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1991 Mikhail Moseyevich Botvinnik, world Chess Champion
1986 Bryton McClure, Lakewood California, actor, Richie-Family Matters
1977 Jake Patellis, actor, Paul Bowman-Good Life
1977 Thierry Henry, French Athlete
1973 A J Wood, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, soccer forward, Gold Medal 1996 Olympics
1973 Kerry Mock, WLAF linebacker for the Frankfurt Galaxy
1973 Paul Wiggins, offensive linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers
1973 Tim Forsyth, Australian high jumper, Olympics-bronze-92, 96
1972 Ernie Conwell, tight end for the St. Louis Rams
1970 Bernard Wilson, NFL defensive tackle for the Arizona Cardinals
1970 Brad Bretz, WLAF quarterback for the Frankfurt Galaxy
1970 Jim Courier, born in Sanford, Florida, tennis champ, 1990, 91 French
1969 Christian Laettner, NBA forward and center, Atlanta Hawks, Gold Medal 1992 Olympics
1969 Donald E Wahlberg, Jr., Boston, rocker, New Kids-Hangin' Tough
1969 Ed Cunningham, NFL center for the Arizona Cardinals
1969 Maria Strandlund, born in Akersberga, Sweden, tennis star, 1987 Futures NOR
1969 Donnie Wahlberg, American Actor
1968 Ed McCaffrey, NFL wide reciever, Denver Broncos Superbowl 32
1968 Vince Marrow, WLAF TE for the Frankfurt Galaxy
1967 James Jenkins, NFL tight end for the Washington Redskins
1967 Kenny Davidson, NFL defensive end for the Houston Oilers
1967 Nelson Emerson, Hamilton, NHL right wing, Hartford Whalers
1966 Cedric Figaro, WLAF linebacker for the Amsterdam Admirals
1966 Zefross Moss, NFL tackle, Detroit Lions, New England Patriots
1965 Dottie Mochrie Pepper, born in Saratoga Springs, New York, golfer, 1992 Dinah Shore
1965 Fred Grim, soccer player, Cambuur L, Ajax
1965 Glen Goldsmith, rocker, What You See is What You Get
1965 Robert Manry, Cleveland newspaper editor/sailed the Atlantic, in craft
1965 Steve Gorman, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, rock drummer, Black Crowes
1964 Pete McCutcheon, born in Boston, Massachusetts, Canadian Tour golfer, 1993 Quebec Open
1963 Carmen Berg, Bismark ND, playmate, July, 1987
1962 Gilby Clarke, U.S. pop guitarist, Guns n' Roses-Civil War
1961 Jamie Macoun, Newmarket, NHL defenseman for the Toronto Maple Leafs
1960 Bruce Penhall, Balboa California, actor, Savage Beach
1960 Sean Penn, born in Santa Monica, California, actor, Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1959 David Koresh, American Criminal
1959 Jonathan Franzen, American Novelist
1958 Belinda Carlisle, born in Hollywood, California, GoGos lead singer, Heaven on Earth
1955 Colin Moulding, English pop guitarist, XTC
1955 Janet Quist Austin, Texas, playmate, Dec, 1978
1955 Kevin Welch, California, country songwriter/actor, Thing Called Love
1953 Kevin Rowlands, rock vocalist, Dexy's Midnight Runners-Come on Eileen
1953 Robert Brent Thirsk, BC Canada, astronaut, STS-78
1952 Guillermo Vilas, Argentina, tennis champ, U.S. Open-1977
1952 Kathryn C Thornton, Montgomery, Alabama, PhD/astronaut, STS-33, 49, 61, 73
1952 Nelson Piquet, auto racer, 3-time Formula One champ, 1981, '83, '87
1952 Thomas J Hennen, Albany Georgia, astronaut, STS-44
1951 Alan Minter, England, light-middleweight boxer 1972 Olympics bronze
1951 Robert Joy, born in Montreal, Quebec, actor, Big Shots, Suicide Club
1949 Sib Hashian, born in Boston, Massachusetts, rock drummer, Boston
1949 Norm Coleman, American Politician
1948 Bo Rucker, born in Tampa, Florida, actor, Superman, Soup for One, Lock Up
1947 Gary Talley, born in Memphis, Tennessee, rock guitarist, Box Tops
1946 Hans Vandenburg, Dutch singer/guitarist, Gruppo Sportivo
1944 Larry Ellison, American Businessman
1943 Edward Cowie, born in Birmingham, England, composer, orchestral, chamber, choral works, conductor, painter, author
1943 Koos Postema, editor-in-chief, Vrije Volk, Dutch TV host
1943 Robert De Niro, born in New York City, actor, Bang the Drum Slowly, Taxi Driver
1943 Yukio Kasaya, Japan, 70m ski jumper, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics
1941 Boog Powell, baseball player, AL MVP 1970
1941 Ibrahim Babangida, president of Nigeria, 1985-
1940 David Price, born in Erwin, Tennessee, Representative-D-North Carolina 1987 - 1995
1940 Thomas Williams, U.S., ice hockey play 1960 Olympics gold
1940 David E. Price, American Politician
1939 Luther Allison, Mayflower, Arkansas, rock guitarist, Bad News is Coming
1939 Josh McDowell, American Writer
1938 Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist
1937 Yevgeni Aleksandrovich Illyin, Russia, cosmonaut
1934 Maureen Connally, champion tennis player, Wimbledon
1932 Chet Allen, Chickasha Oklahoma, actor, Jerry-Bonino, Slats-Troubleshooter
1932 Vidiadhar S Naipaul, Trinidad, novelist, Middle Passage
1932 V. S. Naipaul, Indian Novelist
1930 James Gulliver, businessman
