1872 – Mikulas Moyzes, Slovak composer, born in Zvolenská Slatina, Slovakia (d. 1944)
1920 – George Porter, British chemist (Nobel 1967), born in Stainforth, South Yorkshire, England (d. 2002)
1933 – Henryk Górecki, Polish composer (Symphony No. 3 – Symphony of Sorrowful Songs), born in Czernica, Poland (d. 2010)
1949 – Doug Marlette, American editorial cartoonist (Kudzu), born in Greensboro, North Carolina (d. 2007)
1955 – Bright Sheng, Chinese-American concert pianist, composer, (Never Far Away; Hot Pepper), conductor, and music teacher born in Shanghai, China.
1955 – Bill Lloyd, American singer (Foster and Lloyd-Crazy Over You), born in Bowling Green, Kentucky
1956 – Peter Buck, American rock guitarist (R.E.M. – Murmur), born in Berkeley, California
1962 – Ben Watt, British rocker (Everything but the Girl – “I Don’t Want To Talk About It”; Idlewood), born in Marylebone, London
1971 – Thomas Bailey, American NFL wide receiver (Cin Bengals), born in Dallas, Texas
1971 – Richard Krajicek, Dutch tennis player (Wimbledon 1996), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands