1767 – Antoine Louis Léon de Saint-Just, French revolutionary and writer, born in Decize, France (d. 1794)
1877 – Joshua L. Cowen, American inventor (electric train), born in New York City (d. 1965)
1887 – (Olav) Fartein Valen, Norwegian composer, pianist, polyglot, and rosarian, born in Stavanger, Norway (d. 1952)
1934 – Valery F. Bykovsky, USSR cosmonaut (Vostok V, Soyuz 22, 31/39), born in Pavlovsky Posad, Soviet Union
1942 – Walter Williams, American rock vocalist (O’Jays – “Love Train”; Use Ta Be My Girl”), born in Canton, Ohio
1949 – (Reinhold) Mack, German audio engineer (Electric Light Orchestra) and record producer (Queen; Sparks), born in West Germany
1950 – Charles Fambrough, American jazz bassist (Jazz Messengers), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2011)
1954 – Șerban Nichifor, Romanian composer, cellist and music educator, born in Bucharest, Romania
1962 – Vivian Campbell, Irish heavy metal singer (Def Leppard), born in Belfast, Ireland
1980 – Neal Musser, American baseball player