| 1977 | Lisa Ervin, figure skater, U.S. Nationals-4th-1992 |
| 1976 | Lenka Nemeckova, born in Brno Czechoslovakia, tennis star, 1993 Futures-Maribor-SLO |
| 1975 | Joey Lawrence, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, actor, Gimme a Break, Blossom, Summer Rental |
| 1974 | Ben[jamin] Lincoln Holbrook, Hartland Wis, rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1974 | Kevin Sullivan, born in Brantford, Ontario, 1.5k runner 1996 Olympics |
| 1974 | Paul Bradford, cornerback for the San Diego Chargers |
| 1973 | Itula Mili, tight end for the Seattle Seahawks |
| 1973 | Lamond Murray, NBA forward for the Los Angeles Clippers |
| 1973 | Todd Hollandsworth, born in Dayton, Ohio, outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers |
| 1972 | Carmen Electra, born in Sharonville, Ohio, born Tara Leigh Patrick, model, actress, sex symbol, appeared in Playboy magazine, television show 'Baywatch' |
| 1971 | Chris Penn, NFL wide receiver, Kansas City Chiefs, Chicago Bears |
| 1971 | Grant Smith, Australian field hockey forward 1996 Olympics |
| 1971 | John Senden, born in Brisbane QLD, Australasia golfer |
| 1971 | Terry Smith, NFL wide receiver for the Indianapolis Colts |
| 1971 | Yonel Jourdain, NFL running back/kick returner for the Buffalo Bills |
| 1970 | Ben Weir, born in Rock Island, Illinois, Canadian Tour golfer, 1993 Bogey Hills-2nd |
| 1970 | Shemar Moore, born in Oakland, California, actor, Malcolm-Young and Restless |
| 1969 | John van Halst, soccer player, FC Twente |
| 1969 | Takayuki Kobori, hockey defenseman, Team Japan 1998 |
| 1968 | LeShundra Nathan, born in Birmingham, Alabama, heptathlete |
| 1967 | J. D. Roth, born in Beverly Hills, California, TV host, Fun House |
| 1967 | Lara Jill Miller, born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, actress, Samantha-Gimme a Break |
| 1967 | Miroslav Stefanovic, soccer player, FC Volendam |
| 1967 | Townsend Saunders, White Sands, New Mexico, freestyle wrestler, Silver Medals 1992, 1996 Olympics |
| 1965 | Jim Terrell, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, sprint canoe 1996 Olympics |
| 1964 | John Carney, NFL kicker for the San Diego Chargers |
| 1964 | Paul Nobes, cricketer, prolific opening batsman for Victoria and SA |
| 1963 | Brett Edward Garsed, born in Victoria Australia, heavy metal artist, Nelson |
| 1961 | Don Mattingly, born in Indiana, 1st baseman, New York Yankees/MVP 1985 |
| 1961 | Marci Bozarth, Lampasas, Texas, LPGA golfer, 1994 Lady Keystone Open-37th |
| 1960 | Rodney Holman, NFL tight end, Detroit Lions |
| 1959 | Clint Howard, born in Burbank, California, actor, Gentle Ben |
| 1958 | Viacheslav Fetisov, born in Moscow, NHL defenseman, Team Russia, Detroit |
| 1957 | Graeme Fowler, cricketer, England left-handed opener early 80s |
| 1957 | Richenel, Hubertus R Baars, singer/performer, Turn My Page |
| 1955 | Donald R. Pettit, born in Silverton, Oregon, PhD/astronaut |
| 1954 | Peter Toohey, cricketer, NSW and Australian batsman 1977-80 |
| 1952 | Tamara Sergeyevna Zakharova, Russian cosmonaut |
| 1952 | Toine van Benthem, dentist/playwright/cabaret performer, Purper |
| 1951 | Geraint Wyn Davies, born in Wales, actor, Bury Me in Niagara, High Hopes |
| 1951 | Luther Vandross, born in New York City, rock vocalist, On the Wings of Love |
| 1951 | Louise Jameson, British Actress |
| 1950 | Itumeleng J Mosala, South Africa president, Azanian People's Org |
