1625 – Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, English soldier, admiral and patron to Samuel Pepys, born in Barnwell (d. 1672)
1768 – Charlotte Corday, French revolutionary who murdered Jean-Paul Marat in a bath, born in Saint-Saturnin, France (d. 1793)
1848 – Friedrich Ernst Dorn, German physicist who discovered that radon is emitted from radium, born in Guttstadt, Province of Prussia (now Warmia in Poland) (d. 1916)
1905 – Robert L. May, American advertising copy writer and creator of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, born in Arverne, New York (d. 1976)
1910 – Julien Gracq [Louis Poirier], French writer (Andre Breton), born in Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, Maine-et-Loire, France (d. 2007)
1924 – Vincent Canby, American movie critic (NY Times), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2000)
1943 – Stu Gilliam, American actor and comedian (Roll Out, Harris and Company), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2013)
1944 – Barbara Thompson, British jazz saxophonist and composer, born in Oxford, England (d. 2022)
1969 – Bryan Fuller, American television writer and producer (Hannibal; Pushing Daisies), born in Lewiston, Idaho
1970 – Tom Europe, Canadian football defensive back (Montreal Alouettes), born in Toronto, Ontario