1801 – Karl Georg Lickl, Austrian pianist, physharmonica (type of harmonium) player, and composer, born in Vienna (d. 1877)
1875 – Gilbert H. Grosvenor, American geographer and 1st full-time editor of National Geographic Society (1899-1954), born in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (d. 1966)
1914 – Richard Laurence Millington Synge, British biochemist (Nobel 1952), born in Liverpool, England (d. 1994)
1922 – Gershon Kingsley [Götz Ksinski], German-American composer, electronic music pioneer, and Moog synthesizer player (Popcorn), born in Bochum, Weimar Republic (d. 2019)
1935 – Folke Rabe, Swedish avant-garde composer (What??), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 2017)
1936 – Ted Hawkins, American singer and guitarist (“The Next Hundred Years”), born in Biloxi, Mississippi (d. 1995)
1936 – Carl Davis, American-British conductor and BAFTA Award-winning film score composer (The French Lieutenant’s Woman; restored silent film Napoléon; BBC’s Pride and Prejudice), born in New York City (d. 2023)
1954 – Sammy Stewart, American MLB pitcher (World Series 1983; AL ERA leader 1981; Cleveland Indians), born in Asheville, North Carolina (d. 2018)
1956 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran (2005-13), born in Aradan, Iran
2002 – Lola Tung, American actress (The Summer I Turned Pretty), born in New York City