1745 – Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen, Baltic German courtier and military governor of St Petersburg, born in Palmse, Estonia (d. 1826)
1804 – Ludwig A Feuerbach, German philosopher (Man is what he eats)
1825 – William Duncan Smith, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Augusta, Georgia (d. 1862)
1901 – Rudy Vallee, American singer and one of the earliest crooners (“Vagabond Dreams”; “My Time Is Your Time”), born in Island Pond, Vermont (d. 1986)
1937 – Francis Veber, French film director and screenwriter, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
1951 – Ray Kennedy, English soccer midfielder, forward (17 caps; Arsenal, Liverpool), born in Seaton Delaval, England (d. 2021)
1969 – Jaimie Dawson, Canadian badminton player (Olympics 1996), born in Geneva, Switzerland
1971 – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Leader of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), born in Samarra, Iraq (d. 2019)
1972 – Yeom Jeong-ah, South Korean actress (A Tale of Two Sisters), born in Seoul
1985 – Tynisha Keli, American singer, born in New Bedford, Massachusetts