| 1984 | Brandon Hammond, actor, Grgory Hines Show |
| 1976 | Elina Zisi, Miss Greece Universe 1997 |
| 1976 | Kim Zmeskal, born in Houston, Texas, U.S. gymnast 1992 Olympics |
| 1975 | Chad Allen, born in Dallas, Texas, baseball outfielder 1996 Olympics bronze |
| 1975 | Leo Insam, hockey defenseman, Team Italy 1998 |
| 1974 | Nathan Davis, defensive tackle for the Atlanta Falcons |
| 1974 | Olaf Lindenbergh, soccer player, Ajax, De Graafschap |
| 1973 | Arie Obdam, Dutch soccer player, FC Volendam |
| 1973 | Fred Miller, tackle for the St. Louis Rams |
| 1973 | Lulama Masikazana, cricket wicket-keeper, Kwazulu for E Province |
| 1972 | David Binn, NFL safety for the San Diego Chargers |
| 1972 | Mark Labbrook, Australian 200m/400m runner 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Shawn Respert, NBA guard, Milwaukee Bucks, Toronto Raptors |
| 1971 | Brad Hogg, cricketer, WA chinaman all-rounder, Australia vs. India 1996 |
| 1971 | Carlos Rogers, NBA forward and center for the Toronto Raptors |
| 1971 | Lance Bade, Vancouver BC, U.S. double trap, Olympics-bronze-1996 |
| 1971 | Mana Endo, Hiroshima Japan, tennis star, 1996 3rd round Australia Open |
| 1971 | Peter Tchernyshev, St. Petersburg Russia, dance skater, & Naomi Lang |
| 1970 | Jeff Rouse, U.S., 50m/100m backstroke swimmer, Olympic-gold/silver-92, 96 |
| 1970 | Mark Hutton, Adelaide Australia, pitcher, New York Yankees |
| 1969 | Anna Acker-Macosko, Marshfield WI, LPGA golfer, 1995 Gold Coast Tour |
| 1969 | April Lerman, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, Lila-Charles in Charge |
| 1969 | Bob Wickman, Green Bay WI, pitcher, Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees |
| 1969 | Greg Patrick, WLAF safety for the Frankfurt Galaxy |
| 1969 | James Jones, NFL defensive tackle, Denver Broncos, Baltimore Ravens |
| 1969 | Kurt Abbott, U.S. baseball player for the Florida Marlins |
| 1969 | Rajindra Dhanraj, Trinidad cricket leg-spinner, WI 1994-95 |
| 1968 | Imtiaz Abbasi, UAE cricket wicket-keeper, World Cup 1996 |
| 1968 | Malika Mahfoud, Copenhagen Denmark, golfer, Gippsland Ladies Amateur |
| 1968 | Richard Newbill, WLAF linebacker for the London Monarchs |
| 1967 | Bennie Dekker, Dutch soccer player, NEC/AZ/De Graafschap |
| 1967 | Mike Evans, WLAF defensive tackle for the Amsterdam Admirals |
| 1967 | Randy Hilliard, NFL defensive back, Denver Broncos Superbowl 32 |
| 1966 | Alex Antonitsch, Austria, tennis star |
| 1966 | Rick Astley, rock vocalist, Never Gonna Give You Up |
| 1966 | Tom Tupa, NFL punter/quarterback, Cleveland Browns, New England Patriots |
| 1965 | Jan Sverak, Zatec Czechoslovakia, director, Kolya, Jizda, Ropaci |
| 1964 | Matt Hayes, Australian soling yachter 1996 Olympics |
| 1964 | Skip Ewing, Redlands California, country vocalist, Coast of Colorado |
| 1963 | David Capel, cricketer, England all-rounder in 15 Tests 1987-90 |
| 1963 | Mike Hough, Montreal, NHL left wing for the Florida Panthers |
| 1962 | Axl Rose, Lafayette, Indiana, vocalist, Guns and Roses |
| 1961 | Yuri Ivanovich Onufriyenko, Russian major/cosmonaut, Mir, Soyuz TM-23 |
| 1960 | Megan Gallagher, Reading, Pennsylvania, actress, Slap Maxwell, Millennium |
| 1958 | Barry Miller, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Fame, Peggy Sue Got Married |
| 1958 | Bill Dawley, born in Norwich, Connecticut, baseball player, pitcher, played Major League Baseball with the Houston Astros, Chicago Whitesox, St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, Oakland Athletics |
| 1958 | Cecily Adams, Queens, New York, entertainment caster, American Heart |
| 1958 | Kelly Leadbetter, born in Phoenix, Arizona, LPGA golfer, 1986 Hennessy French Open |
| 1958 | Mark Hamilton, born in Louisville, Kentucky, sprint kayak 1996 Olympics |
| 1958 | Simon Baker, Australian speed walker, Olympics-84, 88, 96 |
| 1957 | Jerry Marotta, rocker, Orleans-Love Takes Time |
| 1957 | Kathy Najimy, actress, Sister Act, Veronica's Closet |
| 1957 | Robert Townsend, Chicago, comedian/actor, Hollywood Shuffle, Ratboy |
| 1956 | Jon Walmsley, Lancashire England, actor, Jason-Waltons |
| 1956 | Linda Grovenor, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actress, Die Laughing, Wheels of Fire |
