1339 – Louis I, Duke of Anjou (1360-84) and King of Naples (Battle at Poitiers), born in Château de Vincennes, France (d. 1384)
1816 – Charlotte Saunders Cushman, American actress (Lady MacBeth), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1876)
1824 – Gabriel C. Wharton, American civil engineer and Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Culpeper County, Virginia (d. 1906)
1865 – Friedrich Aereboe, German landlord and agricultural economist, born in Horn, Hamburg (d. 1942)
1917 – Charles Kerruish, Manx politician and President of Tyndwald Isle of Man, born in Isle of Man (d. 2003)
1931 – Viktor Korchnoi, Russian-Swiss chess grandmaster (10 x candidate World Championship; World Senior C’ship gold 2006), born in Leningrad, Russia (d. 2016)
1938 – Götz George, German actor (Tatort), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 2016)
1950 – Blair Thornton, Canadian rock guitarist (Bachman-Turner Overdrive, 1974-79), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
1978 – Lauren Groff, American writer, known for “Florida”, born in Cooperstown, New York
1994 – Kelvin Harrison Jr., American actor (Cyrano), born in New Orleans, Louisiana