Today, in the 1800's, two people were born, Mark Twain (1835) and Wintston Churchill (1874). But in the year 1954, a woman from Alabama was struck by a meteorite. So it is really possible for meteorites to hit the earth (and people on it). Here is the rest of that story:
The first modern instance of a meteorite striking a human being occurs at Sylacauga,Alabama, when a meteorite crashes through the roof of a house and into a living room, bounces off a radio, and strikes a woman on the hip. The victim, Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges, was sleeping on a couch at the time of impact. The space rock was a sulfide meteorite weighing 8.5 pounds and measuring seven inches in length. Mrs. Hodges was not permanently injured but suffered a nasty bruise along her hip and leg.
Ancient Chinese records tell of people being injured or killed by falling meteorites, but the Sylacauga meteorite was the first modern record of this type of human injury. In 1911, a dog in Egypt was killed by the Nakhla meteorite.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/meteorite-strikes-alabama-woman
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