1808 – James Nasmyth, Scottish engineer and inventor of the steam hammer, born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1890)
1860 – John Kane, Scottish-American primitivist painter (Self-Portrait), born in West Calder, Scotland (d. 1934)
1903 – Claude Dauphin, French actor (Barbarella, April in Paris, Deported), born in Corbeil-Essonnes, Essonne, France (d. 1978)
1908 – Al Morgan, American jazz double-bassist (Cab Calloway; Fats Waller; Louis Jordan), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1974)
1935 – Alan Baker, British Mathematician and winner of the Fields Medal (1970) for his work on transcendental number theory, born in London, England
1940 – Johnny Nash, American rocker (“I Can See Clearly Now”), born in Houston, Texas (d. 2020)
1965 – James Tomkins, Australian rower (Olympics 1996)
1969 – Kazuyoshi Tatsunami, Japanese baseball player, born in Settsu, Japan
1972 – Elizabeth Wolfgramm, American singer (The Jets), born in Salt Lake City, Utah
1983 – Mike Conway, British auto racer (FIA World Endurance C’ship 2019-20; British Formula 3 C’ship 2006), born in London, England