1958 Ellen DeGeneres - comedian, actress
1958 Grandmaster Flash, rapper
1945 Jacky Ickx - Formula One racer
1943 Don Novello - actor, comedian
1942 Country Joe McDonald - singer (Country Joe & the Fish)
1940 Frank Langella - actor
1940 Michael Blodgett
- actor; married to actress Meredith Baxter
1935 Bernard Kliban - cartoonist
1925 Valentina Cortese - actress
1923 Milt Jackson, musician (vibrophones)
1921 Rocky Graziano - boxing champ
1919 J.D. Salinger
- author (The Catcher in the Rye)
1909 Barry Goldwater - US Senator, presidential candidate
1909 Dana Andrews - actor
1900 Xavier Cugat - violinist, composer, bandleader
1895 J. Edgar Hoover - FBI chief (1924-1972)
1879 E.M. Forster - author (A Passage to India, A Room With A View)
1752 Betsy Ross - seamstress
1735 Paul Revere - silversmith, American patriot