1753 – Giovanni Battista Viotti, Italian violonist and composer, born in Fontanetto Po, Savoia, Kingdom of Sardinia (d. 1824)
1921 – (Otis W.) “Joe” Maphis, American session and country music guitarist (“Dim Lights”), born in Suffolk, Virginia (d. 1986)
1922 – Barend Busnac, Dutch office clerk and resistance fighter, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1944)
1923 – Ewart Abner, American record company executive (President of Motown, manager of Stevie Wonder), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1997)
1924 – Tony Hancock, English comedian and actor (Hancock’s Half Hour), born in Birmingham, England (d. 1968)
1935 – Gary Peacock, American jazz bassist (Keith Jarrett Trio), born in Burley, Idaho (d. 2020)
1942 – Barry Longyear, American sci-fi author (City of Baraboo), born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
1961 – Thomas Dooley, American soccer midfielder (81 caps; FC Homburg, 1. FC Kaiserslautern), born in Bechhofen, Germany
1963 – Vanessa Williams, American actress (Soul Food, Murder One, Melrose Place – “Rhonda Blair”;), born in Brooklyn, New York [not Miss America]
1969 – Kim Fields Freeman, American actress (The Facts of Life – “Tootie”), born in Los Angeles, California