1569 – Giovanni Francesco Anerio, Italian composer, choirmaster, and oratorio pioneer, born in Rome, Papal States (d. 1630)
1806 – Michele Amari, Sicilian patriot, Italian revolutionary and historian, born in Palermo, Kingdom of Sicily (d. 1889)
1851 – Lillien Jane Martin, American psychologist who founded the world’s 1st gerontology clinic in San Francisco, born in Olean, New York (d. 1943)
1882 – Zdzislaw Jachimecki, Polish composer and music historian, born in Lwów, Ukraine (d. 1953)
1884 – Lion Feuchtwanger, German dramatist and novelist (Der falsche Nero), born in Munich, Germany (d. 1958)
1907 – Helene Johnson, American Harlem Renaissance poet, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1995)
1927 – George Cabot Lodge, American academic and politician who lost the 1962 Senate race to Ted Kennedy, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2026)
1946 – Joe Spano, American actor (Hill Street Blues – “Lt. Henry Goldblume”; NCIS), born in San Francisco, California
1955 – Len Barker, American baseball player, born in Fort Knox, Kentucky
1970 – Erik Zabel, German cyclist, born in East Berlin, East Germany