| 1841 | Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian statesman (Saint Lin--now Laurentides, Québec; died 1919) |
| 1866 | Kenesaw Mountain Landis, first commissioner of baseball (Milville, OH; died 1944) |
| 1884 | Norman Thomas, American Socialist party leader and six-time presidential candidate (Marion, OH; died 1968) |
| 1886 | Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist and Nobel laureate (Vienna, Austria; died 1982) |
| 1889 | Edwin Hubble, astronomer (Marshfield, MO; died 1953) |
| 1900 | Chester Gould, cartoonist and creator of Dick Tracy (Pawnee, OK; died 1985) |
| 1908 | Alistair Cooke, broadcaster (Manchester, England; died 2004) |
| 1920 | Gene Tierney, actress (Brooklyn, NY; died 1991) |
| 1923 | Nadine Gordimer, writer (Springs, South Africa) |
| 1925 | Robert F. Kennedy, senator and presidential aspirant (Brookline, MA; died 1968) |
| 1926 | Kaye Ballard, actress (Cleveland, OH) |
| 1927 | Estelle Parsons, actress (Lynn, MA) |
| 1932 | Richard Dawson, actor and TV personality (Hampshire, England) |
| 1946 | Judy Woodruff, TV journalist (Tulsa, OK) |
| 1956 | Bo Derek, actress (Long Beach, CA) |
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