All Births

• Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright, and director (died 1936) · 1898
  
• William Boyd, American actor and producer (died 1972) · 1895
  
• William Roberts, English soldier and painter (died 1980) · 1895
  
• Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian-English publisher and academic (died 1976) · 1894
  
• Jaan Kikkas, Estonian weightlifter (died 1944) · 1892
  
• Ralph Benatzky, Czech-Swiss composer (died 1957) · 1884
  
• Ivy Compton-Burnett, English author (died 1969) · 1884
  
• Frederick Lorz, American runner (died 1914) · 1884
  
• John Maynard Keynes, English economist, philosopher, and academic (died 1946) · 1883
  
• Mary Helen Young, Scottish nurse and resistance fighter during World War II (died 1945) · 1883
  
• Robert Mayer, German-English businessman and philanthropist (died 1985) · 1879
• Pancho Villa, Mexican general and politician, Governor of Chihuahua (died 1923) · 1878
  
• Willard Miller, Canadian-American sailor, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1959) · 1877
  
• Isaac Heinemann, German-Israeli scholar and academic (died 1957) · 1876
  
• Bernard de Pourtalès, Swiss captain and sailor (died 1935) · 1870
  
• James Connolly, Scottish-born Irish rebel leader (died 1916) · 1868
  
• Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist and optician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1930) · 1862
  
• Pat Garrett, American sheriff (died 1908) · 1850
  
• Carmine Crocco, Italian soldier (died 1905) · 1830
  
• John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer (died 1892) · 1819
  
• William Scamp, English architect and engineer (died 1872) · 1801
• Christian Lobeck, German scholar and academic (died 1860) · 1781
  
• Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover (died 1851) · 1771
  
• Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist (died 1852) · 1760
  
• Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist and philosopher (died 1808) · 1757
  
• Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (died 1744) · 1660
  
• Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician and philosopher (died 1684) · 1646
  
• Pu Songling, Chinese author (died 1715) · 1640
• Peter Wtewael, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1660) · 1596
  
• Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, English colonial administrator and admiral (died 1658) · 1587
  
• Benedetto Giustiniani, Italian clergyman (died 1621) · 1554
  
• Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (died 1573) · 1523
  
• Justus Jonas, German priest and academic (died 1555) · 1493
  
• Ludovico III Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua, Italian ruler (died 1478) · 1412
  
• Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of King Edward III of England and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (died 1402) · 1341