| 1993 | Aurelia Clasina Lucia Wildeboer, daughter of Pieter and Mirtle |
| 1978 | Mike Bryan, born in Oxnard, California, tennis star, USTA National 18 doubles |
| 1976 | God Shammgod, NBA guard, Washington Wizards |
| 1976 | Nayla Micherif, Miss Brazil Universe 1997 |
| 1975 | John Macready, born in Los Angeles, California, gymnast, Olympics-5th-96 |
| 1974 | Alana Blahoski, ice hockey forward, USA, 1998 Olympics |
| 1972 | Gwendolyn Wentland, born in Flint, Michigan, high jumper |
| 1971 | Sterling Hitchcock, Fayetteville, North Carolina, pitcher, New York Yankees, Sea Mariners |
| 1970 | Andre Agassi, born in Las Vegas, Nevada, tennis star, Gold Medal 1996 Olympics, U.S. Open 1994 |
| 1970 | Arnaud Briand, hockey forward, Team France 1998 |
| 1970 | Derrick Frazier, NFL cornerback for the Philadelphia Eagles |
| 1970 | J. R. Phillips, born in West Covina, California, infielder for the Philadelphia Phillies |
| 1970 | Leuea Tagoai, CFL defensive end for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers |
| 1970 | Mark McMillian, NFL cornerback, Philadelphia Eagles, Kansas City Chiefs |
| 1970 | Uma Thurman, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress, Baron Munchausen, Pulp Fiction |
| 1970 | William Martin III, born in Charleston, South Carolina, finn yachter, Olympics-23rd-1996 |
| 1969 | Arthur Marshall, NFL wide receiver for the New York Giants |
| 1968 | Browning Nagle, NFL quarterback, New York Jets, Atlanta Falcons |
| 1968 | Carnie Wilson, born in Los Angeles, California, rock vocalist, Wilson Phillips-Hold On |
| 1967 | Curtis Joseph, born in Keswick, Ontario, NHL goalie, Team Canada, Edmonton Oilers |
| 1967 | Elizabeth "Betsy" McCagg, born in Kirkland, Washington, rower, Olympics-4th-92, 96 |
| 1967 | Mary McCagg, born in Seattle, Washington rower, Olympics-4th-92, 96 |
| 1967 | Rachel Williams, born in Greenwich Village, New York, model, Absolut Vodka, Elle |
| 1966 | John VanderWal, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, outfielder for the Colorado Rockies |
| 1966 | Phil Tufnell, cricketer, England slow lefty and slower fieldsman |
| 1965 | Reggie Miller, NBA player for the Indiana Pacers |
| 1962 | Bruce Driver, born in Toronto, NHL defenseman for the New York Rangers |
| 1962 | Dieter Hegen, born in Kaufbeuren GER, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998 |
| 1962 | Robert Druppers, runner, world record 1 km indoor |
| 1960 | Gerard Joling, Dutch singer, Love is in Your Eyes |
| 1960 | Joseph Guzaldo, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Stir Crazy |
| 1960 | William Lee Glasson, Jr., born in Fresno, California, PGA golfer, 1985 Kemper Open |
| 1958 | Daniel Day-Lewis, born in England, actor, Last of the Mohicans, My Left Foot |
| 1958 | Eve Plumb, born in Burbank, actress, Jan-Brady Bunch, I'm Gonna Get You Sucka |
| 1958 | Michelle Pfeiffer, born in Midway City, California, actress, Married to the Mob |
| 1958 | Simon Edwards, rocker, Fairground Attraction-Find My Love |
| 1957 | Richie C. Robertson, rock bassist/vocalist, Fabulous Poodles |
| 1955 | Jerry Seinfeld, comedian/actor, Jerry-Seinfeld |
| 1955 | Kate Mulgrew, born in Dubuque, Iowa, actress, Captain Janeway-Star Trek Voyager |
| 1954 | Bill Paxon, born in Akron, New York, Representative-R-New York 1989 - 1999 |
| 1953 | Nikolai Nikolayevich Budarin, born in Kirya Russia, cosmonaut, STS-71, TM-27 |
| 1952 | Deborah Van Valkenburgh, born in Schnectady, actress, Too Close for Comfort |
| 1952 | Nora Dunn, born in Chicago, Illinois, comedienne, SNL, Miami Blues, Working Girl |
| 1952 | David Icke, English Athlete |
| 1951 | Dale Earnhardt, auto racer, 7-time NASCAR national champion |
| 1950 | Debbie Stabenow, American Politician |
| 1949 | Anita Dobson, born in England, actress, Annie Watts-EastEnders |
| 1949 | Eddie Hart, U.S., 100m runner, Olympic-1972 |
| 1949 | Francis Rossi, born in England, guitarist and vocalist, Status Quo-Down Down |
| 1948 | Reb Brown, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Cage, Yor, Captain America, Fast Break |
| 1947 | Jim Ryun, U.S., 1500m runner/broke 4 minute mile, Silver Medal 1968 Olympics |
| 1947 | John Laurence Miller, born in San Francisco, California, golfer, U.S. Open 1973, British Open 1976 |
