1672 – Peter the Great [Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov],Tsar of Russia (1682-1725), born in Moscow (d. 1725)
1792 – Frederic de Merode, Earl of Merode, Belgian revolutionary, born in Maastricht (d. 1830)
1849 – Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (d. 1927)
1879 – Oscar Back, Austrian-Dutch viola player
1917 – Eric J. Hobsbawm, Alexandria, Sultanate of Egypt, Marxist historian (The Age of Revolution; Capital; and Empire), (d. 2012)
1929 – Keith Gardner, Jamaican athlete (Olympic bronze 1960)
1954 – Pete Byrne Bath, English rocker (Naked Eyes), born in Bath, Somerset
1960 – Steve Paikin, Canadian journalist
1972 – Bryan Strang, cricket pace bowler (brother of Paul Zimbabwe 1995- )
1974 – Jon Harris, defensive end (Philadelphia Eagles)