1825 – Benjamin J. Hill, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in McMinnville, Tennessee (d. 1880)
1875 – Max d’Ollone, French composer and writer (Le Ménestrel), born in Besançon, France (d. 1959)
1892 – Richard M. Jones, American jazz pianist, accompanist, songwriter (“Trouble In Mind”), record producer (Louis Armstrong) and label manager (Okeh; Decca;Mercuty), born in Donaldsonville, Louisiana (d. 1945)
1931 – Irvin D. Yalom, American psychotherapist and Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, born in Washington, D.C.
1941 – Esther Ofarim, Israeli pop singer (“T’en vas pas”; “Cinderella Rockerfella”), born in Safed, British Palestine
1942 – James Carr, American singer (“To Love Somebody”), born in Como, Mississippi (d. 2001)
1947 – Harold Danko, American jazz pianist (Woody Herman’s Thundering Herd), and educator (Eastman School), born in Ohio
1951 – Stellan Skarsgård, Swedish actor (Breaking the Waves), born in Gothenburg, Sweden
1954 – Andrzej Lepper, Polish politician (Deputy Prime Minister of Poland), born in Stowięcino, Poland (d. 2011)
1974 – Steve-O, American television personality