1848 – Melville E. Stone, American newspaper publisher (Founder of Chicago Daily News), born in Hudson, Illinois (d. 1929)
1867 – Charles Francis Jenkins, American Inventor (altimeter, automobile self-starter, and early television pioneer), born in Dayton, Ohio (d. 1934)
1868 – Willis Rodney Whitney, American Chemist, founder of the General Electric research laboratory, and pioneer of industrial scientific research, born in Jamestown, NY (d. 1958)
1890 – Cecil Kellaway, South African-American stage and screen character actor (Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner; The Luck of the Irish), born in Cape Town, Cape Colony (now South Africa) (d. 1973)
1890 – Floyd Henri Allport, American psychologist and sociologist, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 1979)
1895 – Paul Taylor White, American composer (Adante and Rondo for Cello), born in Bangor, Maine (d. 1973)
1924 – Andrzej Markowski, Polish composer, born in Lblin, Poland (d. 1986)
1935 – Morton Dean, American TV newscaster (CBS, ABC), born in Fall River, Massachusetts
1957 – Holly Dunn, American country singer (“Daddy’s Hands”), born in San Antonio, Texas (d. 2016)
1961 – Debbi Peterson, American rock drummer (Bangles – “Manic Monday”; “Walk Like An Egyptian”, born in Los Angeles, California