1854 – Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (d. 1919)
1887 – Yury Alexandrovich Shaporin, composer
1895 – Photios Kontoglou, Greek writer, painter and iconographer (d. 1965)
1943 – Martin Peters, British soccer player
1945 – Judith Lang Zaimont, composer
1945 – Arnold Rosner, composer
1951 – Alfredo Astiz, Argentine general
1952 – Jerry Remy, American baseball player, color commentator
1956 – Richard Curtis, British screenwriter (Blackadder, Four Wedding and a Funeral), born in Wellington, New Zealand
1978 – Ali Karimi, Iranian footballer, born in Karaj, Iran