1674 – Nicholas Rowe, English poet and playwright (Tamerlane), Poet Laureate (1715-18), born in Little Barford, Bedfordshire (d. 1718)
1717 – Jacques Saly, French sculptor, born in Valenciennes, France (d. 1776)
1824 – George Edmund Street, English architect, born in Woodford, London (d. 1881)
1890 – Cum Posey, American Baseball HOF executive (owner NgL Homestead Grays; 9 x consecutive NL pennants 1937–45); and Basketball HOF guard (5 x Coloured World C’ships), born in Homestead, Pennsylvania (d. 1946)
1896 – Wilfred Pelletier, Canadian conductor (Voice of Firestone), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1982)
1928 – Martin Landau, American actor (Ed Wood; North By Northwest; Mission Impossible; Space 1999), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2017)
1948 – Alan Longmuir, Scottish pop-rock musician (Bay City Rollers – “Saturday Night”), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 2018)
1967 – Joey Cathcart, American rock guitarist (Nelson – “Love and Affection”), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2021)
1968 – Robert Rodriguez, American director (El Mariachi, Sin City, Grindhouse), born in San Antonio, Texas
1981 – Ardian Gashi, Kosovar soccer midfielder (14 caps Norway, 2 Kosovar; Vålerenga IF, Helsingborg IF 124 games), born in Đakovica, Kosovar