1st President of Brazil (d. 1892) 1828 – Louise of the Netherlands (d. 1871) 1833 – Carola of Vasa (d. 1907) 1843 – James Scott Skinner, Scottish violinist and composer (d. 1927) 1844 – Ilya Repin, Russian painter and sculptor (d. 1930) 1850 – Guy de Maupassant, French short story writer, novelist, and poet (d. 1893) 1860 – Louis Wain, English artist (d. 1939) 1862 – Joseph Merrick, English man with severe deformities (d. 1890) 1866 – Carl Harries, German chemist and academic (d. 1923) 1866 – Harry Trott, Australian cricketer (d. 1917) 1868 – Oskar Merikanto, Finnish pianist and composer (d. 1924) 1872 – Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician, bacteriologist, and epidemiologist, founded the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (d. 1917) 1874 – Wesley Clair Mitchell, American economist and academic (d. 1948) 1874 – Horace Rawlins, English golfer (d. 1935) 1876 – Mary Ritter Beard, American historian and activist (d. 1958) 1877 – Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (d. 1917) 1880 – Gertrude Rush, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1962) 1880 – Ruth Sawyer, American author and educator (d. 1970) 1882 – Anne Acheson, Irish sculptor (d. 1962) 1887 – Reginald Owen, English-American actor and singer (d. 1972) 1889 – Conrad Aiken, American novelist, short story writer, critic, and poet (d. 1973) 1890 – Naum Gabo, Russian-American sculptor (d. 1977) 1890 – Erich Kleiber, Austrian conductor and director (d. 1956) 1897 – Roberta Dodd Crawford, American soprano and educator (d. 1954) 1897 – Aksel Larsen, Danish lawyer and politician (d. 1972) 1900 – Rudolf Schottlaender, German philosopher, classical philologist and translator (d. 1988) 1901–present 1901 – Claude Autant-Lara, French director, screenwriter, and politician (d. 2000) 1904 – Kenneth V. Thimann, English-American botanist and microbiologist (d. 1997) 1906 – Joan Hickson, English actress (d. 1998) 1906 – John Huston, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1987) 1906 – Wassily Leontief, German-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999) 1908 – Harold Holt, Australian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967) 1908 – Jose Garcia Villa, Filipino short story writer and poet (d. 1997) 1910 – Bruno Coquatrix, French songwriter and manager (d. 1979) 1910 – Herminio Masantonio, Argentinian footballer (d. 1956) 1911 – Robert Taylor, American actor and singer (d. 1969) 1912 – Abbé Pierre, French priest and humanitarian (d. 2007) 1914 – Parley Baer, American actor (d. 2002) 1916 – Peter Viereck, American poet and academic (d. 2006) 1918