| 1986 | Mason Gamble, actor, Dennis the Menace |
| 1979 | Aaliyah, American Musician |
| 1977 | John Mayer, American Musician |
| 1977 | Maggie Gyllenhaal, American Actress |
| 1976 | Trisha Stillwell, Miss USA-Oklahoma, 1997, top 10 |
| 1974 | Kate Moss, Addiscomb Surrey England, model, Calvin Klein |
| 1973 | Mario Bates, NFL-running back for the New Orleans Saints |
| 1973 | Willie Whitehead, CFL defensive end for the Hamilton Tiger Cats |
| 1972 | Desiree Leipham, born in Spokane, Washington WPVA volleyballer, Nationals-17th-1995 |
| 1972 | Joe Horn, wide receiver for the Kansas City Chiefs |
| 1972 | Lee McIntyre, born in Peak Hill, Australia, golfer, T3 1995 NSW Trainee Champ |
| 1971 | Josh Evans, actor, Ricochett, The Doors |
| 1971 | Jukka-Pekka Nummi, WLAF cornerback for the Scottish Claymores |
| 1971 | Junior Bryant, NFL defensive end for the San Francisco 49ers |
| 1971 | Michel Kreek, Dutch soccer player, Ajax |
| 1971 | Scott Williams, Orange California, field hockey defender 1996 Olympics |
| 1971 | Sergei Bruguera, Spain, tennis star |
| 1971 | Ulrich van Gobbel, Suriname/Dutch soccer player, Feyenoord |
| 1970 | Don MacLean, NBA forward, New Jersey Nets, Denver Nuggets |
| 1970 | Ron Villone, Englewood, New Jersey, pitcher for the San Diego Padres |
| 1969 | Chelan Kozak, Revelstoke BC, equestrian 1996 Olympics |
| 1969 | Roy Jones, Pensacola, Florida, Light-MW boxer 1988 Olympics silver |
| 1968 | David Chokachi, actor, Baywatch |
| 1967 | Jeff Branson, Waynesboro Mississippi, infielder for the Cincinnati Reds |
| 1967 | Maxine Waters Jones, rocker, En Vogue |
| 1967 | Miranda Otto, Australian Actress |
| 1966 | Anthony Washington, Glasgow Montana, discus thrower, Olympics-4th-96 |
| 1966 | Jack McDowell, Van Nuys California, pitcher, New York Yankees, White Sox, Indians |
| 1964 | Gail Graham, Vanderhoof BC, LPGA golfer, 1995 Fieldcrest Cannon |
| 1964 | Mark Collins, NFL cornerback and safety, New York Giants, Kansas City Chiefs, Green Bay Packers |
| 1964 | Trevor Barsby, cricketer, Queensland opening batsman since 1984-85 |
| 1964 | Diana Krall, Canadian Musician |
| 1962 | Jan Koster, Dutch drummer, Sleeze Beez-Powertool |
| 1962 | Kevin Ross, NFL safety, Atlanta Falcons, Kansas City Chiefs |
| 1962 | Paul Webb, rocker, TalkTalk |
| 1962 | Rob Glaser, American Businessman |
| 1962 | Josh Silver, born in America, keyboardist, producer for band Type O Negative, viewed as a gothic metal band, played with Peter Steele, founding member of rock group Fallout |
| 1960 | Sade, [Helen Ady] Nigeria, rocker, Taboo; Grammy 1986-Best new singer |
| 1958 | Anatoli Boukreev, mountaineer |
| 1956 | Wayne Daniel, cricketer, WI fast bowler 1976-84 |
| 1956 | James Newman, American Astronaut |
| 1955 | Jerry M Linenger, Mount Clemens, Michigan, PhD/Commander USN/astronaut, STS-81/84 |
| 1955 | Kevin Shelley, American Politician |
| 1952 | Lloyd Blaine Hammond, Jr., Savannah, Georgia, Major USAF/astr, STS-39, 64 |
| 1952 | Roberta Baskin, New York, correspondent, 48 Hours |
| 1952 | Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese Designer |
| 1952 | Chris Cox, American Politician |
| 1952 | Susan Estrich, American Journalist |
| 1952 | Robin McKinley, American Writer |
| 1951 | Richard Thompson, rocker, BT Express-Here Comes the Express |
| 1950 | Debbie Allen, born in Houston, Texas, dancer/actress, 3 Girls 3, Lydia-Fame |
| 1950 | Jesse Dizon, Oceanside CA |
| 1950 | Harvey Martin, American Athlete |
| 1948 | Anatoli Yakovlevich Solovyov, Riga, cosmonaut, TM-5,9,15,26, STS-71 |
| 1948 | Christopher Moran, English financier/multi-millionaire |
| 1948 | Cliff Thorburn, Victoria, BC, champion snooker player |
| 1948 | John Carpenter, born in Carthage, New York, director, Halloween, The Thing |
| 1947 | Georgette Mosbacher, CEO, La Prairie cosmetics |
