| 1984 | Alexandra Kosteniuk, Russian Celebrity |
| 1981 | Gabriella MAO Windsor, daughter of English prince Michael |
| 1979 | Jaime King, American Actress |
| 1976 | Tamas Buday, Jr., Budapest Hungary, Canadian canoeist 1996 Olympics |
| 1975 | Bret Anderson, CFL slot back for the BC Lions |
| 1974 | Joey Kent, wide receiver for the Tennessee Oilers |
| 1974 | Sam Madison, cornerback for the Miami Dolphins |
| 1973 | Derek Armstrong, born in Ottawa, NHL center for the New York Islanders |
| 1973 | Patrick Poulin, born in Vanier, NHL left wing, Tampa Bay Lightning |
| 1972 | Rachel Hetherington, born in Port Macquarie NSW, golfer, 1993 NSW Champ |
| 1971 | Chuck Adams, born in Pacific Palisades, California, tennis star, 1989 USTA Boys |
| 1970 | Cristiano Caratti, born in Italy, tennis star, 1987 Orange Bowl boys doubles |
| 1970 | Frank Temming, WLAF running back for the Amsterdam Admirals |
| 1969 | Nadeem Shahid, born in Karachi, Pakistan, Nadeem 'Nads' Shahid, English first-class cricketeer, 148 game career as right-handed batsman included 6453 runs at 31.02 with 9 hundreds, played for Essex and Surrey |
| 1968 | Susan Emily Savastano, E Providence, Rhode Island, Miss RI-America 1991 |
| 1967 | Brent Muscat, rocker, Faster Pussycat-Wake Me When It's Over |
| 1967 | Melina Kanakaredes, born in Akron, Ohio, actress, Eleni Andros-Guiding Light |
| 1967 | Rheal Cormier, born in New Brunswick, pitcher for the Montreal Expos |
| 1966 | Jacques "Jacq" Koumans, soccer player, NAC |
| 1966 | Richard Greenwood, born in Los Angeles, California, Canadian Tour golfer, 1990 Napa Valley |
| 1966 | Wayne Drinkwalter, CFL defensive tackle for the BC Lions |
| 1965 | Donna Weinbrecht, skier, Olympic-gold |
| 1964 | Dan Frischman, born in Whippany, New Jersey, actor, Arvid Engen-Head of the Class |
| 1964 | Martin Lopez-Zubero, Spanish backstroke swimmer, world record 200m |
| 1963 | Benoit Doucet, born in Montreal, Quebec, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998 |
| 1961 | George Lopez, American Comedian |
| 1960 | Joseph Martin Mudd, born in Louisville, Kentucky, PGA golfer, 1988 Federal Express |
| 1960 | Steve Clark, born in Hillsborough, England, rock guitarist, Def Leppard |
| 1960 | Valerie Bertinelli, 1 Day at a Time, Sydney, Ms. Eddie Van Halen |
| 1957 | Jan Hooks, born in Decatur, Georgia, comedienne actress, SNL, Designing Women |
| 1957 | Kathleen Lynch, Motueka New Zealand, cyclist 1996 Olympics |
| 1956 | Peter Teravainen, Plymouth MA USA, Australasia golfer |
| 1955 | Judy Davis, born in Perth, Australia, actress, Husbands and Wives |
| 1955 | Mike Smith, born in Britain, British DJ, radio presenter, racing car driver, pilot, businessman, Breakfast Show Presenter of BBC Radio One 1986 - 1988, used on-air nickname 'Smithy' |
| 1955 | Tony Miles, born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, chess player, chess Grandmaster, won matches with World Chess Champions Boris Spassky, Vassily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, achieved peak rating of 2635, January 1, 1996 |
| 1954 | Michael Moore, American Activist |
| 1953 | Fred Upton, born in St. Joseph, Michigan, Representative-R-Michigan 1987 - |
| 1953 | James Russo, born in New York City, actor, My Own Private Idaho, China Girl |
| 1952 | Lionel Johnston, Augusta, Georgia, actor, Sons and Daughters |
| 1952 | Narada, Michael Walden, Michigan, rocker, Don't Want Nobody Else |
