All Births

• León de Greiff, Colombian poet, journalist, and diplomat (died 1976) · 1895
• Jesse Haines, American baseball player and coach (died 1978) · 1893
  
• Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist and author (died 1990) · 1893
  
• Jack MacBryan, English cricketer and field hockey player (died 1983) · 1892
  
• Rose Kennedy, American philanthropist and Kennedy family matriarch (died 1995) · 1890
  
• James Whale, English director (died 1957) · 1889
  
• Kirk Bryan, American geologist and academic (died 1950) · 1888
• Selman Waksman, Jewish-American biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1973) · 1888
  
• Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975) · 1887
  
• Hella Wuolijoki, Estonian-Finnish author (died 1954) · 1886
  
• Odell Shepard, American poet and politician, 66th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (died 1967) · 1884
  
• Edward Hopper, American painter and etcher (died 1967) · 1882
  
• Augusta Fox Bronner, American psychologist, specialist in juvenile psychology (died 1966) · 1881
  
• Janusz Korczak, Polish pediatrician and author (died 1942) · 1878
  
• Alec Hearne, English cricketer (died 1952) · 1863
  
• Cosmo Duff-Gordon, Scottish fencer (died 1931) · 1862
  
• Jack Glasscock, American baseball player (died 1947) · 1857
  
• Octave Hamelin, French philosopher (died 1907) · 1856
• Emma Lazarus, American poet and educator (died 1887) · 1849
  
• Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (died 1914) · 1848
  
• William Archibald Spooner, English priest and scholar (died 1930) · 1844
  
• Jakob Hurt, Estonian theologist and linguist (died 1907) · 1839
  
• Oliver Mowat, Canadian politician, 3rd Premier of Ontario, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (died 1903) · 1820
  
• Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (died 1846) · 1784
  
• Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician and engineer (died 1839) · 1755
  
• Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and historian (died 1790) · 1733
  
• Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect, designed the Panthéon (died 1780) · 1713
  
• Georg Wilhelm Richmann, German-Russian physicist and academic (died 1753) · 1711
  
• Ferdinand Tobias Richter, Austrian organist and composer (died 1711) · 1651
• Margaret Mary Alacoque, French nun, mystic and saint (died 1690) · 1647
  
• Madame de Brinvilliers, French aristocrat (died 1676) · 1630
  
• Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (died 1683) · 1621
  
• Johan Nieuhof, Dutch traveler (died 1672) · 1618
  
• Marguerite of Lorraine, princess of Lorraine, duchess of Orléans (died 1672) · 1615
  
• Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian priest and saint (died 1619) · 1559
  
• Anthony Browne, Sheriff of Surrey and Kent (died 1592) · 1552
  
• Mary Wriothesley, Countess of Southampton, Lady of English peer and others (died 1607) · 1552
  
• Katarina Stenbock, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (died 1621) · 1535
  
• Leonhard Thurneysser, scholar at the court of the Elector of Brandenburg (died 1595) · 1531
  
• Philip I of Castile (died 1506) · 1478
  
• Zhu Youyuan, Ming Dynasty politician (died 1519) · 1476
  
• John Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton, English Baron (died 1498) · 1437
  
• Joan of England, Queen of Scotland (died 1238) · 1210