| 1979 | Emma Louise DeSilets, Miss Washington Teen USA 1997 |
| 1978 | Caroline Hunt, born in Chicago, Illinois, rhythmic gymnast, US team-96 |
| 1977 | Alexei Morozov, NHL forward, Team Russia, Pittsburgh, Silver Medal 1998 Olympics |
| 1977 | Trina Jackson, 4X200m freestyle swimmer, 1996 Olympics gold |
| 1975 | Casey Barrett, born in Montreal, Quebec, 200m Butterfly 1996 Olympics |
| 1975 | Marty Murray, Deloraine, NHL center for the Calgary Flames |
| 1974 | Jevon Langford, defensive end for the Cincinnati Bengals |
| 1974 | Kathy McCormack, ice hockey forward, Canada, Silver Medal 1998 Olympics |
| 1974 | Kimberly Dawn Whipany, Oklahoma, rocker, PC Quest-Can You See |
| 1973 | Cathy Freeman, born in Mackay, Australia, 100m/200m/400m, Olympics-silver-92, 96 |
| 1973 | James Young, Australian water polo player 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Jerome Bettis, running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers |
| 1972 | Bo Bennett, American Businessman |
| 1971 | Anthony Abrams, NFL defensive tackle for the Kansas City Chiefs |
| 1971 | Chi Kredell, born in Long Beach, California, water polo driver 1996 Olympics |
| 1971 | Larry Jones, NFL running back for the Washington Redskins |
| 1971 | Marco Sas, Dutch soccer player, NAC |
| 1971 | Mike Hubbard, Lynchburg, Virginia, catcher for the Chicago Cubs |
| 1971 | Shivanthini Dharmasiri, Miss Universe-Sri Lanka 1996 |
| 1971 | Van Tuinei, defensive end for the San Diego Chargers |
| 1971 | Amanda Holden, born in Bishop's Waltham, England, actress, judge on television show, 'Britain's Got Talent' |
| 1970 | Saskia Linssen, Venlo Holland, playmate, Jun, 1991 |
| 1969 | Claude Lambert, born in Montreal, Quebec, boxer 1996 Olympics |
| 1969 | Fermin Cacho, Barcelona Spain, 1500m, Olympics-2 gold-92, 96 |
| 1969 | Tim Costo, U.S. baseball infielder, Cincinnati Reds |
| 1968 | Cecil Gray, NFL tackle for the Arizona Cardinals |
| 1968 | Erik Regtop, Dutch soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen |
| 1968 | Warren Ellis, British Author |
| 1967 | Robert Massey, NFL cornerback, Arizona Cardinals, Detroit Lions |
| 1966 | Eric Uptagrafft, Spokane, Washington prone rifle 1996 Olympics |
| 1964 | Christopher Eccleston, English Actor |
| 1962 | Alexa Kenin, New York City, actress, Mousie-Coed Fever |
| 1962 | Tony Kiley, rocker, Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways |
| 1961 | Andy Taylor, England, rock guitarist, Duran Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf |
| 1959 | Kelly Tripuka, Glenn Ridge, New Jersey, NBA forward, Det Pistons, Utah Jazz |
| 1959 | John McEnroe, tennis player, U.S. Open 1979-81, 84 Wimb 1981, 83, 84 |
| 1958 | Herb Williams, NBA center, Toronto Raptors, New York Knicks |
| 1958 | Ice-T, born in Newark, New Jersey, Tracy Marrow, musician, pioneer of gangsta rap, songwriter, actor, Grammy Award winner, author |
| 1958 | John Paul Morse, Marshall, Michigan, PGA golfer, 1995 United Airlines |
| 1958 | Lisa Loring, actress, As the World Turns, Wednesday-Addams Family |
| 1957 | LeVar Burton, Landstuhl Germany, Roots, Star Trek Next Generation |
| 1956 | James Ingram, vocalist, On the Wings of Love |
| 1955 | Guy Gallo, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, writer, Under the Volcano |
| 1955 | Jeff Clayton, U.S. jazz saxophonist/composer, Groove Shop |
