| 1987 | Thomas Dekker, born in Las Vegas, Nevada, musician, singer, actor, played Zach on 'Heroes', John Connor in 'Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles' |
| 1981 | Elizabeth Jordan Carr, 1st American test tube baby |
| 1981 | Sienna Miller, American Actress |
| 1978 | John Legend, American Musician |
| 1975 | Kesley Perrin, CFL defensive back for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers |
| 1975 | Tannis Vallely, New York City, actress, Janice Lazorotto-Head of the Class |
| 1974 | Rob Niedermayer, Cassiar, NHL center for the Florida Panthers |
| 1973 | Bobby Taylor, NFL cornerback for the Philadelphia Eagles |
| 1973 | Garth John Da Silva, Auckland New Zealand, heavyweight boxer 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Adam Clawson, born in Salt Lake City, Utah, slalom single canoe, Olympic-19th-96 |
| 1972 | Adam Vinatieri, WLAF punter/kicker, Amsterdam Admirals, New England Patriots |
| 1972 | Jean-Francois Jomphe, Havre St-pierre California, NHL right wing, Anaheim |
| 1972 | Jim Kitts, WLAF running back, Frankfurt Galaxy, Miami Dolphins |
| 1972 | Patrick Rafter, born in Queensland, Australia, tennis star, 1993 USTA/Aptos California |
| 1971 | Melvin Nieves, San Juan Puerto Rico, outfielder for the Detroit Tigers |
| 1971 | Michael Watkins, NFL wide receiver for the San Diego Chargers |
| 1971 | Steve Morrison, NFL linebacker for the Indianapolis Colts |
| 1970 | Brenda Schultz-McCarthy, Haarlem, Netherlands, tennis star, 95, 96 Oklahoma City |
| 1970 | Elizabeth McIntyre, Dunbar, West Virginia, Miss America-WV 1996 |
| 1970 | James Jett, NFL wide receiver for the Oakland Raiders |
| 1969 | James Trapp, NFL cornerback for the Oakland Raiders |
| 1969 | Linus Torvalds, born in Helsinki, Finland, inventor, software engineer, pioneered development of the Linux kernel, a free, open source software operating system |
| 1968 | Darrick Brownlow, NFL linebacker for the Washington Redskins |
| 1968 | Jennifer Palmquest, Wilmot, South Dakota, Miss SD-America 1991 |
| 1968 | Jozef Dano, born in Skalica, Czechoslovakia, hockey forward, Team Slovakia 1998 |
| 1968 | Kurt Schulz, NFL safety for the Buffalo Bills |
| 1967 | Paul Lynch, Sydney NSW Australia, canoeist 1996 Olympics |
| 1967 | Chris Ware, American Artist |
| 1966 | Joe Wolf, NFL guard for the Arizona Cardinals |
| 1965 | Colleen Dion, actress, Brett Gardner-Another World |
| 1965 | Martine Robine, newspaper writer/Miss Junior Miss-France, 1984 |
| 1965 | Mary Waddell Gainey, Hartsville, South Carolina, Miss SC-America, 1991-2nd |
| 1964 | Charles Sinek, dance skater, & Beata Handra-1997 Pac Coast Sr 3rd |
| 1963 | Malcolm Gets, actor, Richard Karinsky-Caroline In the City |
| 1963 | Mel Stottlemyre, Jr., pitcher, Toronto Blues Jays |
| 1963 | Willow Bay, TV host, Good Morning America |
| 1962 | Keith Lee, basketball player, Memphis State |
| 1961 | Heather Hafner, born in Santa Barbara, California, WPVA volleyballer, National-7th-90 |
| 1960 | Chad McQueen, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, film producer, played role of Dutch in The Karate Kid movie, race car driver, started McQueen Racing LLC in 2010 |
| 1960 | John Fitzgerald, Australia, tennis star |
| 1960 | Marty Roe, Lebanon Ohio, singer, Diamond Rio-Meet in the Middle |
