1678 – William Croft, English composer and organist, born in Nether Ettington (d. 1727)
1741 – Bartolomeo Giacometti, composer
1756 – Pavel Vranicky, composer
1819 – John White Geary, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania (d. 1873)
1859 – Josef Bohuslav Foerster, composer
1905 – Daniil Kharms [Yuvatchov], Russian surrealist and absurdist writer, poet, and playwright, born in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (d. 1942)
1926 – Stanley Tracey, Denmark Hill, London, jazz composer, (d. 2013)
1945 – John Kevin Moorhouse, test pilot
1972 – Kerry Collins, NFL quarterback (Carolina Panthers)
1981 – Ali Al Habsi, Omani footballer