| 1955 | Eric Money, born in Detroit, Michigan, athlete, former pro basketball player for the NBA, averaged 12.2 points per game |
| 1955 | Michael Pollan, born in Long Island, New York, professor of journalism, U of C, Berkeley, author, columnist, activist, wrote, 'The Omnivore's Dilemma', 'The Botany of Desire', 'In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto' |
| 1954 | Scott Kempner, "Top Ten" rocker, Del Lords |
| 1952 | Richard Charsworth, Australian women field hockey head coach 1996 Olympics |
| 1951 | Maria Christina, Belgian princess/daughter of Leopold III |
| 1950 | Natalie Cole, born in Los Angeles, California, vocalist, 'Pink Cadillac', 'Miss You Like Crazy' |
| 1950 | Punky Meadows, Washington D.C., rock guitarist, Angel |
| 1950 | Rich Glover, born in Bayonne, New Jersey, athlete, American football player, played in the NFL's New York Giants, Philadelphia Eagles |
| 1949 | Frank Rich, U.S. politician |
| 1949 | Manuel Orantes, tennis champ, U.S. Open-1975 |
| 1949 | Richie Zisk, baseball player |
| 1949 | Mike Batt, born in Southampton, England, singer, composer, arranger, producer, helped created ecologically sensitive fictional creatures, The Wombles, wrote hit 'Bright Eyes' |
| 1947 | Charles Hickcox, U.S., 200m/400m medley swimmer, Olympic-3 gold-1968 |
| 1945 | Bob Marley, Jamacian reggae vocalist, & Wailers-Roots Rock Reggae |
| 1944 | Michael Tucker, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actor, Stuart Markowitz-LA Law |
| 1943 | Fabian Forte, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, vocalist, Turn Me Loose, Tiger |
| 1943 | Gayle Hunnicutt, Ft. Worth, Texas, actress, Legend of Hell House, Dallas |
| 1942 | John London, bassist, Michael Nesmith band |
| 1941 | Gigi Perreau, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Journey to Center of Time |
| 1941 | Stephen Albert, born in New York City, New York, composer, Pulitzer Prize winner 1985, for symphony 'RiverRun', won Grammy Award 1995 for 'Cello Concerto' |
| 1940 | Jimmy Tarbuck, English comic/golfer |
| 1940 | Tom Brokaw, born in Yankton, South Dakota, news anchor, NBC Nightly News 1982- |
| 1939 | Mike Farrell, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, actor, BJ Honeycutt-M*A*S*H, Battered |
| 1938 | Ellsworth Milburn, composer |
| 1937 | Baldev Singh Chahal, campaigner |
| 1936 | Otis Williams, rocker, Charms |
| 1936 | Wies Andersen, Alois de Bois, Belgian actor/producer, Maigret |
| 1933 | Leslie Crowther, English TV-comic/quizmaster |
| 1933 | Walter E. Fauntroy, born in Washington, D.C., Representative-D-District of Columbia 1971 - 1991 |
| 1932 | Francois Truffaut, Paris, director, Jules and Jim, Fahrenheit 451 |
| 1931 | Fred Trueman, Fiery Fred, English cricket player |
| 1931 | Freddie Trueman, cricketer, "Fiery Fred", 307 wickets for England |
| 1931 | Rip Torn, born in Texas, actor, Coma, Summer Rental, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| 1930 | Lionel Blue, British Clergyman |
| 1929 | Keith Waterhouse, English writer, Billy Liar, Say Who Are You? |
| 1929 | Sixten Jernberg, Sweden, skier, Gold Medals 1956, 1960, 1964 Olympics |
| 1927 | Smokey Burgess, baseball catcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates |
| 1924 | Billy W. William Ambrose right, soccer star |
| 1924 | Billy Wright, English soccer player |
| 1924 | Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author, Road to Rome |
| 1923 | Maurice Le Roux, composer |
| 1922 | Patrick MacNee, born in London, England, actor, Jonathan Steed-Avengers |
| 1920 | James H. Scheuer, born in New York City, New York, Representative-D-New York 1965 - 1973, 1975 - 1983 and 1983 - 1993 |
| 1919 | Lindsay Tuckett, cricketer, son of Len, 9 Tests for South Africa 1947-49 |
| 1919 | Louis Heren, journalist and writer, China's Three Thousand Years |
| 1917 | Arthur Gold, Toronto, Canada, pianist |
| 1917 | Liberato Firmino Sifonia, composer |
| 1916 | Bill Doggett, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, organist, musician, American jazz and rhythm and blues pianist, hit Honky Tonk, recorded with King Records, sold four million copies, arranged music for Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald |
