| 1994 | Creason Carbo Moss, daughter of U.S. actor Ronn Moss |
| 1980 | Steve Blake, American Athlete |
| 1977 | Tim Thomas, NBA forward for the Philadelphia 76ers |
| 1976 | Froso Spyrou, Miss Universe-Cyprus 1996 |
| 1975 | Cindy Werley, Allentown, Pennsylvania, field hockey forward/midfielder 1996 Olympics |
| 1975 | Mike Wilson, Brampton, NHL defenseman for the Buffalo Sabres |
| 1973 | Jenny Thompson, Danvers Massachusetts, 400m freestyle, Olympics gold 92, 96 |
| 1973 | Marshall Faulk, NFL running back for the Indianapolis Colts |
| 1972 | Clint McDaniel, NBA guard for the Sacramento Kings |
| 1972 | Scott Turner, NFL cornerback and safety for the Washington Redskins |
| 1971 | Erykah Badu, born in Dallas, Texas, singer, songwriter, Grammy-winner, R&B, hip hop, jazz, given name Erica Abi Wright |
| 1971 | Rick Lyle, defensive end/defensive tackle for the New York Jets |
| 1970 | Ben Maruquin, Ventura California, field hockey sweeper 1996 Olympics |
| 1970 | Katie O'Neill, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Together We Stand |
| 1970 | Meeno Peluce, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, actor, Bad News Bears |
| 1970 | Radka Zrubakova, Czechoslovakia, tennis star |
| 1970 | Sasha Danilovic, NBA guard for the Miami Heat |
| 1969 | Brandon Wilson, U.S. baseball infielder, Chicago White Sox |
| 1968 | Brendan Rogers, CFL linebacker for the Toronto Argonauts |
| 1968 | Chris Green, NFL safety for the Buffalo Bills |
| 1968 | J T Snow, born in Long Beach, California, infielder, New York Yankees, California Angels |
| 1968 | Leif Rohlin, Vasteras Swe, NHL defenseman, Vancouver Canucks |
| 1968 | Rene Groen, soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen |
| 1967 | David Howard, Sarasota, Florida, infielder for the Kansas City Royals |
| 1967 | Roman Fortin, NFL center for the Atlanta Falcons |
| 1967 | Scott Service, U.S. baseball pitcher, Cincinnati Reds |
| 1966 | Jennifer Grant, actress, Celeste-Beverly Hills 90210 |
| 1966 | Wesley Walls, NFL tight end, Carolina Panthers, San Francisco 49ers, NO Saints |
| 1965 | Alison Armitage, born in London, England, actress, Acapulco HEAT |
| 1965 | Brittany York, born in London, England, playmate, Oct, 1990 |
| 1965 | Donald Narcisse, CFL receiver for the Saskatchewan Roughriders |
| 1965 | Matt Jackson, Birmingham, Michigan, Canadian Tour golfer, 1994 Payless |
| 1962 | Sheila Cornell, Encino, Florida, softball infielder, 1996 Olympics gold |
| 1961 | Sophie Winter, actress, She's a Good Fighter |
| 1958 | Jeff Fithian, actor, Trevor Nash-Please Don't Eat the Daisies |
| 1958 | Joe Fithian, actor, Tracey Nash-Please Don't Eat the Daisies |
| 1958 | Susan J. Helms, born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Major USAF/Astronaut, STS-54, 64, 78 |
| 1957 | Connie Carpenter-Phinney, born in Madison, Wisconsin, 79k cyclist, Gold Medal 1984 Olympics |
| 1957 | Keena Rothhammer, U.S., 800 m freestyle swimmer, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics |
| 1954 | John Bolger, actor, Captain Gabe McNamara-Another World |
| 1954 | Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish Politician |
| 1953 | Bree Walker, news anchor, WNBC TV, KNBC TV |
| 1953 | Michael Bolton, Connecticut, rock vocalist, That's What Love Is All About |
| 1950 | Jonathan Cain, Chicago, rock guitarist/keyboardist, Journey, Babys |
| 1950 | Helen Clark, New Zealander Statesman |
| 1949 | Emma Kirkby, British soprano |
| 1949 | Elizabeth George, American Author |
| 1948 | Priscilla Lopez, born in Bronx, New York, actress, In the Beginning, Kay O'Brien |
| 1947 | Sandi Shaw, Sandra Goodrich, Essex, rocker, Girl Don't Come |
| 1946 | Bobby "Bingo" Smith, NBA star for the Cleveland Cavaliers |
| 1946 | Phyllis Eisenstein, U.S., sci-fi author, Sorcerer's Son, Born to Exile |
| 1945 | Mitch Ryder, rocker, & Detroit Wheels-Devil With the Blue Dress |
| 1945 | Marta Kristen, American Actress |
