| 1633 | Jean Baptiste Lully, composer who established opera in France (Florence, Italy; died 1687) |
| 1757 | William Blake, poet/artist/philosopher (London, England; died 1827) |
| 1820 | Friedrich Engels, collaborator with Karl Marx in developing the Communist ideology (Germany; died 1895) |
| 1908 | Claude Lévi-Strauss, social anthropologist (Brussels, Belgium) |
| 1929 | Berry Gordy, founder of Motown (Detroit, MI) |
| 1931 | Hope Lange, actress (Redding Ridge, CT; died 2003) |
| 1938 | Gary Hart, senator and presidential aspirant (Ottawa, KS) |
| 1943 | Randy Newman, singer/songwriter (Los Angeles, CA) |
| 1949 | Paul Shaffer, Late Night With David Letterman bandleader (Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada) |
| 1950 | Ed Harris, actor (Englewood, NJ) |
| 1952 | S. Epatha Merkerson, actress (Saginaw, MI) |
| 1959 | Judd Nelson, actor (Portland, ME) |
