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1978 Amber Brkich, American Celebrity
1976 Lubomir Visnovsky, born in Topolcany, Czechoslovakia, hockey defenseman, Team Slovakia
1976 Will Friedle, Hartford, Connecticut, actor, Eric-Boy Meets World, Gift of Love
1975 Chris Kelly, Mack Daddy, Teaneck, New Jersey, rapper, Kris Kross-Warm it Up
1975 Natasha Bell, Miss Michigan USA 1996
1975 Carolyn Murphy, American Model
1973 Edgardo Alfonzo, Sta Teresa Venezuela, infielder for the New York Mets
1973 Thomas Haskins, CFL running back, Montreal Alouettes
1972 Curtis Ceaser, NFL wide receiver for the New York Jets
1971 Aaron Miller, born in Buffalo, NHL defenseman for the Colorado Avalanche
1971 Julie Anne Clark, born in Tucson, Arizona, playmate, Mar, 1991
1969 Dave Pashko, born in Toronto, Canadian Tour golfer, 1992 CPGA Winter Tour
1969 Eddie Garcia, born in Louisiana, actor/musician, Guys Next Door-I Was Made For You
1969 Wilfried Elzinga, soccer player, FC Twente
1968 Charlie Sexton, born in San Antonio, Texas, musician, singer, songwriter, blues, folk, rock genres, guitarist for Bob Dylan's backing band, also played with Arc Angels band
1967 Brad Dalgarno, Vancouver, NHL right wing for the New York Islanders
1967 Mike Lodish, NFL nose tackle, Denver Broncos Superbowl 32
1966 Antonio Goss, NFL linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers
1964 Grant Osten Waite, Palmerston New Zealand, PGA golfer, 1993 Kemper Open
1964 Hamish, rocker, The Pasedenas-Riding on the Train
1963 Mike Huff, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, outfielder for the Toronto Blue Jays
1962 Jonathan Hayes, NFL tight end for the Pittsburgh Steelers
1962 Uvais Karnain, cricketer, Sri Lankan ODI bowler in mid 1980's
1961 Craig Ehlo, NBA guard for the Atlanta Hawks
1961 Frederick W. Sturckow, born in La Mesa, California, USMC Captain and astronaut, STS-88
1960 Leora "Sam" Jones, born in Mount Olive, North Carolina, U.S. team handball player 1992 Olympics
1959 Linda Rhys Vaughn, born in Grossmont, California, playmate, Apr, 1982
1958 Cordelia Gonzalez, San Juan PR, actor, La Gran Fiesta
1958 Lori Garbacz, South Bend, Indiana, LPGA golfer, 1989 Circle K Tucson Open
1957 Richie Ramone, Richie Beau, rock drummer, Ramones-Pet Semtary
1955 Norio Honaga, born in Japan, athlete, professional wrestler, junior heavyweight three-time, New Japan Pro Wrestling Champion in IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship, retired and became referee in 1988
1954 Joe Jackson, English singer/pianist/composer, The Harder they Come
1954 Lina Polito, born in Naples, Italy, actress, Love and Anarchy
1954 M V Narasimha Rao, cricketer, Indian leg-spin all-rounder 1978-79
1954 Yashpal Sharma, cricketer, Indian right-handed batsman early 80'
1953 Hulk Hogan, Georgia, WWF heavyweight champion, 1984-89
1953 Sanford Jensen, born in South Haven, Michigan, actor, Foley Square
1952 Ann Michelle, England, actress, Virigin Witch, Mistress Pamela
1950 Erik Braunn, born in Boston, Massachusetts, rock guitarist, Iron Butterfly
1950 Steve Wozniak, co-founder, Apple Computers
1949 Eric Carmen, born in Cleveland, Ohio, rocker, All by Myself
1949 Ian Charleson, Edinburgh Scotland, actor, Gandhi, Chariots of Fire
1949 Tim Hutchinson, born in Bentonville, Arkansas, Representative-R-Arkansas 1993 - 1997, Senator-R-Arkansas 1997 - 2003
1948 Don Boyd, director, Goldeneye, 21, East of Elephant Rock
1947 Catherine Collard, French pianist, Schumann/Brahms
1947 Sergey Kovalneko, U.S.S.R., basketball 1968 Olympics bronze
1946 John Conlee, Versailles, Kentucky, country singer, Common Man
1946 Marilyn Vos Savant, born in St. Louis, Missouri, writer/world's highest IQ, 228
