1891 – Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist (“Anything Goes”; “Night And Day”; “I’ve Got You Under My Skin”), born in Peru, Indiana (d. 1964)
1913 – Patrick Steptoe, English scientist (developed in vitro fertilization), born in Oxford, England (d. 1988)
1922 – John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (d. 1941)
1924 – Peter Heatly, Scottish diver and Chairman of the Commonwealth Games Federation, born in Leith, Scotland (d. 2015)
1951 – James Newton Howard, American film composer (The Hunger Games; M. Night Shyamalan films), born in Los Angeles, California
1951 – Dave Parker ‘the Cobra’, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, NL MVP 1978), born in Grenada, Mississippi
1968 – Tom Rouen, American NFL punter (Denver Broncos-Super Bowl 32), born in Hinsdale, Illinois
1974 – Jana Nejedly, Canadian tennis player (Olympics 1996), born in Prague, Czechoslovakia
1980 – Mike Fontenot, American baseball player
1981 – Anoushka Shankar, British-Indian sitar player, composer, and daughter of Ravi Shankar, born in London, England