317 – Constantius II, Roman Emperor (337-61), born in Sirmium, Pannonia Inferior (d. 361)
1868 – Granville Bantock, British composer and conductor (Hebridean Symphony), born in London (d. 1946)
1919 – John Hogan, American chemist (discovered methods of producing polypropylene), born in Lowes, Kentucky (d. 2012)
1921 – Karel Husa, Czech-American Pulitzer prize winning composer (Trojan Women), born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (d. 2016)
1928 – James Randi, Canadian skeptic magician (Nova), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 2020)
1928 – Romeo Muller, American screenwriter (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; Frosty the Snowman), born in the Bronx, New York City (d. 1992)
1952 – Ian Hobson, English pianist, opera conductor and music professor, born in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England
1961 – Walter Swinburn, English jockey (Epsom Derby 1981, 86, 95; Irish Derby 1983, 86; Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe 1983), born in Oxford, England (d. 2016)
1973 – Danny Graves, American MLB baseball pitcher (Cincinnati Reds and two other teams), born in Saigon, South Vietnam
1978 – Alexandre Aja, French director, born in Paris, France