1537 – Hieronymus Fabricius Ab Aquapende Italian physician (De Formato Foetu), born in Aquapende, Italy (d. 1619)
1894 – Chandrashekarendra Saraswat [Swaminathan Shasthri], Indian Hindu sage and Jivanmukta, born in Villupuram, British India (d. 1994)
1899 – Estelle Taylor, American actress (The Ten Commandments), born in Wilmington, Delaware (d. 1958)
1902 – Hans Sahl, German American anti-Nazi Jewish writer, born in Dresden, Germany (d. 1993)
1904 – Margery Allingham, English detective writer (one of ‘four ‘Queens of Crime’), born in London, England (d. 1966)
1929 – André Carolus Cirino, Surinamese indigenous writer, born in Goede Hoop, Saramacca, Dutch Guiana (d. 2023)
1937 – Maria Teresa Horta, Portuguese writer and poet (New Portuguese Letters, My Lady of Me), born in Lisbon, Portugal (d. 2025)
1939 – María Luisa Ozaita, Spanish pianist, harpsichordist, musicologist, conductor, and composer (Pelleas y Melisanda), born in Baracaldo, Spain (d. 2017)
1954 – Robert Van de Walle, Belgian judoka (Olympic gold 1980, Olympic silver 1988), born in Ostend, Belgium
1981 – Iker Casillas, Spanish footballer