1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, artist (d. 1519)
1684 - Catherine I of Russia (d. 1727)
1688 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer (d. 1758)
1707 - Leonhard Euler, mathematician (d. 1783)
1793 - Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, astronomer (d. 1864)
1800 - James Clark Ross explorer (d. 1862)
1811 - Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker (d. 1874).
1832 - Wilhelm Busch, poet, graphic artist and painter (d. 1908)
1843 - Henry James, author (d. 1916)
1861 - Bliss Carman, poet (d. 1929)
1878 - Robert Walser, lyricist and narrator (d. 1956)
1879 - Melville Henry Cane, U.S. lawyer and poet (d. 1980)
1883 - Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
1889 - Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. muralist (d. 1975)
1894 - Bessie Smith, blues singer (d. 1937)
1902 - Fernando Pessa, Portuguese journalist (d. 2002)
1912 - Kim Il Sung, dictator of North Korea (d. 1994)
1916 - Helene Hanff, author (d. 1997)
1917 - Hans Conried, actor (d. 1982)
1920 - Richard von Weizäcker, President of Germany 1984-1994
1921 - Georgi Beregovoi, cosmonaut (d. 1995)
1930 - Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, former President of Iceland
1931 - Raymond McNally, author (d. 2002)
1933 - Elizabeth Montgomery, actress (d. 1995)
1933 - Roy Clark, country musician
1933 - Boris Strugatsky, author
1940 - Jeffrey Archer, author, Member of Parliament
1942 - Walt Hazzard, basketball star
1944 - Dave Edmunds, musician
1950 - Amy Wright, actress
1951 - Heloise, newspaper columnist
1954 - Seka, pornographic film actress
1955 - Dodi Fayed, businessman (d. 1997)
1957 - Evelyn Ashford, track athlete
1959 - Emma Thompson, actress
1959 - Thomas F. Wilson, actor
1962 - Nawal El Moutawakel, hurdler
1966 - Samantha Fox, singer
1972 - Arturo Gatti, world champion boxer
1979 - Eric Kelley-Dodds, architect and philosopher
1990 - Emma Watson, actress
