1697 – Antoine François Prévost, French author and novelist (d. 1763)
1802 – Hubert Reis, German composer and violinist, born in Bonn (d. 1886)
1900 – Robert McDowell, Mayor of Maryborough, Queensland (d. 1988)
1922 – Jimmie Lloyd [Logdon], American country and rockabilly singer (“I Got a Rocket in My Pocket”), born in Panther, Kentucky (d. 2001)
1925 – Kathy Stobart, British jazz tenor saxophonist, bandleader, and teacher, born in South Shields, England (d. 2014)
1929 – Milan Kundera, Czech-French poet and novelist (The Joke: The Unbearable Lightness of Being; Immortality), born in Brno, Czechoslovakia
1932 – François Moncla, French rugby union flanker (31 Tests; Racing 92, Section Paloise), born in Louvie-Juzon, France (d. 2021)
1933 – Robert Shavlakadze, Georgian athlete (Olympic gold USSR high jump 1960), born in Tbilisi, Georgia (d. 2020)
1965 – Peter O’Toole, Irish pop bassist (Hothouse Flowers – “People”; “Thing Of Beauty”), born in Dublin, Ireland
1978 – Jean-Pierre Dumont, Canadian ice hockey right wing (World C’ship gold 2004; Buffalo Sabres, Nashville Predators), born in Montreal, Quebec