| 1952 | Terry Moor, Hartford Conn, tennis star |
| 1951 | Loek M L H A Hermans, Dutch MP, VVD |
| 1949 | Blair Brown, born in Washington D.C., actress, Altered States, Molly Dodd |
| 1949 | John Miles, vocal/guitar/keyboards, John Miles Band-Rebel, Zaragon |
| 1949 | Joyce DeWitt, born in Wheeling, West Virginia, actress, Janet Wood-Three's Company |
| 1949 | Walter Sweeney, born in Ireland, born Walter Edward Sweeney, politician, lawyer, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for the Vale of Glamorgan |
| 1948 | Richard Day, engineer/development expert |
| 1948 | Tessa Wyatt, actress, Beast in the Cellar, Wedding Night |
| 1947 | Saskia, Trudy van den Berg, singer, S and Serge, Spinning Wheel |
| 1944 | Niklaus Schilling, Basel Germany, director, Dormire, Atem, Rheingold |
| 1944 | Sandra Dee, American Actress |
| 1943 | Carmen von Thyssen, born in Barcelona, Spain, Baroness |
| 1943 | Herve Villechaize, France, "Da Plane! Da Plane!", Fantasy Island |
| 1943 | Hugh Davies, born in Exmouth, England, composer, musicologist, invented musical instruments from household items, 1970's member of the Artist Placement Group |
| 1943 | Tony Esposito, born in Ontario, NHL goalie, Chicago Blackhawks |
| 1943 | [Gerardus] Bob van Toll, actor/interpreter/director, Pastorale 1943 |
| 1942 | Sandra Dee, Zuck, Bayonne, New Jersey, actress, Gidget, Imitation of Life |
| 1942 | Ken Auletta, American Journalist |
| 1941 | Ed Stewart, born in Exmouth, Devon, England, 'Stewpot', radio broadcaster |
| 1941 | Hal Daub, born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Representative-R-Nebraska 1981 - 1989 |
| 1940 | Lee Majors, born in Michigan, TV actor, $6,000,000 Man, Stunt Man |
| 1940 | Richard Monaco, U.S., sci-fi author, Grail War, Final Quest |
| 1939 | David Birney, born in Washington D.C., actor, Brigette Loves Bernie, St. Elsewhere |
| 1939 | Ray Peterson, born in Denton, Texas, singer, Tell Laura I Love Her |
| 1939 | William Hagerty, editor, People |
| 1938 | Leonard Ernest John Chant, social worker |
| 1938 | Russell Hillhouse, under-sect Scottish Office |
| 1938 | Steve Symms, born in Nampa, Idaho, Senator-R-Idaho 1981 - 1993, Representative-R-Idaho 1973 - 1981 |
| 1937 | Barry Shepherd, cricketer, Australian lefty bat early 60's |
| 1937 | Don Massengale, born in Jackson, Texas, PGA golfer, 1966 Bing Crosby Celebrity |
| 1937 | Victoria Glendinning, author, Edith Sitwell A Unicorn Among Lions |
| 1936 | Elias, Etienne Michiels, Flemish painter |
| 1936 | Estelle Harris, actress, Estelle Castanza-Seinfeld |
| 1936 | John D'Arcy, cricketer, New Zealand Test batsman on 1958 England tour |
| 1936 | Joseph Willaert, Flemish painter |
| 1936 | Roy Orbison, Vernon, Texas, rocker, Pretty Woman |
| 1935 | David Evans, born in England, footballer, cricketer for Aston Villa, Conservative Member of Parliament for Welwyn Hatfield |
| 1933 | Roger Wittevrongel, Flemish painter |
| 1932 | Halston, R Halston Frowick, fashion designer, 1972 Hall of Fame |
| 1932 | Jim Fixx, jogger/writer, Jim Fixx on Running |
| 1930 | Michael Bowen, RC Archbishop, Southwark |
| 1929 | George Steiner, professor, English |
| 1928 | Bill Cotton, CEO, Noel Gay TV |
| 1928 | Okke Jager, Dutch theologist/writer/poet |
| 1928 | Shirley Temple Black, California, actress, Heidi, ambassador, UN |
| 1928 | Shirley Temple, American Actress |
