1628 – John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)
1756 – Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman, born in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony (d. 1845)
1780 – Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (Valpincon Bather), born in Montauban, France (d. 1867)
1871 – Albert Lebrun, President of France (1932-40), born in Mercy-le-Haut, France (d. 1950)
1898 – Preston Sturges [Edmund Biden], American director and screenwriter (Sullivan’s Travels), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1959)
1901 – Sherwin Badger, American Figure Skating Champion (1920-24), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1972)
1904 – Werner Forssmann, German urologist (Nobel 1956), born in Berlin (d. 1979)
1933 – Jehan Sadat, Widow of Anwar Sadat and 1st Lady of Egypt, born in Cairo, Egypt
1958 – Lenny Henry, British stand-up comedian (3 of a Kind), born in Dudley, West Midlands, England
1959 – Ernesto Rodrigues, Portuguese violinist and composer, born in Lisbon, Portugal