1698 – Pietro Metastasio, Italian poet (d. 1782)
1810 – Antoine T. d’Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1897)
1819 – Charles Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royal for Scotland (d. 1900)
1882 – Willem Benoy, Flemish actor and director (Pygmalion), born in Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgium (d. 1939)
1895 – Boris Mykolayovich Lyatoshyns’ky, Ukrainian composer and the father of modern Ukrainian music, born in Zhytomyr, Russian Empire (d. 1968)
1909 – Victor Borge [Borge Rosenbaum], Danish-American comedian and pianist, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 2000)
1917 – Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (d. 2004)
1962 – Darren Daulton, American baseball catcher (MLB All-Star 1992, 93, 95; World Series 1997; Silver Slugger Award 1992; Philadelphia Phillies), born in Arkansas City, Kansas (d. 2017)
1964 – Bruce LaBruce, Canadian filmmaker
1974 – Alessandro Petacchi, Italian road cyclist (Tour de France 2010; Giro d’Italia 2004; Vuelta a España 2005), born in La Spezia, Italy