| 1749 | Edward Rutledge, legislator, and signer of the Declaration of Independence (Charleston, SC; died 1800) |
| 1804 | Franklin Pierce, 14th president of the United States (Hillsboro, NH; died 1869) |
| 1859 | William "Billy the Kid" Bonney, Western outlaw (New York, NY; died 1881) |
| 1876 | Manuel de Falla, composer (Cádiz, Spain; died 1946) |
| 1881 | Enver Pasha, soldier and Turkish nationalist leader (Istanbul, Turkey; died 1922) |
| 1887 | Boris Karloff, actor (London, England; died 1969) |
| 1915 | Ellen Drew, actress (Kansas City, MO; died 2003) |
| 1933 | Krzysztof Penderecki, composer (Debica, Poland) |
| 1945 | Susan Anspach, actress (New York, NY) |
| 1954 | Bruce Hornsby, singer/musician (Williamsburg, VA) |

