1970) 1878 – Vincenzo Tommasini, Italian composer (d. 1950) 1879 – Rube Foster, American baseball player and manager (d. 1930) 1879 – Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Indian businessman, social activist, and politician (d. 1973) 1881 – Alfred Carpenter, English admiral, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1955) 1883 – William Carlos Williams, American poet, short story writer, and essayist (d. 1963) 1884 – Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer (d. 1920) 1886 – Anton Irv, Estonian captain (d. 1919) 1897 – Earl Webb, American baseball player and coach (d. 1965) 1900 – Hughie Critz, American baseball player (d. 1980) 1900 – Lena Frances Edwards, African-American physician, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (d. 1986) 1900 – J. Willard Marriott, American businessman, founded the Marriott Corporation (d. 1985) 1900 – Martha Ostenso, Canadian screenwriter and novelist (d. 1963) 1900 – Hedwig Ross, New Zealand-born educator and political activist, founding member of the Communist Party of New Zealand (d. 1971) 1901–present 1901 – Francis Chichester, English pilot and sailor (d. 1972) 1902 – Bea Miles, Australian author (d. 1973) 1903 – Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (d. 1984) 1903 – Frank O'Connor, Irish short story writer, novelist, and poet (d. 1966) 1903 – Minanogawa Tōzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 34th Yokozuna (d. 1971) 1905 – Tshekedi Khama, regent of the Bamangwato tribe (d. 1959) 1906 – J. R. Jayewardene, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Sri Lanka (d. 1996) 1906 – Edgar Wayburn, American physician and environmentalist (d. 2010) 1907 – Warren E. Burger, American lawyer and judge, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995) 1908 – John Creasey, English author and politician (d. 1973) 1908 – Rafael Israelyan, Armenian architect and educator, designed the Sardarapat Memorial and St. Vartan Cathedral (d. 1973) 1909 – Elizabeth Enright, American author and illustrator (d. 1968) 1912 – Irena Kwiatkowska, Polish actress (d. 2011) 1912 – Maksim Tank, Belarusian poet, journalist, and translator (d. 1995) 1914 – Thomas J. Bata, Czech-Canadian businessman (d. 2008) 1914 – William Grut, Swedish pentathlete (d. 2012) 1914 – Shin Kanemaru, Japanese politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1996) 1915 – M. F. Husain, Indian painter and director (d. 2011) 1916 – Mary Stewart, British author and poet (d. 2014) 1917 – Ib Melchior, Danish-American author and screenwriter (d. 2015) 1917 – Isang Yun, South Korean-German composer and educator (d. 1995) 1918 – Lea Gottlieb, Hungarian-Israeli fashion designer,