1822 – Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Polish engineer, businessman and inventor who built the 1st modern oil refinery and invented the kerosene lamp, born in Zaduszniki, Mielec, Austrian Empire (d. 1882)
1872 – Paul Juon, Russian-Swiss violinist and composer, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1940)
1934 – Ron Taylor, Australian cinematographer (Those Amazing Animals), born in Sydney, New South Wales (d. 2012)
1938 – Pete Dawkins, American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (Heisman Trophy 1958, Army), born in Royal Oak, Michigan
1940 – Susan Clark, actress (Night Moves, Webster), born in Sarnia, Ontario
1948 – Jethro [Geoffrey Rowe], British stand-up comedian (This Train Don’t Stop Camborne Wednesdays), born in St Buryan, Cornwall, England (d. 2021)
1951 – Philippe Henri Edmonds, cricketer (in Zambia England slow left-arm)
1952 – Vladimir Vladimirovich Vasyutin, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-14)
1968 – Ellen Forney, American cartoonist
1979 – Andy Ross, American rock guitarist (OK Go), born in Worcester, Massachusetts