1833 – Alexander Ritter, German composer, born in Narva, Estonia (d. 1896)
1908 – Boris Goldovsky, Russian-American conductor, educator (Tangle wood, 1942-62), and opera broadcast commentator (Metropolitan Opera, 1946-85), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 2001)
1911 – Silas Roy Crain, American gospel singer (founder of The Soul Stirrers Gospel Quartet), born in Augustine, Texas (d. 1996)
1913 – Dallas Shirley, American Basketball Hall of Fame referee (officiated 2,000+ games in 33-year career), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1994)
1924 – Dolores Gray [Sylvia Dolores Finkelstein], American singer and actress (Designing Woman, Kismet), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2002)
1926 – Dick Williams, American singer and choral director (Andy Williams Show), born in Wall Lake, Iowa (d. 2018)
1964 – Andris Vecumnieks, Latvian contemporary classical composer (Concertino Art-I-Shock), conductor, teacher, and musicologist, born in Riga, Latvian SSR
1969 – Lachlan Elmer, Australian field hockey halfback (Olympic silver 1992, 96)
1973 – Song Yun-ah, South Korean model and actress
1976 – Necro [Ron Braunstein], Jewish American rapper, born in Brooklyn, New York