1709 – Frantisek Benda, composer
1832 – George Henry Chapman, American newspaper editor, lawyer, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Holland, Massachusetts (d. 1882)
1869 – Andre Gide, French writer (Lafcadio’s Adventures-Nobel 1947), born in Paris (d. 1951)
1898 – Wiley Post, Grand Plain Tx, aviator/parachutist (crashed in Alaska)
1913 – Benjamin Britten, Lowestoft Suffolk England, composer (Beggar’s Opera)
1939 – Tom West, American astrophysicist
1953 – Billy M. Sprague, American rocket scientist
1967 – Donald Hollas, quarterback (Oakland Raiders)
1969 – Katrin Krabbe, Neubrandenburg German DR, 100m/200m (World Champ 1991)
1978 – Magdalena Grzybowska, Polish tennis star (1995 Futures Slovakia), born in Poznań, Poland