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1987 Aaron Carter, American Musician
1987 Angel Carter, American Model
1978 Shiri Appleby, American Actress
1977 Fernando Vargas, Oxnard California, welterweight boxer 1996 Olympics
1977 Francesca Lubiani, Bologna Italy, tennis star, Futures-Amadora-POR
1974 Alex Radutescu, Romania, tennis star
1974 Annette Salmeen, 200m butterfly/800m freestyle relay 1996 Olympics
1974 Nicole Appleton, Canadian Musician
1973 Mark Hartsell, WLAF quarterback for the Scotland Claymores
1973 Rea Marie Bavilla, Miss USA-Alaska 1997
1973 Terrell Owens, wide reciever for the San Francisco 49ers
1972 Bobby Schoonens, soccer player, RKC
1972 Clay Shiver, corner for the Dallas Cowboys
1972 Jordi Burillo, born in Barcelona, Spain, professional tennis player, won ATP Tour singles title and doubles title, coached Julian Alonso
1972 Kevin Dogins, corner for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
1972 Hermann Maier, Austrian Athlete
1971 Ben Atkins, New York City, fencer-epee 1996 Olympics
1971 Mauricio Hadad, Cali Colombia, tennis star, 1995 Bermuda
1970 Courtney Browne, cricketer, West Indies Test wicket-keeper 1995
1970 Rob Olson, Victoria BC, Canadian Tour golfer, 1990 Newlands Open
1969 Sabine Hack, West Germany, tennis star
1968 Cammy Myler, Plattsburgh, New York, luger 1994 Olympics
1968 Keith Goganious, NFL linebacker for the Jacksonville Jaguars
1968 Melissa Iverson, Anoka, Minnesota, rower 1996 Olympics
1968 Ricky Ervins, NFL running back for the San Francisco 49ers
1968 Tom Myslinski, NFL guard, Jacksonville Jaguars, Pittsburgh Steelers
1967 Tino Martinez, born in Tampa, Florida, 1st baseman, Seattle Mariner, New York Yankees
1967 Vaclav Chalupa, Czechoslovakia, rower, Henley Royal Regatta 1989
1966 C Thomas Howell, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Red Dawn, Tank, Soul Man
1965 Peter Draisaitl, born in Karvina, Czechoslovakia, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998
1964 Duncan Miller, rocker, Blue Mercedes-Rich and Famous
1964 Mike Nolan, rocker, Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies
1964 Peter Laviolette, Norwood Massachusetts, U.S. hockey defenseman 1994 Olympics
1963 Barbara Weathers, vocalist, Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover
1963 Kristi Albers, El Paso, Texas, LPGA golfer, 1993 Sprint Classic
1962 Grecia Colmenares, Italian entertainer
1961 Mary Beth Evans, born in Pasadena, California, actress, Katherine Ashton-General Hospital
1960 Matthew Shipp, American Musician
1959 Salim Yousuf, cricketer, Pakistani wicket-keeper in 32 Tests 1986-90
1958 Edd Hall, TV announcer, Jay Leno's Tonight Show
1957 Geoff "Henry" Lawson, cricketer, Australian fast bowler 1980-89
1957 Rohan Jayasekera, cricketer, one Test Sri Lanka vs. Pakistan 1982
1956 Larry Bird, hoop star for the Boston Celtics
1955 Priscilla Barnes, Ft. Dix, New Jersey, actress, License to Kill, 3s Company
1954 Gianfranco Jannuzzo, Italian entertainer
1954 Julie Halston, actress, Juror, Drunks, Addams Family Values
1953 Bertin Osborne, Italian entertainer
1952 Susan Collins, American Politician
1951 Henk Temming, Dutch vocalist/keyboardist, Good Cause
1949 Tom Waits, born in California, rocker/song writer, Blue Valentine
1948 Gary Morris, Ft. Worth, Texas, country singer and actor, Colbys
1948 Yoko Morishita, prima ballerina, Baterina No Habataki
1947 Johnny Bench, baseball catcher, Reds
1947 Mino Reitano, Italian entertainer
1947 Peter de Jong, Dutch actor, Maxi-Mini and Maxi
1947 Vincent Baggetta, Paterson, New Jersey, actor, Lou-Chicago Story
1942 Harry Chapin, born in New York City, rock vocalist, Taxi, Cat's in the Craddle
1942 Jonathan D Kramer, composer
1940 Kumar Shahani, writer and director, Kasbam Tarang, Maya Darpan
1937 Thad Cochran, born in Pontotoc, Mississippi, Senator-R-Mississippi 1978
1936 Martha Layne Collins, Baghdad, Kentucky, Gov-D-Kentucky
1935 Jean-Claude Casadesus, composer
1932 Ellen Burstyn, born in Detroit, actress, Exorcist, Alice Doesn't Live Here
1932 Geoff Lawson, Australian cricket player
1932 Gerard van den Berg, Dutch TV host, Like Father, Like Son
1930 Richard Felciano, composer
1928 Noam Chomsky, linguist, founded transformational grammar
1928 Raymond Henry Charles Warren, composer
