| 1981 | Amy Lee, born in Riverside, California, singer, songwriter, pianist, member and lead vocalist for Evanescence rock band |
| 1979 | Christina Todd, Miss Ohio Teen USA, Miss Congeniality-1997 |
| 1975 | Matt LeCroy, Anderson, South Carolina, baseball catcher 1996 Olympics bronze |
| 1975 | Sarah Brady, Miss Universe-New Zealand 1996 |
| 1974 | Chris Lewis, CFL safety for the Calgary Stampeders |
| 1973 | Christie Clark, Louisiana, actress, Carrie Brady-Days of Our Life |
| 1973 | Shandon Anderson, NBA forward, Utah Jazz |
| 1972 | Craig Sauer, NFL linebacker for the Atlanta Falcons |
| 1972 | GiGi Gordon, Butler, Pennsylvania, Miss America-Pennsylvania 1997 |
| 1971 | Johnny Dixon, WLAF safety for the Frankfurt Galaxy |
| 1971 | Miguel Angel Martinez Soto, mariachi |
| 1971 | Mike Pelton, NFL defensive tackle for the Indianapolis Colts |
| 1970 | Basit Ali, cricketer, exciting Pakistani batsman 1993- |
| 1970 | Elizabeth Patricia Reilly, North Providence, Rhode Island, Miss America-RI 1996 |
| 1970 | George Van Os, Jr., born in Houston, Texas, team handball left back, 1996 Olympics |
| 1970 | Tonja Yevette Buford-Bailey, born in Dayton, Ohio, 400m hurdler, won 1996 Olympic bronze |
| 1969 | Norm Krumpschmd, hockey forward, Team Austria 1998 |
| 1969 | Sergei Fedorov, Pskov Russia, NHL forward, Detroit, Silver Medals 1998 Olympics |
| 1968 | Carlos Hasselbaink, Dutch soccer player, VVV/FC Utrecht/Haarlem |
| 1968 | Shaun Stafford, Ocala Florida, tennis star, 1992 Taipei |
| 1967 | Chris O'Loughlin, born in Los Angeles, California, fencer 1996 Olympics |
| 1967 | Deborah Driggs, born in Oakland California, playmate, Mar, 1990 |
| 1967 | Jamie Foxx, comedian, In Living Color |
| 1967 | Jenn Thompson, New York City, actor, Dee-Harper Valley PTA |
| 1967 | Mike Mordecai, Birmingham, Alabama, infielder, Atlanta Braves |
| 1967 | Scott Zolak, NFL quarterback for the New England Patriots |
| 1965 | Stacy Sunny, San Bernadino California, female infielder, Colorado Silver Bullets |
| 1962 | Karen Witter, California, actress, Tina-One Life to Live, playmate, Mar, 1982 |
| 1961 | Gary Zimmerman, NFL tackle, Denver Broncos Superbowl 32 |
| 1960 | Randy Stoklos, Pacific Palisades California, beach volleyballer 1996 Olympics |
| 1960 | Richard Dent, defensive end for the Philadelphia Eagles |
| 1959 | John Whitaker, Van Nuys California, actor, Family Affair, Snowball Expr |
| 1959 | Marianne Gravatte, born in Hollywood, California, playmate of year, Oct, 1982 |
| 1958 | Clark Brandon, New York City, actor, Fast Food |
| 1958 | Dana Strum, Washington D.C., rock bassist, Slaughter-Stick it Live |
| 1958 | Lynn-Holly Johnson, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, Ice Castles |
| 1957 | Steve Buscemi, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, studied at Lee Strasberg Institute, known for role of Carl Showalter in 'Fargo', Mr. Pink in 'Reservoir Dogs', cast member of 'The Sopranos' |
| 1956 | Dale Berra, baseball infeilder, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Yankees |
| 1956 | Phillip Gregory Hubbard, born in Canton, Ohio, basketball 1976 Olympics gold |
| 1955 | Steve Forbert, born in Meridian, Mississippi, singer, songwriter, wrote 1980 hit 'Romeo's Tune', compared to Bob Dylan |
| 1954 | John Anderson, born in Apopka, Florida, country singer and actor, Lone Wolf McQuade |
| 1953 | Ray Stewart, Matsqui BC, Canadian Tour golfer, 1994 Dunhill Cup |
| 1953 | Tom Sanders, Jackson Wyoming, aerial cameraman, Living Daylights |
| 1953 | Zoltan Magyar, Hungary, side horse gymnast, Gold Medal 1976, 1980 Olympics |
