1813
Alexander Ludovichevich von Stiglitz,
financier and philanthropist,
the first manager
of the State Bank of Russia

1894
Julian Tuvim,
Polish poet

1894
John Boynton Priestley,
English novelist and playwright

1923
Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya,
the first woman awarded the title
Hero of the Soviet Union