1655 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian instrument maker – considered the inventor of the piano, born in Padua (d. 1731)
1822 – Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Premier of Quebec, born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1915)
1891 – Frederick Jacobi, American composer, born in San Francisco (d. 1952)
1893 – Edgar Dearing, American actor (Pollyanna, Abraham Lincoln, Free and Easy), born in Ceres, California (d. 1974)
1907 – Lincoln Kirstein, American writer and impresario, born in Rochester, New York (d. 1996)
1955 – Robert Ellis Orrall, American singer and songwriter, born in Winthrop, Massachusetts
1968 – Julian Barratt, English comedian and musician, one half of The Mighty Boosh, born in Leeds, England
1976 – Ben Grieve, American baseball player, born in Arlington, Texas
1977 – Mariano Pernía, Argentine-Spanish footballer, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
1979 – Lance Bass, American pop singer (NSYNC – “Bye, Bye, Bye”), born in Laurel, Mississippi