| 1952 | John Francome, born in Swindon, England, jockey, National Hunt Champion Jockey seven times, apprenticed with Fred Winter, presenter for horseracing broadcasts on Channel 4 |
| 1951 | Robert Lindsay, Ilketson England, actor, Strike it Rich, King Lear |
| 1950 | Heather North, born in Pasadena, California, actress, Barefoot Executive |
| 1950 | Wendie Malick, actress, Just Shoot Me |
| 1950 | Thomas Vilsack, American Politician |
| 1949 | Nana Alexandria, U.S.S.R., International Woman's Chess Grandmaster, 1976 |
| 1949 | R[oberta] A[nn] MacAvoy, U.S., sci-fi author, Damiano's Lute, Raphael |
| 1949 | Randy Owen, Fort Payne, Alabama, country music star, Alabama - Mountain Music |
| 1949 | Tom Verlaine, Miller, Mount Morris, New Jersey, rock vocalist, Television |
| 1949 | Walter "Clyde" Owen, rocker |
| 1948 | Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, guitarist, Steely Dan-Deacon Blues |
| 1948 | Kathy Garver, born in Long Beach, California, actress, Cissy-Family Affair |
| 1948 | Lillian Board, England, 400m, Silver Medal 1968 Olympics |
| 1948 | Ted Nugent, born in Detroit, guitarist, Cat Scratch Fever, Damn Yankees |
| 1947 | Les Joslin, cricketer, Test as batsman for Australia 1968, made 7 and 2 |
| 1943 | Arturo Ripstein, director, El Lugar Sin Limites, Foxtrot |
| 1943 | Ferguson Jenkins, baseball pitcher, Red Sox |
| 1942 | Anna Eshoo, American Politician |
| 1941 | Anouska Hempel, Forbes New Zealand, actress, Tiffany Jones |
| 1941 | John Davidson, Pitts, TV host, Hollywood Squares, That's Incredible |
| 1940 | Edith Clever, Wuppertal Germany, actress, Parsifal, L'Adolescente |
| 1940 | Steve Harmon, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Ens Pulver-Mr Roberts |
| 1939 | Clive Brain, educationalist |
| 1938 | Alvin Curran, born in Providence, Rhode Island, composer, professor at Mills College, co-founder of Musica Elettronica Viva, using electronic and environmental found sounds |
| 1938 | Tom Shaw, Wichita, Kansas, PGA golfer, 1969 Doral Open AVCO Golf Classic |
| 1938 | Tony Gomez, rocker, Foundations |
| 1937 | Rob Houwer, Dutch director/producer/actor, OK, Professor Columbus |
| 1935 | Bonno Spieker, Dutch 2nd Chamber member, PvdA |
| 1935 | Karim Aga Khan, prince/billionaire/husband of Rita Hayworth |
| 1934 | Richard Darryl Zanuck, film producer/executive |
| 1930 | Genevieve Page, actress, Day and the Hour |
| 1930 | Robert Prosky, Philadelphia, actor, Christine, Sergeant Jablonski-Hill St. Blues |
| 1929 | Albert Paulsen, Guayaquil Ecuador, actor, Doctors' Hospital |
| 1929 | Christopher Plummer, Toronto, actor, Sound of Music, Doll's House |
| 1928 | W. Gordon Smith, playwright |
| 1926 | Carl Erskine, baseball player, Brooklyn Dodgers |
| 1925 | Dick Van Dyke, born in West Plains, Missouri, actor, Rob Petrie-Dick Van Dyke Show |
| 1925 | Henry C Gordon, USAF/astronaut, Dynasoar |
| 1924 | Larry Doby, 1st black in baseball's AL, Cleveland Indians |
| 1923 | Fred van der Spek, Dutch 2nd chamber member, PSP |
| 1922 | Halina Czerny-Stefanska, Polish pianist, Chopin |
| 1920 | Don Taylor, Freeport, Pennsylvania, actor, Father's Little Dividend |
| 1920 | Frits Noske, Dutch musicologist, Signifier and the Signified |
| 1920 | George P Schultz, U.S. Secretary of State, 1982 - 1989 |
| 1920 | Kaysone Phomvihane,/premier/president Laos, Pathet Lao, 1991-92 |
| 1920 | George Schultz, American Public Servant |
| 1917 | Dave Street, born in Los Angeles, California, actor/singer, Broadway Open House |
| 1915 | Balthazar Johannes Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa, 1966-77 |
| 1915 | Mark Stevens, born in Cleveland, Ohio, actor, Big Town, Martin Kane |
| 1915 | Ross MacDonald, detective novelist, Goodbye Look |
