938 – Romanos II, Byzantine emperor (d. 963)
1835 – Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (318 Dance)
1838 – Alice Cunningham Fletcher, ethnologist (Stranger in Her Native Land)
1910 – An Rutgers van der Loeff-Basenau, children book writer (Skating Race)
1932 – Arif Melikov, Turkish-American music producer (Queen, Bee Gees, Aretha Franklin, Phil Collins), born in Istanbul, Turkey (d. 2006)
1943 – Sly Stone, Dallas, funk musician (Sly and the Family Stone-Everyday People), born in Denton, Texas
1959 – Eliot Teltscher, California, tennis player (US Davis Cup team)
1963 – Bret Michaels, guitarist (Poison-Talk Dirty to Me), born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
1972 – Steve Danielson, field hockey defender (Olympics 1996), born in Honolulu, Hawaii
1985 – Antti Autti, Finnish snowboarder (Gold 2005 Winter X Games), born in Finland