- 1542 Santino Garsi da Parma, Italian composer (d. 1604)
- 1573 Gemignano Capilupi, composer
- 1745 Joao de Sousa Carvalho, composer
- 1749 Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist/1st biographer of Bach
- 1761 Erik Eriksson Tulindberg, composer
- 1761 Jacob Kimball, composer
- 1764 Alexander Campbell, composer
- 1770 Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek, composer
- 1772 Joseph Lipavsky, composer
- 1772 Karl Jacob Wagner, composer
- 1779 Joachim Nicolas Eggert, composer
- 1810 Holger Simon Paulli, composer
- 1814 Henryk Oskar Kolberg, composer
- 1817 Niels Wilhelm Gade, Danish violinist/composer/conductor
- 1819 Bernardo Calvo Puig, composer
- 1833 Josef Foerster, composer
- 1834 Albert Heinrich Zabel, composer
- 1836 Eduard Wachmann, composer
- 1842 Carl Rosa, founder (Rosa opera company), born in Hamburg, Germany
- 1844 Kazamierz Julian Kratzer, composer
- 1883 Jaroslav Kocian, composer
- 1891 Lucien Cailliet, composer
- 1894 Alexander Spitzmuller-Harmersbach, composer
- 1896 Nacio Herb Brown, US composer
- 1903 Robert Weede, American baritone (d. 1972)
- 1905 Luis Sandi, Mexico City, a musician, teacher and composer
- 1906 Edmund von Borck, composer
- 1910 Al Sears, jazz performer
- 1919 Jiří Pauer, Czech composer, born in Libušín (d. 2007)
- 1920 Bettina Vernon-Warren, dancer
- 1920 Del Wood [Adelaide Hazelwood], American country musician, born in Nashville, Tennessee (d. 1989)
- 1922 Andre Asriel, composer
- 1922 Felix Werder, composer
- 1927 David Ahlstrom, composer
- 1929 Marni Nixon, singer (for Audrey Hepburn, Natalie Wood & Deborah Kerr), born in Altadena, California (d. 2016)
- 1933 Louise Lopez, American singer (Odyssey), born in Connecticut (d. 2015)
- 1934 Thomas Paul, bass (NYC Opera 1963-70), born in Chicago, Illinois
- 1936 Ernie K-Doe [Ernest Kador Jr], African-American R&B singer (Mother-in-Law”), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
- 1937 Dubravko Detoni, composer
- 1938 Bobby Hendricks, US soul vocalist (Itchy Twitchy Feeling)
- 1945 Oliver [William Oliver Swofford], American pop singer (Good Morning Starshine, Jean), born in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina (d. 2000)
- 1950 Ellen Greene, American vocalist/actress (Little Shoppe of Horrors), born in Brooklyn, New York
- 1950 Lenny Kuhr, Dutch singer
- 1953 Graham Lewis, English musician (Wire)
- 1961 Don Van Spall, guitarist (Sleeze Beez)
- 1961 Akira Takasaki, Japanese guitarist
- 1962 Michael Wilton, singer
- 1966 Suave [Waymond Anderso], American R&B singer (covered The Temptations’ “My Girl”), born in Los Angeles, California
- 1968 Bradley Nowell, American ska musician (Sublime) (d. 1996)
- 1969 Joaquín Cortés, Spanish dancer
- 1969 Byron Stroud, American bassist
- 1971 Lea Salonga, Philippines, singer/actress (Miss Siagon)
- 1974 James Blunt, English musician
