1678 – Madeleine de Verchères, French Canadian heroine (repelling a raid on Fort Verchères when she was 14 years old), born in Verchères, New France (d. 1747)
1848 – Adelaide Neilson, English stage actress (The Hunchback), born in Leeds, England (d. 1880)
1869 – Henry Wood, British conductor associated with London’s “Proms” concerts, vocal teacher (Gentle Art of Singing), and composer (Fantasia on British Sea Songs), born in London, England (d. 1944)
1895 – Alexander Nicolaas Voormolen, Dutch composer (d. 1980)
1924 – Lilian Velez, Filipno actress (Sa Kabukiran), born in Cebu City, Philippine Islands (d. 1948)
1926 – James Ingram Merrill, American poet/author (Scripts for the Pageant)
1930 – Heiner Geißler, German politician
1933 – Alfredo Landa, Spanish actor (The Crach, Sinatra), born in Pamplona, Spain (d. 2013)
1952 – Robyn Hitchcock, British rock and folk singer-songwriter (The Soft Boys – “Balloon Man”; solo – Moss Elixir), born in Paddington, London, England
1953 – Aleksandr Viktorovich Borodin, Russian cosmonaut