1847 – Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian playwright, poet, and librettist (Puccini’s “La bohème”, “Tosca”, and “Madama Butterfly”), born in Colleretto Parella, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy) (d. 1906)
1885 – Egon Joseph Wellesz, Austrian-English composer, teacher, and musicologist, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1974)
1914 – Martin Gardner, Scientific American math and puzzles columnist
1940 – Julie Parrish, Middlesboro Ky, actress (Good Morning World, Capitol)
1948 – Moses J “Moss” Mayekiso, South African union/SACP-leader
1948 – Shaye Cohen, Historian and Professor at Harvard University
1949 – Shulamit Ran, composer
1971 – Damien Martyn, cricketer (WA and Australian middle-order batsman)
1983 – Zack Greinke, American baseball player
1993 – Kane Brown, American country music singer-songwriter (Experiment), born in Chattanooga, Tennessee