Famous People Born on January 21, January 21 Famous Birthdays
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January 21 Birthdays, Famous People born on January 21st
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2004 | Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway |
| 1999 | Rubina Ali, Indian actress |
| 1997 | Jeremy Shada, American actor, musician and singer |
| 1997 | Ilia Topuria, German-Georgian mixed martial artist |
| 1996 | Marco Asensio, Spanish footballer |
| 1995 | Yulia Belorukova, Russian cross-country skier |
| 1995 | Nguyễn Công Phượng, Vietnamese footballer |
| 1995 | Marine Johannes, French basketball player |
| 1995 | Alanna Kennedy, Australian footballer |
| 1994 | Amin Affane, Swedish footballer |
| 1994 | Laura Robson, Australian-English tennis player |
| 1993 | Muralha, Brazilian footballer |
| 1992 | Verónica Cepede Royg, Paraguayan tennis player |
| 1992 | Sven Erik Bystrøm, Norwegian cyclist |
| 1992 | James Duckworth, Australian tennis player |
| 1992 | Kwame Karikari, Ghanaian footballer |
| 1992 | Nicolás Mezquida, Uruguayan footballer |
| 1992 | Roland Szolnoki, Hungarian footballer |
| 1991 | Ali Al-Busaidi, Omani footballer |
| 1991 | Jan Hirt, Czech cyclist |
| 1991 | Marta Pagnini, Italian gymnast |
| 1990 | Arash Afshin, Iranian footballer |
| 1990 | Diogo Amado, Portuguese footballer |
| 1990 | Andriy Bohdanov, Ukrainian footballer |
| 1990 | Kelly Rohrbach, American model and actress |
| 1990 | André Martins, Portuguese footballer |
| 1990 | Knowledge Musona, Zimbabwean footballer |
| 1990 | Jacob Smith, American actor |
| 1990 | Doni Tata Pradita, Indonesian motorcycle racer |
| 1989 | Doğuş Balbay, Turkish basketball player |
| 1989 | Kayla Banwarth, American indoor volleyball player |
| 1989 | Férébory Doré, Congolese footballer |
| 1989 | Sergey Fesikov, Russian swimmer |
| 1989 | Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Armenian footballer |
| 1989 | Matteo Pelucchi, Italian cyclist |
| 1989 | Zhang Shuai, Chinese tennis player |
| 1988 | Glaiza de Castro, Filipino actress and singer |
| 1988 | Ashton Eaton, American decathlete |
| 1988 | Rolands Freimanis, Latvian basketball player |
| 1988 | Vanessa Hessler, Italian-American model and actress |
| 1988 | Aleksandar Lazevski, Macedonian footballer |
| 1988 | Ángel Mena, Ecuadorian footballer |
| 1988 | Valérie Tétreault, Canadian tennis player |
| 1988 | Pieter Timmers, Belgian swimmer |
| 1988 | Nemanja Tomić, Serbian footballer |
| 1987 | Ioannis Athanasoulas, Greek basketball player |
| 1987 | Andrei Cojocari, Moldovan international footballer |
| 1987 | Aida Hadzialic, Swedish politician |
| 1987 | Shaun Keeling, South African rower |
| 1987 | Augustine Kiprono Choge, Kenyan runner |
| 1987 | Darren Helm, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 1987 | Will Johnson, Canadian footballer |
| 1987 | Dominik Roels, German cyclist |
| 1987 | Maša Zec Peškirič, Slovenian tennis player |
| 1987 | Ikumi Yoshimatsu, Japanese actress |
| 1986 | César Arzo, Spanish footballer |
| 1986 | Edson Barboza, Brazilian mixed martial artist |
| 1986 | João Gomes Júnior, Brazilian swimmer |
| 1986 | Javi López, Spanish footballer |
| 1986 | Gina Mambrú, Dominican Republic volleyball player |
| 1986 | Jonathan Quick, American ice hockey player |
| 1986 | Mike Taylor, American basketball player |
| 1986 | Óscar Vílchez, Peruvian footballer |
| 1986 | Sushant Singh Rajput, Indian actor (d. 2020) |
| 1985 | Artur Beterbiev, Russian boxer |
| 1985 | Aura Dione, Danish singer and songwriter |
| 1985 | Yumi Hara, Japanese voice actress and singer |
| 1985 | Sasha Pivovarova, Russian model and actress |
| 1985 | Rodrigo San Miguel, Spanish basketball player |
| 1985 | Ri Se-gwang, North Korean artistic gymnast |
| 1985 | Dmitri Sokolov, Russian basketball player |
| 1985 | Ryan Suter, American ice hockey player |
| 1984 | Alex Koslov, Moldovan-American wrestler |
| 1983 | Alex Acker, American basketball player |
| 1983 | Svetlana Khodchenkova, Russian actress |
| 1983 | Marieke van den Ham, Dutch water polo player |
| 1983 | Maryse Ouellet, French-Canadian wrestler |
| 1983 | Álvaro Quirós, Spanish golfer |
| 1983 | Francesca Segat, Italian swimmer |
| 1983 | Moritz Volz, German footballer |
| 1983 | Kelly VanderBeek, Canadian alpine skier |
| 1982 | Richard José Blanco, Venezuelan footballer |
| 1982 | Adriano Ferreira Martins, Brazilian footballer |
| 1982 | Nicolas Mahut, French tennis player |
| 1982 | Sarah Ourahmoune, French boxer |
| 1982 | Simon Rolfes, German footballer |
| 1981 | Gillian Chung, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress |
| 1981 | Wu Hanxiong, Chinese fencer |
| 1981 | Dany Heatley, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 1981 | Andy Lee, South Korean singer and actor |
| 1981 | Izabella Miko, Polish actress, dancer, and producer |
| 1981 | Shawn Redhage, American-Australian basketball player |
| 1981 | Michel Teló, Brazilian singer-songwriter |
| 1981 | Jung Ryeo-won, South Korean actress |
| 1981 | David F. Sandberg, Swedish filmmaker |
| 1980 | Karsten Forsterling, Australian rower |
| 1980 | Dave Kitson, English footballer and manager |
| 1980 | Lee Kyung-won, South Korean badminton player |
| 1980 | Kevin McKenna, Canadian soccer player |
| 1980 | Nana Mizuki, Japanese singer-songwriter and voice actress |
| 1980 | Xavier Pons, Spanish rally diver |
| 1980 | Mari Possa, El Salvadoran pornographic actress |
| 1980 | Bratislav Ristić, Serbian footballer |
| 1979 | Quinton Jacobs, Namibian footballer |
| 1979 | Melendi, Spanish singer |
| 1978 | Faris Al-Sultan, German triathlete |
| 1978 | Peter von Allmen, Swiss cross-country skier |
| 1978 | Hernán Rodrigo López, Uruguayan footballer |
| 1978 | Andrei Zyuzin, Russian ice hockey player |
| 1977 | Hussein Abdulghani, Saudi Arabian footballer |
| 1977 | Bradley Carnell, South African footballer |
| 1977 | John DeSantis, Canadian actor |
| 1977 | Kirsten Klose, German hammer thrower |
| 1977 | Denis Lunghi, Italian cyclist |
| 1977 | Ulrike Maisch, German runner |
| 1977 | Phil Neville, English footballer and manager |
| 1977 | Michael Ruffin, American basketball player |
| 1977 | Jerry Trainor, American actor, director, and producer |
| 1976 | Aivaras Abromavičius, Lithuanian-Ukrainian banker and politician; 15th Ukrainian Minister of Economic Development |
| 1976 | Raivis Belohvoščiks, Latvian cyclist |
| 1976 | Emma Bunton, English singer |
| 1976 | Lars Eidinger, German actor |
| 1976 | Giorgio Frezzolini, Italian footballer |
| 1976 | Igors Stepanovs, Latvian footballer |
| 1975 | Nicky Butt, English footballer and coach |
| 1975 | Casey FitzRandolph, American speedskater |
| 1975 | Yuji Ide, Japanese race car driver |
| 1975 | Ito, Spanish footballer and manager |
| 1975 | Willem Korsten, Dutch footballer |
| 1975 | Jason Moran, American jazz pianist, composer and educator |
| 1975 | Florin Șerban, Romanian director |
| 1975 | Alyaksandr Yermakovich, Belarusian footballer and manager |
| 1974 | Malena Alterio, Spanish actress |
| 1974 | Maxwell Atoms, American animator, screenwriter and voice actor |
| 1974 | Kim Dotcom, German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur and political activist |
| 1974 | Arthémon Hatungimana, Burundian middle-distance runner |
| 1974 | Vincent Laresca, American actor |
| 1974 | Ulrich Le Pen, French footballer |
