| 1994 | Dakota Fanning, born in Conyers, Georgia, American Actress |
| 1980 | Yvonne Tousek, born in Kitchener, Ontario, gymnast 1996 Olympics |
| 1978 | Karolina Rantamaki, ice hockey left wing, Finland, 1998 Olympics |
| 1977 | Angie Trostel, Oxford Ohio, diver 1996 Olympics |
| 1977 | Dally Randriantefy, Antananarivo Madag, tennis star, 1993 Marseille |
| 1976 | Dmitriy Dudarev, hockey forward, Team Kazakhstan Olympics-1998 |
| 1976 | Jeff O'Neill, Richmond Hill, NHL center, Hartford Whalers |
| 1975 | Bohdan Utihrach, Czechoslovakia, tennis star |
| 1975 | Chris Garner, NBA guard for the Toronto Raptors |
| 1975 | Michael Tricario, actor, Randy-Wonder Years |
| 1975 | Pat Barnes, quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs |
| 1974 | Herschelle Gibbs, cricketer, South African Test batsman 1996 |
| 1974 | Kenyon Cotton, full back for the Baltimore Ravens |
| 1973 | Robert Pipkins, Staten Island, New York, luger 1994 Olympics |
| 1972 | Greg Hill, NFL running back for the Kansas City Chiefs |
| 1972 | Jamie Watson, NBA forward, Utah Jazz |
| 1972 | Ryan Grigson, NFL guard and tackle, Detroit Lions |
| 1972 | Steve Papin, WLAF running back for the Scotland Claymores |
| 1971 | Carin Hjalmarsson Koch, Kungalv Sweden, golfer, 1995 Pinewild-7th |
| 1971 | Jason Keller, Scarsdale, New York, actor, Jason-Out of the Blue |
| 1971 | Shane Keller, Scarsdale, New York, actor, Shane-Out of the Blue |
| 1971 | Torsten Kienass, Berlin GER, hockey defenseman, Team Germany |
| 1969 | Ed McDaniel, NFL linebacker for the Minnesota Vikings |
| 1969 | Michael Campbell, Hawera New Zealand, Australasia golfer |
| 1967 | Gord Murphy, Willowdale, NHL defenseman for the Florida Panthers |
| 1967 | Steven C Stricker, Edgerton WI, PGA golfer, 1994 Northern Telecom-2nd |
| 1966 | John Druce, Peterborough, NHL right wing, Philadelphia Flyers, Los Angeles Kings |
| 1966 | Marc Price, actor/comedian, Skippy-Family Ties |
| 1965 | Helena Sukova, Prague, Czech Republic, tennis star, 1985 U.S. Open's Double |
| 1965 | Sylvie Guillem, France, ballerina, Royal Ballet |
| 1965 | Michael Dell, born in Houston, Texas, businessman, founder of Dell, Inc., philanthropist, named 'Inc.' magazine's Entrepreneur of the Year, worth over $12 billion |
| 1964 | Byron Evans, NFL linebacker for the Philadelphia Eagles |
| 1964 | John Norum, born in Vardo, Norway, musician, hard rock guitarist, co-founder of Swedish band Europe |
| 1963 | Bobby Bonilla, New York City, outfielder, New York Mets, Baltimore Orioles, Marlins |
| 1963 | Debbie Kruck, Danbury CT, Ms Fitness USA, 1994 |
| 1963 | Reza Abdoh, born in Tehran, Iran, playwright, theatre director, produced King Lear, Oedipus Rex, confronted audiences with issues of race, class, AIDS |
| 1962 | Melinda Mays, Augusta, Georgia, playmate, Feb, 1983 |
| 1962 | Michael Wilton, born in San Francisco, California, guitarist, singer, member of Queensryche, progressive metal musician, influenced by Judas Priest, Van Halen, Iron Maiden, UFO |
| 1960 | Cindy Figg-Currier, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, golfer, 1994 British Open-6th |
| 1960 | Gloria von Thurm un Taxis, born in Munich, West Germany, Princess |
| 1960 | Maria Gloria von Schonberg-Glauchau, wife of prince Thurn un Taxis |
| 1960 | Crown Prince Naruhito, heir apparent to the Chrysanthemum Throne of Japan, eldest son of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko |
