1820 – Elisha Kent Kane, US Arctic naval surgeon and Artic explorer (led expedition to Greenland discover fate of John Franklin), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1857)
1842 – Sidney Lanier, American poet and composer, born in Macon, Georgia (d. 1881)
1859 – Hugo Junkers, German engineer and aircraft designer, born in Rheydt, Rhine Province, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1935)
1883 – Camille Bombois, French circus wrestler and naïve painter, born in Venarey-les-Laumes, France (d. 1970)
1914 – Edward Sinclair, English actor (Dad’s Army), born in Lancashire, England (d. 1977)
1936 – Jim Marshall, American photographer (The Beatles final concert in San Francisco; Woodstock Festival), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2010)
1938 – Emile Griffith, American boxer, (world welterweight, middleweight and junior middleweight champion), born in Saint Thomas, US Virgin Islands (d. 2013)
1952 – Jack Fields, American politician (Rep-R-TX, 1981-97), born in Humble, Texas
1968 – Vlade Divac, Serbian Basketball HOF center (NBA All-Star 2001, NBA All-Rookie First Team 1990) and executive (Sacramento Kings 2015-20), born in Prijepolje, Serbia
1980 – Elmo, Muppet character on children’s TV show Sesame Street (main character from 1985), born at the Sesame Workshop, New York City