1648 – Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (d. 1730)
1787 – Emma Willard, American women’s rights activist and educator who founded the 1st school for women’s higher education in the US, born in Berlin, Connecticut (d. 1870)
1869 – Nadezhda Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary (Central Committee member, Soviet Minister for Education, wife of Vladimir Lenin), born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1939)
1889 – Victor Fleming, American film director (The Wizard of Oz; Gone With The Wind), born in Pasadena, California (d. 1949)
1891 – Harold Horder, Australian Rugby League player (d. 1978)
1914 – Mike Tresh, American baseball catcher (MLB All Star 1945; Chicago White Sox), born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania (d. 1966)
1922 – Bill Chappell Jr., American politician (Rep-D-FL, 1969-89), born in Kendrick, Florida (d. 1989)
1928 – David Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort, British peer
1941 – Ron Hunt, baseball player
1951 – Debbie Friedman, American singer-songwriter and arranger of Jewish religious music (“Mi Shebeirach”), born in Utica, New York (d. 2011)