| 1947 | Juliet Berto, Grenoble France, actress, Le Sex Shop |
| 1947 | Laura Schlessinger, American Writer |
| 1946 | Michael L Coats, Sacramento California, Captain USN/astronaut, STS-41-D, 29, 39 |
| 1946 | Naveen Patnaik, Indian Politician |
| 1945 | Kabir Bedi, actor, Thief of Baghdad, Terminal Entry |
| 1944 | Chris de Marigny, painter/designer |
| 1944 | Jim Stafford, Eloise, Florida, singer, Spiders and Snakes, My Girl Bill |
| 1944 | Ronnie Milsap, born in Robbinsville, North Carolina, country singer, Legend in My Time |
| 1944 | Jim Gibbons, American Politician |
| 1943 | Brian Ferneyhough, composer |
| 1943 | Gavin Bryars, composer |
| 1942 | Barbara Lynn, rocker |
| 1942 | Bill Francis Mobile Al, rocker, Dr. Hook |
| 1942 | Tony P. Hall, born in Dayton, Ohio, Representative-D-Ohio 1979 - 2003 |
| 1942 | William Francis, rocker |
| 1942 | Dick Murphy, American Politician |
| 1941 | Christine Janes, tennis player |
| 1941 | Richard Bohringer, Paris, France, actor, Diva, I Married a Shadow |
| 1941 | Tomen G J "Tim" Beekman, actor, Nosferatu |
| 1940 | Norm Dicks, American Politician |
| 1939 | Cliff Thorburn, English snookers player |
| 1938 | Michael Pataki, Youngstown Ohio, actor, Get Christie Love |
| 1938 | Robert Nozick, American Philosopher |
| 1937 | Bob Bogle, Portland, rock bassist/guitarist, Ventures-Batman Theme |
| 1937 | Conny Vandenbos, Dutch singer, My rose, my little rose |
| 1936 | Michael White, theater/film producer, From Russia With Love |
| 1935 | A J Foyt, Houston, auto race driver, Indy 500 1961, 64, 67, 77 |
| 1935 | A. J. Foyt, American Celebrity |
| 1934 | William Vollie Alexander, Jr., born in Memphis, Tennessee, Representative-D-Arkansas 1969 - 1993 |
| 1934 | Marilyn Horne, Bradford, Pennsylvania, mezzo-soprano |
| 1934 | Richard Wernick, born in Boston, Massachusetts, composer |
| 1933 | Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, Soyuz 12, 18A, 27, T-3 |
| 1933 | Susan Sontag, born in New York City, Susan Rosenblatt, New York, writer, author, filmmaker, philosopher, political activist, 'Against Interpretation' established reputation as 'the Dark Lady of American Letters' |
| 1932 | Dian Fossey, zoologist, Gorillas in the Mist |
| 1932 | Jim Berry, cartoonist, Berry's World |
| 1931 | Vladimir Skutina, writer playwright/journalist |
| 1931 | Chuck Colson, American Lawyer |
| 1931 | Johannes Rau, German Statesman |
| 1930 | Norman Podhoretz, born in Brooklyn, New York, author/editor, New York Post |
| 1930 | John Polkinghorne, British Physicist |
| 1929 | Allard Lowenstein, radical, Students for Democratic Action |
| 1929 | Francesco Scavullo, Staten Island, New York, celebrity photographer |
| 1929 | Tage Nielsen, composer |
| 1928 | Ezra Sims, born in Birmingham, Alabama, composer of microtonal music, Joseph Maneri adopted his system of notation, composed in quarter tones, received Guggenheim Fellowship |
| 1928 | John William Fozard, aircraft designer |
| 1928 | William Kennedy, U.S. writer |
| 1927 | Gunther Grass, German Author |
| 1926 | John "Jack" Layden, local politician |
| 1924 | Katy Jurado, Mexico, actress, High Noon, Trapeze, Barabbas, AKA Pablo |
| 1923 | Martin Stokken, Norway, nordic relay 1952 Olympics silver |
| 1923 | Roy Lanham, rocker, Sons of the Pioneers |
| 1923 | Willem Aantjes, Dutch politicial leader, CDA |
| 1923 | Anthony Hecht, American Poet |
| 1920 | Elliot Reid, New York City, actor, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
| 1919 | Bob Boucher, born in Kent, Ohio, orchestra leader, Music on Ice |
| 1919 | Kathleen Winsor, American Author |
| 1918 | Stirling Silliphant, screenwriter |
| 1917 | Buddy Lester, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Nick-Phil Silvers Show |
