1778 – Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer, French violinist and composer, born in Versailles, France (d. 1832)
1891 – Bessie [Annie Elizabeth] Delany, American dentist and civil rights pioneer, born in Raleigh, North Carolina (d. 1995)
1931 – Albert DeSalvo, American criminal (The Boston Strangler), born in Chelsea, Massachusetts (d. 1973)
1931 – Rudolf Kelterborn, Swiss musician and composer, born in Basel, Switzerland
1933 – Roland Kayn, German electronic music composer, born in Reutlingen (d. 2011)
1935 – Otto Ketting, Dutch trumpeter and composer (Passacaglia), born in Amsterdam (d. 2012)
1948 – Tara Singh Varma, Dutch politcian (1st black woman in Dutch 2nd Chamber), born in Springlands, British Guiana
1962 – Roberto Cassan, Italian-American jazz and folk accordionist, born in Fanna, Italy (d. 2016)
1981 – Fearne Cotton, British television presenter (Top of the Pops, Radio 1), born in London, England
1993 – Dominic Thiem, Austrian tennis player (US Open 2020, ATP Finals 2019), born in Wiener Neustadt, Austria