| 1915 | Kenneth Millar, American Writer |
| 1914 | Alan L Bullock, British historian |
| 1914 | George "Tiger" Haynes, guitarist/actor, Land Without Music, Guv'nor |
| 1914 | Samuel "Larry" K Parks, Olathe, Kansas, actor, Jolson-Jolson Story |
| 1914 | Alan Bullock, British Historian |
| 1913 | Archie Moore, light-heavyweight boxing champ, 1952-60 |
| 1913 | Jimmy Carroll, New York City, pianist, Most Important People |
| 1913 | John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, English art historian |
| 1911 | Kenneth Patchen, U.S., poet and novelist, Cloth of the Tempest |
| 1910 | Lillian Roth, Rutstein, singer and actress, Animal Crackers |
| 1910 | Van Heflin, born in Walters, Oklahoma, actor, Great Adventure, Madame Bovary |
| 1908 | Victor Babin, composer |
| 1906 | Ingemar Liljefors, composer |
| 1906 | Laurens jan van der Post, soldier/explorer/conservationist |
| 1903 | Carlos Montoya, born in Madrid, Spain, guitarist, Suite Flamenco 1966 |
| 1903 | Jewgeni Petrow, writer |
| 1903 | John Piper, British writer, US Churches in WW I, official war painter |
| 1903 | Ella Baker, American Activist |
| 1902 | Paul Kurzbach, composer |
| 1902 | Talcott Parsons, U.S. sociologist |
| 1901 | Georg M Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/theory |
| 1901 | John Wijga, painter/illustrator |
| 1900 | Jonel Perlea, composer |
| 1900 | Norman Foster, born in Richmond, Indiana, actor, Skyscraper Souls |
| 1899 | Harold Guinzburg, publisher, founder of Literary Guild |
| 1899 | Yusef Greiss, composer |
| 1898 | Daniel Lazarus, composer |
| 1897 | Drew Pearson, born in Evanston, Illinois, newscaster, Drew Pearson |
| 1893 | Curt Jurgens, Munich Germany, actor, Enemy Below, Longest Day |
| 1892 | Brand Dirck Ochse, filmer/co-founder, Polygoon |
| 1890 | Marc Connelly, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, playwright, One Minute Please |
| 1889 | Clarence Loomis, composer |
| 1886 | Lambertus J van Apeldoorn, lawyer, martial law |
| 1877 | Mykola Dmytrovich Leontovych, composer |
| 1874 | Ludwig Curtius, German archaeologist, Die antike Kunst |
| 1871 | Herman T Colenbrander, Dutch historian |
| 1871 | Russell W. Porter, Vermont, explorer, Alaska |
| 1871 | Emily Carr, Canadian Artist |
| 1865 | Gustav Luders, composer |
| 1863 | Johannes Weiss, German New Testament scholar |
| 1860 | Lucien G Guitry, French actor/theatre director, l'Odeon |
| 1858 | Jakab Gyula Major, composer |
| 1853 | Joseph Sickman Corsen, Curacao, musician/composer/screenwriter |
| 1850 | G. F. Grace, cricketer, brother of W G |
| 1850 | Iver Paul Fredrik Holter, composer |
| 1844 | John Atkinson, Irish Judge |
| 1843 | George Stephanescu, composer |
| 1838 | Marie-Alexis Castillon de Saint-Victor, composer |
| 1835 | Phillips Brooks, Episcopal bishop/composer, Little Town of Bethlehem |
| 1819 | Edwin George Monk, composer |
| 1818 | Mary Todd Lincoln, 1st lady, 1861-65 |
| 1816 | Clement Claiborne Clay, MC, Confederacy |
| 1816 | E Werner von Siemens, German artillery officer/inventor |
| 1810 | Clark Mills, U.S., sculptor, Freedom, Armed Liberty |
| 1804 | Joseph Howe, Canadian Politician |
| 1797 | Heinrich Heine, Germany, poet/lyricist, Schubert, Liszt |
| 1770 | John Clarke-Whitfeld, composer |
| 1740 | Franz Xaver Schnitzer, composer |
| 1732 | Jean-Claude Trial, composer |
| 1724 | Aepinus, Franz UT Hoch, German physician/physicist |
| 1585 | William Drummond, Scottish Poet |
| 1553 | Henry IV, 1st Bourbon-king of Navarre/France, 1572/89-1610 |
| 1533 | Erik XIV Wasa, king of Sweden, 1560-69 |
| 1521 | Sixtus V, Felice Peretti/"Montalto", bishop of Fermo/Pope, 1585-90 |
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