1966 - Jeff Healey (musician; guitar, singer, songwriter; died March 2, 2008)
1958 - James McDaniel (American stage, film, television Emmy-winning actor; NYPD Blue)
1955 - John 'Charles' McDermott (Scottish-Canadian tenor with Irish roots; Danny Boy, Loch Lomond)
1949 - Jean Potvin (Was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman, eleven seasons, NHL, older brother of Denis Potvin, cousin of Marc Potvin; died March 15, 2022)
1947 - Elton John 'Reginald Kenneth Dwight' (musician, singer, songwriter; Your Song, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Bennie & The Jets, Daniel, Philadelphia Freedom; actor; Tommy; established the Elton John Aids Foundation)
1943 - Paul Michael Glaser (actor; Starsky & Hutch; director)
1942 - Aretha Franklin (Grammy Award-winning singer; Respect, Baby I Love You, Natural Woman; first woman inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; actress; The Blues Brothers; died August 16, 2018)
1938 - Hoyt Axton (singer, musician, songwriter; Joy to the World, Never Been to Spain; actor; Gremlins, The Civil War, Kingfish A Story of Huey P. Long; died October 26, 1999)
1934 - Gloria Steinem (American journalist, publisher, social-political activist who emerged in the United States late 1960s and early 1970s)
1934 - Johnny Burnette (singer; Dreamin', You're Sixteen; brother of singer Dorsey Burnette; killed in boating accident August 14, 1964)
1928 - James A. Lovell Jr. (astronaut; first to complete 4 spaceflights, first to make 2 flights to the Moon; commander of Apollo 13 planned lunar landing aborted after an explosion on Apollo service module)
1918 - Howard Cosell 'Cohen' (TV sports commentator; died April 23, 1995)