1759 – Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, English writer and feminist (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman), mother of Mary Shelley, born in London (d. 1797)
1791 – Samuel Morse, American inventor (telegraph, Morse code) and painter, born in Charlestown, Massachusetts (d. 1872)
1913 – Philip Abelson, American physicist and Nobel Prize Laureate, born in Tacoma, Washington (d. 2004)
1927 – Coretta Scott King, American activist and wife of Martin Luther King Jr., born in Heiberger, Alabama (d. 2006)
1932 – Roelof “Pik” Botha, South African minister of Foreign affairs, born in Rustenburg, Transvaal, South Africa
1943 – Eugene Polyakov, Russian balletmaster (Paris Opera Ballet), born in Moscow (d. 1996)
1944 – Herb Pedersen, American singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited), born in Berkeley, California
1971 – Hayley Carr, Salzburg Austria, actress (Courtney-As the World Turns)
1979 – Will Boyd, American bass guitarist (Evanescence), born in Little Rock, Arkansas
1981 – Joey Gathright, American baseball player, born in Columbia, Mississippi