| 1960 | Raymond Bourque, Montreal, NHL defenseman, Team Canada, Boston |
| 1960 | Terri Garber, born in Miami, Florida, actress, Leslie Carrington-Dynasty |
| 1960 | Zane Smith, Madison WI, pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates |
| 1959 | Everson Walls, NFL cornerback, Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants |
| 1959 | Andy McNab, British Novelist |
| 1958 | Carlos Carson, born in Lake Worth, Florida, football player, wide receiver, played in ten National Football League seasons, from 1980 to 1989, all time Pro Bowl NFL player |
| 1958 | Joe Diffie, Tulsa, Oklahoma, country singer/guitarist, Home |
| 1958 | Mike McGuire, Haleyville Ala, singer, Shenandoah-Sunday in the South |
| 1958 | Terry Butcher, British soccer player |
| 1956 | Kenneth Grant, bass/vocalist, Midnight Star-No Parking, Operator |
| 1956 | Michael Gibbons, rocker, Bo Donaldson and Heywoods-Billy Dont be a Hero |
| 1956 | Nigel Kennedy, born in Brighton, English, violinist, jazz and classical music, boy prodigy, play Fats Waller tunes by ear at age 10, featured on Sarah Brightman's album Harem |
| 1954 | Denzel Washington, born in Mount Vernon, New York, actor, Dr. Chandler-St. Elsewhere |
| 1954 | Rosie Vela, British singer, Zazu, Fools Paradise |
| 1954 | Tony Rosato, Naples Italy, comedian, SCTV, SNL, Amanda's |
| 1953 | Richard Clayderman, pianist, Amour, Romantic America |
| 1953 | Robert Pittman, TV executive/developer, MTV |
| 1952 | Ray Knight, 3rd baseman, New York Mets, Baltimore Orioles |
| 1950 | Alex Chilton, born in Memphis, Tennessee, rock guitarist and vocalist, Box Tops |
| 1948 | Jorge Velasquez, jockey, Kentucky Derby-1981, Preakness-1981 |
| 1947 | Aurelio Rodriguez, baseball player |
| 1947 | Dick Diamonde, Van Der Sluys, Hilversum, rock bassist, Easybeats |
| 1947 | Robert Gilliot, father of Gerda Havertongs daughter Zulema |
| 1946 | Edgar Winter, Beaumont, Texas, rocker, They Only Come Out at Night |
| 1946 | Hubie Green, golfer, U.S. Open-1977, PGA-1985 |
| 1946 | Jorge Velasquez, sportsman |
| 1946 | Tim Johnson, American Politician |
| 1945 | Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva, King of Nepal, 1972- |
| 1945 | Dwight Bement, rocker, Gary Puckett and Union Gap-Young Girl |
| 1945 | Max Hastings, British editor-in-chief, Daily Telegraph |
| 1944 | Kary Mullis, American Scientist |
| 1943 | David Peterson, Toronto, premier of Ontario Canada, L, 1982- |
| 1943 | Oscar D. Dhlomo, South African Secretary-General of Inkatha, 1978 - 1990 |
| 1942 | Paul Horowitz, New York City, physicist, META project, Sloan Award 1971-3 |
| 1941 | Don Francisco, Spanish variety show host, Sabado Gigante |
| 1941 | Intikhab Alam, Pakistan cricket leg-spinner, 1959-77 |
| 1940 | Alvin Elliot Singleton, composer |
| 1940 | Lonnie Liston Smith, U.S. jazz performer, Cosmic Echoes, Magic Lady |
| 1938 | Bruce Yarnell, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Outlaws |
| 1938 | Charles Neville, U.S. rock vocalist/saxophonist, Neville Brothers |
| 1938 | Janet Hough Bryant, author/performing artist/educator |
| 1938 | Richard Sudhalter, British writer/jazz musician |
| 1936 | Nichelle Nichols, Robbins, Illinois, actress, Uhura-Star Trek |
| 1936 | Jim McDermott, American Politician |
| 1935 | Fernando Lopes, Portugal, director, Encoberto, Matar Saudades |
