1591 – José Ribera/Jusepe de Ribera, Spanish painter and printmaker, nicknamed Lo Spagnoletto (d. 1652)
1826 – Charles Cruft, American teacher, lawyer, railroad executive, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Terre Haute, Indiana (d. 1883)
1852 – Joseph Joffre, French army Chief of Staff (Indo China, WWI Battle of Marne), born in Rivesaltes, France (d. 1931)
1856 – John Singer Sargent, American painter (Wyndham Sisters), born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (now Italy) (d. 1925)
1875 – Marika Stiernstedt, Swedish author (Ulla Bella), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1954)
1908 – José Limón, Mexican-American dancer and choreographer (The Moor’s Pavane; I, Odysseus), born in Culiacán, Mexico (d. 1972)
1931 – Yao Wenyuan, Chinese literary critic and politician (member of the Gang of Four), born in Zhuji, Zhejiang, Republic of China (d. 2005)
1948 – John Etheridge, British guitarist (Soft Machine), born in Lambeth, England
1958 – Curt Fraser, American ice hockey coach, born in Cincinnati, Ohio
1985 – Artem Milevskiy, Ukrainian footballer, born in Minsk, Belarus