1609 – Heinrich Pape, German composer and organist, born in Ratzeburg (d. 1663)
1741 – François-Hippolyte Barthélémon, French composer, born in Bordeaux, France (d. 1808)
1835 – Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer and Nobel Prize Laureate 1906 regarded as the official national poet of modern Italy, born in Pietrasanta, Italy (d. 1907)
1849 – John Hopkinson, British physicist and electrical engineer (Hopkinson’s Law), born in Manchester (d. 1898)
1924 – Otar Vasilisdze Taktakishvili, Georgian composer, born in Tbilisi, Georgia (d. 1989)
1946 – Gwynne Gilford, American actress (Linda Harris-Waverly Wonders), born in Los Angeles, California
1951 – Janet Eilber, American actress (Hard to Hold, Romantic Comedy), born in Detroit, Michigan
1967 – Jeff Novak, American NFL tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars), born in Arlington Heights, Illinois
1972 – Takako Fuji, Japanese actress (The Grudge / Ju-on), born in Tokyo, Japan
1975 – Alessandro Pistone, Italian footballer, born in Milan, Italy