| 1954 | Iain [Menzies] Banks, UK, sci-fi author, Wasp Factory |
| 1954 | Michael Holding, cricket fast bowler, Whispering Death-Awesome for WI |
| 1954 | Iain Banks, Scottish Writer |
| 1953 | Mike Ford, New York City, Canadian Tour golfer, 1976 Port Jefferson Open |
| 1953 | Roberta Williams, American Designer |
| 1950 | Peter Hain, born in Nairobi, Kenya, politician, Labor Party, Leader of the House of Commons, Cabinet member for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, Member of Parliament for Neath |
| 1950 | William Katt, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Greatest American Hero, 1st Love |
| 1949 | Dorus Vrede, Surinam poet, Otobanda; the Other Bank |
| 1946 | Aleksandr Shaparenko, U.S.S.R., 1K kayak, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics |
| 1946 | Ian Lavender, British actor, Stupid Boy in Dad's Army |
| 1946 | J R Farndon, British consultant surgeon |
| 1944 | Richard Ford, U.S. author, Sportswriter |
| 1943 | Anthony Dowell, London, ballet dancer, Royal Ballet |
| 1943 | J D Moore, headmaster, St. Dunstan's College |
| 1943 | James Wallace Beaton, born in Britain, Chief Superintendent, The Queen's Police Officer 1983 - 1992, saved Princess Anne from kidnapper 1974 |
| 1942 | Kim Chong-Il, Yura, president of North-Korea, 1994- |
| 1942 | Kim Jong Il, North Korean Statesman |
| 1941 | Vitali Kuznetsov, U.S.S.R., judo 1972 Olympics silver |
| 1940 | Karoli Ruth Needles, painter |
| 1939 | David Griffiths, portrait painter |
| 1939 | Harold Kalin, born in Port Jervis, New York, singer, member of pop music duo with brother Herbert 'Herbie' Kalin |
| 1938 | Barry Primus, New York City, actor, Sergeant McKenna-Cagney and Lacey, Boxcar Bertha |
| 1938 | John Corigliano, born in New York City, composer, Fern Hill, Ghosts of Versailles |
| 1937 | Paul Bailey, born in England, novelist, George Orewell prize-winner, lecturer at North Dakota State University, writer in residence, Kingston University, wrote At The Jerusalem, radio and television plays, and non-fiction books |
| 1937 | Valentin Vasilyevich Bondarenko, cosmonaut |
| 1935 | Brian Bedford, England, actor, Anthony-Coronet Blue |
| 1935 | Robin Clark, chemist, FRS |
| 1935 | Sonny Bono, born in Detroit, Michigan, Representative-R-California 1995 - 1998, vocalist, Sonny and Cher |
| 1934 | Austin "Ted" Taylor, U.S. gospel/R&B-singer, Be Ever Wonderful |
| 1934 | Marlene Bauer Hagge, Eureka, South Dakota, LPGA golfer, 1950 Woman Athlete |
| 1932 | Aharon Appelfeld, born near Czernowitz, Romania, now Ukraine, Israeli novelist, Holocaust survivor, Hebrew-language author with modernistic, metaphorical writing style |
| 1932 | Gretchen Wyler, Bartlesville Oklahoma, actress, Silk Stockings |
| 1932 | Nand Baert, Belgian radio/TV-host |
| 1932 | Otis Blackwell, composer/singer |
| 1931 | Gamini Goonesena, cricket leg-spinner, all-rounder for Ceylon, Notts |
| 1931 | George E. Sangmeister, born in Frankfort, Illinois, Representative-D-Illinois 1989 - 1995 |
| 1931 | Ken Takakura, Goichi Oda, Kita Japan, actor, Story of Antarctic |
| 1930 | Peggy King, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, vocalist/actress, George Gobel Show |
| 1930 | Ricou Browning, Florida, director/actor, Thunderball |
| 1929 | Peter NF Porter, Australian/British author and poet, Chair of Babel |
| 1926 | Jack Levy, mechanical engineer |
