1641 – Nicolaas Witsen, Dutch statesman and mayor of Amsterdam, born in Amsterdam (d. 1717)
1829 – Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American pianist and composer, born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1869)
1895 – Joselito [José Gómez Ortega], Spanish matador (bullfighter) prodigy, born in Gelves, Spain (d. 1920)
1902 – Andre Michel Lwoff, French physiologist (1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries of genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis), born in Ainay-le-Château, France (d. 1994)
1920 – Sloan Wilson, American novelist (“The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit”; “A Summer Place”), born in Norwalk, Connecticut (d. 2003)
1935 – Lucius Cary, 15th Viscount Falkland, British peer (Lib-Dem), born in UK
1954 – John Michael Talbot, American contemporary Christian music singer-songwriter, and television host, born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1964 – Melissa Gilbert, American actress (Little House on the Prairie), born in Los Angeles, California
1978 – Matthew Davis, American actor (Legally Blonde, Vampire Diaries), born in Salt Lake City, Utah
1981 – John Maine, American baseball player (NY Mets), born in Fredericksburg, Virgini