Meindert Niemeijer (1902-05.10.1987),  a Dutch lawyer, banker, managing director of an insurance company, chess historian . and  Internationale Master for Chess Compositions. He donated over 7,000 chess books to the Royal Hague Library.
Jan Plachetka (1945), a Slovakian Grandmaster and coach.
Alois Lanc (1948), a Slovakian International Master and Grandmaster for correspondence chess.
Mladen Palac (1971), a Croatian Grandmaster who won the Croatian Championship in 2001 and 2004.
Helgi Gretarsson (1977); an Icelandic Grandmaster who became the 1994 World Junior Champion.
Maka Purtseladze (1988), a Georgian Woman Grandmaster.
Dmitry Kokarev (1982) a Russian Grandmaster who won Wolrd U18 Championship in 1999.
Jovana Vojinovic, (1992), a Serbian Woman Grandmaster.

1898 Enzo Ferrari (d.1988), the Italian sports car manufacturer, was born.
1922 The French chess player Marcel Duchamp’s painting “Nude Descending a Staircase” was displayed at the Armory Show in NYC.
1942 Japanese troop landed on Bali.
1947 First Indochina War: The French gain complete control of Hanoi after forcing the Viet Minh to withdraw to mountains.
1954 The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles.
1965 The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1962 Robert F. Kennedy said that U.S. troops would stay in Vietnam until Communism was defeated.
1982 Mexico devalued the peso by 30 percent to fight an economic slide.
1988 Soviet Communist Party leaders dropped former Moscow party chief Boris N. Yeltsin from the ruling Politburo.
1989 The author Salman Rushdie, under a death sentence from Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini for his book “The Satanic Verses,” expressed regret for any distress he’d caused Muslims.

(Source: Timeline)