Births
- 1585 - Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter († 1634)
- 1741 - Hester Thrale, diarist († 1821)
- 1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer († 1791)
- 1814 - Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, architect
- 1832 - Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland († 1898)
- 1836 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, writer († 1895)
- 1850 - Samuel Gompers, labor union leader († 1924)
- 1859 - Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, last German Emperor and Prussian king († 1941)
- 1885 - Eduard K�nneke, composer († 1953)
- 1885 - Jerome Kern, composer († 1945)
- 1885 - Harry Ruby, musician, composer, writer († 1974)
- 1900 - Admiral Hyman Rickover, American admiral, proponent of the "nuclear Navy"
- 1901 - Willy Fritsch, actor († 1973)
- 1903 - John Carew Eccles, psychologist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1963, († 1997)
- 1908 - Oran "Hot Lips" Page, jazz trumpet († 1954)
- 1918 - Skitch Henderson, musician, band leader
- 1919 - Ross Bagdasarian, musician, actor († 1972)
- 1920 - Frankie Albert, American football star († 2002)
- 1921 - Donna Reed, actress († 1986)
- 1924 - Sabu, actor († 1963)
- 1926 - Fritz Spiegl, journalist († 2003)
- 1931 - Mordecai Richler, author († 2001)
- 1936 - Troy Donahue, actor († 2001)
- 1945 - Nick Mason, musician of Pink Floyd
- 1948 - Mikhail Baryshnikov, dancer
- 1956 - Mimi Rogers, actress
- 1957 - Janick Gers, musician (Iron Maiden)
- 1974 - Bridget Fonda, actress
- 1965 - Alan Cumming, actor