1661 – Robert Haley, 1st Earl of Oxford and English premier (Whig, 1710-14), born in Covent Garden, Middlesex, Kingdom of England (d. 1725)
1697 – Giuseppe de Majo, Italian composer and organist, born in Naples (d. 1771)
1697 – Carlo Arrigoni, Italian composer and musician, born in Florence (d. 1744)
1868 – Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist, born in Königsberg, Prussia (d. 1951)
1896 – Willem Frederik Meinhardt Lampe, Dutch ambassador of the Dutch Antilles, born in Netherlands Antilles (d. 1973)
1899 – Sonny Boy Williamson II [Aleck Miller], American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, born in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi (d. 1965) (year of birth disputed)
1949 – Lewis Arlt, American actor (Littlest Victims, Ken-Another World), born in Kingston, New York
1967 – Konstantin-Assen, Prince of Vidin (fourth son of Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria and his wife Doña Margarita Gómez-Acebo y Cejuela), born in Madrid
1969 – Morgan J. Freeman, American film director (Hurricane Streets), born in Long Beach, California
1971 – Bryan Schwartz, American NFL linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars), born in St. Lawrence, South Dakota