| 1562 | Lope de Vega, playwright and poet (Madrid, Spain; died 1635) |
| 1835 | Andrew Carnegie, financier and philanthropist (Dunfermline, Scotland; died 1919) |
| 1846 | Carry Nation, temperance leader (Garrard County, KY; died 1911) |
| 1896 | Virgil Thomson, composer (Kansas City, MO; died 1989) |
| 1914 | Joe DiMaggio, baseball player (Martinez, CA; died 1999) |
| 1920 | Ricardo Montalban, actor (Mexico City, Mexico) |
| 1947 | John Larroquette, actor (New Orleans, LA) |
| 1960 | John F. Kennedy Jr., magazine editor and son of President Kennedy (Washington, D.C.; died 1999) |
| 1963 | Bernie Kosar, football player (Boardman, OH) |
| 1972 | Christina Applegate, actress (Los Angeles) |
