1686 – Nicola Antonio Porpora, Italian composer and singing teacher, born in Naples (d. 1768)
1828 – Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist (d. 1897)
1856 – Vernon Lee [Violet Paget], British author (Satan the master), born in Boulogne, France (d. 1935)
1918 – Ike Quebec, American jazz tenor saxophone player, and pianist, born in Newark. New Jersey (d. 1963)
1926 – Jiang Zemin, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (1989-2002) and President of the People’s Republic of China (1993-2003), born in Yangzhou, Jiangsu (d. 2022)
1942 – John Tyrrell, British musicologist (Leoš Janáček; The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians), born in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) (d. 2018)
1944 – Larry Ellison, American businessman (billionaire founder of Oracle Corporation), born in Manhattan, New York
1952 – Guillermo Vilas, Argentine tennis player (4-time Grand Slam winner), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
1952 – Mario Theissen, German F1 team principal (BMW Sauber)
1955 – Colin Moulding, English pop bassist, and songwriter (XTC – “Generals And Majors”), born in Swindon, England