activist (d. 1924) 1868 – Seth Weeks, American mandolin player, composer, and bandleader (d. 1953) 1869 – José María Pino Suárez, Mexican politician, Vice President of Mexico, murdered in a military coup (d. 1913) 1871 – Samuel McLaughlin, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded the McLaughlin Carriage Company (d. 1972) 1872 – James William McCarthy, American judge (d. 1939) 1873 – Alfred Jarry, French author and playwright (d. 1907) 1873 – David O. McKay, American religious leader, 9th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1970) 1876 – Inez Knight Allen, Mormon missionary and Utah politician (d. 1937) 1881 – Harry Hillman, American runner and hurdler (d. 1945) 1881 – Refik Saydam, Turkish physician and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 1942) 1884 – Théodore Pilette, Belgian race car driver (d. 1921) 1886 – Siegfried Sassoon, English captain, journalist, and poet (d. 1967) 1886 – Ninon Vallin, French soprano and actress (d. 1961) 1889 – Robert A. Taft, American lawyer and politician (d. 1953) 1894 – John Samuel Bourque, Canadian soldier and politician (d. 1974) 1894 – Willem Pijper, Dutch composer and critic (d. 1947) 1896 – Howard Dietz, American publicist and songwriter (d. 1983) 1897 – Jimmie Rodgers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1933) 1900 – Tilly Devine, English-Australian organised crime boss (d. 1970) 1900 – Claude Pepper, American lawyer and politician (d. 1989) 1901–present 1901 – Hendrik Verwoerd, Dutch-South African journalist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1966) 1903 – Jane Arbor, English author (d. 1994) 1906 – Andrei Kirilenko, Russian engineer and politician (d. 1990) 1907 – William Wentworth, Australian economist and politician, 11th Australian Minister for Human Services (d. 2003) 1909 – Józef Noji, Polish runner (d. 1943) 1910 – Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (d. 1994) 1914 – Patriarch Demetrios I of Constantinople (d. 1991) 1914 – Denys Lasdun, English architect, designed the Royal National Theatre (d. 2001) 1915 – N. V. M. Gonzalez, Filipino novelist, poet, and writer (d. 1999) 1917 – Jan Sedivka, Czech-Australian violinist and educator (d. 2009) 1918 – Derek Barton, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998) 1919 – Gianni Brera, Italian journalist and author (d. 1992) 1919 – Maria Lassnig, Austrian painter and academic (d. 2014) 1921 – Harry Secombe, Welsh-English actor (d. 2001) 1921 – Dinko Šakić, Croatian concentration camp commander (d. 2008) 1922 – Sid Caesar, American