1824 – Charles Henry Van Wyck, American politician and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Poughkeepsie, New York (d. 1895)
1885 – Fritz von Unruh, German expressionist playwright (Jurgen Wullenweber, Zero), born in Koblenz, Germany (d. 1970)
1912 – Edward Gardner, British barrister and Conservative Party politician (British Nationality Act 1981), born in Preston, Lancashire, England (d. 2001)
1930 – George E. Smith, American physicist and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics (2009), born in White Plain, New York (d. 2025)
1932 – Ian Leslie, 21st Earl of Rothes, Scottish nobleman (House of Lords, 1974-99), born in Chelsea, England (d. 2005)
1940 – Arthur Alexander, American singer-songwriter (“Lonely Just Like Me”), whose songs were covered by The Beatles (“Anna”), The Rolling Stones (“You Better Move On”), and Bob Dylan (“Sally Sue Brown”), born in Sheffield, Alabama (d. 1993)
1942 – Carl Douglas, Jamaican-British singer (“Kung Fu Fighting”), born in Kingston, Jamaica
1956 – Vladislav Listyev, Russian television anchor and journalist, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1995)
1958 – Rick Santorum, American politician (Rep-R-Penn 1995-2007), born in Winchester, Virginia
1977 – Amanda Borden, American gymnast (World silver 1994, Olympic gold 1996), born in Cincinnati, Ohio