| 1926 | John Schlesinger, born in London, England, director, Midnight Cowboy, Darling |
| 1926 | Vera-Ellen, Westmeyr Rohe, Cincinnati, actress/dancer, Wonder Man |
| 1925 | David Emms, director, London Goodenough Trust for Overseas Graduates |
| 1925 | PER Bailey, director, Gatwick and Stansted Airports |
| 1924 | James Swaffield, director-general, Swaffield and Clerk to the GLC |
| 1924 | Peter Webster, British High Court Judge |
| 1922 | Geraint Evans, British opera vocalist, Knaben Wunderhorn |
| 1922 | Paul van 't Veer, Dutch journalist and writer, Het Vrije Volk |
| 1921 | Jean Behra, auto racer |
| 1920 | Hubert van Herreweghen, Flemish writer/journalist |
| 1920 | Lee Russell, born in Cleveland, Ohio, vocalist, Vincent Lopez |
| 1920 | Patty Andrews, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, vocalist, Andrews Sisters |
| 1918 | Karoly earl Khuen-Hedervary, Hungarian governor/premier, 1910-12 |
| 1916 | William Ballard Doggett, jazz musician |
| 1914 | J Tobin, British anaesthetist |
| 1914 | Jimmy Wakely, Mineola, Arkansas, country vocalist, 5 Star Jubilee |
| 1912 | Arthur Crook, British editor, Times Literary Supplement |
| 1912 | Bob Tadema Sporry, Dutch, female, author |
| 1912 | Del Sharbutt, Cleburne, Texas, TV announcer, Your Hit Parade |
| 1912 | Machito "Frank Grillo", Florida, bandleader, created salsa music |
| 1912 | Maitland Mackie, Lord Lt, Aberdeenshire |
| 1911 | Hal Porter, Australia, writer, Tilted Cross, Paper Chase |
| 1910 | Michael Milne-Watson, CEO, BUPA |
| 1910 | Miguel Bernal Jiminez, composer |
| 1909 | Hugh Beaumont, Lawrence, Kansas, actor, Ward Cleaver-Leave it to Beaver |
| 1909 | Jeffrey Lynn, Auburn Massachusetts, actor, My Son Jeep, Roaring Twenties |
| 1907 | Anghelos Terzakis, Greece, writer, Without God |
| 1907 | Fernando Previtali, composer |
| 1907 | Henri van Albada, Belgian sculptor, Charles V |
| 1907 | Ralph F. Marston, born in Malden, Massachusetts, Ralph Fulsom Marston, professional football player, played with National Football League's Boston Bulldogs, 1929 |
| 1906 | Jeffrey Lynn, actor, Tony Rome, Butterfield 8, Up Front |
| 1906 | Vera Menchik, Moscow, 1st official women's world chess champ, 1927 |
| 1905 | Jose Munoz Molleda, composer |
| 1905 | Lord Franks, British ambassador, to U.S. |
| 1905 | Oliver Franks, English Public Servant |
| 1904 | Ellis Achong, cricketer, West Indian SLA, 8 wickets in 6 Tests |
| 1904 | George F. Kennan, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. ambassador, to Moscow |
| 1903 | Edgar Bergen, Chicago, ventriloquist, Charlie McCarthy |
| 1901 | Chester Morris, New York City, actor, Diagnosis: Unknown |
| 1901 | Wayne King, Savannah, Illinois, saxophonist/bandleader, Waltz King |
| 1900 | Albert Maurice Hackett, playwright/screenwriter |
| 1898 | Katharine Cornell, actress, Barretts of Wimpole St |
| 1896 | Alexander Brailowsky, Russia, pianist, Chopin |
| 1896 | Charles A. L. Panzera, French baritone, L'horizon Chimerique |
| 1893 | Ivor Armstrong Richards, England, literary critic |
| 1890 | Semyon Semyonovich Bogatiryov, composer |
| 1886 | Andrew Ducat, cricketer, Test for England 1921, 3 and 2, Soccer International |
| 1886 | Van Wyck Brooks, New Jersey, literary historian and writer, Ordeal of Mark Twain |
| 1884 | Robert Flaherty, Michigan, father of documentary film, Nanook of North |
| 1884 | Robert J. Flaherty, Director |
