1697 – Abbé Prévost, French author and novelist (Manon Lescaut), born in Hesdin, Artois, France (d. 1763)
1869 – Peter Egge, Norwegian writer (De Droom), born in Trondheim, Norway (d. 1959)
1919 – Joseph Murray, American surgeon and pioneer of organ transplantation (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1990), born in Milford, Massachusetts (d. 2012)
1927 – Amos Milburn, American RandB singer and pianist (“One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer”), born in Houston, Texas (d. 1980)
1930 – Dennis Young, New Zealand rugby union hooker (22 caps; Canterbury 139 games), born in Christchurch, New Zealand (d. 2020)
1934 – Jim Ed Brown, American country music singer-songwriter (“The Browns – “The Three Bells”, solo – “Here Today and Gone Tomorrow”; “Pop a Top”), and radio and television host (Nashville on the Road), born in Sparkman, Arkansas (d. 2015)
1935 – John Murray, England cricket wicketkeeper (21 Tests; 55 dismissals, 1 x 100, HS 112; Middlesex CCC), born in London, England (d. 2018)
1941 – David Childs, American architect who helped design the One World Trade Center, born in Princeton, New Jersey (d. 2025)
1952 – Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, convicted Lockerbie bomber (Pan Am 103), born in Tripoli, Libya (d. 2012)
1979 – Ruth Beitia, Spanish athlete (Olympic gold women’s high jump 2016), born in Santander, Spain