1398 – Marqués de Santillana, Castilian politician and poet (serranillas), born in Carrión de los Condes, Spain (d. 1458)
1790 – Edward John Dent, British clockmaker to Queen Victoria and commissioned to make Big Ben, London (completed after his death by his son Frederick Dent), born in London, England (d. 1853)
1906 – Philo T Farnsworth, American inventor (created electronic television, video camera tube), born in Beaver, Utah (d. 1971)
1946 – Charles F Bolden Jr, astronaut (STS 61C, 31, 45, 60), born in Columbia, South Carolina
1962 – Tammy Bruce, American political commentator
1967 – Satya Nadella, Indian-American businessman (CEO of Microsoft), born in Hyderabad
1969 – Kazuyoshi Tatsunami, Japanese baseball player
1972 – Sammi Cheng [Sau Man], Hong Kong singer and actress (Internal Affairs), born in Hong Kong
1982 – Melissa Fumero [Gallo], American actress (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), born in Lyndhurst, New Jersey
1982 – J. J. Hardy, American baseball player