1725 – Joseph Anton Bauer, composer
1808 – Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian author (d. 1845)
1867 – Henry Lawson, Australian poet (d. 1922)
1867 – John Robert Gregg, Irish inventor (shorthand)
1908 – Jacob “Jimmy” Herman Huizinga, journalist/Writer
1926 – Manuel Enriquez, composer
1939 – Donald Anderson, MP (Labour)
1943 – Burt Rutan, American aerospace engineer
1945 – Frank Ashmore, American actor
1976 – Sven Nys, Belgian mountainbiker and cyclo-crosser