| 1881 | Maurits H. E. Uyldert, Dutch poet and writer, Youth of a Poet |
| 1878 | Selim Palmgren, Finnish pianist/ composer and conductor, Peter Schlemihl |
| 1876 | George Macauley Trevelyan, England, historian, Giuseppi Garibaldi |
| 1871 | Arthur Ponsonby, British Politician |
| 1868 | Wilhelm Schmidt, German anthropologist/linguist, Anthropos |
| 1866 | Johann Strauss, Austria, composer, Waltz King |
| 1866 | Vyacheslav I Ivanov, Russian philosopher/classical/poet |
| 1866 | William "Sliding Billy" Hamilton, New Jersey, hall of fame baseball player |
| 1858 | Laurence "Lon" Myers, U.S., track star, top U.S. miler |
| 1856 | Willem Kes, Dutch violinist, composer and conductor, Parkorkest Amsterdam |
| 1854 | Oscar Fetras, composer |
| 1852 | Charles Taze Russell, religion founder, Jehovah's Witnesses |
| 1852 | William Scarborough, Macon, Georgia, linguist/author, Birds of Aristophanes |
| 1848 | Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist, How species emerge |
| 1848 | Octave Mirbeau, France, writer, Journal of a Lady's Maid |
| 1847 | Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, German composer, Album polonaise |
| 1838 | Arnoldus Pannevis, South African ship's doctor/linguist |
| 1838 | Henry B. Adams, born in Boston, Massachusetts, historian, writer, Education of Henry Adams |
| 1836 | Benjamin Edward Woolf, Dutch composer |
| 1834 | Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, Potsdam Germ, biologist, Causes of Evolution |
| 1832 | Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac, Major General Confederate Army |
| 1831 | Nikolai Leskow, writer |
| 1826 | Franz von Holstein, composer |
| 1826 | Joseph V von Scheffel, German writer, Gaudeamus |
| 1823 | John Daniel Imboden, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1822 | Francis Galton, Birmingham England, anthropologist and geneticist |
| 1822 | James Patton Anderson, Major General Confederate Army |
| 1821 | Heinrich Barth, Hamburg Germany, geographer/explorer, Central Africa |
| 1813 | Joseph Reid Anderson, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1813 | Semyon Stepanovich Gulak-Artemovsky, composer |
| 1812 | Henry Wilson, R, 18th Vice President, 1873-75 |
| 1807 | Lysander Cutler, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1790 | Chretien Urhan, composer |
| 1788 | Juan van Halen, Dutch/Spanish officer/adventurer |
| 1787 | Andreas Schelfhout, Dutch painter/etcher/lithographer |
| 1774 | Pierre Rode, composer |
| 1746 | Johann Heinse, German Sturm und Drang novelist/art critic |
| 1740 | Giambattista Bodoni, Saluzzo Italy, printer/typeface designer, Bodoni |
| 1709 | Charles Avison, composer |
| 1698 | Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, heliometer |
| 1684 | Bohuslav M Czernohorsky, Czechoslovakian monk/composer |
| 1684 | Bohuslav Matej Czernohorsky, Czechoslovakian monk/composer |
| 1669 | Arnold Boonen, Dutch portrait painter |
| 1620 | Frederick William, Great Elector, founder of Brandenburg-Prussia |
| 1519 | Gaspard de Coligny, Huguenot leader/French admiral |
| 1514 | Rhaticus, Rheticus, Austrian astronomer/mathematician |
| 1497 | Philipp Melanchthon, Germ, Protestant reformer, Augsburgse Confessie |
| 1497 | Philip Melanchthon, German Theologian |
| 1075 | Ordericus Vitalis, French monk/historian/poet |
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