| 1917 | Carl Karcher, born in Ohio, restauranteur, founder of Carl's Jr. hamburger chain, supported Conservative causes |
| 1916 | Frederick Stewart, British geologist |
| 1914 | Roger Aubert, Belgium, church historian, Le Pontificat de Pie IX |
| 1914 | O. Winston Link, American Photographer |
| 1912 | Franz Tumler, Austria, author/novelist, Cloak, Aufruf |
| 1912 | Nigel Dennis, British Writer |
| 1911 | Gilbert Gadoffre, French scholar |
| 1911 | Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean, HOF baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals |
| 1910 | David McCampbell, U.S. pilot/captain, WW II-Pacific-downed 34 Japanese planes |
| 1910 | Dizzy Dean, American Athlete |
| 1908 | Ethel Merman, stage and screen actress, Anything Goes, Call Me Madam |
| 1908 | Remedios Varo, Spanish Artist |
| 1907 | Alexander Knox, Canada, actor, Gorky Park, 2 of a Kind |
| 1907 | Phillip Humphrey Vellacott, classicist |
| 1907 | Paul Nitze, American Writer |
| 1906 | Clement Greenberg, art critic |
| 1906 | Diana Winyard, London, actress, Cavalcade |
| 1905 | Ernesto Halffter, composer |
| 1904 | Max Vredenburg, composer |
| 1902 | Eric Liddell, China, English 400m runner 1924 Olympics gold |
| 1902 | Evelyn Levine, composer |
| 1901 | Fulgencio Batista, president/dictator of Cuba, 1933-44, 1952-59 |
| 1894 | Guy Chamberlin, early NFL end/coach, Canton, Frankford, Cards |
| 1894 | Irving Mills, American Musician |
| 1893 | Henry C Rumke, Dutch psychiatrist, Periods in Man's Life |
| 1890 | Karl Freund, Czechoslovakian/Austrian cameraman/director |
| 1890 | Lloyd Bacon, born in San Jose, California, actor, Charlie Chaplin |
| 1887 | John Hamilton, Penn, actor, Perry White-Superman |
| 1886 | David Ben Gurion, Israeli Statesman |
| 1885 | Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, president of Poland, 1939-40 |
| 1878 | Harry Carey Sr, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Aces Wild, Border Cafe, Air Force |
| 1878 | Henry Dewitt "Harry" Carey II, U.S. actor, Informer |
| 1878 | Robert Garbe, German poet, Gorniek |
| 1874 | Robert Service, England, Canadian poet, Cremation of Sam McGee |
| 1874 | Robert W. Service, Scottish Poet |
| 1873 | Boyd Alexander, English explorer |
| 1873 | William Christopher Handy, American Musician |
| 1872 | Edward G Craig, actor and director, On the art of theatre |
| 1872 | Henri-Paul Busser, composer |
| 1872 | Edward Gordon Craig, British Actor |
| 1870 | Wilhelm Normann, German chemist, hardening of oils |
| 1868 | Cyril Metodej Hrazdira, composer |
| 1864 | Frank Bacon, actor/author, Lightnin |
| 1857 | Edward E. Barnard, American Scientist |
| 1853 | Andre Michelin, France, industrialist/tire manufacturer, Michelin |
| 1853 | Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor/theater director, Kathleen |
| 1847 | Kalman Mikszath, Hungary, writer, Wonderparaplu |
| 1837 | James Phillip Simms, Brigadier General Confederate Army, died in 1887 |
| 1834 | Albert Lindley Lee, Brigadier General Union volunteers, died in 1907 |
| 1827 | Charles Eliot Norton, American Writer |
| 1815 | Adolph Trube, composer |
| 1815 | Henry Wagner "Old Brains" Halleck, Major-General Union Army |
| 1807 | Charles Henry Davis, Rear Admiral Union Navy, died in 1877 |
| 1804 | Karl August Krebs, composer |
| 1803 | Robert Stephenson, English Celebrity |
| 1757 | Samuel McIntire, woodcarver/architect, architect of Salem |
| 1753 | James McHenry, American Politician |
| 1749 | Vittoria A. Alfieri, Italian count/poet, Maria Stuarda |
| 1749 | Vittorio Alfieri, Italian Dramatist |
| 1728 | Niccolo Piccinni, Italian composer, Buona Figliuola |
| 1714 | George Whitefield, American Clergyman |
| 1697 | Richard Savage, poet |
| 1672 | Francesco Mancini, composer |
| 1587 | Alexander Adriaenssen, Flemish painter |
| 1584 | John Selden, English Statesman |