| 1915 | Derk Roemers, Dutch politician, Soc-Dem |
| 1913 | John Lund, born in Rochester, New York, actor, Wackiest Ship in the Army |
| 1913 | Mary Leakey, British Scientist |
| 1912 | Eva Braun, mistress, Adolph Hitler |
| 1912 | Christopher Hill, English Historian |
| 1912 | John Edward Christopher Hill, English Historian |
| 1911 | A. W. "Dooley" Briscoe, cricketer, batted in 2 Tests for South Africa 30's |
| 1911 | Ronald Reagan, born in Illinois, 40th President, Republican, 1981 - 1989 |
| 1910 | George H Poyser, English soccer player/manager, Brentford |
| 1910 | Irmgard Keun, West German writer, Das kunstseidene Madchen |
| 1909 | Israel Citkowitz, composer |
| 1908 | Amintore Fanfani, premier of Italy |
| 1908 | Edward Lansdale, general/model, Quiet American, Ugly American |
| 1908 | Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, national Park Warden |
| 1907 | Sam Green, industrialist/inventor |
| 1905 | Wladislaw Gomulka, premier of Poland |
| 1903 | John Dunning, cricketer, New Zealand medium-fast bowler of 30's |
| 1903 | Pieter G Buckinx, Flemish writer, Temptation of Poverty |
| 1903 | Claudio Arrau, Chile, composer/pianist, Boston Symphony Orchestra |
| 1902 | Louis Nizer, lawyer, defended blacklisted stars in '50s, Catspaw |
| 1901 | Ben Lyon, born in Atlanta, Georgia, actor, I Cover the Waterfront, Night Nurse |
| 1900 | Roy Smeck, guitarist/banjoist |
| 1900 | Rudolf Varnlund, Swedish playwright, Heliga Familjen |
| 1899 | Ramon Novarro, Jose RG Samaniegos, Durango Mexico, actor, Ben Hur |
| 1897 | Alberto [de Almeida] Cavalcanti, Brazil, director, Nicholas Nickleby |
| 1895 | Babe Ruth, American Athlete, baseball legend |
| 1895 | Robert M. La Follette, American Politician |
| 1893 | Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, President of United Nations General Assembly, 1962-63 |
| 1890 | Anton Hermann Fokker, avation pioneer |
| 1889 | Karel Wellens, Flemish painter |
| 1889 | Siegfried Kracauer, writer |
| 1888 | Ljudmil Stojanow, Bulgarian poet, Metsh i Slowo, Cholera |
| 1886 | Louis Pierard, Belgian journalist and writer, Great Germany |
| 1881 | Karl Weigl, composer |
| 1879 | Carl Ramsauer, born in Oldenburg, Germany, research physicist, professor of physics, discovered Ramsauer-Townsend effect |
| 1878 | Waclaw Gieburowski, composer |
| 1874 | Milton Bennett Medary, U.S., architect, Washington Chapel |
| 1866 | Karl T Sapper, German geography/geologist, Vulkankunde |
| 1864 | John Henry Mackay, Scottish/German author and poet, Anarchists |
| 1860 | Johan [Eliza J] de Meester, Dutch journalist and writer, Geertje |
| 1848 | Luigi Mancinelli, composer |
| 1838 | Henry Irving, John H Brodribb, England, knighted 1895/actor, Hamlet |
| 1834 | William Dorsey Pender, Major General Confederate Army |
| 1833 | James Ewell Brown "JEB" Stuart, Major General Confederate Army |
| 1833 | Jose M de Pereda y S nchez the Porrua, Spanish writer, Sotileza |
| 1832 | John Brown Gordon, Major General Confederate Army |
| 1830 | Marcellus Monroe Crocker, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1818 | William Maxwell Evarts, Union |
| 1807 | Hans Matthison-Hansen, composer |
| 1804 | Ragnerus L van Andringa de Kempenaer, Dutch officer/swindler |
| 1798 | Theodore Caruelle d'Aligny, French painter/etcher |
| 1797 | Joseph Maria von Radowitz, Prussian minister of Foreign affairs |
| 1793 | Pietro Rovelli, composer |
| 1778 | Ugo Foscolo, Italy, poet, Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis |
| 1756 | Aaron Burr, Newark, New Jersey, D-R, 3rd U.S. Vice President, 1801-05, dueler |
| 1753 | Evariste Desire Desforges chevalier de Parny, French poet |
| 1724 | Paul-Louis Cyffle, Flemish sculptor, Terre de Lorraine |
| 1705 | Johann Matthias Leffloth, composer |
| 1695 | Andre Cheron, composer |
| 1673 | Maximilian Dietrich Freisslich, composer |
| 1665 | Anne Stuart, queen of England, 1702-14 |
| 1637 | Toyotomi Hideyoshi, unified Japan |
| 1612 | Antoine Arnauld, Grand Arnauld, French lawyer/theologist |
| 1608 | Antonio Vieira, Portuguese Jesuit preacher |
| 1564 | Christopher Marlowe, English poet/dramatist, Dr. Faustus |
| 1461 | Dzore Drzic, Croatian poet |
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