1432 – Luigi Pulci, Italian poet (Morgante), born in Florence, Italy (d. 1484)
1823 – Orris Sanford Ferry, American lawyer, politician and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Bethel, Connecticut (d. 1875)
1916 – Aleks Çaçi, Albanian writer (That way Myzeqe), born in Palasë, Himara, Albania (d. 1989)
1931 – Janice Rule, American actress (Alvarez Kelly, Doctor’s Wife), born in Norwood, Ohio (d. 2003)
1941 – Viktor Mikhailovich Pisarev, Russian cosmonaut
1943 – Eni Faleomavaega, American-Samoan politician (3rd Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa), born in Vailoatai, American Samoa (d. 2017)
1945 – Thomas C. Sawyer, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio), born in Akron, Ohio
1951 – Bobby Caldwell, American singerr (“What You Won’t Do for Love”), born in NYC, New York
1972 – Ben Affleck, American actor (Armageddon, Pearl Harbor), born in Berkeley, California
1989 – Belinda [Belinda Peregrín Schüll], Mexican singer, songwriter and actress, born in Madrid, Spain