| 1976 | Scott Vermillion, Independence, Missouri, soccer defender, 1996 Olympics gold |
| 1976 | Yazmin Fiallos, Miss Universe-Honduras 1996 |
| 1975 | Rob Mariano, American Celebrity |
| 1974 | Chris Naeole, guard for the New Orleans Saints |
| 1974 | Grayson Shillingford, NFL wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks |
| 1972 | Fantasia, Tonya Manley, born in Detroit, Michigan, dancer/actress, Pump it Up |
| 1971 | Marlon Forbes, safety for the Chicago Bears |
| 1971 | Noel Hogan, born in Moyross, Ireland, musician, guitarist, songwriter, co-wrote songs or band, The Cranberries |
| 1971 | Terry Vaughn, CFL receiver for the Calgary Stampeders |
| 1971 | Dido Armstrong, born in London, England, known as 'Dido', singer, songwriter, album, 'No Angel' sold over 16 million copies worldwide, 'Life for Rent' sold over 12 million copies |
| 1970 | Azhar Saeed, UAE cricketer, opening batsman 1996 World Cup |
| 1970 | Stu Barnes, Spruce Grove, NHL center for the Florida Panthers |
| 1969 | Bernhard, Jr., Prince of Netherlands |
| 1968 | Corey Widmer, NFL linebacker for the New York Giants |
| 1968 | Don Silvestri, NFL/WLAF kicker, New York Jets, London Monarchs |
| 1968 | Helena Christensen, Copenhagen Denmark, model/actress, Inferno |
| 1968 | Jim Dowd, Brick, NHL center, Vancouver Canucks |
| 1968 | Scott Bullett, Martinsburg, West Virginia, outfielder for the Chicago Cubs |
| 1967 | Kathleen Franey, born in Brooklyn, New York, 1.5k runner |
| 1966 | Craig Veasey, NFL defensive tackle/defensive end for the Houston Oilers |
| 1966 | Javier Frana, Rafaela Argentina, tennis star |
| 1966 | Sandy Corn, model/Penthouse Pet, March, 1991 |
| 1965 | Dmitri Mironov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL defenseman, Pitts Penguins, Anaheim |
| 1965 | Kathleen Luciano, Munich Ger, WPVA volleyballer, Nationals-17th-1993 |
| 1964 | Anil Kaul, Amritsar India, Canadian badminton player 1996 Olympics |
| 1964 | Janet Soulsby, Corbridge Australia, golfer, Curtis Cup 1982 |
| 1964 | Peter Hanson, English/Sierra Leone/Dutch actor, Darling How Could You |
| 1964 | Raymond Libregts, soccer player, MVV |
| 1963 | Joop Gall, Dutch soccer player, FC Groningen |
| 1962 | Dean Cameron, Morrison, Illinois, actor, Herbie-Spencer |
| 1962 | Mary Ellen Clark, Abington, Pennsylvania, diver, Olympics-2 bronze-92, 96 |
| 1960 | Amy Grant, vocalist, That's What Love Is, Baby Baby |
| 1959 | Chris Spice, Australian field hockey coach 1996 Olympics |
| 1959 | Michael P Anderson, Plattsburgh, New York, major USAF/astronaut, STS-89 |
| 1959 | Missy Cleveland, Jackson, Mississippi, playmate, April, 1979 |
| 1959 | Ton Lokhoff, Dutch soccer player, NAC |
| 1959 | Michael P. Anderson, American Astronaut |
| 1958 | Joop Hiele, soccer player, Dordrecht '90, Go Ahead Eagles |
| 1958 | Rickey Henderson, born in Chicago, Illinois, baseball player, stolen base king, A's, Yankees |
| 1957 | Jan Rot, Dutch composer/writer, Wrong Nights |
| 1957 | Jillie Mack, Mrs. Tom Selleck/actress, Magnum PI |
| 1957 | Shane McGowan, rock vocalist, Pogues-Red Roses For Me |
| 1956 | Mansoor Akhtar, cricketer, Pakistani batsman early 80's |
| 1955 | Claus Strigel, director, Obituary for the Automobile, Act of God |
| 1955 | William Andrews, actor, Sealed Cargo |
| 1954 | Annie Lennox, Aberdeen, Scotland, vocalist, Eurythmics-Sweet Dreams, Why |
| 1954 | Robin Campbell, British reggae vocalist and guitarist, UB40-Red Red Wine |
| 1954 | Steve Wariner, Noblesville Indiana, country singer, Small Town Girl |
| 1953 | Arnella Flynn, Rome, Italy, Errol Flynn's daughter |
| 1951 | Ria Thielsch, born in Monokwari, New Guinea, Dutch singer, entertainer, member of girl band, Luv |
| 1950 | Manny Trillo, baseball infielder for the Philadelphia Phillies |
