1790 – George Everest, Welsh surveyor and namesake of Mt. Everest, born in Gwernvale, Brecknockshire, Wales (d. 1866)
1826 – Stephen Foster, American composer (Oh! Susanna; Swanee River; Beautiful Dreamer), born in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania (d. 1864)
1885 – Lucy Diggs Slowe, American educator (Dean of Women, Howard University, 1922-37), tennis champion (American Tennis Association, 1917), and sorority co-founder (Alpha Kappa Alpha, 1908), born in Berryville, Virginia (d. 1937)
1909 – Madeleine Barot, French activist and theologian, born in Châteauroux, France (d. 1995)
1910 – (William Thomas) “Champion Jack” Dupree, American boxer, blues and boogie-woogie pianist, singer-songwriter (Walkin’ The Blues), and WWII P.O.W., born in Irish Channel, New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1992)
1910 – Robert K. Merton, American sociologist (functionalism, self-fulfilling prophecy) and criminologist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2003)
1948 – René Arnoux, French formula-1 racer (6th place-1980), born in Pontcharra, Isère, France
1951 – Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, American Democratic politician and Lieutenant Governor of Maryland (1995-2003), born in Greenwich, Connecticut
1962 – Pam Shriver, American tennis star (1991 US Open doubles/Olympic gold 1988), born in Baltimore, Maryland
1976 – Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer, born in Saitama, Japan (d. 2003)