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1988 Rumer Willis, child of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore
1980 Vanessa Carlton, American Musician
1975 Felicia Zimmermann, born in Rochester, New York, fencer-foil 1996 Olympics
1974 Bryan Chiu, CFL defensive tackle, Montreal Alouettes
1974 Krizstina Egerszegi, Hungarian backstroke swimmer, 100/200m WR
1974 Roger Cedeno, Valencia Edo Venezuela, outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers
1974 Ryan Longwell, NFL kicker, Green Bay Packers Superbowl 31
1972 Eddie Goines, NFL wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks
1972 Michael Reed, NFL cornerback for the Carolina Panthers
1972 Michael Thornberry, born in Virginia Beach, Virginia, team handball circle, 1996 Olympics
1972 Zach Wiegert, tackle for the St. Louis Rams
1971 Nigel Williams, CFL receiver, Montreal Alouettes
1971 Troy Alexander, CFL defensive tackle for the Saskatchewan Roughriders
1971 Willie Jackson, NFL wide receiver for the Jacksonville Jaguars
1970 Adrian Hardy, NFL cornerback for the Cincinnati Bengals
1970 Dena Head, WNBA guard for the Utah Starzz
1970 Eric Swann, NFL defensive tackle for the Arizona Cardinals
1970 Lester Smith, CFL safety for the Toronto Argonauts
1970 Quinton McCracken, born in Wilmington, North Carolina, outfielder for the Colorado Rockies
1970 Wilco Hellinga, soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen
1969 Becky Delos Santos, born in Boston, Massachusetts, playmate, April, 1994
1969 Ben Coates, NFL tight end for the New England Patriots
1969 Carl Henkel, born in Torrance, California, beach volleyballer 1996 Olympics
1968 Donovan Leitch, Jr., actor/musician, I Shot Andy Warhol
1968 Eric Jonassen, offensive linesman for the Arizona Cardinals
1967 Bret Barberie, born in Long Beach, California, infielder for the Chicago Cubs
1967 Matt Vanderbeek, NFL linebacker for the Washington Redskins
1966 Ed Olczyk, Chicago, NHL center, Winnipeg Jets
1966 Rosey Edeh, born in London, England, Canadian 400m hurdler, Olympics-4-92, 96
1966 Terry Shumpert, born in Paducah, Kentucky, infielder for the Chicago Cubs
1965 Brian McDonough, born in Long Beach, California, points cyclist, Olympics-19th-96
1965 Eric van der Luer, soccer player, Roda JC
1965 Todd McNair, NFL running back/kick returner for the Houston Oilers
1965 Xavier Hernandez, Port Arthur, Texas, pitcher for the Houston Astros
1964 Jimmy Arias, Buffalo, New York, tennis player, U.S. Davis Cup team
1964 Nigel Redman, English rugby international player
1963 Scott Dunlap, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Canadian Tour golfer, 1995 South Africa Masters
1963 Steve Carell, American Actor
1960 Timothy Hutton, born in Malibu, California, actor, Turk 182, Ordinary People
1958 Angela Bassett, born in New York City, actress, What's Love Got to Do With It
1958 Jonathan Prince, born in Beverly Hills, Pennsylvania, actor, Danny-Alice, Pray TV
1958 Jose Luis, Clerc Argentina, tennis star
1958 Madonna, [Ciccone], Bay City, Michigan, singer and actress, Like a Virgin
1958 Peter "Jeff" K Wisoff, born in Norfolk, Virginia, PhD/Astronaut, STS-57, 68, 81/84
1957 Tim Farriss, Australian pop guitarist, INXS-Kiss the Dirt
1957 Laura Innes, American Actress
1956 Colleen Walker, born in Jacksonville, Florida, LPGA golfer, 1988 Mazda Champions
1956 Dominic Erban, French rugby international player
1955 William F. DeVault, American Poet
1954 James Cameron, born in Kapuskasing, Ontario, writer/dir, True Lies, Titanic
1954 George Galloway, British Politician
1953 Catlin O'Heaney, born in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, actress, Snow White-Charmings
