Births
- 1627 - Robert Boyle, Irish chemist (d. 1691)
- 1759 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet (d. 1796)
- 1874 - William Somerset Maugham, English writer (d. 1965)
- 1882 - Virginia Woolf, English writer (d. 1941) (pictured)
- 1933 - Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines (d. 2009)
- 1980 - Alicia Keys, American singer