| 1927 | Russell Smith, composer |
| 1926 | James P. Donleavy, born in Brooklyn, novelist, Ginger Man, Onion Eaters |
| 1926 | Richard Laws, St. Edmunds College Cambridge |
| 1924 | Arthur Frackenpohl, born in Irving, New Jersey, composer, Natural Superiority of Music |
| 1924 | Colin Welch, columnist/critic |
| 1924 | James Colin Ross Welch, journalist |
| 1924 | Malcolm Anson, CEO, Wessex Water Authority |
| 1923 | Avram Davidson, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Peregrine: Primus, Rork! |
| 1923 | James Kirkup, travel writer/poet/novelist, African in Greenland |
| 1923 | Nathan "Dambuza" Mdledle, singer |
| 1922 | Boy Ecury, Aruba, resistance fighter |
| 1922 | Diarmuid Downs, auto engineer |
| 1921 | Janet Blair, born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, actress, Leave it to the Girls, Smith Family |
| 1921 | Warren Spahn, born in Buffalo, New York, left-handed pitcher, Boston/Milwaukee Braves |
| 1920 | Eric Yarrow, CEO, Clydesdale Bank |
| 1920 | Louis Barron, composer |
| 1919 | Dorian Leigh, born in San Antonio, Texas, model, sister of Suzy Parker |
| 1919 | Talivaldis Kenins, composer |
| 1919 | Bulent Arel, born in Istanbul, composer, electronic music, contemporary classical music, worked with Edgard Varese, designed, installed electronic music laboratory at Yale University |
| 1918 | Anthony Craxton, British TV producer |
| 1918 | Maurice Druon, Kessel, French writer/journalist, Prix Goncourt |
| 1917 | Jacob Kistemaker, nuclear physicist, ultra centrifuge |
| 1916 | Bud Wilkinson, college football coach, Oklahoma |
| 1915 | Arnold Hall, CEO, Hawker Siddeley Group |
| 1914 | Andrew Martin, Lord-Lt, Lechestershire England |
| 1914 | John Hubbard, born in Indiana Harbor, Indiana, actor, Don't Call Me Charlie |
| 1914 | Mitsu Suzuki, teacher of tea ceremony at San Francisco Zen Center |
| 1913 | Jan Meyerowitz, composer |
| 1911 | Ronald Neame, director, 1st Monday in Oct, Poseidon Adventure |
| 1911 | Simone Simon, born in France, actress, All Money Can Buy, Ladies in Love |
| 1909 | Thomas Padmore, senior civil servant |
| 1908 | Frederick Hawkins, dancer |
| 1908 | Herbert Telley, British actuary |
| 1906 | Marcel Hillaire, born in Cologne, Germany, actor, Adv in Paradise |
| 1906 | Maria Arnoldo, Adrianus Broeders, photographer/writer |
| 1905 | Lord Carew, born in Ireland, judge, dressage |
| 1904 | Duncan Renaldo, Spain, actor, Cisco Kid |
| 1904 | Leslie French, actor/singer, More than a Miracle |
| 1902 | Halldor Laxness, born in Iceland, novelist, Salka Valka, Nobel 1955 |
| 1900 | Henry Barraud, composer |
| 1900 | Joseph Green, film maker |
| 1899 | Edith Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand, Kiwi mystery writer, Black Beech and Honeydew |
| 1899 | Vladimir Nabokov, born in St. Petersburg, Russia, novelist, Lolita, Ada |
| 1898 | Edwin E. Dwinger, German writer, General Vlassov |
| 1897 | Harold French, director, Encore, actor |
| 1897 | John Wengraf, born in Vienna, Austria, actor, 12 to Moon, Pride and Passion |
| 1897 | Lester Bowles Pearson, L, 14th Canadian PM, 1963-68, Nobel 1957 |
| 1897 | Lucius du Bignon Clay, U.S., general, WW II, gov, West Germany |
| 1897 | Lester B. Pearson, Canadian Politician |
| 1896 | Margaret Kennedy, novelist |
| 1894 | Basil Sydney, born in England, actor, Hamlet, Jassy, Simba, Farmer's Wife |
| 1894 | George Renevant, born in Paris, actor, Moulin Rouge, Scotland Yard, Comrade X |
