1705 – Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (d. 1781)
1857 – Jules de Trooz, baron/premier of Belgium (1907)
1880 – Frank Orth, American actor (Boston Blackie, Brothers), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1962)
1888 – Willem Banning, Dutch theologist/sociologist (Religious Build Up)
1912 – Nikita Magaloff, Russian/Swiss pianist (Arkadia 598-Schubert)
1933 – Nina Simone [Eunice Waymon], American singer and civil rights activist (I Loves You, Porgy), born in Tyron, North Carolina (d. 2003)
1961 – Abhijit Banerjee, American economist, 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics, born in Mumbai, India
1969 – James Dean Bradfield, Welsh singer-songwriter (Manic Street Preachers), born in Pontypool, Wales
1969 – Corey Harris, American blues and reggae guitarist (The Blues miniseries, From Mississippi to Mali), born in Denver, Colorado
1973 – Heri Joensen, Faroese musician, born in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands