- 1876 Charles Halton, British stage actor (Dr Cyclops, Tugboat Annie Sails Again), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1959)
- 1878 Henry B Walthall, American actor (The Birth of a Nation, Klondike), born in Shelby City, Alabama (d. 1936)
- 1884 Harrison Ford, American silent screen actor (Rubber Tires, Vanity Fair, Love In High Gear), born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 1957)
- 1885 Sydney Chaplin [Hawkes], British actor, half brother and manager of Charlie Chaplin, born in London, England (d. 1965)
- 1890 Solomon Mikhoels, Soviet actor and chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (d. 1948)
- 1893 Isobel Elsom, British actress (My Fair Lady, Love From a Stranger), born in Cambridge, England (d. 1981)
- 1897 Conrad Nagel, American actor (All That Heaven Allows, Celebrity Time), born in Keokuk, Iowa (d. 1970)
- 1901 Edward Pawley, American actor (Angels with Dirty Faces), born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 1988)
- 1903 Morgan Conway, American actor (Dick Tracy, Brother Orchid), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1981)
- 1904 Clive Morton, British actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Moonraker), born in London, England (d. 1975)
- 1905 Elisabeth Flickenschildt, German actress, born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1977)
- 1906 Henny Youngman, American comedian and violinist ("Take my wife ... please"), born in London, England (d. 1998)
- 1908 Robert Rossen, American film director and screenwriter (The Hustler, All the King's Men, Mambo), born in New York City (d. 1966)
- 1910 Norman Wooland, British character actor (Ivanhoe, Quo Vadis, Hamlet), born in Düsseldorf, Germany (d. 1989)
- 1916 Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (All the King's Men, The Exorcist, Giant), born in Joliet, Illinois (d. 2004)
- 1920 John Addison, British Academy and BAFTA Award-winning film score composer (Tom Jones; A Bridge Too Far; Centennial), born in Surrey, England (d. 1998)
- 1920 Reginald "Leo" McKern, Australian actor (Blue Lagoon, Help, Mouse that Roared), born in Sydney, New South Wales (d. 2002)
- 1925 Cornell Borchers, German actress (The Big Lift, Floodtide, Istanbul), born in Šilutė, Lithuania (d. 2014)
Jerry Lewis (1926-2017)
American comedian (Martin and Lewis, MDA Telethon), born in Newark, New Jersey
- 1927 Karlheinz Boehm, Austrian actor (Face of Fear, Peeping Tom, Unnatural), born in Darmstadt, Germany (d. 2014)
- 1927 Olga San Juan, American actress, dancer and comedian (Variety Girl, 1 Touch of Venus), born in New York City (d. 2009)
- 1929 Nadja Tiller, Austrian actress (Ich suche Dich, Rosemary), and beauty queen (Miss Austria, 1949), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2023)
- 1940 Chuck Woolery, Ky, TV game show host (Love Connection)
Bernardo Bertolucci (1941-2018)
Italian director (Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor), born in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
- 1943 Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (d. 2005)
- 1949 Erik Estrada, actor (CHiPs), born in New York City
- 1949 Victor Garber, actor (Days & Nights of Molly Dodd), born in Montreal, Quebec
- 1951 Kate Nelligan, actress (Bethune, Eye of the Needle), born in London, Ontario
- 1952 Graham Cole [Graham Coleman-Smith], English actor (The Bill), born in London, England
- 1953 Isabelle Huppert, French actress (The Piano Teacher), born in Paris
- 1954 Jimmy Nail [Bradford], English actor and television producer, screenwriter (Evita; Spender; Howling II), and singer-songwriter ("Ain't No Doubt"; "Crocodile Shoes"), born in Newcastle upon Tyne
- 1955 Bruno Barreto, Brazilian film director
Flavor Flav (65 years old)
1959 American rapper (Public Enemy) and reality TV star (The Surreal Life), born in Roosevelt, Long Island, New York
- 1960 Jenny Eclair [Hargreaves], British comedienne, author and actress (Grumpy Old Women, Loose Women), born in Kuala Lumpur, Federation of Malaya
- 1963 Eiji Aonuma, Japanese video game designer and producer of the Legend of Zelda franchise, born in Nagano Prefecture, Japan
Kevin Smith (1963-2002)
New Zealand actor (Ares-Hercules), born in Auckland, New Zealand
- 1964 Gore Verbinski, American movie director (Pirates of the Caribbean films; Rango), born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee
- 1965 Belén Rueda, Spanish actress
- 1967 Lauren Graham, American actress and author (Gilmore Girls, Parenthood), born in Honolulu, Hawaii
- 1968 Ananya Khare, Indian actress and teacher
- 1969 Judah Friedlander, American comedian and actor (30 Rock - "Frank"; American Splendor), born in Gaithersburg, Maryland
- 1971 Alan Tudyk, American actor (Firefly; Suburgatory), born in El Paso, Texas
- 1975 Sienna Guillory, English actress (Jill Valentine-Resident Evil), born in Kettering, England
- 1976 Nick Spano, American actor
- 1976 Paul Schneider, American actor
- 1978 Brooke Burns, American actress
- 1981 Alma Pöysti, Finnish actress (Fallen Leaves), born in Helsinki, Finland
- 1985 Nicole Trunfio, Australian supermodel, born in Merredin, Australia
- 1986 Alexandra Daddario, American actress (Percy Jackson films; White Lotus; Mayfair Witches), born in New York City
- 1986 Ken Doane, American professional wrestler
- 1987 Tiiu Kuik, Estonian model
- 1991 Wolfgang Van Halen, American rock bassist son of guitarist Eddie Van Halen and actress Valerie Bertinelli, born in Santa Monica, California
- 1992 Diego Calva, Mexican actor (Babylon), born in Mexico City
- 1994 Sierra McClain, American actress (Sierra James-Daddy's Little Girls), born in Decatur, Georgia
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