| 1959 | John Arthur Wilson, Ceres California, PGA golfer, 1994 Anheuser-Busch-4th |
| 1958 | David Sylvian, vocal/guitar, Sylvian Sylvian, Japan-Adolescent Sex |
| 1958 | Lorraine Michaels, Canterbury England, playmate, April, 1981 |
| 1958 | Ria Brieffies, Dutch vocalist, Dolly Dots |
| 1955 | Howard Jones, rock pianist/vocalist, Things Can Only Get Better |
| 1954 | Viktor Yushchenko, Ukrainian Statesman |
| 1953 | Sallie L. Baliunas, born in New York, New York, astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, cited as one of America's outstanding women scientists |
| 1952 | Brad Whitford, Massachusetts, rock guitarist, Aerosmith-Jamie Got a Gun |
| 1951 | Ed "Too Tall" Jones, NFL linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys |
| 1951 | Nicholas Kenyon, controller, BBC Radio 3 |
| 1951 | Patricia Richardson, born in Bethesada, Maryland, actress, 'Double Trouble', 'Home Improvement' |
| 1950 | Steve Priest, London, rock bassist, Sweet Hayes |
| 1949 | Anna-Maria Muller, born in East Germany, Luge, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics |
| 1949 | Larry Demps, U.S. R&B vocalist, Dramatics-Me and Mrs. Jones |
| 1949 | Marc Garneau, Quebec City Canada, PhD/astronaut, STS-13, 77 |
| 1949 | Maureen Hicks, British MP |
| 1949 | Terry "Tex" Comer, bassist/guitarist |
| 1948 | Bill Alexander, theatre director |
| 1947 | Colin Sanders, British computer engineer, Solid State Logic |
| 1947 | Geoff Cope, cricketer, England off-spinner 1977-78 |
| 1947 | Shakira Caine, Guyana, actress, Man Who be King, Miss Guyana, 1967 |
| 1946 | Rusty Young, California, rock steel guitarist, Poco-Heat of the Night |
| 1946 | Joseph Sobran, American Activist |
| 1945 | Frank Murray, police Officer |
| 1944 | James Cousins, British MP |
| 1944 | Johnny Winter, John Dawson, Leland Mississippi, guitarist, Silver Train |
| 1944 | Mike Maxfield, rocker, Billy J Kramer and The Dakotas |
| 1943 | Bobby Wayne Mitchell, Chatham, Virginia, PGA golfer, 1971 Cleveland Open |
| 1943 | Fred Biletnikoff, NFL wide receiver |
| 1943 | Jada Rowland, New York City, actress, Penny-Hamptons, Amy-Secret Storm |
| 1942 | Beau Boulter, born in El Paso, Texas, Representative-R-Texas 1985 - 1989 |
| 1942 | Colin Sanders, founder, Solid State Logic |
| 1942 | John Lewis, Head Master, Eton College |
| 1941 | Frank Gerstenberg, Edinburgh, principal, George Watson's College |
| 1941 | Robin Bynoe, cricketer, WI opening batsman in 4 Tests 1959-67 |
| 1941 | William Hjortsberg, New York City, writer, Gray Matters, Fallen Angel |
| 1940 | Jermyn P Brooks, CEO, Price Waterhouse Europe |
| 1940 | Peter Fonda, actor, Easy Rider, Lilith, Wild Angels, Trip |
| 1939 | Edmund Boyd Fisher, publisher |
| 1939 | Josef Feistmantl, Austria, lugeist 1964 Olympic gold |
| 1939 | Majel Barrett, born in Columbus, Ohio, actress, Christine Chapel-Star Trek |
| 1938 | Diane Varsi, San Mateo California, actress, Peyton Place |
| 1938 | Sylvia Chase, St. Paul, Minnesota, newscaster, ABC Weekend News, 20/20 |
| 1937 | David Ward, president, Law Society |
| 1937 | Christopher Tugendhat, born in England, born Christopher Samuel Tugendhat, Baron Tugendhat of Widdington in the County of Essex, politician, Conservative Party, journalist, author, businessman |
