1777 – M A Elisa Bonaparte, Corsican monarch of Lucca/Piombino
1810 – Antoine T. d’Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1897)
1836 – Sakamoto Ryoma, Japanese revolutionary (d. 1867)
1870 – Henry Handel Richardson [Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson], Australian novelist (Richard Mahoney), born in East Melbourne, Australia (d. 1946)
1891 – Osip E Mandelstam, Polish/Russian poet/author (Kamenj) [NS=Jan 15]
1901 – Ngô Đình Diệm, President and authoritarian leader of South Vietnam (1954-63), born in Quảng Bình, French Indochina (d. 1963)
1916 – Antonio Estevez, composer
1947 – Sergey Filipovich Protchenko, Russian cosmonaut
1953 – Peter Taylor, English soccer winger (4 caps; Crystal Palace, Tottenham Hotspur) and manager (Leicester City, Hull, Crystal Palace), born in Rochford, England
1962 – Gavin Hastings OBE, Scottish rugby union fullback and captain (61 caps Scotland, 6 caps British Lions; Watsonians, London Scottish, Cambridge University), born in Edinburgh, Scotland