Johann Gottlieb Görner, German organist and composer (d. 1778) 1728 – Joseph Black, French-Scottish physician and chemist (d. 1799) 1730 – Henry Clinton, English general and politician (d. 1795) 1755 – Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, French painter (d. 1842) 1786 – John Franklin, English admiral and politician, fourth Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land (d. 1847) 1800 – George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, English field marshal and politician (d. 1888) 1808 – Caleb Blood Smith, American journalist, lawyer, and politician, sixth United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1864) 1821 – Ford Madox Brown, French-English soldier and painter (d. 1893) 1823 – Gotthold Eisenstein, German mathematician and academic (d. 1852) 1826 – Sir James Corry, 1st Baronet, British politician (d. 1891) 1827 – Octave Crémazie, Canadian poet and bookseller (d. 1879) 1839 – Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì, Italian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1908) 1834 – Charles Lennox Richardson, English merchant (d. 1862) 1844 – Anatole France, French journalist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924) 1847 – Hans Auer, Swiss-Austrian architect, designed the Federal Palace of Switzerland (d. 1906) 1848 – Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian author and activist (d. 1919) 1851 – Ponnambalam Ramanathan, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, third Solicitor General of Sri Lanka (d. 1930) 1864 – Rose Talbot Bullard, American medical doctor and professor (d. 1915) 1865 – Harry Chauvel, Australian general (d. 1945) 1866 – José de Diego, Puerto Rican journalist, lawyer, and politician (d. 1918) 1867 – Wilbur Wright, American inventor (d. 1912) 1871 – John Millington Synge, Irish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1909) 1874 – Jōtarō Watanabe, Japanese general (d. 1936) 1878 – R. E. Foster, English cricketer and footballer (d. 1914) 1882 – Seth Bingham, American organist and composer (d. 1972) 1884 – Ronald Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell, English cricketer, journalist, and politician (d. 1963) 1885 – Leó Weiner, Hungarian composer and educator (d. 1960) 1886 – Michalis Dorizas, Greek-American football player and javelin thrower (d. 1957) 1886 – Ernst Thälmann, German politician (d. 1944) 1888 – Billy Minter, English footballer and manager (d. 1940) 1889 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (d. 1977) 1890 – Fred Root, English cricketer and umpire (d. 1954) 1890 – Gertrude Chandler Warner, American author and educator (d. 1979) 1891 – Dorothy P. Lathrop, American author and illustrator (d. 1980) 1892 – Howard Mumford Jones, American