| 1950 | Karl Rove, born in Denver, Colorado, Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush, author, 'Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight' |
| 1949 | Sissy Spacek, born in Quitman, Texas, Carrie, Badlands, Coal Miner's Daughter |
| 1948 | Barbara Mandrell, born in Houston, Texas, singer/TV host, Mandrell Sisters |
| 1948 | Merry Clayton, born in Gert Town, New Orleans, singer, actress, sang gospel and soul music, famous for singing with The Rolling Stones' song 'Gimme Shelter' with Mick Jagger |
| 1947 | Connie Petracek, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, swimmer, 1992, 1996 Olympics |
| 1946 | Larry Csonka, NFL running back, Miami Dolphins, New York Giants |
| 1946 | Jimmy Buffett, born in Pascagoula, Mississippi, vocalist, Margaritaville |
| 1945 | Gary Sandy, Dayton Ohio, actor, Andy-WKRP in Cincinnati |
| 1945 | Ken "The Snake" Stabler, NFL quarterback, Oak Raiders, Super Bowl XI |
| 1945 | Kenny Everett, British TV personality, Kenny Everett Show |
| 1945 | Noel Redding, rocker, The Jimi Hendrix Experience-Purple Haze |
| 1945 | Steve Mancha, Clyde Wilson, U.S. singer and songwriter, Too Many Cooks |
| 1944 | Henry Vestine, rock guitarist, Canned Heat-On the Road Again |
| 1944 | Rick Berman, Richard, producer, Star Trek Generations |
| 1943 | Hanna Schygulla, Katowice Silesia, actress, Love is Colder than Death |
| 1943 | Hedley Howarth, cricketer, brother of Geoff, New Zealand lefty spinner 1969-77 |
| 1943 | Ravish Malhotra, India cosmonaut, Soyuz T-11 backup |
| 1943 | Trevor Lucas, rocker, Fairport Convention |
| 1942 | Francoise Durr, France, tennis player, 1976 U.S. indoor Doubles |
| 1942 | Mani Kaul, director, Idiot, Nazar, Dhrupad, Duvidha |
| 1941 | Don Pullen, pianist/composer |
| 1941 | Lex Hixon, religious teacher/author |
| 1940 | Frans Moor, Dutch MP, PvdA |
| 1940 | Peter Brown, born in Chicago, Illinois, rocker |
| 1940 | Pete Brown, born in Ashtead, England, poet, lyricist, musical producer, worked with The Battered Ornaments, created Pete Brown & Piblokto! |
| 1939 | Bob James, born in Marshall, Missouri, rocker, smooth jazz, fusion, arranger, producer, wrote "Nautilus" and "Take Me To Mardi Gras", two of the most sampled songs in hip hop history |
| 1939 | Christopher Wates, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire |
| 1938 | David Borden, born in Boston, Massachusetts, composer, minimalist music, jazz pianist, founded Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company, the world's first synthesizer ensemble, wrote vocal, chamber ensemble, music, style similar to Phillip Glass, Terry Riley |
| 1938 | Wibo van de Linde, Dutch TV host/director, Avro |
| 1937 | O'Kelly Isley, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, singer, Isley Brothers-Twist and Shout |
| 1936 | Alexandra HEOC, English princess/daughter of sir Angus Ogilvy |
| 1936 | Ismail Merchant, Bombay India, producer, Householder |
| 1935 | Gunter Friedrichs, composer |
| 1934 | Bob Martinez, born in America, served as Mayor of Tampa, Florida and 40th Governor of Florida, initiated Preservation 2000, America's largest environmental land acquisition program, appointed Drug Czar by President George H.W. Bush |
| 1934 | Giancarlo Baghetti, racing driver/journalist |
| 1934 | John Ashley, born in Kansas City, Missouri, actor, Clipper-Straightaway |
| 1934 | McKinley Mitchell, U.S. gospel/singer, The Town I Live In |
| 1932 | Jose Maria Capricorne, Curacaos graphically designer/painter |
| 1932 | Peter John Swales, football club chairman |
| 1931 | Carlos Castaneda, U.S., writer/mystic, Eagle's Gift, Fire From Within |
| 1931 | Uzo Egonu, painter/print maker |
| 1929 | Billy Horton, rocker, The Silhouettes-Get a Job |