| 1949 | Jessica Lange, born in Cloquet, Minnesota, actress, King Kong, Tootsie |
| 1948 | Craig Frost, keyboardist, Grand Funk Railroad-Some Kind of Wonderful |
| 1947 | David Leland, born in Cambridge, England, actor and director, Nothing But Trouble |
| 1947 | Andrew Tobias, American Journalist |
| 1945 | Jimmy Winston, born in London, organist, Samll Facres-Itchycoo Park |
| 1943 | Edie Sedgwick, born in Santa Barbara, California, actor, Ciao Manhattan |
| 1943 | Ian Watson, born in UK, sci-fi author, Book of Being, Whores of Babylon |
| 1943 | Michael Greer, born in born in Galesburg, Illinois, actor, Bobby Gentry Show |
| 1941 | Joni Evans, New York City, publisher, Simon and Schuster, Random House |
| 1941 | Ryan O'Neal, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Peyton Place, Paper Moon, Love Story |
| 1940 | George Takei, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Sulu-Star Trek, Green Berets |
| 1940 | James Gammon, born in Newman, Illinois, actor, Cool Hand Luke, Nick-Nash Bridges |
| 1940 | Jan Cremer, Dutch writer/sculptor, I, John Cremer |
| 1940 | Pilar Miro, director, Wether, Beltenebros |
| 1939 | Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian premier, 1981-82, 86-89, 90- |
| 1938 | Bernard Malivoire, born in France, cox pair 1952 Olympics gold |
| 1938 | Betty Cuthbert, Australia 100m/200m/400m dash, Gold Medals 1956, 1964 Olympics |
| 1938 | Johnny Tillotson, born in Jacksonville, Florida, singer, Gidget, Poetry in Motion |
| 1936 | Pat Roberts, born in Topeka, Kansas, Representative-R-Kansas 1981 - 1997, Senator-R-Kansas 1997 - |
| 1934 | Lindsay Oliver John Boynton, furniture historian |
| 1931 | Lee Hamilton, born in Daytona Beach, Florida, Representative-D-Indiana 1965 - 1999 |
| 1930 | Alan Oakman, cricketer, England batsman against Australia 1956 |
| 1929 | Bob Braun, Ludlow, Kentucky, singer, Dotty Mack Show |
| 1928 | Robert Byrne, American Celebrity |
| 1927 | Karl Muller, born in Switzerland, superconductivity physicist, Nobel 1987 |
| 1926 | Harriett Elizabeth Byrd, politician, Wyoming house of Reps |
| 1925 | Ernie Stautner, NFL tackle, Steelers, WLAF head coach, Galaxy |
| 1925 | Richard Hoffmann, composer |
| 1924 | Gerhard Samuel, composer |
| 1924 | Nina Foch, born in Leiden, Netherlands, actress, American in Paris |
| 1924 | Paul M Van Buren, U.S. theologist, Theological Explorations |
| 1923 | Tito Puente, born in Puerto Rico, bandleader, Dance Mania |
| 1921 | Donald Gunn MacRae, sociologist |
| 1920 | John Paul Stevens, born in Illinois, 103rd Supreme Court Justice, 1975- |
| 1913 | Dick Wessel, WI, actor, Dick Tracy vs Cueball, Beware of Blondie |
| 1912 | David Townsend, cricketer, 3 Tests England vs. WI 1935 |
| 1912 | Ed Jones, born in Yorkville, Tennessee, Representative-D-Tennessee 1969 - 1989 |
| 1912 | Frederick Craig Riddle, violist |
| 1912 | Soewarsil Djojopoespito, Indonesia, writer, Toe the Line |
| 1911 | Kukrit Pramoj, politician |
| 1909 | Guido Alberti, literary patron/businessman |
| 1909 | Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader/vibraphone improviser, Depths Below |
| 1909 | Richard Stubbs, publicity adviser |
| 1908 | Wilhelmus M Bekkers, bishop of Hertogenbosch |
| 1907 | Alan Reed, actor/voice, Fred Allen Show, Fred Flintstone |
| 1907 | Miran Bux, cricketer, his one season of Test and 1st-class play 1954-55 |
