1721 – John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (d. 1807)
1743 – Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet and statesman, born in the Kazan Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1816)
1785 – Mordecai Manuel Noah, American playwright, writer and journalist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1851)
1890 – Ossip Zadkine [Zadkin], Russian French sculptor (Destroyed City), born in Vitsebsk, Russian Empire (d. 1967)
1898 – A. B. “Happy” Chandler, American politician and baseball commissioner (d. 1991)
1912 – Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic (d. 1991)
1916 – Claude Harmon, American golfer (US Masters 1948), born in Savannah, Georgia (d. 1989)
1920 – Marijohn Wilkin, American songwriter (One Day at a Time), born in Kemp, Texas (d. 2006)
1938 – Jerry Rubin, American activist (Chicago 7), stockbroker, born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1994)
1941 – Tatyana Kuznetsova, Soviet cosmonaut (youngest person selected for space training at 20 but never flew), born in Moscow, Soviet Union (d. 2018)