| 1929 | Chris Kenner, born in Kenner, near New Orleans, Louisiana, rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, recording artist, 1961 hit I Like It Like That was on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, song Land of a Thousand Dances was recorded by Patti Smith, and others |
| 1929 | Irish McCalla, Pawnee City, Nebraska, actress, Sheena Queen of Jungle |
| 1928 | Earl Brown, born in Salt Lake City, Utah, actor, Stovall-Operation Petticoat |
| 1927 | Nellie Fox, White Sox infielder, AL MVP 1959 |
| 1925 | Christmas F Tinto, South African ANC'er/UDF-leader |
| 1925 | Ossi Reichert, born in West Germany, giant slalom 1956 Olympics gold |
| 1925 | Carlos Castenada, Peruvian Writer |
| 1924 | Mihaly Vaci, Hungarian poet/politician |
| 1924 | Rod Serling, born in Syracuse, New York, writer/host, Twilight Zone, Night Gallery |
| 1924 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Indian Statesman |
| 1923 | Louis Lane, born in Eagle Pass, Texas, conductor, Oere Orchestra 1968 - 1973 |
| 1923 | Noel Vandernotte, France, cox, Olympic-bronze-1936 |
| 1922 | Kitty Kallen, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, singer, Judge For Yourself |
| 1920 | Artur Agostinho, Lisbon Port, actor, Capas Negras, Leao da Estrela |
| 1920 | Henry Charnock, oceanographer |
| 1918 | Eddie Safranski, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, orchestra leader, Jonathan Winters Show |
| 1918 | Anwar Sadat, Egyptian President, 1970 - 1981, Nobel 1978 |
| 1918 | Ahmed Ben Bella, Algerian Politician |
| 1916 | Daniel Devoto, composer |
| 1915 | Noelle de Mosa, Netherlands/British dancer/teacher, Brigadoon |
| 1915 | Nora Dunfee, actress, Forrest Gump, Lorenzo's Oil |
| 1915 | Pete Rugolo, bandleader/arranger, Fugitive |
| 1914 | Tony Martin, Alvin Morris, SF, singer, It's a Blue World, To Each |
| 1913 | Henri Nannen, journalist |
| 1912 | Donald McRae, cricketer, Test for New Zealand, the 1946 debacle vs Australia |
| 1912 | Herman W. Filarski, Dutch bridge journalist |
| 1912 | Leighton Noble, singer/bandleader |
| 1912 | Tony Martin, Oakland Cal, singer, Tony Martin Show, Tonight We Love |
| 1912 | Werner Fussan, composer |
| 1912 | Willian Noel Moffat, architect |
| 1911 | Burne Hogarth, strip-cartoon artist |
| 1910 | David Lichine, Lichtenstein, Russian/US dancer, Make Mine Music |
| 1909 | Louis van Lint, Belgian painter |
| 1909 | Marguerite Churchill, actress, Dracula's Daughter, Big Trail |
| 1909 | Mike Mazurki, Tarnopal Austria, actor/wrestler, Centerfold Girls |
| 1908 | Frank Ferguson, California, actor, Wagons West, Dynamite, My Gal Sal |
| 1908 | Helen Twelvetrees, actress, State's Attorney, Painted Desert |
| 1908 | Jan Seidel, composer |
| 1908 | Quentin Crisp, English Writer |
| 1907 | Cab[ell] Calloway, Rochester, bandleader, Minnie the Moocha, Jazzball |
| 1907 | Cab Calloway, American Musician |
| 1906 | Clark M. Clifford, U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1968 - 1969 |
| 1906 | Herman J Scheltema, NEM Pareau, Dutch jurist/poet |
| 1906 | Lew Grade, British TV mogul, ATV, movie producer, Boys from Brazil |
| 1906 | William McChesney Martin, Chairman of Federal Reserve Bank, 1951-70 |
| 1906 | Clark M. Clifford, American Public Servant |
| 1904 | Gerhard Herzberg, Can, physicist, molecular structure-Nobel 1971 |
| 1903 | Antiochos Evanghelatos, composer |
| 1903 | Corry Lievens, Isabella MJ Adriaens, Flemish actress, Blue Bird |
| 1903 | J Edward Bromberg, Hungary, actor, Mark of Zorro, Under 2 Flags |
| 1902 | Barton MacLane, South Carolina, actor, Geisha Boy, Peterson-I Dream of Jeannie |
| 1900 | Barton Maclane, Columbia, South Carolina, actor, General Peterson-I Dream of Jeannie |
| 1900 | Gladys Swarthout, Deepwater Missouri, mezzo-soprano, La Gioconda |
| 1900 | W L "Tich" Cornford, cricketer, Sussex keeper played for England 1930 |
| 1899 | Frank Fergusson, actor, My Friend Flicka, Peyton Place |
