| 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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