| 1974 | Marco Zanotti, Italian cyclist |
| 1973 | Rob Hayles, English cyclist |
| 1973 | Chris Kilmore, American musician and DJ |
| 1973 | Edvinas Krungolcas, Lithuanian modern pentathlete |
| 1973 | Flavio Maestri, Peruvian footballer |
| 1972 | Billel Dziri, Algerian footballer and manager |
| 1972 | Rick Falkvinge, Swedish businessman and politician |
| 1972 | Sead Kapetanović, Bosnian footballer |
| 1972 | Yasunori Mitsuda, Japanese composer and producer |
| 1972 | Cat Power, American singer, musician and actress |
| 1972 | Shawn Rojeski, American curler |
| 1972 | Sabina Valbusa, Italian cross-country skier |
| 1971 | Uni Arge, Faroese footballer and entertainer |
| 1971 | Rafael Berges, Spanish footballer |
| 1971 | Doug Edwards, American basketball player |
| 1971 | Dmitri Khlestov, Russian footballer |
| 1971 | Dylan Kussman, American actor |
| 1971 | Sergey Klevchenya, Russian speed skater |
| 1971 | Doug Weight, American ice hockey player and coach |
| 1970 | Alen Bokšić, former Croatian footballer |
| 1970 | Marina Foïs, French actress |
| 1970 | Ken Leung, American actor |
| 1970 | Oren Peli, Israeli-American director, producer and screenwriter |
| 1969 | John Ducey, American actor |
| 1969 | Eduard Hämäläinen, Finnish-Belarusian decathlete |
| 1969 | Karina Lombard, French-American actress and singer |
| 1969 | Tsubaki Nekoi, Japanese comic artist |
| 1968 | Dmitry Fomin, Soviet and Russian volleyball player |
| 1968 | Ilya Smirin, Israeli chess Grandmaster |
| 1968 | Artur Dmitriev, Soviet and Russian ice skater |
| 1968 | Sébastien Lifshitz, French director |
| 1968 | Charlotte Ross, American actress |
| 1967 | Artashes Minasian, Armenian chess player |
| 1967 | Alfred Jermaniš, Slovenian footballer |
| 1967 | Gorō Miyazaki, Japanese film director and landscaper |
| 1965 | Robert Del Naja, British artist, musician and singer |
| 1965 | Jam Master Jay, American DJ, rapper, and producer (d. 2002) |
| 1965 | Masahiro Wada, Japanese footballer |
| 1964 | Andreas Bauer, German ski jumper |
| 1964 | Tony Dolan, English musician and actor |
| 1964 | Gérald Passi, French footballer |
| 1964 | Ricardo Serna, Spanish footballer |
| 1964 | Aleksandar Šoštar, Serbian water polo player |
| 1964 | Danny Wallace, English footballer |
| 1963 | Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian-American basketball player |
| 1963 | Detlef Schrempf, German basketball player and coach |
| 1962 | Tyler Cowen, American economist and academic |
| 1962 | Isabelle Nanty, French actress, director and screenwriter |
| 1962 | Gabriele Pin, Italian footballer and coach |
| 1962 | Zoran Thaler, Slovenian politician |
| 1962 | Erik Verlinde, Dutch theoretical physicist |
| 1962 | Marie Trintignant, French actress (d. 2003) |
| 1961 | Kevin Cramer, American politician |
| 1961 | Cornelia Pröll, Austrian alpine skier |
| 1961 | Ivo Pukanić Croatian journalist (d. 2008) |
| 1961 | Gary Shaw, English footballer |
| 1961 | Piotr Ugrumov, Russian cyclist |
| 1960 | Sidney Lowe, American basketball player |
| 1960 | Mike Terrana, American hard rock and heavy metal drummer |
| 1959 | Sergei Alifirenko, Russian pistol shooter |
| 1959 | Alex McLeish, Scottish footballer and manager |
| 1958 | Matt Salmon, American politician |
| 1958 | Hussein Saeed, Iraqi footballer |
| 1958 | Sergei Walter, Ukrainian politician (d. 2015) |
| 1958 | Michael Wincott, Canadian actor |
| 1956 | Robby Benson, American actor and director |
| 1956 | Geena Davis, American actress and producer |
| 1955 | Peter Fleming, American tennis player |
| 1955 | Jeff Koons, American painter and sculptor |
| 1955 | Nello Musumeci, Italian politician and President of Sicily |
