1809 – William Radford, U.S. Navy rear admiral, born in Fincastle, Virginia (d. 1890)
1875 – Jack O’Connor, Australian cricket fast bowler (4 Tests, 13 wickets, BB 5/40; NSW CA, SA CA), born in Boorowa, Australia (d. 1941)
1923 – Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1929 – Stan Parris, American politician (Rep-R-VA, 1973-74, 81-91), born in Champaign, Illinois (d. 2010)
1946 – Hayato Tani [Hajime Iwatani], Japanese actor, born in Kirishima, Kagoshima, Japan
1946 – Christopher Francis Palmer, British composer, orchestrator, and musicologist, born in Norfolk, England (d. 1995)
1951 – Corry Konings, Dutch singer (Crying Is Too Late For You) and actress, born in Breda, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
1962 – Jack Trudeau, American NFL quarterback (Carolina Panthers), born in Forest Lake, Minnesota
1974 – Leah O’Brien, American softball player (Olympic gold 1996), born in Garden Grove, California
1990 – Magnus Larsson, Danish rock bassist (Lukas Graham – “7 Years”), born in Denmark