| 1893 | Frank Borzage, born in Salt Lake City, director, 7th Heaven, Strange Cargo |
| 1892 | Minus van Looi, Benjamin van der Voort, Flemish writer |
| 1892 | R Huelsenbeck, writer |
| 1891 | Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev, born in Ukraine, composer, Peter and the Wolf |
| 1891 | Sergei Prokofiev, Russian Composer |
| 1890 | Donald Nichols Tweedy, composer |
| 1890 | Marcel L'Herbier, French director/screenwriter, El Dorado |
| 1889 | Charles Warrell, big Chief I-Spy writer/teacher |
| 1882 | Albert Coates, born in St. Petersburg, Russia, conductor and composer, Eagle |
| 1882 | Max [G M J] Winders Maximilien, Belgium, architect, WW II |
| 1881 | Claude Carter, South African slow lefty cricketer, 1912-22 |
| 1881 | Otakar Sini, composer |
| 1877 | Arthur Farwell, composer |
| 1867 | Simon Abramsz, Dutch teacher/writer, For the Young Ones |
| 1861 | Edmund Henry Hynman, 1st viscount Allenby of Megiddo/Field Marshal |
| 1858 | Max Planck, German physicist, Planck Constant, Nobel 1918 |
| 1855 | Ernst L Wolzogen, German writer/founder, Cabaret oberbrettl |
| 1853 | Thomas Nelson Page, American Writer |
| 1852 | Edwin Markham, U.S., poet, 1st winner of American Academy of Poets Award 1937 |
| 1838 | Alfred J Verwee, Flemish painter |
| 1834 | Charles Farrar Browne, American Writer |
| 1834 | Chauncey Depew, American Politician |
| 1828 | Albert FA, king of Saxon, 1873-1902 |
| 1827 | Johann F Ritter von Schulte, German Catholic lawyer |
| 1823 | Abdul-Medjid, 31st sultan of Turkey, 1839-61 |
| 1821 | Pierre Dupont, song writer |
| 1818 | James Anthony Froude, historian |
| 1818 | John Gill Shorter, Gov, Confederacy |
| 1813 | Stephen Arnold Douglas, Little giant, U.S. senator, Lincoln debates |
| 1813 | Stephen Douglas, American Politician |
| 1812 | Louis-Antoine Julien, conductor |
| 1810 | Thomas Wright, historian |
| 1809 | Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer |
| 1804 | Guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general, Triangulatie of Belgium |
| 1803 | Jules J baron d'Anethan, Belgian minister of Justice |
| 1791 | James Buchanan, Cove Gap, Pennsylvania, 15th U.S. president, 1857-61 |
| 1791 | W Friedrich Olivier, German landscape painter/cartoonist |
| 1775 | Joseph Mallord Turner, England, landscape painter, Shipwreck |
| 1775 | J. M. W. Turner, English Artist |
| 1756 | Alexander Reinagle, composer |
| 1747 | Alexandre-Auguste Robineau, composer |
| 1735 | Ildephons Haas, composer |
| 1728 | Samuel Wallis, explorer, Wallis Island |
| 1715 | Johann Friedrich Doles, composer |
| 1708 | Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet, Versuch einiger Poem |
| 1697 | George Baron Anson, British admiral/explorer |
| 1649 | Andreas Kneller, composer |
| 1629 | John Commelin, director, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam |
| 1623 | Jan Adam Reincken, composer |
| 1598 | Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp, naval commander |
| 1547 | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer, Don Quioxite |
| 1500 | Alexander Alesius, Aless/Alane, System theologist/physician |
| 1484 | Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italy, scholar, On the Subtlety of Things |
| 1464 | Johanna van Valois, Queen of France |
| 1464 | Robert Fayrfax, composer |
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