1756 – Wojciech Żywny, Polish pianist, composer, and Chopin’s first piano teacher, born in Mšeno, Bohemia (d. 1842)
1856 – Peter Henry Emerson, 1st to promote photography as an independent art
1857 – Ronald Ross, British pathologist (Nobel Prize 1902), born in Almora, North-Western Provinces, British India (d. 1932)
1859 – August Enna, Danish composer (The Witch), (d. 1939)
1912 – Gil Evans, Canadian-American jazz pianist, composer and arranger (Miles Davis; Absolute Beginners, Out of the Cool), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 1988)
1933 – Stig Gustav Schonberg, composer
1940 – Richard Brooks, singer (Impressions)
1966 – Darius Rucker, American singer (Hootie and the Blowfish), born in Charleston, South Carolina
1974 – Brian Geraghty, American actor
1978 – Barry Zito, American baseball player