1811 – James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin and Kincardine and Governor (Jamaica), born in London (d. 1863)
1900 – Maurice Gilliams, Belgian writer and poet (Maria’s Life), born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1982)
1901 – Heinie Manush, American Baseball HOF left fielder (MLB All-Star 1934 Washington Sens; AL batting champion 1926 Detroit Tigers), born in Tuscumbia, Alabama (d. 1971)
1924 – Robert D. Maurer, American scientist and co-inventor of optical fiber, born in St. Louis, Missouri
1928 – Pavel Kohout, Czech-Austrian playwright (Poor Murderer), poet, novelist (I Am Snowing), and dissident (Charter 77), born in Prague, Czechoslovakia
1933 – Cormac McCarthy, American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (The Road, All the Pretty Horses; No Country for Old Men), born in Providence, Rhode Island (d. 2023)
1938 – Natalie Wood [Zacharenko], American actress (Miracle on 34th Street; Gypsy; Rebel Without A Cause; West Side Story), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1981)
1952 – Keiko Matsuzaka, Japanese actress (The Sting of Death, The Gate of Youth), born in Tokyo, Japan
1975 – Judy Greer [Evans], American actress (Archer), born in Detroit, Michigan
1982 – Percy Daggs III, American actor (Wallace in “Veronica Mars”), born in Long Beach, California