1801 – Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner, born in French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1881)
1875 – Paul Scheinpflug, German composer, born in Loschwitz, Germany (d. 1937)
1882 – Paul Harvey, American actor (Spellbound, Calamity Jane, Heldorado, Jamboree), born in Sandwich, Illinois (d. 1955)
1885 – Carl Van Doren, American literary critic and biographer (“Benjamin Franklin” – Pulitzer Prize, 1939), born in Hope, Illinois (d. 1950)
1893 – Al St. John, American vaudeville and silent film comic (Young and Dumb), and talkie character actor billed as “Fuzzy” St. John (Outlaws of the Plains), born in Santa Ana, California (d. 1963)
1896 – Robert Taschereau, Canadian judge and politician (d. 1970)
1896 – Adele Astaire [Lady Charles Cavendish], American dancer and entertainer, sister of Fred Astaire (Last Man on Earth; Millie), born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 1981)
1917 – Miguel Serrano, Chilean author, diplomat and fascist (Esoteric Hitlerism), born in Santiago, Chile (d. 2009)
1928 – Walter Martin, American Christian apologist (d. 1989)
1936 – Dimitar Largov, Bulgarian soccer midfielder (20 caps; Slavia Sofia 220 games), born in Sofia, Bulgaria (d. 2020)