1795 – Abraham Capadose, Dutch physician and missionary, born in Amsterdam (d. 1874)
1822 – Virginia Clemm Poe, American wife of writer Edgar Allan Poe, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1847)
1854 – Milan I, King of Serbia, born in Mărășești, Romania (d. 1901)
1862 – Claude Debussy, French composer (La Mer; Clair de lune), born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France (d. 1918)
1867 – Charles Francis Jenkins, American Inventor (altimeter, automobile self-starter, and early television pioneer), born in Dayton, Ohio
1867 – Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist, born in Aarau, Switzerland (d. 1939)
1892 – Percy Fender, English cricketer (legendary Surrey and England all-rounder), born in Balham, London (d. 1985)
1951 – Gordon Liu [Chia-Hui Liu or Jin-Hsi Shin], Chinese actor (Kill Bill, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin), born in Guangdong, China
1973 – Howie Dorough, American singer (Backstreet Boys – “I Want It That Way”), born in Orlando, Florida
1977 – Heiðar Helguson, Icelandic footballer, born in Dalvík, Iceland