| 1954 | Thomas de Maizière, German politician of the Christian Democratic Union |
| 1954 | Idrissa Ouedraogo, Burkinabé director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2018) |
| 1954 | Phil Thompson, English footballer and coach |
| 1953 | Paul Allen, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Microsoft (d. 2018) |
| 1953 | Felipe Yáñez, Spanish cyclist |
| 1952 | Marco Camenisch, Swiss activist and murderer |
| 1952 | Werner Grissmann, Austrian alpine skier |
| 1952 | Mikhail Umansky, Russian chess player (d. 2010) |
| 1951 | Eric Holder, American lawyer, judge, and politician, 82nd United States Attorney General |
| 1950 | Marion Becker, German javelin thrower |
| 1950 | Gary Locke, American politician and diplomat, 36th United States Secretary of Commerce |
| 1950 | José Marín, Spanish racewalker |
| 1950 | Billy Ocean, Trinidadian-English singer-songwriter |
| 1950 | Agnes van Ardenne, Dutch politician and diplomat, Dutch Minister for Development Cooperation |
| 1949 | Trương Tấn Sang, Vietnamese politician and 7th President of Vietnam |
| 1949 | Clifford Ray, American basketball coach and player |
| 1948 | Zygmunt Kukla, Polish footballer (d. 2016) |
| 1948 | Hugo Tocalli, Argentine footballer |
| 1947 | Jill Eikenberry, American actress |
| 1947 | Andrzej Bachleda, Polish former alpine skier |
| 1947 | Dorian M. Goldfeld, American mathematician |
| 1947 | Pye Hastings, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 1947 | Michel Jonasz, French singer-songwriter and actor |
| 1947 | Joseph Nicolosi, American clinical psychologist (d. 2017) |
| 1947 | Giuseppe Savoldi, Italian footballer |
| 1947 | Roberto Zywica, Argentine footballer |
| 1946 | Ichiro Hosotani, Japanese footballer |
| 1946 | Nella Martinetti, Swiss singer (d. 2011) |
| 1946 | Tomás Pineda, El Salvadoran footballer |
| 1946 | Miguel Reina, Spanish footballer |
| 1945 | Pete Kircher, English drummer |
| 1945 | Martin Shaw, English actor and producer |
| 1944 | Uto Ughi, Italian violinist |
| 1943 | Zdravko Hebel, Croatian water polo player (d. 2017) |
| 1943 | Arnar Jónsson, Icelandic actor |
| 1943 | Alfons Peeters, Belgian footballer (d. 2015) |
| 1943 | Kenzo Yokoyama, Japanese footballer |
| 1942 | Freddy Breck, German singer, producer, and news anchor (d. 2008) |
| 1942 | Eugène Camara, Prime Minister of Guinea (d. 2019) |
| 1942 | Han Pil-hwa, North Korean speed skater |
| 1942 | Mac Davis, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 2020) |
| 1942 | Edwin Starr, American singer-songwriter (d. 2003) |
| 1942 | Michael G. Wilson, American producer and screenwriter |
| 1941 | Sattam bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (d. 2013) |
| 1941 | Plácido Domingo, Spanish tenor and conductor |
| 1941 | Richie Havens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013) |
| 1941 | Mike Medavoy, Chinese-born American film producer, co-founded Orion Pictures |
| 1941 | Ivan Putski, Polish-American wrestler and bodybuilder |
| 1941 | Elaine Showalter, American author and critic |
| 1940 | Jack Nicklaus, American golfer and sportscaster |
| 1940 | Patrick Robinson, British novelist |
| 1939 | Paul Genevay, French sprinter |
| 1939 | Friedel Lutz, German footballer |
| 1939 | Steve Paxton, American dancer and choreographer |
| 1939 | Viacheslav Platonov, Russian volleyball player and coach (d. 2005) |
| 1938 | Romano Fogli, Italian footballer |
| 1937 | Judit Ágoston-Mendelényi, Hungarian fencer (d. 2013) |
| 1937 | Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria, the youngest son of Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria |
| 1936 | Dick Davies, American basketball player (d. 2012) |
| 1934 | Audrey Dalton, Irish actress |
| 1934 | Antonio Karmany, Spanish cyclist |
| 1934 | Alfonso Portugal, Mexican footballer (d. 2016) |
| 1934 | Ann Wedgeworth, American actress (d. 2017) |
| 1933 | Habib Thiam, Senegalese politician (d. 2017) |
| 1933 | Tony Marchi, English footballer (d. 2022) |
| 1931 | Yoshiko Kuga, Japanese actress |
| 1930 | Mainza Chona, Zambian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Zambia (d. 2001) |
| 1929 | Radley Metzger, American filmmaker (d. 2017) |
| 1928 | Gene Sharp, American political scientist and academic, founded the Albert Einstein Institution (d. 2018) |
| 1928 | Reynaldo Bignone, Argentinian general and politician, 41st President of Argentina (d. 2018) |
| 1927 | Rudolf Kraus, German footballer (d. 2003) |
| 1926 | Clive Donner, British director (d. 2010) |
| 1926 | Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer (d. 1980) |
| 1926 | Steve Reeves, American bodybuilder and actor (d. 2000) |
| 1926 | Roger Taillibert, French architect (d. 2019) |
| 1926 | Robert J. White, American neurosurgeon (d. 2010) |
| 1925 | Charles Aidman, American actor (d. 1993) |
| 1925 | Alex Forbes, Scottish footballer (d. 2014) |
| 1925 | Eva Ibbotson, Austrian-English author (d. 2010) |
| 1925 | Arnold Skaaland, American wrestler and manager (d. 2007) |
| 1924 | Shafiga Akhundova, Azerbaijani Composer, first professional female author of an opera in the East (d. 2013) |
| 1924 | Benny Hill, English actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1992) |
| 1923 | Lola Flores, Spanish singer, dancer, and actress (d. 1995) |
| 1923 | Alberto de Mendoza, Argentine actor (d. 2011) |
| 1923 | Pahiño, Spanish footballer (d. 2012) |
| 1922 | Lincoln Alexander, Canadian lawyer and politician, 23rd Canadian Minister of Labour (d. 2012) |
| 1922 | Telly Savalas, American actor (d. 1994) |
| 1922 | Paul Scofield, English actor (d. 2008) |
| 1922 | Predrag Vranicki, Croatian Marxist humanist (d. 2002) |
| 1920 | Errol Barrow, first Prime Minister of Barbados (d. 1987) |
| 1919 | Eric Brown, Scottish-English captain and pilot (d. 2016) |
| 1918 | Jimmy Hagan, English footballer (d. 1998) |
| 1918 | Richard Winters, American soldier (d. 2011) |
| 1918 | Antonio Janigro, Italian cellist and conductor (d. 1989) |
| 1917 | Erling Persson, H&M founder (d. 2002) |
| 1916 | Pietro Rava, Italian footballer (d. 2006) |
| 1916 | Zypora Spaisman, Polish midwife; American and Yiddish-language actress; producer of the Yiddish stage (d. 2002) |
| 1915 | André Lichnerowicz, French mathematician (d. 1998) |
| 1915 | Orazio Mariani, Italian sprinter (d. 1981) |
| 1912 | Konrad Emil Bloch, German-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000) |
| 1911 | Dick Garrard, Australian wrestler (d. 2003) |
| 1911 | Lee Yoo-hyung, Korean footballer and manager (d. 2003) |
| 1910 | Hideo Shinojima, Japanese footballer (d. 1975) |
| 1910 | Albert Rosellini, American lawyer and politician, 15th Governor of Washington (d. 2011) |
| 1910 | Rosa Kellner, German athlete (d. 1984) |
| 1910 | Károly Takács, Hungarian shooter (d. 1976) |
| 1909 | Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer and conductor (d. 2004) |
| 1909 | Teofilo Spasojević, Serbian footballer (d. 1970) |
| 1907 | Carlo Cavagnoli, Italian boxer (d. 1991) |
| 1906 | Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (d. 2007) |
| 1905 | Christian Dior, French fashion designer, founded Christian Dior S.A. (d. 1957) |
| 1905 | Karl Wallenda, German-American acrobat and tightrope walker, founded The Flying Wallendas (d. 1978) |
| 1904 | Puck van Heel, Dutch footballer (d. 1984) |
| 1904 | John Porter, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1997) |