1944 David Pearl, British judge
1943 Denis Payton, rocker, Dave Clarke 5-Glad All Over
1943 James Kale, rocker, Guess Who
1943 Kenny Gamble, U.S. songwriter, Me and Mrs. Jones
1943 Krzysztof Meyer, composer
1943 Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani Statesman
1941 Elizabeth Holtzman, Brooklyn DA, D-Rep-NY, Watergate Committee
1941 Patricio Guzman, director/actor, Cruz del Sur, Moon over Parador
1940 Kip King, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Charlie and Company
1938 Allegra Kent, born in Santa Monica, California, ballerina
1937 Allegra Kent, U.S. actress, Addams Family
1937 Anna Massey, actress, De Sade, Doll's House
1937 Taki Theodoracopoulos, Greek/British journalist/multi-millionaire
1936 D V Day, Principal, St. John's College, Durham U
1936 J L Thompson, Bishop, Bath and Wells
1936 Andre Dubus, American Writer
1934 Bob Hepple, master, Clare College Cambridge
1933 Jerry Falwell, born in Virginia, pastor, evangelist, social conservative, cofounder of the Moral Majority
1933 Julian Oswald, British Admiral of the Fleet
1933 Justin Connolly, composer
1933 Tam s Vasary, pianist/conductor
1932 Angela Rumbold, born in England, politician, Member of Parliament, British Conservative Party, attended King's College, served as Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party
1932 Fernando Arrabal, Spanish song/romance writer, Baal Babilonia
1932 Geoffrey Cass, CEO, Cambridge University Press
1932 Eric Varley, born in England, born Eric Varley, Baron Varley of Chesterfield in the County of Derbyshire, politician, Labor Party, Cabinet Minister, Member of Parliament for Chesterfield
1932 Sam McCluskie, trade unionist
1932 Wilson "Papa" Godett, Curacaos worker's union leader/boxer
1930 Heinz Werner Zimmermann, composer
1930 Michael Quinlan, civil servant
1930 William O'Neill, born in Hartford, Connecticut, Connecticut Governor 1980 - 1991, Democrat
1929 Alun Hoddinott, born in Wales, composer, lecturer, co-founded and directed the Cardiff Festival
1929 Cora de Man-Canne Meyer, mezzo-soprano, Figaro, Carmen
1928 Charles Hugh Shirley, publisher
1928 Richard Barratt, former Chief Inspector of Constabulary
1927 James Eaton, Lord-Lieutenant of the City of Londonderry
1927 Kenneth Eastham, born in England, politician, Labor Party Member of Parliament for Manchester Blackley 1979 - 1997
1927 Len Rempt-Halmmans de Jongh, Dutch MP, VVD
1927 Pentti Vihtori, Finland, writer/poet, Yksinaiset [Solitude]
1927 Raymond Leppard, born in London, England, conductor, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
1926 Aaron Klug, OM/PRS/biochemist
1926 Bernard Ashley, English fashion designer/president, Laura Ashley
1926 Claus Von Bulow, accused of murdering his wife
1926 J R S Fincham, geneticist
1926 Johnny Van Derrick, jazz violinist
1925 Carl Rowan, gun-toting newspaper columnist, Washington Post
1925 Mike Douglas, born in Chicago, Illinois, talk show host, Mike Douglas Show
1925 Robert Linn, born in America, composer, educator, University of Southern California, composed music for chorus and chamber ensembles, symphony orchestra and wind orchestra
1924 Arlene Dahl, Minneapolis Minnesota, actress/TV panelist, Ambush
1922 Mavis Gallant, Canadian Author
1921 Alex Haley, U.S., writer, Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots
1920 Derry Jeffares, Honorary Professor of English Studies, Stirling U
1920 William Masselos, born in Niagara Falls, New York, pianist and professor, Juilliard 1976
1917 Dik Browne, cartoonist, Hi and Lois, Hagar the Horrible
1915 Kunio Toda, composer
1914 Hugh Martin, American Composer
1913 Angus Wilson, born in England, writer, Mulberry Bush-1955
