d. 1967)
• 1878 - Finlay Currie, British actor (d. 1968)
• 1878 - Ruth St. Denis, American dancer (d. 1968)
• 1880 - Walter W. Bacon, American politician (d. 1962)
• 1889 - Allan Haines Loughead, American aviation executive (d. 1969)
• 1891 - Mischa Elman, Ukrainian born violinist (d. 1967)
• 1893 - Georg Åberg, Swedish athlete (d. 1946)
• 1894 - Walter Piston, American composer (d. 1976)
• 1896 - George Burns, American actor, comedian (d. 1996)
• 1896 - Isabel Withers, American actress (d. 1968)
• 1898 - U Razak, Burmese politician (d. 1947)
• 1899 - Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese development of television (d. 1990)
• 1900 - Colin Clive, British actor (d. 1937)
• 1902 - Leon Ames, American actor (d. 1993)
• 1907 - Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
• 1910 - Joy Adamson, Austrian naturalist and writer (d. 1980)
• 1912 - Walter Briggs, Jr., American sports executive (d. 1970)
• 1915 - Ghulam Ishaq Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 2006)
• 1919 - Juan García Esquivel, Mexican bandleader (d. 2002)
• 1920 - Federico Fellini, Italian film director (d. 1993)
• 1920 - DeForest Kelley, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1920 - Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (d. 2006)
• 1921 - Telmo Zarraonaindía, Spanish footballer (d. 2006)
• 1922 - Ray Anthony, American trumpeter, bandleader and actor
• 1922 - Graham Stark, British actor
• 1923 - Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer
• 1924 - Slim Whitman, American singer
• 1925 - Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan theologian and politician
• 1926 - Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, essayist and columnist
• 1926 - Qurratulain Hyder, Pakistani novelist (d. 2007)
• 1926 - Patricia Neal, American actress
• 1926 - David Tudor, American pianist and composer (d. 1996)
• 1929 - Jimmy Cobb, American jazz drummer
• 1929 - Arte Johnson, American actor
• 1929 - Glenn Roberts, American race car driver (d. 1964)
• 1930 - Buzz Aldrin, American astronaut
• 1931 - David Lee, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
• 1931 - Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese songwriter and pianist (d. 1992)
• 1932 - Lou Fontinato, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1933 - Ron Townson, American singer (The Fifth Dimension) (d. 2001)
• 1934 - Tom Baker, British actor
• 1935 - Joan Weston, Roller Derby Queen (d. 1997)
• 1937 - Dorothy Provine, American singer, dancer and actress
• 1938 - William Berger, Austrian actor (d. 1993)
• 1938 - Derek Dougan, Northern Irish footballer (d. 2007)
• 1939 - Paul Coverdell, American politician (d. 2000)
• 1940 - Carol Heiss, American figure skater
• 1940 - Krishnam Raju, Indian actor and politician
• 1941 - Pierre Lalonde, Quebec singer and television host
• 1943 - Farhad Mehrad, Iranian musician
• 1944 - José Luis Garci, Spanish filmmaker
• 1945 - Robert Olen Butler, American writer
• 1945 - Christopher Martin-Jenkins, cricket commentator and correspondent
• 1945 - Eric Stewart, English musician and songwriter (10cc)
• 1946 - David Lynch, American film director
• 1947 - Cyrille Guimard, French cyclist and directeur sportif
• 1948 - Natan Sharansky, Russian-born physicist and politician
• 1948 - Nancy Kress, American writer
• 1949 - Göran Persson, Prime Minister of Sweden
• 1950 - Liza Goddard, British actress
• 1950 - Edward Hirsch. American poet
• 1950 - Chuck Lefley, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1950 - Mahamane Ousmane, President of Niger
• 1951 - Ivan Fischer, Hungarian conductor
• 1951 - Ian Hill, British musician (Judas Priest)
• 1952 - Paul Stanley, American musician (Kiss)
• 1955 - Wyatt Knight, American actor
• 1955 - Joe Doherty, Provisional Irish Republican Army member
• 1955 - Hiromi Ōta, Japanese singer
• 1956 - Maria Larsson, Swedish politician
• 1956 - Bill Maher, American actor, comedian, and political analyst
• 1958 - Lorenzo Lamas, American actor
• 1960 - Scott Thunes, American musician (Frank Zappa)
• 1960 - Will Wright, American computer game designer
• 1963 - James Denton, American actor
• 1962 - IKKO, Japanese make-up artist
• 1963 - Firebreaker Chip, American professional wrestler
• 1964 - Ozzie Guillén, Venezuelan-born baseball player and manager
• 1964 - Ron Harper, American basketball player
• 1964 - Kazushige Nojima, Japanese game scenario writer
• 1965 - Colin Calderwood, Scottish footballer
• 1965 - Greg Kriesel, American bassist (The Offspring)
• 1965 - Sophie, The Countess of Wessex, the wife of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
• 1965 - John Michael Montgomery, American singer
• 1965 - Anton Weissenbacher, Romanian footballer
• 1966 - Stacey Dash, American actress
• 1966 - Tracii Guns, American guitarist
• 1968 - Melissa Rivers, American reporter and actress
• 1968 - Nick Anderson, American basketball player
• 1968 - Rainn Wilson, American actor
• 1969 - Patrick K. Kroupa, American computer hacker
• 1969 - Nicky Wire, British Musician (Manic Street Preachers)
• 1970 - Mitch Benn, UK comedian, songwriter, actor
• 1970 - Kerri Kenney-Silver, American actress
• 1970 - Skeet Ulrich, American actor
• 1971 - Derrick Green, American singer (Sepultura)
• 1971 - Gary Barlow, English singer (Take That)
• 1971 - Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson, American drummer (The Roots)
• 1971 - Brian Giles, American baseball player
• 1973 - Princess Mathilde, Duchess of Brabant
• 1974 - David Dei, Italian footballer
• 1975 - David Eckstein, American baseball player
• 1975 - Norberto Fontana, Argentine racing driver
• 1976 - Gretha Smit, Dutch speed skater
• 1977 - Melody, Belgian singer
• 1978 - Joy Giovanni, American actress and glamour model
• 1978 - Sonja Kesselschläger, German heptathlete
• 1978 - Allan Søgaard, Danish footballer
• 1979 - Rob Bourdon, American musician (Linkin Park)
• 1979 - Asaka Kubo, Japanese gravure idol of 20th Century
• 1979 - Will Young, British singer
• 1980 - Philippe Cousteau Jr., Freanch oceanographer; grandson of Jacques Cousteau
• 1980 - Brigitte Olivier, Belgian judoka
• 1980 - Matthew Tuck, Welsh guitarist (Bullet for My Valentine)
• 1981 - Freddy Guzmán, Dominican baseball player
• 1981 - Jason Richardson, American basketball player
• 1981 - Christine Bleakley, British television presenter
• 1981 - Owen Hargreaves, English footballer
• 1981 - Crystal Lowe, Canadian actress
• 1982 - Joe Swash, English actor
• 1983 - Geovany Soto, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1983 - Paula Taylor, English-Thai actress, model and presenter
• 1983 - Mari Yaguchi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
• 1984 - Olivia Hallinan, English actress
• 1984 - Toni Gonzaga, Filipina actress and singer