- 1567 Aurelio Signoretti, Italian composer, born in Reggio Emilia, Italy (d. 1635)
- 1614 Marc'Antonio Pasqualini, Italian composer, born in Rome, Italy (d. 1691)
- 1666 Johann Heinrich Buttstett, German composer, born in Bindersleben, Germany (d. 1727)
- 1690 Gottlieb Theophil Muffat, German composer, born in Passau, Germany (d. 1770)
- 1723 Giovanni Marco Rutini, Italian composer, born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (now Italy) (d. 1797)
- 1730 Fedele Fenaroli, Italian composer, born in Lanciano, Italy (d. 1818)
- 1818 Marek Konrad Sokolowski, Polish guitarist and composer, born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine (d. 1883)
- 1837 William Charles Levey, Irish conductor and composer, born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1894)
- 1841 Pauline Lucca, Austrian operatic soprano, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1908)
- 1861 Marco Enrico Bossi, Italian concert organist, composer and teacher, born in Salò, Lombardy, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1925)
- 1869 Karl Prohaska, Austrian composer, born in Mödling, Austria (d. 1927)
- 1876 Rubén M. Campos, Mexican novelist (Claudio Oranos) and musicologist (El folklore y la musica mexicana), born in Ciudad Manuel Doblado, Guanajuato, Mexico (d. 1945)
- 1878 Theodore Samuel Holland, British composer and pedagogue, born in Wimbledon, London (d. 1947)
- 1897 Haro Levoni Step'anian, Armenian composer, born in Ganja, Azerbaijan (d. 1966)
- 1901 Ernst Gernot Klussmann, German composer, born in Hamburg, GermanyGerman Empire (d. 1975)
- 1903 Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen, Norwegian composer, born in Stavanger, Norway (d. 1984)
- 1906 Zoltán Gárdonyi, Hungarian composer, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1986)
- 1907 Vasily Pavlovich Solov'yov-Sedoy, Russian composer, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1979)
- 1909 Jaroslav Doubrava, Czech composer, born in Chrudim, Czech Republic (d. 1960)
- 1913 Earl Bostic, American jazz alto saxophonist (Flamingo, Temptation), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma (d. 1965)
- 1916 Luis Herrera de la Fuente, Mexican pianist, conductor (Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional, 1954-72), and composer, born in Mexico City (d. 2014)
Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996)
American jazz, swing, pop, and blues singer, known as "The First Lady of Song" (Verve "Songbook" series), born in Newport News, Virginia [1]
- 1918 Astrid Varnay, Swedish soprano (Metropolitan Opera, 1941-56), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 2006)
- 1919 Heinz Wunderlich, German organist and composer, born in Leipzig, Germany (d. 2012)
- 1923 Albert King [Nelson], American blues guitarist and singer ("Born Under A Bad Sign"; "That's What The Blues Is About"), born in Indianola, Mississippi (d. 1992)
- 1923 Melissa Hayden, Canadian ballerina (1961 Silver Bowl), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 2006)
- 1924 Erzsébet Szőnyi, Hungarian composer, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 2019)
- 1924 Franco Mannino, Italian pianist, conductor, classical concert, opera, and film score composer (Death in Venice; Il diavolo in giardino), born in Palermo, Italy (d. 2005)
- 1926 Paul Walter Fürst, Austrian musician and composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2013)
- 1927 Ernst Widmer, Swiss-Brazilian composer, born in Aarau, Switzerland (d. 1990)
- 1933 Jerry Leiber, American songwriter (Leiber & Stoller - "Hound Dog"; "Jailhouse Rock"; "Is That All There Is?"), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 2011)
- 1940 O. B. McClinton, American country singer ("Keep Your Arms Around Me"), born in Senatobia, Mississippi (d. 1987)
- 1942 John Martin Dalby, Scottish composer, born in Aberdeen, Scotland
- 1943 Tony Christie [Fitzgerald], British pop singer (I Did What I Did For Maria), born in Conisbrough, England
- 1944 Einar Steen-Nøkleberg, Norwegian classical pianist and musical pedagogue, born in Østre Toten, Norway
Björn Ulvaeus (78 years old)
1945 Swedish pop songwriter, producer, guitarist and singer (ABBA), born in Gothenburg, Sweden
- 1945 Michael Kogel, German musician, born in Berlin, Germany
- 1945 Stu Cook, American rock bassist (Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Proud Mary"; "Fortunate Son"), born in Oakland, California
- 1946 Digby Fairweather, British jazz trumpeter, born in Rochford, Essex, England
- 1947 Bill Fontana, American composer, born in Cleveland, Ohio
- 1949 Michael Brown, American musician and songwriter (Don't Walk Away Renee), born in New York City (d. 2015)
- 1949 Watermelon Slim [William Homans], American blues musician (The Wheel Man), born in Boston, Massachusetts
- 1950 Steve Ferrone, British session and touring funk, rock, and R&B drummer (Average White Band, 1974-83; Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, 1994 to 2017), born in Brighton, England
- 1952 Cory Daye, American dance music vocalist, born in The Bronx, New York
- 1952 Ketil Bjørnstad, Norwegian pianist, born in Oslo, Norway
- 1953 Zeriiya Zekkariyas [Linda Womack (née Cooke)], American soul songwriter and singer (Womack & Womack -"Teardrops"), born in Chicago, Illinois
- 1954 Rob Crosby, American country singer ("She's a Natural"), born in Sumter, South Carolina
- 1958 Fish [Derek William Dick], Scottish vocalist (Marillion - "Sugar Mice"), born in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland
- 1959 Billy Rankin, Scottish rock guitarist, born in Lennoxtown, Stirlingshire, Scotland
- 1961 Truls Mørk, Norwegian concert cellist, born in Bergen, Norway
- 1964 Andy Bell, English rocker (Erasure - "Oh L'Amour"), born in Dogsthorpe, Peterborough, England
- 1965 Eric Avery, American musician (Jane's Addiction, Deconstruction, Polar Bear), born in Los Angeles, California
- 1972 Sara Baras, Spanish flamenco dancer and choreographer, born in San Fernando, Cádiz, Spain
- 1973 Fredrik Larzon, Swedish drummer (Millencolin), born in Örebro, Sweden
- 1975 Ruben Gomez, American rocker (Menudo-Cannonball), born in Brooklyn, New York
- 1977 Constantinos Christoforou, Cypriot singer ("O, ti m'afora"), born in Limassol, Cyprus
- 1977 Matthew West, American Christian musician and singer ("Happy"), born in Downers Grove, Illinois
- 1977 Paavo Siljamäki, Finnish trance music DJ, composer, and record producer based in England (Above & Beyond), born in Finland
- 1994 Maggie Rogers, American singer-songwriter (Alaska), born in Easton, Maryland
- 1994 Sam Fender, English singer-songwriter and actor (Seventeen Going Under), born in South Shields, England
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