1635 – Françoise d’Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France, born in Niort, Kingdom of France (d. 1719)
1691 – Josef Antonín Plánický, Czech composer, born in Manětín, Czech Republic (d. 1732)
1833 – Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, granddaughter of George III, grandmother of Edward VIII and George VI and great-grandmother of Elizabeth II, born in Hanover, Germany (d. 1897)
1894 – Amphilochius of Pochayiv [Yakov Varnavovich Golovatyuk], Ukrainian Orthodox Christian saint, born in Mala Ilovytsya, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine (d. 1971)
1909 – Donald John Urquhart, English librarian, born in Whitley Bay, England (d. 1994)
1921 – Alexander Dubček, Slovak politician who headed the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and was deposed after the Soviet invasion, born in Uhrovec, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) (d. 1992)
1929 – Billy Nair, South African union/SACP leader (20 yrs in Robbeneiland Prison)
1946 – Betty Weiss, American pop singer (The Shangri-Las – “Leader of the Pack”), born in Jamaica, Queens, NYC
1951 – Kathryn Bigelow, American director, producer and writer (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty), born in San Carlos, California
1966 – Andy Merrill, American voice actor, born in Newark, Ohio