| 1934 | David Warrilow, actor, Simon, Radio Days, Dakota Road, Barton Fink |
| 1934 | John Akers, business executive |
| 1934 | Maggie Smith, born in Ilford, England, actress, Death on Nile, Clash of Titans |
| 1933 | Jack Perkins, born in Cleveland, Ohio, newscaster, Prime Time Sunday, NBC Magazine |
| 1932 | Clem Schouwenaars, Flemish poet/writer |
| 1932 | Dorsey Burnette, Memphis, rocker, Tall Oak Tree, Hey Little One |
| 1932 | Manuel Puig, Argentina, writer, Blood of Requited Love |
| 1932 | Roy Hattersley, British journalist/Labour-parliament leader |
| 1931 | Georg "Org" Marais, South African economist/underminister of Finance |
| 1931 | Guy Debord, born in Paris, France, filmmaker, hypergraphist, theorist, founding member of Lettrist International, Situationist International |
| 1931 | John de Mol, Dutch vocalist/composer/producer |
| 1929 | Maarten Schmidt, Netherlands/U.S. astronomer, quasars |
| 1929 | Owen Bieber, United Auto Workers president |
| 1929 | Terry Sawchuk, NHL goaltender, Redwings, Bruins, Maple Leaf, Rangers |
| 1928 | Kamillo Lendvay, composer |
| 1927 | Anne Legendre Armstrong, ambassador, to UK |
| 1927 | Martin Milner, born in Detroit, Michigan, actor, Route 66, Adam 12, Life of Riley |
| 1927 | Simon Raven, English playwright/critic, Alms for Oblivion |
| 1926 | Donald Carr, cricketer, England player in 50's, later MCC honcho |
| 1925 | Bill [William] Westwood, British bishop of Peterborough |
| 1925 | Hildegarde Neff, Ulm Germany, actress, Touch of Class, Mozambique |
| 1925 | Hildegard Knef, German Actress |
| 1924 | Johnny Otis, Veliotes, composer, Every Beat of My Heart |
| 1923 | Andrew Duggan, actor, Secret War of Harry Frigg, Winds of War |
| 1922 | Nyron Sultan Asgarali, cricketer, West Indian opening bat 1957 |
| 1922 | Stan Lee, writer, editor and co-creator of Spider-Man, Incredible Hulk, Fantastic Four and many more comic characters |
| 1921 | Eddy Doorenbos, Dutch vocalist/pianist/guitarist |
| 1921 | Johnny Otis, R&B singer |
| 1920 | Steve Van Buren, NFL halfback for the Philadelphia Eagles |
| 1919 | Inocenti Carreno, composer |
| 1917 | Ellis Clarke, president Trinidad and Tobago, 1976-87 |
| 1916 | Noel Johnson, British actor, Frenzy, Frightmare, Royal Flash |
| 1915 | Roebuck "Pops" Staples, U.S. gospel/singer, Staple Singers |
| 1914 | Bernard Youens, British actor, Coronation Street |
| 1914 | Lee Bowman, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, actor, Ellery Queen, Miami Undercover |
| 1913 | Lou Jacobi, born in Toronto, Ontario, comedian, Dean Martin Show, Melba |
| 1911 | Phani Majumdar, film maker |
| 1911 | Sam Levenson, New York City, humorist, Sam Levenson Show, Masquerade Party |
| 1910 | John Kerr, New Zealand, cricketer, opening batsman in 1930's |
| 1909 | Billy Williams, Waco, Texas, singer, Your Show of Shows |
| 1909 | Nikola J Vaptsarov, Bulgaria poet, Subrani Sutsjinenija |
| 1908 | Lew Ayres, Minnesota, actor, All Quiet on Western Front, Dr. Kildare |
| 1907 | Roman Palester, Polish composer: The Weichsel |
| 1905 | Cliff Arquette, born in Toledo, Ohio, comedian, Charlie Weaver |
| 1905 | Earl "Fatha" Hines, Duquesne, Pennsylvania, jazz pianist, Deep Forest |
| 1905 | Gajapatairaj Vijaya Ananda the Rajkumar of Vizianagram, Ind |
| 1904 | Clabon W. Allen, Australian/British astronomer |
