1578 – Catharina Belgica of Nassau, Countess of Hanau-Münzenberg and daughter of William of Orange, born in Antwerp (d. 1648)
1830 – František Zdeněk Skuherský, Czech composer, born in Opočno, Kingdom of Bohemia (d. 1892)
1848 – Jean Robert Planquette, French composer (Bells of Corneville), born in Paris (d. 1903)
1944 – Robert C. Merton, American economist and Nobel laureate in Economics, born in New York City
1957 – Leon Durham, American baseball 1st baseman, outfielder (Chicago Cubs; MLB All Star 1982-83, born in Cincinnati, Ohio
1957 – Daniel Ash, British punk rock singer-songwriter (Bauhaus), born in Northampton, England
1958 – Mark Cuban, American businessman and basketball team owner (NBA’s Dallas Mavericks), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1962 – Troy Murray, Canadian NHL center, broadcaster (Chicago Black Hawks), born in Calgary, Alberta
1989 – Victoria Azarenka, Belarusian tennis player (Australian Open 2012-13), born in Minsk, Belarus
1992 – José Fernández, Cuban-American MLB player (Miami Marlins), born in Santa Clara, Cuba (d. 2016)