| 1947 | Tommy James, born in Dayton, Ohio, born Thomas Gregory Jackson, musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, led rock band Tommy James and the Shondells |
| 1946 | Franc Roddam, director, K2, Bride, Aria, Quadrophenia |
| 1945 | Hugh Hopper, rocker, Soft Machine |
| 1945 | Richard Warwick, actor, Johnny Dangerously, Sebastine, If |
| 1945 | Tammi Terrell, Montgomery, singer, Ain't No Mountain High Enough |
| 1944 | Benedikte, Danish princess/daughter of Frederik IX |
| 1944 | Jim Hart, Evanston, Illinois, NFL quarterback for the St. Louis Cardinals |
| 1944 | Francis Lee, English Athlete |
| 1944 | Richard Kline, American Actor |
| 1943 | Duane Allen, born in Taylortown, Texas, country singer, Oak Ridge Boys-Elvira |
| 1942 | Klaus Voorman, rock bassist, Manfred Mann-Mighty Quinn |
| 1941 | Jonah Barrington, British World champion squash player, 1966-73 |
| 1940 | Brian Taber, cricket wicket-keeper, Australian between Grout and Marsh |
| 1936 | April Stevens, born in Niagara Falls, New York, rock vocalist, Deep Purple |
| 1936 | Jacob Rothschild, English banker/multi-millionaire |
| 1936 | Lane Smith, born in Memphis, Tennessee, actor, Perry White-Lois and Clark |
| 1936 | Richard Lynch, actor, Xavier-Battlestar Galactica |
| 1936 | Zubin Mehta, born in Bombay, India, conductor, New York Philharmonic |
| 1935 | Len Weinrib, New York City, comedian, Spike Jones Show |
| 1935 | Otto Zykan, born in Vienna, Austria, composer, pianist, student, Vienna Music Academy, wrote operas 'Kunst kommt von Gonnen', 'Auszahlreim' |
| 1934 | Pedro Pires, premier, Cape Verde, 1975-91 |
| 1933 | Darijan Bozic, born in Slavonski Brod, Croatia, composer, conductor, manager, artistic director of The Slovene National Theater Opera and Ballet Ljubljana |
| 1933 | Keith Baxter, born in South Wales, actor, Barretts at Wimpole Street |
| 1933 | Raymond Earl Hill, saxophonist |
| 1933 | Rod Marvin McKuen, born in Oakland, California, singer/composer, Alone, Beatsville |
| 1932 | King Hu, born in Beijing, China, film director, scriptwriter, set designer, directed films 'Come Drink With Me', 'Dragon Gate Inn' |
| 1932 | Yevgeni Alekseyevich Zaikin, Russian cosmonaut, Voshkod 2 backup |
| 1931 | Aleksei Aleksandrovich Gubarev, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, Soyuz 17, 28 |
| 1931 | Anthony "Lonnie" Donegan, Scotish skiffle vocalist/guitarist |
| 1931 | Lonnie Donegan, born in Glasgow, Scotland, vocalist |
| 1931 | William Ball, actor, Suburban Commando |
| 1930 | Alf Valentine, cricketer, great West Indian lefty spinner |
| 1930 | Alfred Lewis Valentine, Jamaican cricket player |
| 1929 | Peter Joshua Sculthorpe, composer |
| 1929 | Vaclav Kucera, composer |
| 1929 | Walter Kempowski, German writer, Tadelloser and Wolff |
| 1929 | Jeremy Thorpe, British MP, Liberal |
| 1929 | Maurice Strong, Canadian Businessman |
| 1929 | Jeremy Thorpe, British Politician |
| 1928 | Big Jay McNeely, rocker |
| 1928 | Carl Gardner, born in Tyler, Texas, rock vocalist, Coasters-Searchin |
| 1927 | Betsy Ancker-Johnson, physicist and auto company executive |
| 1927 | Dorothy Manley, England, 100m sprint 1948 Olympics silver |
| 1926 | Carrie P. Meek, born in Tallahassee, Florida, Representative-D-Florida 1993 - 2003 |
| 1925 | Ab Abspoel, Dutch actor and director, Surprise Attack, Elevator |
| 1925 | Danny Davis, rocker, Nashville Brass |
| 1924 | Al Balding, born in Toronto, Ontario, Canadian Tour golfer, Quebec Open-1952 |
| 1924 | Renee Jeanmaire, Paris, France, dancer, Hans Christian Anderson |
| 1923 | Irvin Kershner, Philadelphia, director, Never Say Never Again |
| 1923 | Maxine Audley, born in London, actress, Peeping Tom, Ricochet, House of Cards |
| 1922 | George Allen, football coach, Los Angeles Rams, Washington Redskins |
| 1922 | Parren Mitchell, born in Baltimore, Maryland, Representative-D-Maryland 1971 - 1987 |
| 1922 | Tommy Noonan, Washington, actor, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Promises Promises |
| 1922 | Toots [Jean] Thielemans, Belgian/U.S. jazz musician/composer |
| 1922 | Toots Thielemans, Belgian Musician |
| 1921 | Cornelis de Jager, Dutch astronomer, Sun |
| 1920 | Edward Blishen, writer teacher/broadcaster |
| 1920 | Harold Samuel Shapero, born in Lynn, Massachusetts, composer, 9 Minute Opera |
