1494 – Georgius Agricola, German mineralogist (De Re Metallica), born in Glauchau, Saxony (d. 1555)
1754 – Joel Barlow, American diplomat, author and poet (Advice to the Privileged Orders, The Hasty Pudding), born in Redding, Connecticut (d. 1812)
1878 – Top Naeff, Dutch writer (School Idylls), born in Dordrecht, Netherlands (d. 1953)
1906 – Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Soviet jazz and pop singer (“Let’s Smoke”), born in Kharkiv, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) (d. 1984)
1918 – Englebert van Anderlecht, Belgian abstract painter, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1961)
1924 – Lois Andrews [Lorraine Gourley], American actress (Dixie Dugan, Meet Me After the Show, The Desert Hawk), born in Huntington Park, California (d. 1968)
1942 – Stephen Yardley, British stage and screen actor (Howards’ Way), born in Ferrensby, Yorkshire, England
1954 – Hank Roberts, American electric and acoustic jazz cellist (Bill Frissell Quartet; Arcado String Trio), born in Terre Haute, Indiana
1957 – Scott J Horowitz, PhD/Capt USAF/astronaut (STS 75, 82), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1964 – Patterson Hood, American rock singer-songwriter, and guitarist (Drive-By Truckers – Southern Rock Opera; The Unraveling), born in Muscle Shoals, Alabama