| 1944 | Marilyn Michaels, comedienne, ABC Comedy Hour |
| 1943 | Bill Duke, actor, Bird on a Wire, Predator |
| 1943 | Bob "Bear" Hite, California, vocalist, Canned Heat-Going Up the Country |
| 1943 | Bob van Reeth, Flemish architect |
| 1943 | Paul Cotton, born in Los Angeles, California, rocker, Poco |
| 1942 | Adriaan van Dis, author/TV-host, Nathan Sid, In Africa |
| 1942 | Joop van den Ende, director, Alsmeer Studio |
| 1941 | Keith Thomson, cricketer, batted in 2 Tests New Zealand vs. India 1968 |
| 1938 | Jack Knight, Somerville Mississippi, actor, Mr Shamley-James at 15 |
| 1936 | Eduard Ivanovich Buinovski, cosmonaut |
| 1936 | Manmohan Desai, filmmaker |
| 1934 | Ron Gaunt, cricketer, Australian fast bowler late 50s early 60s |
| 1933 | Godfrey Cambridge, New York City, actor, Cotton comes to Harlem |
| 1933 | James Goldsmith, Paris, France, corporate raider, Referendum Party |
| 1932 | Johnny Cash, born in Kingsland, Arkansas, country singer, "Folsom Prison Blues" and "I Walk the Line" |
| 1931 | Francisco Kroepfl, composer |
| 1931 | Robert D Novak, Joliet, Illinois, news reporter, CNN-Evans and Novak |
| 1931 | Robert Novak, American Journalist |
| 1931 | Bob Novak, American Entertainer |
| 1930 | Lazar Berman, Leningrad Russia, pianist, Budapest 3rd place-1956 |
| 1928 | Aldonis Kalnins, composer |
| 1928 | Anatoli Vassilyevich Filipchenko, Russia, cosmonaut, Soyuz 7, 16 |
| 1928 | Antione "Fats" Domino, NO, Louisiana, rhythm and blues pianist, Blueberry Hill |
| 1928 | Everton Weekes, cricketer, one of the 3 W's |
| 1927 | Donald Gramm, Milwaukee Wisconsin, bass-baritone |
| 1927 | Tom Kennedy, born in Louisville, Kentucky, quiz host, You Don't Say, Name That Tune |
| 1926 | Arsene Souffriau, composer |
| 1926 | Cynthia Stone, Peoria, Illinois, actress, That Wonderful Guy, Ad Libbers |
| 1926 | Konstantin P Feoktistov, Voronezh, cosmonaut, Voskhod 1 |
| 1925 | Everton Weekes, West Indian cricket player |
| 1925 | Frank Henry Copplestone, TV executive |
| 1925 | James Moody, U.S., jazz saxophonist/orchestra leader |
| 1924 | Mark Bucci, New York City, composer, 1959 Arts and Letters Award |
| 1924 | Noboru Takeshita, Japanese PM, 1987-89 |
| 1922 | Bill Johnston, cricket pace bowler, mighty Australian lefty post-war |
| 1922 | Margaret Leighton, Birmingham England, actress, Astonished Heart |
| 1921 | Betty Hutton, born in Michigan, American film actress, singer, 'Greatest Show on Earth' |
| 1920 | A. W. [Rie] Kuiper-Mastenbroek, born in Netherlands, swimmer, 3 Gold Medals 1936 Olympics |
| 1920 | Antony Kearey, TV producer |
| 1920 | Tony Randall, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, actor, Felix-Odd Couple |
| 1919 | Beppie Nooij, actress/director, Bluejackets-Rooie Sien |
| 1919 | Luc-Andre Marcel, composer |
| 1919 | Mason Adams, New York City, actor, Charlie Hume-Lou Grant, Deadliest Season |
| 1918 | Edwin Charles "Preacher" Roe, baseball pitcher, Brooklyn Dodgers |
| 1918 | Otis R Bowen, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1985 - 1989 |
| 1918 | Theodore Sturgeon, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, It, Caviar |
| 1917 | Robert Taft, Jr., born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Senator-R-Ohio 1971 - 1976 |
| 1916 | Jackie Gleason, born in Brooklyn, New York, comedian, Ralph Kramden on the 'Honeymooners' |
| 1916 | Mordecai Seter, composer |
| 1916 | Ross Gregory, cricketer, Australian batsman 1936 - 1937 |
| 1915 | Elisabeth Eybers, South Afr/Dutch poet, That Woman and Other Verses |
| 1915 | Pran Nath Chhuttani, physician/teacher |
| 1914 | Robert Alda, New York City, actor, Dan Lewis-Supertrain, By Popular Demand |
| 1914 | Witold Rowicki, composer |
| 1914 | Malcolm Wilson, American Politician |
| 1913 | George G Barker, English poet, Calamiterror, Anno Domini |
| 1913 | Hermann Lenz, writer |
| 1913 | Jon Hall, born in Fresno California, actor, Ramor of the Jungle |
