1786 – Winfield Scott, American army general (Union) and presidential candidate, born in Petersburg, Virginia (d. 1866)
1822 – Carl Schmidt, Baltic German chemist, born in Mitau, Russian Empire (d. 1884)
1864 – Dwight B. Waldo, American educator (first President of Western Michigan University), born in Arcade, New York (d. 1939)
1876 – William Sealy Gosset, English statistician (Student’s t-distribution), born in Canterbury, Kent, England (d. 1937)
1884 – Anton Drexler, German politician (founder of German Worker’s Party (DAP), precursor to the Nazi Party), and mentor to Adolf Hitler, born in Munich (d. 1942)
1911 – Albert Cleage, African-American theologian and religious leader, born in Indianapolis (d. 2000)
1913 – Etienne Leroux, Afrikaans author (Een vir Azazel), born in Oudtshoorn, Western Cape (d. 1989)
1927 – Angela Alvarez (née Portilla), Cuban-American Latin jazz singer-songwriter who won a Latin Grammy Award at 95, born in Camagüey, Cuba (d. 2024)
1962 – Ally Sheedy [Alexandria], American actress (Wargames, Breakfast Club), born in New York City
1963 – Bettina Bunge, German tennis player (Virginia Slims of California 1983), born in Adliswil, Switzerland