1793 – Sam Houston, American born 1st President of Republic of Texas (1836-38, 1841-44) who helped bring Texas into the United States as a constituent state, born in Rockbridge County, Virginia (d. 1863)
1842 – Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer (d. 1914)
1862 – Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (d. 1916)
1915 – Lona Andre [Launa Anderson], American actress (Death in the Air, Case of Baby Sitter), born in Nashville, Tennessee (d. 1992)
1925 – Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis [Charles Thompson], American blues musician (Cold Hands), born in Tippo, Mississippi (d. 1995)
1927 – Witold Szalonek, Polish composer (Satire), educator, and musicologist, born in Czechowice-Dziedzice, Poland (d. 2001)
1934 – Bernard Rands, composer (Wildtrack), born in Sheffield, England
1943 – (Daniel) Tony Meehan, British rock drummer (Vipers; Drifters: Shadows), born in Hampstead, North West London, England (d. 2005)
1951 – Cassie Yates, Macon Ga, actress (Osterman Weekend, Dynasty)
1971 – Elizabeth Lackey, American actress