1611 – Johannes Hevelius, Danzig, astronomer (star cataloger)
1706 – John Baskerville, English printer (typeface inventor)
1722 – Johann Ernst Bach, composer
1864 – Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English engineer – inventor of the first compression ignition engine (d. 1927)
1922 – Robert W. Holley, American biochemist who worked with RNA (Nobel Prize 1968), born in Los Gatos, California (d. 1991)
1931 – Timothy Kitson, British politician
1937 – Bette Howland [Lee Sotonoff], American writer and literary critic (Blue in Chicago, The iron year), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2017)
1949 – Eddie Bayers, American session drummer, based in Nashville, born in Patuxent, Maryland
1969 – Kathryn Morris, American actress
1974 – Tony Delk, NBA guard (SF Warriors)