1734 – Julien-Amable Mathieu, French composer, born in Versailles, France (d. 1811)
1852 – Alfredo Napoleão dos Santos, Portuguese pianist, and composer, born in Porto, Portugal (d. 1917)
1865 – Tikhon of Moscow [Vasily Ivanovich Bellavin], 11th Patriarch of Moscow and all of Russia, born in Toropets District, Pskov, Russian Empire (d. 1925)
1881 – Irving Langmuir, American chemist and engineer (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1932, invented gas-filled incandescent lamp), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1957)
1919 – Jackie Robinson, American Baseball HOF second baseman (1st African-American MLB player Brooklyn Dodgers; 6 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1955; NL MVP 1949), born in Cairo, Georgia (d. 1972)
1925 – Fred Catherwood, British politician (Vice President of the European Parliament 1989-1992), born in Castledawson, County Londonderry (d. 2014)
1936 – Drummond Rennie, British-American nephrologist and deputy editor (New England Journal of Medicine, 1977-81; Journal of the American Medical Association, 1983-2013), born in Yorkshire, England (d. 2025)
1949 – Frank Ricotti, British jazz and session vibraphonist and percussionist, born in London, England
1982 – Bruno Nogueira, Portuguese comedian, writer and actor (Os Contemporâneos, Último a Sair), born in Lisbon, Portugal
1994 – Vitalik Buterin, Russian-Canadian computer programmer (co-founder of Ethereum), born in Kolomna, Russia