| 1899 | Humphrey Bogart, born in New York City, actor, Here's looking at you, kid, Casablanca |
| 1899 | Raphael Soyer, artist, Depression Scenes in New York City |
| 1898 | Theo Swagemakers, Dutch portrait painter |
| 1893 | Bert Bertram, actor, How to Steal a Million |
| 1893 | Fred Hillebrand, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Martin Kane |
| 1893 | Ropert L Ripley, Santa Rosa California, cartoonist, Believe It or Not |
| 1892 | Rebecca West, Cicely Isabel Fairfield, English author |
| 1891 | Clarrie Grimmett, cricketer, in Dunedin Great Australian leg-spinner |
| 1891 | Earle Foxe, Oxford, Ohio, actor, Dance Fools Dance |
| 1891 | Kenneth A. N. Anderson, British general, Dunkerk, North Africa |
| 1887 | Conrad Hilton, hotel mogul, Hilton Hotels |
| 1887 | Jacobus W. G. Balfoort, Dutch actor, Bulldog Drummond |
| 1887 | John Davidson, New York City, actor, Charlie Chan-Chinese Cat |
| 1883 | Fran Lhotka, composer |
| 1883 | Maurice Utrillo, France, painter, Port St. Martin, Montmartre |
| 1881 | Joseph V McCarthy, baseball manager, New York Yankees |
| 1878 | W Starling Burgess, yacht designer, America Cup's Enterprise |
| 1878 | Louis Chevrolet, American Celebrity |
| 1878 | Joseph Schenck, Russian Businessman |
| 1876 | Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Karachi, founded Pakistan, 1947, gov, 1947-58 |
| 1876 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistani Politician |
| 1875 | Theodor Innitzer, cardinal and archbishop Vienna |
| 1875 | Walter Lees, cricketer, Surrey pace bowler toured for England 1905-06 |
| 1868 | Eugenie Besserer, Watertown, New York, actress, Jazz Singer |
| 1867 | Alfred Kerr, born in Breslau, Silesia, nickname, Culture Pope, writer, essayist, wrote, 'Die Harfe' |
| 1865 | Evangeline Cory Booth, Salvation Army general, 1904-34 |
| 1863 | E Fernandez Arbos, Spanish violinist, conductor and composer |
| 1859 | Raoul Gunsbourg, composer |
| 1855 | James Galvin, pitcher, shut-out every opposing team in 1884 |
| 1837 | Cosima Liszt, wife of Austrian composer Richard Wagner |
| 1832 | Thomas Alfred Smyth, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1831 | Johann Herbeck, composer |
| 1829 | Patrick S Gilmore, composer |
| 1825 | Esteban Salas y Castro, composer |
| 1823 | Preston Smith, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1821 | Clara Harlowe Barton, Oxford Massachusetts, nurse/founder, American Red Cross |
| 1821 | Clara Barton, American Public Servant |
| 1815 | Temistocle Solera, composer |
| 1814 | Jan de Liefde II, Dutch vicar/founder, Coop of Welfare of the People |
| 1813 | Milledge Luke Bonham, Confederacy |
| 1811 | Wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler, German politician/bishop of Mainz |
| 1808 | Stephen Cleeg Rowan, Commander Union Navy |
| 1775 | Antun Sorkocevic, composer |
| 1771 | Dorothy Wordsworth, born in Cumberland, England, author, diarist, poet, sister of William Wordsworth, romantic poet |
| 1765 | Joseph Mazzinghi, composer |
| 1763 | Claude Chappe, French engineer, optical telegraph |
| 1750 | John "Christmas" Beckwith, composer |
| 1728 | Johann Adam Hiller, composer |
| 1721 | William Collins, Chichester England, Mayor-Chichester, poet |
| 1717 | Pius VI, Giovanni A Braschi, Italy, Pope, 1775 - 1799 |
| 1711 | Jean-Joseph Cassenea de Mondonville, composer |
| 1698 | Jacobus Houbraken, Dutch engraver/illustrator |
| 1686 | Giovanni Battista Somis, composer |
| 1646 | Harald Vallerius, composer |
| 1642 | Isaac Newton, born in Grantham, England, physicist, mathematician, and astronomer |
| 1628 | Noel Coypel, French painter |
| 1624 | Angelus Silesius, Johann Scheffler, German mystic, St. Seelenlust |
| 1601 | Jose Ximenez, composer |
| 1583 | Orlando Gibbons, English composer, O Clap Your Hands, baptized |
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