1735 – Johann Christoph Kuhnau, German composer, church musician choral director, and teacher, born in Volkstedt, Saxony (d. 1805)
1846 – Ira Remsen, American chemist, Johns Hopkins first chemistry professor, born in New York City (d. 1927)
1890 – Fanny Kaplan, Russian Socialist Revolutionary who attempted to assassinate Vladimir Lenin, born in Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1918)
1890 – Boris Pasternak, Russian novelist and poet (Doctor Zhivago, Nobel 1958), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1960)
1935 – Conrad Klapheck, German surrealist and pop-art painter and graphic artist (typewriters), born in Düsseldorf, Germany (d. 2023)
1961 – George Stephanopoulos, American journalist, political commentator, and political advisor (Clinton), born in Fall River, Massachusetts
1969 – Laurie Dhue, American recovery advocate and television journalist (Fox News), born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
1976 – Keeley Hawes, British actress (Bodyguard, Line of Duty), born in London
1984 – Alex Gordon, American baseball player, born in Lincoln, Nebraska
1988 – Daniel Kwan, American filmmaker (Everything, Everywhere, All at Once), born in Westborough, Massachusetts
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