- 1533 Claudio Merulo, organist/composer
- 1692 Giuseppe Tartini, Venetian Baroque composer and violinist (Trillo del Diavolo), born in Piran, Venice (d. 1770)
- 1697 Pierre Prowo, German composer, born in Altona (d. 1757)
- 1708 Georg Zarth, Bohemian composer, born in Hochtann, Bohemia (d. 1778)
- 1756 Joseph Gehot, composer
- 1776 Thaddaus Weigl, composer
- 1843 Asger Hamerik, [Hammerich], composer
- 1878 Rudolf Nelson, composer
- 1880 Victor Schertzinger, composer/director (Uptown NY)
- 1881 Fernand Lamy, composer
- 1885 Dimitrios Levidis, composer
- 1889 Adrian Boult, Chester England, conductor/composer (BBC Sym Orchestra)
- 1895 Sigurdur Thordarson, composer
- 1896 Karl Hermann Pillney, composer
- 1896 Yip Harburg [Isidore Hochberg], American lyricist (Somewhere Over The Rainbow), born in NYC, New York; (d. 1981)
- 1897 Herbert Eimert, German composer/musicologist (Glockenspiel)
- 1902 Josef Krips, conductor (London Symph 1954-63), born in Vienna, Austria
- 1904 John Antill, Australian composer (Corroboree), born in Sydney (d. 1986)
- 1906 Raoul Jobin, French Canadian tenor (d. 1974)
- 1909 Olavi Pesonen, composer
- 1920 Carmen McRae (Clark), US jazz singer/pianist (Dream of Life)
- 1921 Jan Novák, Czech classical composer, born in Nová Říše, Morovia (d. 1984)
- 1923 Franco Corelli, Italian tenor (Don Jose-Carmen), born in Ancona, Italy (d. 2003)
- 1927 Oliver "Ollie" Mitchell, American musician and bandleader (The Wrecking Crew), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2013)
- 1928 Monty Sunshine, jazz bandleader (Gotta Travel On)
- 1928 Fred Ebb, American composer, born in Manhattan, NYC (d. 2004)
- 1929 Jacques Brel, Belgian singer, songwriter, actor, director and composer (Le Far West, Pain in the A__), born in Schaerbeek, Brussels (d. 1978)
- 1929 Walter Berry, Austria singer/ex husband of Christa Ludwig
- 1930 John Reardon, American baritone (Falke-Die Fledermaus), born in NYC, New York
- 1933 Jaroslav Smolka, Czech composer
- 1938 Barton Keith McLean, composer
- 1941 Peggy Lennon, singer (Lennon Sisters), born in Los Angeles, California
- 1942 Roger Chapman, Leicester, rock vocalist (Family-Family Entertainment)
- 1947 Steve Howe, rock guitarist (Asia, Yes-Roundabout), born in London, England
- 1947 Larry Norman, American musician and pioneer of Christian rock music (Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?), born in Corpus Christi, Texas (d. 2008)
- 1951 Mel Schacher, American bassist (Grand Funk Railroad-Some Kind of Wonderful), born in Owosso, Michigan
- 1952 Adam Woods, rock drummer/pianist (Fixx)
- 1962 Izzy Stradlin, [Jeff Isabelle], Lafayette IN, guitarist (Guns & Roses)
- 1963 Julian Lennon, singer (Too Late for Goodbyes) and son of John, born in Liverpool, England
- 1964 Biz Markie, rocker (Meteor Man, Townsend Television)
- 1972 Paul Gray, American bassist (Slipknot)
- 1974 Chino XL, American rapper
- 1975 Anouk [Teeuwe], Dutch singer, born in The Hague
- 1979 Alexi Laiho, Finnish guitarist and singer (Children of Bodom, Sinergy, Kylähullut)
- 1980 Manuel Ortega, Austrian singer
- 1986 Erika Sawajiri, Japanese actress, model and singer
- 1989 Hitomi Takahashi, Japanese singer
- 1989 Matty Healy [Matthew Healy], British vocalist and guitarist (The 1975), born in London, England
- 1990 Jonghyun [Kim Jong-hyun], South Korean singer-songwriter, radio host, and author (SHINee), born in Jung District, Seoul, South Korea (d. 2017)