| 1907 | William Dollar, St. Louis, ballet dancer/choreographer |
| 1905 | Stanley Marcus, American Businessman |
| 1904 | Bruce Cabot, born in Carlsbad, New Mexico, actor, Diamonds are Forever, King Kong |
| 1904 | Bob Bartlett, American Politician |
| 1903 | Dagmar Edqvist, Swedish author, Kamrathustru-Wife and Comrade |
| 1902 | Donald Wolfit, born in England, actor, Lawrence of Arabia, Becket, Accursed |
| 1902 | Vesselin Stoyanov, composer |
| 1901 | Michel Leiris, French cultural anthropologist |
| 1901 | Mohammed Naguib, Egyptian Statesman |
| 1900 | Fred Raymond, composer |
| 1900 | Kees Verwey, painter/water colors painter/cartoonist |
| 1897 | Bernard Verhoeven, poet/literature, About the Laugh |
| 1897 | Gregory Ratoff, Petrograd Russia, actor and director, Corsican Brothers |
| 1896 | Senor Wences, ventriloquist, Close the Door |
| 1894 | Martinus Nijhoff, poet/interpreter/linguistic, spelling |
| 1893 | Harold Lloyd, Burchard, Nebraska, silent comic, Why Worry, Safety Last |
| 1893 | Hermann Ungar, writer |
| 1893 | Juan Miro, Spain, painter/sculptor, Dog Barking at the Moon |
| 1890 | Adolf Scharf, president Austria, 1957-65 |
| 1889 | Adolph Hitler, Braunau Austria, dictator of Nazi Germany, 1936-45 |
| 1889 | Adolf Hitler, born in Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary, genocidal leader of Germany |
| 1881 | Nikolai Miaskovsky, Novogeorievsk Poland, composer, Kirov is With Us |
| 1881 | Sem Dresden, composer and conductor |
| 1879 | Robert Lynd, Irish writer/critic, Pleasures of Ignorance |
| 1876 | Gerard J Arbous, actor/publicist, Prince William of Orange |
| 1870 | Simeon Roncal, composer |
| 1866 | Victor Hollaender, composer |
| 1865 | Max HHR Nettlau, Austrian historian, Le Premiere Internationale |
| 1860 | Charles Gordon Curtis, U.S. attorney/inventor, Curtis Turbine |
| 1860 | Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Dutch MP, SDAP |
| 1858 | Auguste Chapuis, composer |
| 1857 | Charles LP "Philip" Zilcken, painter/author, HW Knife Day |
| 1857 | Hermann Bang, writer |
| 1850 | Daniel Chester, French/American sculptor, Minute Man |
| 1840 | Odilon Redon, French painter/author, La nuit, Raves |
| 1839 | Carol I, King of Romania, 1881-1914 |
| 1827 | John Gibbon, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1826 | Dina M Craik, writer |
| 1826 | Dinah Maria Mulock, English Novelist |
| 1824 | Alfred Holt Colquitt, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1809 | John Smith Preston, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1808 | Louis-Napoleon, Napoleon III, emperor of France, 1852-71 |
| 1761 | Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier, composer |
| 1748 | Georg Michael Telemann, composer |
| 1748 | Guillaume Albert Teniers, composer |
| 1745 | Philippe Pinel, physician, founder of psychiatry |
| 1739 | William Bartram, American Environmentalist |
| 1726 | Jozef de Ferraris, French/Austrian earl/general/cartographer |
| 1725 | Johann Friedrich Kloffler, composer |
| 1705 | Balthasar Schmid, composer |
| 1594 | Matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern, composer |
| 1592 | John Eliot, St. Germans Cornwall, English MP/author |
| 1494 | John Agricola, Schneider, German theologist/prime minister |
| 1492 | Pietro Aretino, born in Arezzo, Italy, Italian author, poet and playwright |
| 1442 | Edward IV, King, England, 1461-83 |
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