1657 – Jacques Danican Philidor, French composer (d. 1708)
1764 – Robert Craufurd, British general, born in Newark Castle, Ayrshire (d. 1812)
1846 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author (Quo Vadis, Nobel 1905), born in Wola Okrzejska, Poland (d. 1916)
1883 – Charles “Chief” Bender, American Baseball HOF pitcher (only indigenous American in BHOF; World Series 1910, 11, 13; no-hitter 1910; Philadelphia A’s), born in Crow Wing County, Minnesota (d. 1954)
1887 – Geoffrey Fisher, Baron Fisher of Lambeth, Archbishop of Canterbury (1945-61), born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England (d. 1972)
1921 – Sonja Oosterman, Dutch singer (Marketensters) (d. 2008)
1923 – Richard Wollheim, British philosopher (deeply engaged with issues that were central to the visual arts), born in London (d. 2003)
1924 – Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Argentine film director (Monday’s Child), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 1978)
1932 – Will Hutchins, American actor (Sugarfoot, Hey Landlord), born in Atwater, California
1982 – Wouter D’Haene, Belgian flatwater canoer, born in Kortrijk, Belgium