1927 Vlastimir Pericic, composer
1926 Victor Kermit Kiam II, CEO, Remington shavers, NFL owner, Patriots
1926 Wolfgang Ludewig, composer
1924 Mario Soares, Socialist, premier of Portugal, 1976-78, 1983-
1923 Ted Knight, born in Terryville, Connecticut, Mary Tyler Moore, Too Close for Comfort
1921 Arne Dorumsgaard, composer
1919 Ellen Stewart, actress/founder, La Mama Theatre Group
1918 Jorunn Vidar, composer
1917 Helen Gurley Brown, editor-in-chief, Cosmopolitan
1915 Brackett Hamilton Leigh, Douglass, U.S., sci-fi author, Ginger Star
1915 Eli Wallach, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Magnificent 7, Misfits, People Next Door
1914 Winston Place, cricketer, England opener in West Indies 1948
1912 Daniel Jones, born in Pembroke, Wales, Daniel Jenkyn Jones, Welsh composer, friend of Dylan Thomas, wrote 12 numbered symphonies, chamber music, made Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1968
1912 Louis Prima, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, singer, That Old Black Magic
1910 Edmundo Ros, English orchestra leader
1910 Richard Franko Goldman, composer
1910 Rod Cameron, Calgary Alberta, actor, City Detective, State Trooper
1909 Jacob Kainen, artist/curator
1908 Jacques Gans, Dutch author/journalist
1908 John H Doeg, tennis champ, U.S. Open-1930
1906 George Richard James, saxophonist
1905 Gerard Kuiper, Dutch/U.S. astronomer, moons of Uranus, Neptune
1902 J G Navle, cricketer, India's 1st Test wicket-keeper
1901 A F [Tony] Pugsley, British rear-admiral, Walcheren attack, 1944,
1896 Juan Maria Thomas Sabater, composer
1895 Jack Pennick, born in Portland, Oregon, actor, Lady From Louisiana
1894 Stuart Davis, U.S. painter
1892 Nora Nicholson, Leamington England, actress, Blue Lagoon, Crow Hollow
1891 Fay Bainter, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Jezebel, Our Town, State Fair
1889 Heathcote Dicken Statham, composer
1889 Honore-Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher/playwright
1888 Hamilton Fish, U.S. congress leader/isolationist
1888 Joyce Cary, Anglo-Irish, male, writer, House of Children
1888 Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun, 1st President of American Newspaper Guild
1887 Ernst Toch, Vienna Austria, composer, Melodie Lehre
1882 Warren Bardsley, cricketer, great NSW and Aussie opening bat 1909-26
1879 Rudolf Friml, Czechoslovakian/U.S. composer, Bohemian suite
1878 Akiko Yosano, Japan, poet, Tangled Hair
1876 Ludwig Schiedermair, German musicologist, Beethoven-Archiv
1873 Willa Cather, U.S., author, My Antonia
1872 Johan Huizinga, Dutch culture historian, Homo Ludens
1863 John Ebenezer West, composer
1863 Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer/fascist, Cavalleria Rusticana
1863 Svetolik Rankovic, Serbian writer, Forest King
1862 Paul Adam, French writer, La Bataille d'Uhde
1857 Nicola van Westerhout, composer
1847 James Deacon White, Canton, New York, ball player jumped teams in 1876, Chi
1847 Solomon Schechter, U.S. Talmudic scholar/Jewish leader
1842 Otto Ammon, German anthropologist/sociologist, schedelmetingen
1840 Hermann Goetz, composer
1839 Redvers H Buller, English general/large landowner: Natal
1835 Dom Joseph Pothier, French monk/musicologist
1830 Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician/minister of Education
1823 Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician, Tensor of Kronecker
1810 Theodor Schwann, German co-originator of cell theory
1808 Hugh McCulloch, U.S. Secretary of Treasury
1801 Johann Nepomuk Nestroy, Austrian actor, Judith und Holofernes
1784 Allan Cunningham, Scottish Poet
1772 Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, composer
1761 Madame [Marie Grosholtz] Tussaud, created wax museum
1754 Jack Jouett, American patriot
1751 Jurrian F de Frederici, governor-General, Suriname
1731 Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil du Perron, French interpreter
1648 Giovanni Maria Capelli, composer
1637 Barnardo Pasquini, composer
1604 Ambrosius Reiner, composer
1598 Giovanni Bernini, Italy, baroque sculptor, St. Teresa in Ecstasy
1557 Girolamo Trombeti, composer
1542 Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, 1560-1587
967 Abu Sa'id ibn Aboa al-Chair, Persian mystic
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