| 1911 | Josef Smrkovsky, Czechoslovakia MP chairman |
| 1909 | Phyllis Fanny Primrose-Pechey Cradock, TV Chef |
| 1908 | Tex Avery, cartoon director, What's up, Doc? |
| 1906 | Madeleine Carroll, England, actress, 39 Steps, Secret Agent |
| 1902 | Rudolf Moralt, German conductor, Vienna Philharmonic |
| 1902 | Vercors, Jean Bruller, French writer, Le Silence de la Mer |
| 1898 | Julien de Valckenaere, Flemish writer |
| 1896 | Andrei A. Zjdanov, Russian politician, against kosmopolitism |
| 1896 | Eduard Flipse, Dutch conductor/composer |
| 1893 | Ivor A "I A" Richards, English poet and critic, Meaning of Meaning, |
| 1893 | William Frawley, Iowa, actor, Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy, Bub-My 3 Sons |
| 1891 | Alan Bridge, Pennsylvania, actor, North of Arizona, Badmen of the Hills |
| 1887 | Benegal Narsing Rau, India, President of United Nations Security Council, 1950 |
| 1887 | Grover Cleveland Alexander, HOF baseball pitcher, Phillies, Cubs |
| 1885 | Lili Green, Alice Sally Mary, Netherlands/England dancer |
| 1884 | Christina A. A. [Dina] Koudijs-van Appeldoorn, pianist/composer |
| 1884 | Dina Appeldoorn, composer |
| 1884 | Hildo Krop, Dutch modernistic sculptor |
| 1883 | Erich R Jaensch, German psychologist, eidetism |
| 1882 | Walter Lucht, German artillery general, WW I/WW II |
| 1879 | Frank Bridge, English violinist, composer and conductor /tutor of B Britten |
| 1877 | Carel S Adama van Scheltema, Dutch poet and writer, socialism |
| 1877 | Russell Alexander, composer |
| 1876 | Agustin P Justo y Rolon, President Argentina, 1931-38 |
| 1876 | Pauline Musters, smallest man, 1'11.2", 58.9 cm, |
| 1875 | Emma Dunn, actress, Dr. Monica, Dr. Kildare's Strange Case, Hideaway |
| 1875 | Richard Wetz, composer |
| 1874 | Carl Vogler, composer |
| 1873 | Ewoud van Everdingen, Dutch meteorologist |
| 1869 | Nadezjda K Krupskaja, Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin |
| 1868 | Leonard Borwick, British pianist |
| 1867 | Siegfried Passarge, German geographer, Cameroon, South Africa,America |
| 1866 | Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in U.S. chemical industry, Dow Chemical |
| 1861 | Ferdinand I, Vienna, 1st tsar of modern Bulgaria, 1908-18 |
| 1857 | Emile Coue, French pharmacist, recovery by auto suggestion |
| 1852 | John Harvey Kellogg, surgeon, inspired flaked cereal industry |
| 1846 | William F "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Davenport Iowa, killed 4000 buffaloes |
| 1845 | Aleksander Rozycki, composer |
| 1845 | Alexander III, St. Petersburg, Russian tsar, 1881-94, 3/10 NS |
| 1842 | Camille Flammarion, Mars researcher and popularizer of astronomy |
| 1841 | Evelyn Baring earl Cromer, English consul-general, Egypt |
| 1838 | Wendelin Weissheimer, composer |
| 1837 | Charles Woeste, Belgian count/Minister of Justice |
| 1835 | Richard Andree, German geography/etnologist, Andree's Handatlas |
| 1834 | Aleksander Zarzycki, composer |
| 1832 | John George Nicolay, U.S., author, Abe Lincoln's biographer |
| 1831 | Filippo Marchetti, composer |
| 1825 | Hans Balatka, composer |
| 1824 | Carlos Calvo, Argentina diplomat/people rights scholar, Calvo Clause |
| 1808 | Honore Daumier, France, painter/lithographer/caricaturist |
| 1802 | Victor Hugo, born in France, author, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables |
| 1772 | Caspar Furstenau, composer |
| 1770 | Antoine Reicha, composer |
| 1717 | John Randall, composer |
| 1686 | Godefroi L Count d'Estrades, French diplomat |
| 1677 | Nicola Fago, composer |
| 1675 | Guillaume Delisle, Paris, France, geographer, Atlas Geographique |
| 1675 | Johann Philipp Treiber, composer |
| 1588 | Nicolaus Erich, composer |
| 1564 | Christopher Marlowe, English Dramatist |
| 1361 | Wenceslas of Bohemia, Holy Roman Catholic German emperor, 1378-1400 |
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