1912 Jean Parker, Butte Mont, actress, Beyond Tomorrow, Little Women
1911 Alphonse de Waelhens, Flemish philosopher, Psychosis
1911 Benny Lee, born in Glasgow, Scotland, entertainer, comedy actor, singer, appeared in radio comedy programs, including It's a Square World, appeared in episodes of Are You Being Served?, and the television series Minder
1911 Henry Kulky, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, actor, Otto-Life of Riley
1911 Prem Bhatia, journalist
1911 Ronald Batty, bookseller
1911 Thanom Kittikachorn, general/premier Thailand, 1958..73
1910 Denis Moloney, New Zealand cricket all-rounder, 1937 England tour
1909 Gaston Gilbert Litaize, composer
1909 Hugo Buchthal, art historian
1909 Jean Lancaster, director, WRNS
1907 Ted a'Beckett, cricketer, Australian Test player
1906 Harry Elstrom, Danish/Belgian sculptor, Great Passion, Black Christ
1905 Erwin Chargaff, Austrian Scientist
1904 Jess Stacy, born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, pianist, jazz musician, played with Tommy Dorsey, recorded with Lee Wiley, Nelson Riddle in The Great Gatsby soundtrack
1903 Michael Whalley Wickham, artist
1902 Christian Castries, French general, Dien Bien Phu
1902 Lloyd Nolan, born in San Francisco, California, actor, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Peyton Place
1900 Alexander Mosolov, Kiev Russia, composer, Zavod,
1900 Charles William Paddock, Texas, 100m runner, Olympic-2 gold-1920
1898 Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas Houghton, politician/trade unionist
1897 Louise Bogan, Maine, writer, Sleeping Fury
1894 Wilhelm Grosz, composer
1892 Hugh MacDiarmid, Scotland, writer, Scots Unbound
1892 Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general
1891 Helen Broderick, U.S., comedienne/actress/singer, Swing Time
1890 Erich Wichman, Dutch fascist painter/sculptor
1888 Owen Nares, actor-manager, Maiden Erleigh
1883 Ernst Stadler, writer
1882 Rodolfo Graziani, Italian marschal/viceroy of Ethiopia
1880 Frederick Jerome Work, composer
1873 John Rosamond Johnson, Florida, co-composer, Lift Every Voice and Sing
1870 Tom Richardson, legendary England cricket fast bowler, 1893-98
1867 Hobart Bosworth, born in Marietta, Ohio, actor, Woman of Affairs, Big Parade
1867 Joseph M Weber, comedian/singer, Weber and Lewis Fields
1865 Gifford Pinchot, American Politician
1863 Arpad Szendy, composer
1862 Carrie Jacobs Bond, Janesville Wisconsin, songwriter, I Love You Truly
1860 Alfred Coville, French historian, Lesson etats de Normandie
1858 Christian Eijkman, born in Netherlands, bacteriologist, avitaminos, Nobel 1929
1837 Marie Francois Carnot, engineer/French President, 1887-94, ; assassinated
1836 Cato M Guldberg, Norwegian mathematician
1833 Robert Green Ingersoll, New York, author/politician/agnostic, Attorney General-R-Illinois
1832 Thomas Ogden Osbord, Major General Union volunteers
1828 Edward Saloman, Gov, Union
1823 Charlotte Mary Yonge, England, writer, Heir of Redclyffe
1807 David R Atchison, President of USA on March 3rd 1849
1805 Pieter J Elout van Soeterwoude, Dutch judge/member of parliament
1799 Joachim de Barrande, French paleontologist/geologist
1778 Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, founder of turnverein, gymnastics, movement
1772 Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount/general
1748 Joseph Schuster, composer
1744 Johann Gottlieb Schwencke, composer
1737 Joseph Nollekins, London, sculptor
1720 Martin Gerbert, composer
1673 Richard Mead, London, physician
1635 Thomas Betterton, London, actor/dramatist, Coriolanus
1613 Cristoph Kaldenbach, composer
1600 Paul Hallman, composer











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