1844 – Ismail Qemali, Albanian nationalist and 1st Prime Minister of Albania (1912-14), born in Vlorë, Ottoman Empire (d. 1919)
1878 – Harry Carey [Henry DeWitt Carey II], American actor (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Red River), born in The Bronx, New York (d. 1947)
1896 – Ruth Rose, American screenwriter (King Kong), born in Somerville, Massachusetts (d. 1978)
1901 – Fulgencio Batista, Dictator and President of Cuba (1933-44, 1952-59), born in Banes, Cuba (d. 1973)
1907 – Paul Nitze, American government official, Deputy Secretary of Defence, Secretary of the Navy and policy advisor on the USSR, born in Amherst, Massachusetts (d. 2004)
1923 – Willem Aantjes, Dutch political leader (CDA), had to resign over WWII war record, born in Bleskensgraaf, Netherlands (d. 2015)
1928 – John Fozard, British aeronautical engineer, and aircraft designer (the Hawker Siddeley Harrier), born in Liversedge, England (d. 1996)
1931 – Johannes Rau, German politician (President of Germany, 1999-2004; Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, 1978-98), born in Wuppertal, Germany (d. 2006)
1958 – Wayne Bergeron, American jazz and session trumpeter (Maynard Ferguson; Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band), and educator, born in Hartford, Connecticut
1982 – Tuncay Şanlı, Turkish footballer, born in Sakarya Province