| 1988 | Rupert Grint, English Actor |
| 1983 | Christopher Parker, born in Lewisham, London, actor, television presenter, appeared in 'Hotel Babylon' BBC series, presenter on 'This Morning' television show |
| 1981 | Chad Michael Murray, American Actor |
| 1978 | Melissa McElroy, born in Houston, Texas, rhythmic gymnast, U.S. team-96 |
| 1976 | Bjorn van der Doelen, Dutch soccer player, PSV |
| 1976 | Nordin Wooter, Dutch soccer player, Ajax |
| 1974 | Archie Amerson, CFL running back for the Hamilton Tiger Cats |
| 1974 | Tony McCombs, linebacker for the Arizona Cardinals |
| 1973 | Andrew Brunette, Sudbury, NHL left wing for the Washington Capitals |
| 1973 | Barret Oliver, actor, Never Ending Story, Secret Garden |
| 1973 | Dave Chappelle, American Comedian |
| 1972 | Chris Right, CFL receiver, Montreal Alouettes |
| 1972 | Christian Ruud, born in Oslo, Norway, tennis star, 1989 Norwegian |
| 1972 | Ian Moran, born in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. hockey defenseman, Olympics-1994, Pitts |
| 1972 | Kurt Miller, born in Tucson, Arizona, pitcher for the Florida Marlins |
| 1972 | Lee DeRamus, for the New Orleans Saints |
| 1970 | Dan Henderson, born in Downey, California, 180 lb greco-roman wrestler, 1992, 1996 Olympics |
| 1970 | Sandra Whyte, ice hockey forward, USA, 1998 Olympics |
| 1968 | Andreas Kisser, Brazilian heavy metal guitarist, Sepultura |
| 1968 | Arnold Galesloot, WLAF tight end for the Amsterdam Admirals |
| 1968 | Benoit Brunet, Pointe Claire, NHL left wing, Montreal Canadiens |
| 1968 | Tim Salmon, born in Long Beach, California, outfielder for the California Angels |
| 1965 | Marlee Matlin, Illinois, deaf actress, Children of Lesser God-Academy Award |
| 1965 | Reggie Miller, Riverside California, NBA guard, Indiana Pacers, Gold Medal 1996 Olympics |
| 1965 | Vince Alcalde, WLAF offensive assistant for the Scottish Claymores |
| 1964 | Salizhan Sharkirovich Sharipov, Kirhizia, astronaut, STS-89 |
| 1963 | John Bush, U.S. heavy metal singer, Anthrax-Armed and Dangerous |
| 1962 | Mary Ellen Weber, born in Cleveland, Ohio, PhD/astronaut, STS-70 |
| 1962 | Craig Kilborn, born in Kansas City, Missouri, comedian, actor, original host of 'The Daily Show', anchor for ESPN's 'Sports Center', host 'The Late Late Show' |
| 1961 | Colin Angus, Scottish pop musician, Shamen, Ebeneezer Goode |
| 1961 | Mark "Bedders" Bedfored, London, rock bassist, Madness |
| 1961 | Jared Harris, born in London, England, actor, known for role of Lane Pryce on 'Mad Men' television series |
| 1960 | Cal Ripken, Havre de Grace, Maryland, shortstop, Baltimore Orioles, game streak |
| 1960 | Franz Vienboeck, Austria, cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-13 |
| 1960 | Kris Monaghan, Spokane, Washington, golfer, 1990 Red Robin Kyocera Inamori |
| 1960 | Steven W. Lindsey, Arcadia, California, Major USAF/astronaut, STS-87 |
| 1959 | Adrian Kuiper, cricketer, South African all-rounder |
| 1959 | Michel Valke, Dutch soccer player, Sparta, Dordrecht '90 |
| 1958 | Steve Guttenberg, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Police Academy, Short Circuit |
| 1957 | Stephen Fry, born in Hampstead, England, actor, comedian, film director, starred in comedy series, 'Absolute Power', film 'Wilde' |
| 1956 | Gerry Cooney, heavyweight boxer, U.S. Olympics team 1980 |
| 1955 | Jeffrey Daniel, born in Los Angeles, California, rock vocalist, Shalamar |
| 1955 | Mike Huckabee, born in Hope, Arkansas, politician, 44th Governor of Arkansas, Republican, candidate for President in 2008, host of 'Huckabee' television talk show |
