1592 – Pierre d’Hozier, French genealogist, born in Marseille, France (d. 1660)
1682 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician (Newton–Cotes formulas), born in Burbage, Leicestershire, England (d. 1716)
1871 – Marcel Proust, French intellectual and novelist (Remembrance of Things Past), born in Paris, France (d. 1922)
1909 – Donald William Sinclair, co–proprietor of the Gleneagles Hotel and the inspiration for the character Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers (d. 1981)
1922 – Jake LaMotta, American boxer (world middleweight champion 1949-51, immortalised in ‘Raging Bull’), born in NYC, New York (d. 2017)
1927 – Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 2018)
1930 – Jacques Klein, Brazilian pianist and composer, born in Aracati, Ceará, Brazil (d. 1982)
1932 – Carlo Mario Abate, Italian racing driver, born in Turin, Italy
1974 – Chiwetel Ejiofor, English film and theatre actor (“Twelve Years a Slave”), born in London
1975 – Alain Nasreddine, Canadian ice hockey player