1916 – Dorothy May Bundy-Cheney, American tennis player (141 US tennis titles), born in LA, CA, (d. 2014)
1922 – Arthur Ashkin, American scientist (Nobel Prize for Physics 2018 Optical Tweezers), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2020)
1927 – Leonard Katzman, American TV screenwriter and producer (Dallas; Petrocelli; Route 66), born in New York City (d. 1996)
1944 – Claude Nicollier, Swiss astronaut (STS 61-K, 46, 61, 75), born in Vevey, Switzerland
1947 – Richard Coughlan, British progressive rock drummer and percussionist (Caravan – “In the Land of Grey and Pink”), born in Herne Bay, Kent, England (d. 2013)
1950 – Yuen Wah, Chinese stuntman and actor (Kung Fu Hustle, The Iceman Cometh), born in Hong Kong
1951 – Mark Harmon, American actor (St Elsewhere, NCIS), born in Burbank, California
1961 – Jeff Russell, American MLB pitcher (Texas Rangers), born in Cincinnati, Ohio
1965 – Lennox Lewis, British/Canadian boxer (Olympic gold super-heavyweight 1988, undisputed world heavyweight champion 1999), born in London, England
1990 – Marcus Ericsson, Swedish auto racer (Indianapolis 500 2022, runner-up 2023; Formula BMW UK 2007; All-Japan Formula 3 C’ship 2009), born in Kumla, Sweden