1666 – Princess Sophia Dorothea of Celle, repudiated wife of future King George I of Great Britain, and mother of George II, born in Celle, Germany (d. 1726)
1811 – Jan Nepomuk Škroup, Czech composer, born in Osice, Czech Republic (d. 1892)
1881 – Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French automobile designer and manufacturer (Automobiles E. Bugatti), born in Milan, Italy (d. 1947)
1898 – John J Slauerhoff, Dutch ship’s doctor/writer/poet (El Dorado)
1925 – Forrest Compton, actor (Gomer Pyle USMC, Edge of Night), born in Reading, Pennsylvania
1926 – Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (d. 2006)
1926 – Edward Derwinski, American congressman for Chicago 1959-83, first Secretary of Veteran Affairs 1989-1992, born in Chicago, Illinois
1946 – Oliver Stone, American director (Wall St, Good Morning Vietnam, Platoon), born in NYC, New York
1956 – Jaki Graham, British RandB singer-songwriter, born in Birmingham
1957 – Paweł Pawlikowski, Polish filmmaker (Cold War), born in Warsaw, Poland