1724 – John Smeaton, British civil engineer, born in Austhorpe, Leeds, England (d. 1792)
1821 – John Dunlap Stevenson, American attorney, politician, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Staunton, Virginia (d. 1897)
1824 – James Loudon, Dutch politician, Governor-General of Dutch East Indies (1872-75), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1900)
1856 – Natalia Janotha, Polish pianist and composer, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1932)
1888 – Poul Schierbeck, Danish organist and composer, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1949)
1903 – Gerrit Cornelis Berkouwer, Dutch theologist (Dogmatic Studies), born in Amsterdam (d. 1996)
1921 – Suharto, Indonesian army officer and 2nd President of Indonesia (1967-98), born in Yogyakarta, Java (d. 2008)
1941 – Clarence “Fuzzy” Haskins, American pop, RandB, and funk singer-songwriter (Parliament-Funkadelic – “Knee Deep”), born in Elkins, West Virginia (d. 2023)
1975 – Levente Gyöngyösi Hungarian contemporary classical composer (“Birth” Symphony), born in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
1983 – Lee Harding, Australian punk-rock singer, born in Frankston, Australia