| 1937 | Tom Osborne, college football coach |
| 1937 | Claude Brown, American Writer |
| 1933 | Lee Calhoun, Laurel Mississippi, hurdler, Olympics gold 56, 60 |
| 1933 | Lee Quencey Calhoun, Laurel MS, 110m hurdler, Gold Medals 1956, 1960 Olympics |
| 1931 | Tom Wesselman, U.S. sculptor, Great American Nudes |
| 1931 | Tom Wesselmann, American Artist |
| 1930 | Gerry Davis, born in England, science-fiction writer, wrote British television soap operas Coronation Street and United!, script editor for Doctor Who |
| 1930 | Harry Boldt, Federal Republic of Germany, equestrian dressage 1976 Olympics gold |
| 1930 | Imre Gyongyossy, film Maker |
| 1930 | Jef Geeraerts, Flemish writer, Black Venus |
| 1930 | Johnny Seven, New York City, actor, Ironside, Amy Prentiss |
| 1929 | Eduard W. "Ed" Bauer, Eddy Evers, Dutch actor, Bluejackets |
| 1929 | Elston Howard, Yankee catcher, 1st black New York Yankee/1963 AL MVP |
| 1929 | Richard Moryl, composer |
| 1929 | Regine Crespin, Marseilles France, operatic soprano |
| 1928 | David Somerset, born in England, David Robert Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort, British peer, criticized for accepting public funds on riverbed land granted to his dukedom 400 years ago |
| 1928 | Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev, Siberia U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, Soyuz 12, 18A |
| 1927 | Ivan Hrusovsky, composer |
| 1926 | Regine Crespin, French vocalist, Sheherazade, Les Nuits D'ete |
| 1925 | Ian Smith, cricket leg-spinner, South Africa 1947-58 avg 64.08 |
| 1925 | Louis Stokes, born in Cleveland, Ohio, Representative-D-Ohio 1969 - 1999 |
| 1924 | Lejaren Hiller, composer |
| 1923 | Gery Florizoone, Flemish poet |
| 1920 | David Wright, born in Johannesburg, South Africa, given name David John Murray Wright, editor of 'X', autobiography 'Deafness. A Personal Account' gives insight into deafness |
| 1920 | Hall Overton, Bangor Michigan, composer, Enchanted Pear Tree |
| 1919 | Johnny Carey, soccer star |
| 1918 | Dom Aelred Watkin, headmaster, Downside School |
| 1916 | George Abel, Canada, ice hockey player, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics |
| 1916 | Martindale Sidwell, organist/conductor |
| 1916 | William Walsh, academic |
| 1915 | Heinrich Schirmbeck, German author, Das Spiegellabyrinth |
| 1914 | Margaret Farrer, CEO, Central Midwives Board |
| 1913 | Charles Leonard, U.S., pentathelete, 1936 Olympics |
| 1913 | Edward Fiennes-Clinton, born in Australia, born Edward Horace Fiennes-Clinton, 18th Earl of Lincoln, engineer, landowner, inherited Earldom but formally did not prove his right to the title |
| 1911 | G Mennen Williams, Detroit, Supreme Court Justice, Gov-D-Michigan, 1949-60 |
| 1911 | Walter Ernest Allen, writer/critic |
| 1909 | Frank Ward, cricketer, Australian leggie late 30s |
| 1908 | William McMahon, Prime Minister of Australia, Liberal, 1971 - 1972 |
| 1907 | Anthony Standerwick Heal, businessman |
| 1905 | Leonidas Zoras, composer |
| 1904 | Leopold Trepper, Polish/Israeli spy/founded, CP Palestina |
| 1904 | William L Shirer, historian, Rise and Fall of 3rd Reich |
| 1903 | Grigori V Aleksandrov, Russian director, Veselye Rebjata |
| 1901 | Aartje W. "Mien" van It Sant-van Bommel, author, Mieke-serial |
| 1900 | Elinor Remick Warren, composer |
| 1899 | E Langgasser, writer |