| 1951 | Jimmy Farrar, born in Jacksonville, Florida, rock vocalist, Molly Hatchet |
| 1951 | Orson Scott Card, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Nebula, Ender's War |
| 1950 | Frank Murray, Australian field hockey national coach, 1992, 1996 Olympics |
| 1949 | Anna Lee Fisher, St. Albans, New York, MD/astronaut, STS-51-A |
| 1949 | Joe Regalbuto, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Knots Landing, Frank-Murphy Brown |
| 1949 | Stephen Harrison Paulus, composer |
| 1949 | Bob Holden, American Politician |
| 1947 | Joe Manchin, American Politician |
| 1947 | Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist |
| 1946 | Richard "Dick" N Richards, Key West, USN/astr, STS-28, 41, 50, 64 |
| 1946 | Richard Richards, American Astronaut |
| 1945 | Ken Hensley, rock keyboardist, Blackfoot, Uriah Heep |
| 1945 | Malcolm "Mollie" Duncan, Scotland, saxophonist, Average White Band |
| 1945 | Vince McMahon, American Entertainer |
| 1944 | Gregory Bruce Jarvis, born in Detroit, Michigan, astronaut, STS-25 |
| 1944 | Jim Capaldi, English singer and songwriter, Traffic-Something So Strong |
| 1943 | John Cipollina, San Francisco Cal, rock guitarist, Quicksilver Messenger Service |
| 1942 | Joe Chambers, born in Los Angeles, California, rock guitarist and vocalist, Chambers Brothers |
| 1942 | Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck, mathemetician/educator |
| 1942 | Max Cleland, American Politician |
| 1941 | Ernest Wright, Jr., U.S. rock vocalist, Imperials-So Much |
| 1940 | Tony Secunda, rock band manager |
| 1938 | David Freiberg, born in Boston, Massachusetts, rock bassist, Quicksilver Messenger |
| 1938 | Mason Williams, Abilene, Texas, writer, Smother Brothers Hour |
| 1936 | William J. Coyne, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Representative-D-Pennsylvania 1981 - 2003 |
| 1936 | Kenny Guinn, American Politician |
| 1934 | Kenny Baker, actor, R2D2-Star Wars |
| 1934 | Roger Donald Dickerson, composer |
| 1932 | Richard Graham Meale, composer |
| 1929 | William Winfield, rocker, Harptones |
| 1929 | Betty Dodson, American Educator |
| 1927 | Roger Danneels, Flemish accordionist |
| 1927 | William V Shannon, journalist/ambassador to Ireland, 1977-81 |
| 1924 | Louis Teicher, pianist, Ferante and Teicher-Exodus |
| 1923 | Helena Carter, Helen Rickerts, U.S. model/actress, River Lady |
| 1922 | Rene Levesque, Quebec premier, 1976-85 |
| 1922 | Howard Zinn, American Historian |
| 1919 | "Drs P" [Heinz H Polzer], Swiss/Dutch songwriter/singer |
| 1919 | Nils Viggo Bentzon, composer |
| 1918 | Ray McIntire, chemical engineer |
| 1917 | Dennis James, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, wrestling announcer/TV host, PDQ |
| 1916 | Anita V Figueredo, physician/humanitarian |
| 1916 | Peter Crichton Kirkpatrick, oarsman |
| 1915 | Alice B[radley] Sheldon, U.S., sci-fi author, Byte Beautiful |
| 1915 | Wynonie Harris, rocker |
| 1913 | Dorothy Comingore, Linda Winters, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Citizen Kane |
| 1912 | Durward Kirby, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, TV announcer, Garry Moore Show |
| 1911 | Karl AF Schiller, West German economist/SPD-minister |
| 1911 | Leo Ferre, French singer/composer, Silly-aime, Ni Dieu ni maatre |
| 1910 | Bernhard Heiden, composer |
| 1909 | Ronnie Grieveson, South Africa cricket keeper/batsman, 2 Tests vs. England 1939 |
| 1906 | Gerald Vann, British Theologian |
