1516 – Mary I Tudor [Bloody Mary], Queen of England (1553-58), born in Greenwich, England (d. 1558)
1559 – Isaac Casaubon, naturalized English classical scholar and theologian (Athenaeus), born in Geneva (d. 1614)
1609 – Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, English PM (1660-67), born in Dinton, England (d. 1674)
1770 – Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, German composer, born in Elgersburg (d. 1846)
1817 – Lewis Addison Armistead, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1863)
1916 – Betty Gathergood, British curator (Dr. Johnson’s House), born in the United States (d. 1996)
1929 – Agustín González García, Spanish composer (Prince of Viana Prize), born in Alsasua, Navarra
1930 – Gahan Wilson, American author and cartoonist known as the “Michelangelo of the Macabre”, born in Evanston, Illinois (d. 2019)
1931 – Toni Morrison [Chloe Anthony Wofford], American writer (Tar Baby, Beloved, Song of Solomon), first African American woman to win a Nobel Prize (2010), born in Lorain, Ohio (d. 2019)
1937 – Jeff Farrell, American swimmer (Olympics 2 gold-1960)