1820 – Luther Orlando Emerson, American composer, born in Parsonsfield, Maine (d. 1915)
1860 – William Kennedy Dickson, Scottish inventor (devised an early motion picture camera), born in Le Minihic-sur-Rance, Brittany, France (d. 1935)
1884 – Louis Gruenberg, Russian-American composer (Daniel Jazz), born in Brest-Litovsk, Russia (now Belarus) (d. 1964)
1887 – Rupert Brooke, British WW I poet (Lithuania, The Soldier), born in Rugby, England (d. 1915)
1900 – Arnold Struycken, Dutch lawyer, born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1955)
1901 – John Stennis, American politician, Mississippi Senator, born in Kemper County, Mississippi (d. 1995)
1934 – Haystacks Calhoun, American professional wrestler, born in McKinney, Texas (d. 1989)
1940 – Joseph Dorfman, Israeli composer, born in Odessa, Ukraine (d. 2006)
1963 – Ed Roland, American singer-songwriter (Collective Soul), born in Stockbridge, Georgia
1975 – Chris Nevin, New Zealand cricketer, born in Dunedin, New Zealand