1578 – Francesco Albani, Italian painter (d. 1660)
1834 – Peter Benoit, Flemish composer and conductor (Leie/Rubens Cantata), born in Harelbeke, Flanders (d. 1901)
1851 – Henry Drummond, Scottish geologist and evangelist
1890 – Harry Hopkins, US politician, Secretary of Commerce under FDR (Loan and Lease law), born in Sioux City, Iowa (d. 1946)
1904 – Mary Cain, American newspaper editor and politician (d. 1984)
1925 – John Howard Purnell, Welsh chemist (Royal Society of Chemistry), born in Rhondda, South Wales (d. 1996)
1929 – Francis Gary Powers, American spy captured by the USSR after his U-2 spy was shot plane in 1959, born in Jenkins, Kentucky (d. 1977)
1935 – Oleg Tabakov, Soviet-Russian actor and artistic director (Moscow Art Theatre), born in Saratov, Russian SFSR (d. 2018)
1974 – Nicola Kraus, American novelist, born in New York City
1977 – Tarja Turunen, Finnish singer, born in Kitee, Finland