| 1905 | Donald Douglas, Scotland, actor, I Love You Again |
| 1905 | Sven Johan Stolpe, Swedish author, Latt, snabb och om |
| 1904 | Rod Redwing, New York, actor, Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory |
| 1902 | Fernand Braudel, French historian, Civililization and Capitalism |
| 1900 | Preston Foster, Ocean City, New Jersey, actor, Waterfront, Gunslinger |
| 1900 | Vasa Prihoda, Czechoslovakian violinist |
| 1899 | Johan J Fabricius, Dutch novelist, Island of Demons |
| 1899 | Jorge Luis Borges, born in Argentina, writer of fiction, essays, Labyrinths |
| 1899 | Ruth Schaumann, German painter/writer, Rose, Black King |
| 1898 | Albert Claude, Belgium, biologist/physician, Nobel 1974 |
| 1898 | Malcolm Cowley, Belsano Penn, author, Flowering of New England |
| 1898 | Marie J Hugenholtz, Doctor Grandi, surgeon on Curacao |
| 1896 | Phil Baker, Philadelphia, comedian, Who's Whose |
| 1895 | Richard Cardinal Cushing, American Clergyman |
| 1894 | Jean Rhys, Ella Williams, Dominica, writer, Voyage in the Dark |
| 1891 | Alexander Mikhaylovich Dzegelyonok, composer |
| 1891 | Germaine Loosveldt, Flemish actress, Kniertje in On hope |
| 1890 | Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaii, swimmer, Olympics-3 gold/2 silver-12, 20, 24 |
| 1890 | Franz Philipp, composer |
| 1889 | Simon Kimbangu/Kibangu, Congo prophet |
| 1886 | William Francis Gibbs, naval architect, designed Liberty ships |
| 1880 | Joshua L Cowen, inventor, electric train |
| 1880 | Miles W L Killearn of Killearn, Scotish baron/diplomat |
| 1879 | Rentaro Taki, composer |
| 1872 | Max Beerbohm, England, caricaturist/writer/wit, Saturday Review |
| 1865 | Ferdinand I VAM, king of Romania |
| 1856 | Felix Mottl, composer |
| 1854 | Nikolay Vladimirovich Scherbachov, composer |
| 1842 | Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter, Slave Market |
| 1839 | Eduard Napravnik, composer |
| 1837 | Theodore Dubois, composer |
| 1828 | George Hume "Maryland" Steuart, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1827 | Walter Husted Stevens, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1821 | Emmanuele Muzio, composer |
| 1820 | Jacopo Tomadini, composer |
| 1817 | Aleksei K Tolstoi, Kozjma Prutkov, Russian poet and writer |
| 1816 | Daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful transatlantic cables |
| 1810 | Theodore Parker, American Theologian |
| 1808 | Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1808 | Thomas Fenwick Drayton, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1787 | James Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer, Weddell Sea |
| 1772 | Willem I Frederik, grand duke of Luxembourg/king of Netherlands, 1814-40 |
| 1759 | Wilbur Wilberforce, England, crusaded against slavery |
| 1759 | William Wilberforce, English Politician |
| 1750 | M Laetitia Bonaparte-Ramolino, Madame Mere, mother of Napoleon I |
| 1733 | David Traugott Nicolai, composer |
| 1725 | Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer |
| 1712 | Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician and astronomer |
| 1683 | Meinrad Spiess, composer |
| 1669 | Alessandro Marcello, composer |
| 1591 | Robert Herrick, England, poet, Gather ye rosebuds, baptized |
| 1579 | John Amner, composer |
| 1531 | Ercole Bottrigari, composer |
| 1420 | Albrecht van Eyb, German humanist/parson, Bamberg and Eichstatt |
| 1210 | Floris IV, Count of Holland |
| 1113 | Geoffrey Plantagenet, France, conquered Normandy |
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