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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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