(d. 1914) 1838 – Liliʻuokalani of Hawaii (d. 1917) 1839 – Henry George, American economist and author (d. 1897) 1850 – Eugene Field, American author and poet (d. 1895) 1850 – Albert Spalding, American baseball player, manager, and businessman, co-founded the Spalding Sporting Goods Company (d. 1915) 1850 – Woldemar Voigt, German physicist and academic (d. 1919) 1852 – Paul Bourget, French author and critic (d. 1935) 1853 – Wilhelm Ostwald, Latvian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932) 1856 – John Bowser, English-Australian politician, 26th Premier of Victoria (d. 1936) 1865 – Simeón Ola, Filipino general and politician (d. 1952) 1866 – Charles Vintcent, South African cricketer and rugby player (d. 1943) 1873 – Lily Poulett-Harris, Australian cricketer and educator (d. 1897) 1877 – Frederick Soddy, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1956) 1878 – Herman, Estonian-Finnish archbishop (d. 1961) 1878 – Werner von Blomberg, German field marshal (d. 1946) 1883 – Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria (d. 1963) 1884 – Frank Laubach, American missionary and mystic (d. 1970) 1892 – Dezső Kertész, Hungarian actor and film director (d. 1965) 1894 – Joseph Roth, Austrian journalist and author (d. 1939) 1897 – Fazlollah Zahedi, Iranian general and statesman, 36th Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1963) 1901–present 1901 – Andreas Embirikos, Greek psychoanalyst and poet (d. 1975) 1901 – Adolph Rupp, American basketball player and coach (d. 1977) 1904 – August Jakobson, Estonian author and politician (d. 1963) 1907 – Pertev Naili Boratav, Turkish author and educator (d. 1998) 1908 – Ruth Bancroft, American landscape and garden designer (d. 2017) 1910 – Paul Saagpakk, Estonian linguist, lexicographer, and academic (d. 1996) 1910 – Donald Watson, English activist, founded the Vegan Society (d. 2005) 1911 – Romare Bearden, American painter and author (d. 1988) 1911 – William F. Harrah, American businessman, founded Harrah's Entertainment (d. 1978) 1911 – Lill Tschudi, Swiss artist (d. 2004) 1912 – Ernest Bromley, Australian cricketer (d. 1967) 1913 – Israel Gelfand, Russian-American mathematician and biologist (d. 2009) 1913 – Bill Shankly, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1981) 1915 – Benjamin Aaron, American lawyer and scholar (d. 2007) 1916 – Ömer Lütfi Akad, Turkish director and screenwriter (d. 2011) 1917 – Laurindo Almeida, Brazilian-American guitarist and composer (d. 1995) 1917 – Cleveland Amory, American author and critic (d. 1997) 1918 – Allen Drury, American journalist and author (d. 1998) 1919 – Marge Champion, American