EVENTS:
BIRTHS:
- 1861 – Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian educator, lawyer, and politician, President of the Indian National Congress (d. 1946)
- 1876 – Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
- 1889 – Lila Bell Wallace, American publisher, co-founded Reader’s Digest (d. 1984)
- 1891 – Clarrie Grimmett, New Zealand-Australian cricketer (d. 1980)
- 1904 – Gerhard Herzberg, German-Canadian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
- 1906 – Ernst Ruska, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
- 1919 – Naushad Ali, Indian composer and director (d. 2006)
- 1921 – Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Indian-Pakistani journalist and author (d. 2000)
- 1924 – Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Indian poet and politician, 10th Prime Minister of India
- 1927 – Ram Narayan, Indian sarangi player
- 1945 – Ken Stabler, American football player and sportscaster (d. 2015)
- 1957 – Chris Kamara, English footballer and sportscaster
- 1959 – Ramdas Athawale, Indian politician and Marathi poet
- 1970 – Nagma, Indian actress
- 1975 – Marcus Trescothick, English cricketer
- 1982 – Dev, Indian actor and singer
- 1984 – Alastair Cook, English cricketer
- 1989 – Shahzaib Hasan, Pakistani cricketer
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