| 1919 | Celeste Holm, born in New York City, actress, Gentleman's Agreement, All About Eve |
| 1918 | Mervyn Roye Harvey, cricketer, brother of Neil, Test for Australia |
| 1915 | Donald Mills, singer, Mills Brothers |
| 1914 | Ewan Roberts, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, actress, Pvt Benjamin |
| 1913 | Jack Alexander Bently, trombonist |
| 1913 | Thomas Chalmers, broadcaster |
| 1912 | Italo Valenti, Italian sculptor |
| 1912 | Richard Carlson, Minnesota, actor, All I Desire, Flat Top, Valley of Gwangi |
| 1912 | Terence de Vere White, novelist/critic |
| 1910 | John Beavan, newspaper editor |
| 1909 | Daniel Raphael Mayer, journalist/resistance leader |
| 1909 | Tom Ewell, S Yewell Tompkins, Kentucky, actor, Tom Ewell Show, 7 Year Itch |
| 1909 | Iyad Allawi, Iraqi Statesman |
| 1909 | Karen Armstrong, English Writer |
| 1909 | James Sanborn, American Sculptor |
| 1909 | Shirley Franklin, American Politician |
| 1908 | Jack [Stewart] Williamson, U.S., sci-fi author, Cometeers |
| 1908 | Philippe Brun, jazz trumpeter |
| 1907 | Fred Zinneman, born in Austria, director, From Here to Eternity, Julia |
| 1907 | Tino Rossi, Ajaccio France, singer, Deux Amours, Marlene |
| 1907 | Fred Zinnemann, American Director |
| 1904 | Enrico Mattei, Italian oil magnate |
| 1904 | Russ Morgan, born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, orchestra leader, Welcome Aboard |
| 1903 | Frank Parker, born in New York City, singer, Arthur Godfrey Show, Masquerade Party |
| 1902 | Theodore Chanler, composer |
| 1901 | George Osborne Sayles, historian |
| 1901 | Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1926-89 |
| 1899 | Duke Ellington, Washington D.C., Edward Kennedy, bandleader, Take A Train |
| 1899 | Karl Yngve Skold, composer |
| 1899 | Natalie Talmadge, actress, Our Hospitality |
| 1896 | Jacques Leon Wolfe, composer |
| 1896 | Walter Mehring, writer |
| 1895 | Malcolm Sargent, English conductor, Promenade Concerts |
| 1894 | Paul Horbiger, born in Budapest, Hungary, actor, Liebelei |
| 1893 | Elisaveta Bagrjana, Beltsheva, Bulgaria, poet |
| 1893 | Harold C Urey, Indiana, physicist, Deuterium, Nobel 1934 |
| 1893 | Harold C. Urey, Physicist |
| 1885 | Egon E Kisch, Czechoslovakian writer/journalist, Rasende Reporter |
| 1885 | Wallingford Riegger, born in Albany, Georgia, composer, Bacchangle |
| 1882 | Hendrik N Werkman, painter/printer/resistance fighter, Hot printing |
| 1879 | Thomas Beecham, born in England, composer, found London Philharmonic |
| 1873 | Alida J M Tartaud-Klein, actress/stage star, Rotterdam Stage |
| 1872 | Eyvind Alnaes, composer |
| 1871 | Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher, Intelligence of Children |
| 1863 | William Randolph Hearst, publisher, SF Examiner, Seattle P-I |
| 1862 | Vittorio Mario Vanzo, composer |
| 1860 | Lorado Taft, U.S., sculptor, Black Hawk |
| 1857 | Edouard Rod, France/Swiss writer, Mishel' Tes'e |
| 1857 | Frantisek Ondricek, composer |
| 1855 | Anatol K Liadov, Russian composer, Bewitched Lake, |
| 1855 | Edmund van der Straeten, composer |
| 1854 | Henri Poincare, France, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher |
| 1842 | Karl Millocker, Austria conductor and composer, Beggar Student |
| 1830 | Adolph Sutro, San Francisco mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels |
| 1818 | Alexander II N Romanov, Tsar of Russia, 1855-81 |
| 1815 | Abram Duryee, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1806 | Earnest Freiherr von Feuchtersleben, Austria, physician/philosopher |
| 1803 | Paul Cullen, Irish Clergyman |
| 1783 | David Cox, English painter, Treatise on landscape painting |
| 1780 | Charles Nodier, French writer, La fee aux miettes |
| 1771 | Matthaus Stegmayer, composer |
| 1745 | Oliver Ellsworth, 3rd Chief Justice Supreme Court, 1796-1800 |
| 1727 | Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer and choreographer, ballet d'action |
| 1667 | John Arbuthnot, Scottish writer, Alexander Pope |
| 1660 | Matthias Henriksen Schacht, composer |
| 1642 | Christian Weise, German writer, Niederlandische Bauer |
| 1636 | Esaias Reusner, composer |
| 1584 | Melchior Teschner, composer |
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