| 1903 | William Lyon, American film editor (d. 1974) |
| 1903 | Raymond Suvigny, French weightlifter (d. 1945) |
| 1901 | Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer and manager (d. 1978) |
| 1900 | Elof Ahrle, Swedish actor and director (d. 1965) |
| 1900 | Anselm Franz, Austrian engineer (d. 1994) |
| 1900 | Fernando Quiroga Palacios, Spanish Cardinal (d. 1971) |
| 1899 | John Bodkin Adams, British general practitioner and convict (d. 1983) |
| 1899 | Gyula Mándi, Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 1969) |
| 1899 | Alexander Tcherepnin, Russian-American pianist and composer (d. 1977) |
| 1898 | Rudolph Maté, Polish-Hungarian-American cinematographer, producer and director (d. 1964) |
| 1898 | Ahmad Shah Qajar, Shah of Persia (d. 1930) |
| 1898 | Eduard Zintl, German chemist (d. 1941) |
| 1897 | René Iché, French sculptor (d. 1954) |
| 1896 | Guy Gilpatric, American pilot and journalist (d. 1950) |
| 1896 | Paula Hitler, younger sister of Adolf Hitler (d. 1960) |
| 1896 | J. Carrol Naish, American actor (d. 1973) |
| 1896 | Masa Perttilä, Finnish wrestler (d. 1968) |
| 1895 | Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer, founded Balenciaga (d. 1972) |
| 1895 | Daniel Chalonge, French astrophysicist and astronomer (d. 1977) |
| 1895 | Noe Itō, Japanese anarchist, author and feminist (d. 1923) |
| 1891 | Albert Battel, German Army lieutenant and lawyer (d. 1952) |
| 1891 | Francisco Lázaro, Portuguese marathon runner (d. 1912) |
| 1889 | Pitirim Sorokin, American sociologist and political activist (d. 1968) |
| 1889 | Edith Tolkien, wife and muse of J. R. R. Tolkien (d. 1971) |
| 1887 | Wolfgang Köhler, German psychologist and phenomenologist (d. 1967) |
| 1887 | Ernest Holmes, American New Thought writer (d. 1960) |
| 1887 | Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1926) |
| 1886 | John M. Stahl, American director and producer (d. 1950) |
| 1885 | Duncan Grant, British painter and designer (d. 1978) |
| 1885 | Umberto Nobile, Italian engineer and explorer (d. 1978) |
| 1885 | Harold A. Wilson, English runner (d. 1932) |
| 1883 | Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet and educator (d. 1929) |
| 1883 | Mathias Hynes, British tug of war competitor (d. 1926) |
| 1882 | Pavel Florensky, Russian mathematician and theologian (d. 1937) |
| 1882 | Francis Gailey, Australian-American swimmer (d. 1972) |
| 1881 | Ernst Fast, Swedish runner (d. 1959) |
| 1881 | André Godard, French archaeologist, architect and historian (d. 1965) |
| 1881 | Ivan Ribar, Yugoslav politician (d. 1968) |
| 1880 | George Van Biesbroeck, Belgian–American astronomer (d. 1974) |
| 1878 | Vahan Tekeyan, Armenian poet and activist (d. 1948) |
| 1877 | Baldassarre Negroni, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1948) |
| 1875 | Paul E. Kahle, German orientalist (d. 1964) |
| 1874 | René-Louis Baire, French mathematician (d. 1932) |
| 1873 | Arturo Labriola, Italian revolutionary syndicalist (d. 1959) |
| 1871 | Olga Preobrajenska, Russian ballerina (d. 1962) |
| 1869 | Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic (d. 1916) |
| 1868 | Felix Hoffmann, German chemist (d. 1946) |
| 1867 | Ludwig Thoma, German paramedic and author (d. 1921) |
| 1867 | Maxime Weygand, Belgian-French general (d. 1965) |
| 1865 | Heinrich Albers-Schonberg, German gynecologist and radiologist (d. 1921) |
| 1864 | Israel Zangwill, British author (d. 1926) |
| 1860 | Karl Staaff, Swedish lawyer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1915) |
| 1855 | Princess Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, the youngest daughter of King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (d. 1874) |
