* 2007 - Bernd von Freytag-Loringhoven, German soldier * 2007 - Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz drummer * 2006 - Linda Smith, British comedian * 2006 - Robert Lee Scott, Jr., U.S. General, Flying Tiger, and author * 2006 - Otis Chandler, American newspaper publisher * 2004 - Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor * 2003 - Fred Rogers, American children's television actor * 2003 - John Lanchbery, English composer * 2002 - Spike Milligan, Irish comedian * 1998 - J. T. Walsh, American actor * 1998 - George H. Hitchings, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine * 1993 - Lillian Gish, American actress * 1992 - S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American linguist and politician * 1990 - Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar * 1989 - Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine * 1989 - Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer * 1987 - Joan Greenwood, English actress and director * 1985 - Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician * 1981 - Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician * 1980 - George Tobias, American actor * 1978 - Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer * 1977 - John Dickson Carr, American author * 1972 - Pat Brady, American actor and singer * 1970 - Marie Dionne, one of the French Canadian Dionne quintuplets * 1969 - Marius Barbeau, French Canadian folklorist * 1968 - Frankie Lymon, American singer * 1964 - Orry-Kelly, Australian costume designer * 1943 - Kostis Palamas, Greek poet, twice nominated for the Nobel prize * 1941 - William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman * 1936 - Joshua W. Alexander, U.S. Secretary of Commerce under Woodrow Wilson * 1936 - Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine * 1932 - William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher * 1921 - Schofield Haigh, English cricketer * 1902 - Breaker Morant, Anglo-Australian soldier executed in Boer War under controversial circumstances * 1892 - Louis Vuitton, French luggage maker * 1887 - Alexander Borodin, Russian composer * 1844 - Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States * 1735 - John Arbuthnot, English physician and writer * 1720 - Samuel Parris, English-born Puritan minister * 1706 - John Evelyn, English diarist * 1699 - Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, English politician (b. c. 1625) * 1659 - Henry Dunster, first President of Harvard College