1777 – Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French engineer and physicist (inventor of the disk siren), born in Paris, France (d. 1859)
1901 – Mule Suttles, American Baseball HOF infielder (5 x NgL All Star; NL batting champion 1926, 28; NgL Triple Crown 1926; St. Louis Stars), born in Edgewater, Alabama (d. 1966)
1907 – Eddie Quillan, American actor (Mutiny on the Bounty, Julia, Hell Town), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1990)
1934 – Grigori Grigoyevich Nelyubov, Russian cosmonaut (Vostok 1 backup), born in Porfiryevka, Crimea, USSR (d. 1966)
1934 – Richard Chamberlain, American stage and screen actor (Dr. Kildare (TV series); Shōgun; The Thorn Birds), born in Beverly Hills, California (d. 2025)
1940 – Patrick Leahy, American politician (Senator-D-Vermont, 1975-), born in Montpelier, Vermont
1965 – Patty Fendick, American tennis player (Australian Open doubles 1991), born in Sacramento, California
1969 – Steve Smith, American NBA guard (14 NBA seasons, Olympic gold 2000), born in Highfield Park, MI
1972 – Alejandro Amenábar, Chilean-Spanish film director (The Others), born in Santiago, Chile
1990 – Lyra McKee, Northern Irish journalist, killed by the New IRA in a terrorist attack, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland (d. 2019)