| 1854 | Karl Julius Beloch, German classical and economic historian (d. 1929) |
| 1854 | Eusapia Palladino, Italian spiritualist (d. 1918) |
| 1851 | Giuseppe Allamano, Italian Roman Catholic priest (d. 1926) |
| 1848 | Henri Duparc, French soldier and composer (d. 1933) |
| 1847 | Joseph Achille Le Bel, French chemist (d. 1930) |
| 1846 | Pieter Hendrik Schoute, Dutch mathematician and academic (d. 1923) |
| 1846 | Albert Lavignac, French music scholar (d. 1916) |
| 1845 | Harriet Backer, Norwegian painter (d. 1932) |
| 1843 | Émile Levassor, French engineer (d. 1897) |
| 1841 | Édouard Schuré, French philosopher and author (d. 1929) |
| 1840 | Sophia Jex-Blake, English physician and feminist (d. 1912) |
| 1839 | Caterina Volpicelli, Italian Roman Catholic nun (d. 1894) |
| 1829 | Oscar II of Sweden (d. 1907) |
| 1827 | Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1900) |
| 1824 | Stonewall Jackson, American general (d. 1863) |
| 1820 | Joseph Wolf, German ornithologist and illustrator (d. 1899) |
| 1820 | Egide Walschaerts, Belgian mechanical engineer (d. 1901) |
| 1815 | Horace Wells, American dentist (d. 1848) |
| 1814 | Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, German bibliographer and historian (d. 1885) |
| 1813 | John C. Frémont, American general, explorer, and politician, 5th Territorial Governor of Arizona (d. 1890) |
| 1813 | Giuseppe Montanelli, Italian statesman and author (d. 1862) |
| 1811 | James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn, British statesman (d. 1885) |
| 1810 | Pierre Louis Charles de Failly, French general (d. 1892) |
| 1808 | Juan Crisóstomo Torrico, 16th President of Peru (d. 1875) |
| 1804 | Moritz von Schwind, Austrian painter (d. 1871) |
| 1801 | John Batman, Australian entrepreneur and explorer (d. 1839) |
| 1800 | Theodor Fliedner, German Lutheran minister (d. 1864) |
| 1797 | Joseph Méry, French author and journalist (d. 1866) |
| 1796 | Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel, consort of George, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1880) |
| 1788 | William Henry Smyth, Royal Navy officer, hydrographer, astronomer and numismatist |
| 1784 | Peter De Wint, English painter (d. 1849) |
| 1775 | Manuel Garcia, Spanish opera singer and composer (d. 1832) |
| 1763 | Augustin Robespierre, younger brother of French Revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre (d. 1794) |
| 1741 | Chaim of Volozhin, Orthodox rabbi (d. 1821) |
| 1738 | Ethan Allen, American general (d. 1789) |
| 1732 | Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, son of Karl Alexander, Duke of Württemberg, and Princess Maria Augusta of Thurn and Taxis (d. 1797) |
| 1721 | James Murray, Scottish-English general and politician, Governor of Minorca (d. 1794) |
| 1717 | Antonio María de Bucareli y Ursúa, Spanish military officer and governor of Cuba (d. 1779) |
| 1714 | Anna Morandi Manzolini, Spanish anatomist (d. 1774) |
| 1675 | Duchess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg, Margravine of Baden-Baden (d. 1733) |
| 1659 | Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch painter (d. 1722) |
| 1655 | Antonio Molinari, Italian painter (d. 1704) |
| 1636 | Melchiorre Cafà, Maltese Baroque sculptor (baptised; |
| 1612 | Henry Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz, count of Nassau-Dietz (d. 1640) |
| 1598 | Matsudaira Tadamasa, Japanese samurai and daimyō (d. 1645) |
| 1493 | Giovanni Poggio, Italian cardinal and diplomat (d. 1556) |
| 1338 | Charles V of France (d. 1380) |
| 1277 | Galeazzo I Visconti, lord of Milan |
| 1264 | Alexander, Prince of Scotland (d. 1284) |
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