1785 – Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, French Physicist (Peltier effect 1834), born in Ham, France (d. 1845)
1840 – August Bebel, German socialist politician (one of the founders of the Social Democratic Worker’s Party of Germany), born in Deutz (d. 1913)
1842 – Leon Vanderkindere, Belgian historian and mayor (Ukkel), born in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek (d. 1906)
1857 – Heinrich Hertz, German physicist, 1st to broadcast and receive radio waves, born in Hamburg, German Confederation (d. 1894)
1877 – Yme Schuitmaker, Frisian-Dutch potato merchant, actor, and playwright (Maerteblom (Snowdrop); Lysbet), born in Frjentsjer, Friesland, Dutch Republic (d. 1961)
1883 – Alfred Wikenhauser, German RC exegetist (John-Apokalyps), born in Engen, Germany (d. 1960)
1907 – Robert Young, American actor (Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby, M.D.), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1998)
1922 – Felix Werder, German-born Australian composer, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 2012)
1944 – E. J. Peaker, American actress (That’s Life), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
1986 – Rajon Rondo, American basketball player, born in Louisville, Kentucky