1953 James Taylor, born in South Carolina, rocker, Kool and The Gang
1953 Kathie Lee Gifford, Paris, Florida, hostess, Live with Regis and Kathie Lee
1953 Nick Leyva, baseball manager, Phillies 1988-91
1952 Gianna Rolandi, New York City, soprano, Der Rosenkavalier
1952 Mahes Goonatillake, cricketer, Sri Lankan keeper in their 1st 5 Tests
1952 Reginald Veljohnson, actor, Carl Winslow-Family Matters, Die Hard
1950 Hasely Crawford, Trinidad, 100m runner 1976 Olympics gold
1950 Jeff[rey R] Thomson, cricketer, great Aussie fast bowler 1972 - 1985
1950 Stockwell Day, Canadian Politician
1949 Bill Spooner, rock guitarist and vocalist, Tubes
1948 Barry Hay, singer/fluitist/saxophonist/guitarist, Golden Earring
1947 Carol Moseley-Braun, Sen-D Illinois
1947 John Howard, U.S., speed record, 152.284 mph at Bonneville Flats, UT
1947 Carol Moseley Braun, American Politician
1946 Lesley Ann Warren, New York City, actress, Cinderella, Mission Impossible
1945 Bob Balaban, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor and director, 2010, Girlfriends
1945 Gary Loizzo, born in Chicago, Illinois, rock guitarist, American Breed
1945 Gordon "Snowy" Fleet, Merseyside, rock drummer, Easybeats
1945 Kevin Ayers, England, progressive rocker, Joy of a Toy
1945 Robert Balaban, Chicago, actor, Absence of Malice, Altered States
1945 Suzanne Farrell, Cincinnati, ballerina, Don Quioxote
1944 Dick Zimmer, born in Neward, New Jersey, Representative-R-New Jersey 1991 - 1997
1944 Mufasir-ul-Haq, cricketer, Pakistan left-arm quick, 1 Test
1943 Pedro Chappe-Garcia, Havana, basketball player 1972 Olympics bronze
1942 John Meulendijks, Dutch cryptogram maker, People's Daily
1940 Bruce Beresford, Austral director, Driving Miss Daisy, Tender Mercies
1939 Carol Shelley, London, actress, Gwendolyn Pidgeon-Odd Couple
1939 Valeri V Ryumin, cosmonaut, Soyuz 25, 32
1939 Wim Meijer, Dutch MP, PvdA
1938 Andras Balczo, born in Hungary, pentathlete, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics
1938 Oleg Grigoryevich Kononenko, Russia, cosmonaut
1937 David Behrman, composer
1937 Lorraine Gary, New York City, actress, Jaws, Jaws 2, Jaws 4
1936 Anita Gillette, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actress, Quincy ME, Marathon, Moonstruck
1936 Gary Clarke, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Hondo, Virginian, Michael Shayne
1935 Betsy von Furstenberg, Nelheim Ger, actress, Machine Calls it Murder
1935 Julie Newmar, born in Hollywood, California, actress, Catwoman-Batman, Living Doll
1934 Diana Wynne Jones, UK, sci-fi author, Drowned Ammet, Witch Week
1934 Ed van Thijn, Jewish, Dutch Foreign Minister/mayor, Amsterdam, 1983-94
1934 John Standing, born in London, England, actor, Edward-Lime Street
1934 Ketty Lester, [Revoyda Frierson], U.S. singer and actress, Love Letters
1934 Sam Trimble, cricketer, Queensland bat, 12th man for Australia, no Test
1933 Jan van Ginkel, graphic artist/publisher, Perscombinatie
1933 Reiner Kunze, writer
1933 Stuart A "Smokey" Roosa, born in Durango, Colorado, Col USAF/astronaut, Apollo 14
1932 Eydie Gorme, [Edithe Gormezano], born in Bronx, New York, singer, Bossa Nova
1932 Jon Lindbergh, 2nd son of aviator Charles Lindbergh
1930 Frank Gifford, born in California, NFL halfback for the New York Giants/ABC sportscaster
1930 Marion A. Trabert, tennis champ, U.S. Open-1953
1930 Robert Culp, Berkley California, actor, I Spy, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice
1930 Ted Hughes, England, poet laureate, 1984-
1930 Tony Trabert, tennis pro, 1955 Wimbeldon
1929 Bill Evans, U.S. jazz pianist
