1550 – Pope Paul V [Camillo Borghese], 233rd pope (1605-21) and persecutor of Galileo, born in Rome (d. 1621)
1815 – Halfdan Kjerulf, Norwegian composer (Brudefaerden i Hardanger), born in Christiania, Norway (d. 1868)
1861 – Owen Seaman, British poet and editor (Punch), born in Shrewsbury, England (d. 1936)
1916 – Ove Abildgaard, Danish poet (Uglegylp), born in Lemvig, Denmark (d. 1990)
1930 – Thomas P. Stafford, American US Air Force officer and NASA astronaut (Gemini 6 and 9; Apollo 10 and 18), born in Weatherford, Oklahoma (d. 2024)
1940 – Jan Eliasson, Swedish diplomat (4th Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations), born in Gothenburg, Sweden
1958 – Daniel Nunez, Cuban weightlifter (Olympic gold 1980)
1959 – Hank Ilesic, Canadian CFL punter and place kicker (Edmonton, Toronto), born in Edmonton, Alberta
1985 – Alex Ovechkin, Russian ice hockey player (Moscow Dynamo; Washington Capitals) who is one of the greatest goal scorers of all time, born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
1986 – Landry Mulemo, Belgian footballer