| 1899 | Erich Kastner, Dresden German author, Emil and the Detective |
| 1898 | Reinhard Herbig, German archaeologist |
| 1895 | Richard Goolden, born in London, England, actor, School for Husbands |
| 1892 | Kathleen Harrison, actress, Fast Lady, Big Money, West 11 |
| 1889 | Cyril Delevanti, England, actor, Lucius-Jefferson Davis, Black Eye |
| 1889 | Frederik M baron of Asbeck, Dutch lawyer, League of Nations |
| 1887 | Oskar Frederik Lindberg, composer |
| 1886 | Albert Edward Sammons, composer |
| 1886 | Ventura Garcia Calderon, Peruvian diplomat/author |
| 1884 | Frank Cellier, Surbiton England, actor, Quiet Wedding, Big Blockade |
| 1884 | Herman Courtens, Belgian painter |
| 1883 | Karl Jaspers, Oldenburg Germany, existentialist philosopher |
| 1883 | Victor Fleming, born in Pasadena, California, director, Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind |
| 1882 | Ladislav Vycpalek, composer |
| 1881 | Titus Brandsma, Dutch philosopher |
| 1880 | Edgar Istel, composer |
| 1879 | Agnes Arber, English biologist/philosopher, Mind and the Eye |
| 1879 | Norman Lindsay, Creswick Victoria, artist/novelist |
| 1878 | Kazimir Malevich, Polish Artist |
| 1876 | Agnes M Royden, writer |
| 1876 | Wadi' Sabra, composer |
| 1875 | Jozef E Stokvis, journalist/Dutch MP, SDAP |
| 1874 | Konstantin Pats, Estonian PM, 1921-23, 1932-33, dictator, 1933-40 |
| 1873 | Dmitri Arakishvili, composer |
| 1869 | Nadezhda Konstantinova Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary, Soc-Dem |
| 1868 | W. E. B. Du Bois, born in Massachusetts, civil rights writer, Souls of Black Folk |
| 1865 | Barney Dreyfuss, baseball owner for the Pittsburgh Pirates |
| 1863 | Franz von Stuck, German painter, Der Krieg |
| 1859 | Theodor Batthyanyi, Hungarian statesman/contra revolutionary |
| 1848 | Thomas Paine Westendorf, composer |
| 1840 | Carl Menger, Austrian economist |
| 1838 | Gilbert Moxley Sorrel, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1834 | Gustav Hermann Nachtigal, German physician/colonizer/consul in Tunis |
| 1831 | Hendrik W. Mesdag, Dutch painter, Panorama Mesdag |
| 1824 | Herman N van der Tuuk, Dutch philologist, Tobasch' Grammar |
| 1824 | Lewis Cass Hunt, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1818 | Jeremy F Gilmer, Major Gen/Chief Engineer Confederate War Dept |
| 1817 | George Watts, London, painter |
| 1811 | George Washington Hewitt, composer |
| 1792 | Istvan Ferenczi, Hungarian sculptor |
| 1787 | Emma Willard, U.S., opens school for young ladies, Hall of Fame |
| 1776 | John Walter II, London, chief proprietor, The Times, 1812-47 |
| 1764 | William Eaton, American Soldier |
| 1744 | Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Frankfurt, founder, House of Rothschild |
| 1730 | Christian Joseph Lidarti, composer |
| 1700 | Wilhelmus Schortinghuis, Dutch theologist, Profound Christianity |
| 1685 | George Friedrich Handel, Halle Germany, organist/composer, Messiah |
| 1649 | John Blow, composer of 1st English opera, Venus and Adonis, baptized |
| 1633 | Samuel Pepys, born in London, England, Navy expert/composer, Diary, Memoirs |
| 1615 | Cornelis Galle II, Flemish engraver/illustrator, baptised |
| 1614 | Jacob Colijn, s, Dutch coat of arms painter |
| 1417 | Paul II, Pietro Barbo, Italy, Pope, 1464 - 1471 |
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