1680 – Frederich Karl Erbach, German composer, born in Erbach im Odenwald, Electoral Palatinate, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1731)
1822 – Dabney Herndon Maury, American Major General (Confederate Army), born in Fredericksburg, Virginia (d. 1900)
1825 – George Lafayette Beal, American politician and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Norway, Maine (d. 1896)
1867 – Désiré Pâque, Belgian organist, composer, and pedagogue, born in Liège, Belgium (d. 1939)
1878 – Louis de Visser, Dutch Communist politician (CPN), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1945)
1878 – Glenn Hammond Curtiss, American inventor (hydroplane) and founder of the US aviation industry, born in Hammondsport, New York (d. 1930)
1933 – Gene “Joe” Byrd, American jazz bassist (Charlie Byrd Trio), born in Chuckatuck, Virginia (d. 2012)
1942 – John Konrads, Australian swimmer (Olympic gold 1500m freestyle, bronze 400m freestyle, 4x200m freestyle 1960; 26 individual world records), born in Riga, Latvia (d. 2021)
1942 – David Hunt, British Conservative politician, born in Glyn Ceiriog, Wales
1954 – Marina Langner, German beauty queen, Miss World runner-up (1975), born in Dusseldorf, Germany
