1814 – Johannes H Weissenbruch, landscape painter
1909 – Edwin Gerschefski, composer
1912 – Virginia MacWatters, American soprano (d. 2005)
1921 – Howell T Heflin, (Sen-D-Alabama, 1979- )
1930 – Jul Levi, Bulgarian composer and conductor, born in Salonica, Greece
1938 – John Sheil, Northern Irish High Court judge
1942 – Neil Chalmers, director (National History Museum, London)
1947 – Salman Rushdie, British-Indian novelist (Midnight’s Children, Satanic Verses), born in Mumbai, India
1951 – Francesco Moser, Italian cyclist
1972 – Jean Dujardin, 1st French actor to win an Oscar for Best Actor (The Artist), born in Rueil-Malmaison, Île-de-France