1653 – Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Marshal of France, born in Moulins, France (d. 1734)
1720 – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, 5th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1756-57), born in Hardwicke, England (d. 1764)
1846 – Oscar Hammerstein, German-American cigar maker, opera and theater impresario, composer, and playwright, born in Stettin, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1919)
1895 – Edmund Wilson, American literary critic and writer (Patriotic Gore), born in Red Bank, New Jersey (d. 1972)
1919 – Leon Festinger, American psychologist who developed the theory of cognitive dissonance, born in New York City (d. 1989)
1934 – Roger Kendrick, British prison governor who worked at Dartmoor Prison (1990-91), born in Waltham Abbey, England (d. 2009)
1937 – Thomas Pynchon, American novelist (V, Gravity’s Rainbow), born in Glen Cove, New York
1948 – John Reid, British politician (L), born in Bellshill, Scotland
1951 – Philip Bailey, American RandB and pop singer (Earth Wind and Fire – “Shining Star”; solo – “Easy Lover”), born in Denver, Colorado
1963 – Clemens Lothaller, Austrian physician cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-13 backup), born in Vienna, Austria
