Solomon Caesar Malan, Swiss-English orientalist (d. 1894) 1816 – Charles-Denis Bourbaki, French general (d. 1897) 1830 – Emily Davies, British suffragist and educator, co-founder and an early Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge University 1832 – Julius Sterling Morton, American journalist and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Agriculture (d. 1902) 1844 – Lewis Powell, American soldier, attempted assassin of William H. Seward (d. 1865) 1852 – William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1912) 1854 – Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943) 1858 – Ethel Smyth, English composer (d. 1944) 1858 – Fritz Mayer van den Bergh, Belgian art collector and art historian (d. 1901) 1870 – Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary and founder of Soviet Russia (d. 1924) 1872 – Princess Margaret of Prussia (d. 1954) 1873 – Ellen Glasgow, American author (d. 1945) 1874 – Wu Peifu, Chinese warlord, politician, and marshal of the Beiyang Army (d. 1939) 1876 – Róbert Bárány, Austrian-Swedish otologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936) 1876 – Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler and strongman (d. 1920) 1879 – Bernhard Gregory, Estonian-German chess player (d. 1939) 1884 – Otto Rank, Austrian-American psychologist and academic (d. 1939) 1886 – Izidor Cankar, Slovenian historian, author, and diplomat (d. 1958) 1887 – Harald Bohr, Danish mathematician and footballer (d. 1951) 1889 – Richard Glücks, German SS officer (d. 1945) 1891 – Laura Gilpin, American photographer (d. 1979) 1891 – Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (d. 1965) 1891 – Harold Jeffreys, English mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer (d. 1989) 1891 – Nicola Sacco, Italian-American anarchist (d. 1927) 1892 – Vernon Johns, African-American minister and activist (d. 1965) 1899 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born novelist and critic (d. 1977) 1900 – Nellie Beer, British politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester from 1966 to 1967 (d. 1988) 1901–present 1904 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (d. 1967) 1905 – Robert Choquette, American-Canadian author, poet, and diplomat (d. 1991) 1906 – Eric Fenby, English composer and educator (d. 1997) 1906 – Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (d. 1947) 1909 – Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012) 1909 – Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (d. 2001) 1909 – Spyros Markezinis, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2000) 1910 – Norman Steenrod, American mathematician and academic (d. 1971) 1912 – Kathleen Ferrier, English operatic singer (d. 1953) 1912 – Kaneto Shindo, Japanese