1878 – Anton Lajovic, Slovenian composer, born in Vače, Slovenia (d. 1960)
1902 – Ralph Richardson, English actor (Anna Karenina, Doctor Zhivago), born in Cheltenham, England (d. 1983)
1903 – George Davis Snell, Bradford, Massachusetts, American geneticist (H-2 gene)
1924 – Carlo Chiti, Italian race car engineer (d. 1994)
1928 – Nathan Oliveira, American artist
1932 – Salvador Elizondo, Mexican writer
1957 – Cyril Collard, French film director (d. 1993)
1957 – Doug Johnson, Canadian rock keyboardist (Loverboy – “Working For The Weekend”), born in Surrey, British Columbia
1959 – Kathryn “Furu” Carpenter, Marshall Mich, fencer-epee (Olympics 1996)
1975 – Jon Smith, British writer