1784 – Martin-Joseph Mengal, Belgian composer, conductor, and educator (Director of the Royal Conservatory of Ghent, 1835-51), born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 1851)
1836 – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (word masochism derived from his name), born in Lemberg, the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire (d. 1895)
1895 – Cláudio Carneyro, Portuguese violinist, composer, and educator, born in Porto, Portugal (d. 1963)
1911 – Benay Venuta [Benvenuta Rose Crooke], American actress, singer and dancer (Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Mister), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1995)
1914 – Anna Larina, Russian revolutionary, wife of the Bolshevik leader Nikolai Bukharin (d. 1996)
1924 – Alexander Georgiyevich Chugayev, composer
1929 – Richard Du Cann, English lawyer and QC, born in London (d. 1993)
1942 – John Witherspoon, American actor (Friday), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2019)
1962 – Neno, Portuguese soccer goalkeeper (9 caps; Vitória de Guimarães, Benfica), born in Cidade Velha, Cape Verde (d. 2021)
1965 – Igor Matoushkin, NHL defenseman (Belarus, Olympics 1998)