1928 Ann Blyth, Mount Kisko, New York, actress, Kismet, Mildred Pierce
1928 Eddie Kirkland, Jamaican/U.S. blues guitarist, Have Mercy
1925 Fess Parker, Fort Worth Texas, actor, Davy Crockett, Old Yeller
1923 Joe Hutton, northumbrian piper/shepherd
1923 Shimon Peres, Israeli Labor Party leader/prime minister
1920 Charles Bukowski, Andernach Germany, U.S. writer, Hollywood: A Novel
1917 Roque Cordero, Panama, composer, Sonata Breve
1915 Al Hibbler, singer, Unchained Melody
1914 Tullio Pandolfini, Italy, water polo 1948 Olympics gold
1913 Menachem Begin, Israeli Prime Minister, 1977-83, Nobel 1978
1912 Marga AM Klompe, 1st Netherland woman elected minister
1912 Ted Drake, soccer star
1909 Paul Smith Callaway, composer
1907 Alexander Uriah Boskovich, composer
1907 Mae Clarke, [Klotz], Philadelphia, actress, Frankenstein, Waterloo Bridge
1906 Franz Josef II, prince of Liechtenstein, 1938-89
1904 Wendell Stanley, biochemist, 1st to crystallize a virus, Nobel 1946
1902 Georgette Heyer, England, novelist, Friday's Child
1902 Stefan Boleslaw Poradowski, composer
1899 Glenn Strange, Weed, New Mexico, actor, Sam the Bartender-Gunsmoke
1897 Robert Ringling, circus master
1897 Vicente Ascone, composer
1895 Jacinto Guerrero, composer
1895 Lucien Littlefield, San Antonia, Texas, actor, Mr Beasley-Blondie
1894 George Meany, New York City, labor leader, headed AFL-CIO
1892 Harold Foster, cartoonist, created "Prince Valiant"
1887 Nadia Boulanger, conductor, 1st woman to conduct Boston Symphony
1885 Charles Carson, born in London, England, actor, Cry the Beloved Country
1884 Adrian S Oppenheim, Dutch lawyer/adviser, British Petroleum/Shell
1884 Hugo Gernsback, sci-fi writer, 1960 Hugo
1882 Franz MT de Liage Bohl, German/Dutch assyrologist/translator
1882 Pierre H Ritter, Jr., Dutch literary/head, Utrecht Newspaper
1879 Ethel Barrymore, classic film and stage actress, Pinky, Moonrise
1877 Karl L Hoschna, composer
1874 Arthur Meighen, Canada, Prime Minister of Canada, 1920 - 1921, 1926
1871 Zakhary Petrovich Paliashvili, composer
1868 Bernard MacFadden, publisher, Physical Culture, True Romances
1868 Charles Sanford Skilton, composer
1867 Antonio Nobre, Portuguese poet, Lonely
1864 Ferdinand C S Schiller, British philosopher, Riddles of the Sphinx
1863 Henry Constant Gabriel Pierne, Metz France, composer, Edith
1862 Amos Alonzo Stagg, football pioneer, inventor, tackling dummy
1860 Jules Laforgue, Uruguay, French poet, Les Complaintas
1860 Lord Hawke, cricketer, England batsman 1890's, many official posts
1848 Francis Darwin, English Scientist
1846 Justus van Maurik, Dutch cigar manufacturer/writer/editor, Groene
1845 Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist
1837 Emile A H Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer
1836 John Farmer, composer
1832 Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist/psychologist/philosopher
1831 Edward Payson Chapin, Brigadier General Union volunteers, died in 1863
1828 Joseph Bradford Carr, Major General Union volunteers
1817 Henry Winter Davis, MC, Union, died in 1865
1816 Joseph Robinson, composer
1795 Heinrich August Marschner, composer
1776 Philipp Jakob Riotte, composer
1769 Jean Aime Vernier, composer
1763 Frederick of York, English duke/bishop of Osnabruck
1666 Henriette Amalia, monarch of Nassau-Dietz
1645 Jean de La Bruyere, French author
1622 Tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian
1603 Christianus Schotanus Sterringa, Frisian theologist/historian
1550 Carolus Gallus, [Karel de Haan], Dutch lawyer, pastor, and vicar
1397 Albrecht II von Habsburg, king of Bohemia/Hungary/Germany
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