1930 Ted Hughes, British poet laureate
1929 Francis Gary Powers, U.S. spy, U.S.S.R. captures him in 1959 U-2 incident
1928 Jean R Adams, entomologist
1928 Thomas Jefferson Anderson, composer
1928 Willem Duys, Dutch radio/TV host
1927 Bernard "Bernie" Cornfeld, Romanian/U.S. financier, Fund of Funds
1927 Robert Moore, born in Detroit, Michigan, actor, Marshall-Diana
1926 Haakon Barfod, Norway, yachting, Gold Medals 1948, 1952 Olympics
1926 Jean Poiret, French actor and writer, Le Dernier Metro
1925 John Hawkes, U.S. writer, 2nd Skin
1925 John Howard Purnell, scientist
1924 Evan S Connell, U.S. writer
1924 Helen Wallis, cartographer/librarian
1924 John A Emmens, art historian/poet, Kunst and Vliegwerk
1924 Laurence Richard Deniz, jazz guitarist
1923 Anton Kersjes, violinist and conductor, Amsterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
1923 Larry Rivers, Grossberg, New York City, painter, Washington crossing Delaware-1953
1922 Ralph Roberts, Salisbury, North Carolina, actor, Tradition, Gone are the Days
1922 Roy Tattersall, cricketer, brilliant England off-spinner early 50's
1921 Geoffery Rudolph Elton, historiographer
1921 Maureen O'Hara, Fitzsimmons, Dublin, actress, Miracle on 34th St
1920 Georgia Gibbs, Worcester Massachusetts, singer, Ballin the Jack, Kiss of Fire
1918 Mort Marshall, New York City, actor, Cully-Dumplings
1917 P Roger Peyrefitte, French writer, Singular Love
1917 Safa Khulusi, writer
1917 Jiang Zemin, Chinese Leader
1916 Eleanor Steber, opera singer
1916 John de Young, resistance fighter
1914 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., born in Campobello Island, Canada,Representative-D-New York 1949 - 1955, son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1913 W. Mark Felt, born in Idaho, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent, Watergate whistleblower "Deep Throat"
1912 Edgar Fernhout, Dutch painter/son of Charley Toorop
1911 Frederik de Merode, Belgian prince
1911 Jan Lode Cantens, Flemish dramatist, God's Murderer
1910 Eric Aaltonen, composer
1910 J A Manusama, Moluccan politician
1910 R Peyrefitte, writer
1908 Kurt Hessenberg, composer
1907 Marian Viktorovich Koval, composer
1906 Hazel Bishop, chemist/cosmetics manufacturer
1906 Marcello J das Neves Alves Caetano, premier of Portugal, 1968-74
1905 John Hay Whitney, publisher, New York Herald Trib 1961-67
1903 Abram Chasins, composer
1901 Henri Tomasi, Marseilles France, composer, Don Juan de Manara
1900 Quincy Howe, born in Boston, Massachusetts, newscaster, CBS Weekend News
1898 Gerard Schmook, Flemish librarian/historian/custodian
1896 Henry P de Vries, Dutch painter and poet, Laws of the Americas
1894 Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian/poet/author, Jorden
1894 Johan Polet, Dutch sculptor
1892 Mae West, Brooklyn, actress, Go Up and See Her Sometime, Klondike Annie
1890 Harry L Hopkins, U.S. politician, Loan and Lease law
1890 Harry Hopkins, American Diplomat
1888 Monty Wooley, New York City, actor, Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner
1887 Charles I, last emperor of Austria-Hungary, 1916-18
1887 Marcus Garvey, began back-to-Africa movement among U.S. blacks
1885 Clara [G Meijer-]Wichmann, German anarchists/feminist, Wife and society
1885 Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement
1882 Samuel Goldwyn, movie producer, MGM
1880 Leo Ascher, composer
1880 Percy Sherwell, cricketer, great South African batsman-keeper-captain
1878 Reg Duff, cricketer, Australian bat, century on debut 1902
1876 Eric Drummond, 1st Secretary-General of League of Nations, 1919 - 1933
1876 Henri G Winkelman, Dutch general/supreme commander/navy 1940
1876 Theodor Daubler, German writer, Northern Lights
1870 Frederick Russell, developed 1st successful typhoid fever vaccine
1856 Violet Paget, Vernon Lee, British author, Satan the master
1851 Henry Drummond, Scottish geologist/evangelist
1844 Menelik II, King of Ethiopia, 1896-1913
1841 Luis NF Varela, Brazilian romantic poet
1840 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, England, writer, Irish Land League
1839 Hubert Platt Main, composer
1839 Thijs Maris, Dutch painter/etcher
1834 Peter Benoit, Flemish composer and conductor, Leie/Rubens Cantata
1828 George William Warren, composer
1819 James Henry Van Alen, Brigadier General Union volunteers
1817 Joseph baron Kervyn de Lettenhove, Belgian Internal minister, 1870-71
1811 Johannes H Scholten, Dutch theologist, Free Will
1786 Davy Crockett, U.S., frontiersman/adventurer/politician, Alamo
1779 Franz de Paula Roser, composer
1775 Philippe Libon, composer
1761 William Carey, English Clergyman
1720 Charles D J Eisen, French engraver/painter, Contes de La Fontaine
1686 Nicola Antonio Porpora, composer
1586 Johann V Andreae, German vicar/writer, Christenburg
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