1608 – Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist (inventor of barometer), born in Rome, Papal States (d. 1647)
1711 – Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine, Queen consort of Sardinia (1737-41), born in Château de Lunéville, Lorraine (d. 1741)
1836 – James Tissot, French artist, born in Nantes, France (d. 1902)
1875 – Charley O’Leary, American baseball shortstop, 1904-13 and 1934 (Detroit Tiger, St. Louis Cardinals; oldest MLB player to collect a hit and score a run at 58 for St. Louis Browns 1934), and coach, 1913-37 (Cardinals, NY Yankees, Chicago Cubs, Browns), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1941)
1902 – William Edmonson, American bass harmony and gospel vocalist (Southernaires), radio, stage and screen actor (Thirty Years Later), born in Spokane, Washington (d. 1979)
1922 – Lorraine Gordon [Stein], American jazz music advocate and owner of Village Vanguard jazz club, born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 2018)
1932 – Jaan Rääts, Estonian pianist, orchestral and film score composer, born in Tartu, Estonia (d. 2020)
1945 – Jim Palmer, American Baseball HOF pitcher (6 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1966, 70, 83; AL Cy Young Award 1973, 75, 76; no-hitter 1969; Baltimore Orioles), born in New York City
1958 – Jayne Modean, American actress (Nurse Hooter-Trauma Center), born in Hartford, Connecticut
1968 – Jyrki 69 [Jyrki Pekka Emil Linnankivi], Finnish musician (The 69 Eyes), born in Helsinki, Finland