1586 – Paul Siefert, German composer and organist, born in Danzig, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (d. 1666)
1604 – Heinrich Albert, German composer (Arien oder Melodien), and poet, born in Lobenstein, Imperial County of Reuss, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1651)
1703 – John Wesley, English Christian theologian and co-founder of the Methodist movement, born in Epworth, England (d. 1791)
1712 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, political theorist, and writer (Confessions) whose works inspired French Revolution leaders and Romantic academics, born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1778)
1874 – Oley Speaks, American composer (On the Road to Mandalay), born in Canal Winchester, Ohio (d. 1948)
1934 – Roy Gilchrist, West Indian cricket fast bowler (13 Tests, 57 wickets; Jamaica, Hyderabad), born in St Thomas, Jamaica (d. 2001)
1938 – John Byner, American actor (Transylvania 6-5000) and comedian, born in New York City
1943 – Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist (discovery of the integer quantum Hall effect, Nobel 1985), born in Schroda, Reichsgau Posen, Germany
1955 – Thomas Hampson, American lyric baritone, born in Elkhart, Indiana
1973 – Ingrid Seynhaeve, Belgian model (Look of the Year 1991), born in Brussels, Belgium