| 1904 | Sergei Yutkevich, St. Petersburg Russia, director, Otello, Banya |
| 1903 | John von Neumann, mathematician and astronomer, Bocher Award 1938 |
| 1903 | Earl Hines, American Musician |
| 1902 | Mortimer J Adler, New York City, author, Encyclopedia Brittanica |
| 1902 | Shen Congwen, writer |
| 1902 | Mortimer Adler, American Philosopher |
| 1896 | Roger Huntington Sessions, born in Brooklyn, New York, composer, Black Masks |
| 1895 | Auguste Lumiere, twin brothers who opened 1st commercial cinema |
| 1895 | Louis Lumiere, twin brothers who opened 1st commercial cinema |
| 1894 | Andre de Meulemeester, Belgian WW I pilot, Eagle of Flanders |
| 1894 | Ed Healey, NFL tackle, Rock Island Independents, Chicago Bears |
| 1890 | Frank Butler, Oxford England, actor/sreenwriter, Road to Bali, China |
| 1889 | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau |
| 1888 | Gabriel von Wayditch, composer |
| 1887 | Charles Dingle, born in Wabash, Indiana, actor, stage, film, played role of senator in 'Call Me Madam', films include 'The Little Foxes' |
| 1884 | Joseph Pholien, Belgian premier, 1950 - 1952, communist hunter |
| 1883 | A Wolfenstein, writer |
| 1882 | Arthur Eddington, born in England, astrophysicist, cosmologist, and mathematician |
| 1880 | Christian DFL Leipoldt, South african physician/writer/poet |
| 1879 | Billy Mitchell, American Soldier |
| 1872 | Pio Baroja Y Nessa, San Sebastion Spain, writer, Caminode Parfeccion |
| 1868 | Marie van Regteren Altena, Dutch painter, Amsterdam's Joffers |
| 1865 | Felix E. Vallotton, Swiss/French painter/writer, Chaste Suzanna |
| 1860 | Alexander von Fielitz, composer |
| 1859 | Gerard Brucken Fock, composer |
| 1859 | John W Fortescue, military historian |
| 1856 | Woodrow Wilson, Staunton, Virginia, 28 president-D 1912 - 1921, Nobel 1919 |
| 1856 | Woodrow Wilson, American President |
| 1855 | Juan Zorrilla de San Martin, Uruguay's diplomat/poet, Tabare |
| 1849 | Herbert von Bismarck, German politician/son of Otto of Bismarck |
| 1845 | Homer Newton Bartlett, composer |
| 1842 | Calixa Lavallee, composer |
| 1837 | Benjamin Johnson Lang, composer |
| 1835 | Archibald Geikie, British geologist |
| 1833 | Charles Miller Shelley, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1828 | Karl L Kahlbaum, German psychiatrist, katatonie |
| 1827 | Robert Latimer McCook, volunteers Brigadier General, Union |
| 1826 | Conrad Busken Huet, Dutch vicar/literary, Country of Rubens |
| 1823 | Thomas Alexander Scott, Assistant Secretary War, Union |
| 1822 | William Booth Taliaferro, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1812 | Julius Reitz, composer |
| 1805 | Tomas Genoves y Lapetra, composer |
| 1801 | James Barnes, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1787 | Hermanus J Abbring, Dutch writer/engineer on Curaeao |
| 1783 | Robert Gallenberg, composer |
| 1763 | John Molson, founded Montreal brewery, Molsons |
| 1753 | Johan Wikmanson, composer |
| 1751 | Josef Blazej Smrcek, composer |
| 1738 | Thaddaus Ferdinand Lipowsky, composer |
| 1731 | Christian Cannabich, German composer/royal chaplain master |
| 1694 | Ceslav Vanura, composer |
| 1631 | Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist |
| 1484 | Joachim Vadianus, von Watt, Swiss physician/mayor of Sankt Gallen |
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