| 2009 | Suleman octuplets are born by Nadya Suleman |
| 1977 | Cindy Cesar, Miss Mauritius Universe 1997 |
| 1977 | Justin Gimelstob, New Jersey, tennis star, 1994 doubles USTA Bakersfield |
| 1977 | Vince Carter, born in Daytona Beach, Florida, professional basketball player, shooting guard and small forward for Orlando Magic National Basketball Team |
| 1976 | Paul Byrne, Australian 800m ruuner 1996 Olympics |
| 1973 | Mark Brook, WLAF LB for the Rhein Fire |
| 1973 | Tatsuki Katayama, hockey defenseman, Team Japan 1998 |
| 1973 | Tony Ramirez, tackle, Detroit Lions |
| 1972 | Harrison Houston, NFL wide receiver for the Chicago Bears |
| 1971 | Jon Heidenreich, WLAF G for the Frankfurt Galaxy |
| 1971 | Lamar Mills, WLAF DE for the Amsterdam Admirals |
| 1971 | Lee Naylor, Australian 400m runner 1996 Olympics |
| 1971 | Min Tang, Hunan China, tennis star, 1995 Futures-Canberra AUS |
| 1970 | Dan Carlson, U.S. baseball pitcher for the San Francisco Giants |
| 1970 | Dean Malkoc, Vancouver, NHL defenseman, Vancouver Canucks |
| 1970 | Ronald Moore, NFL running back, New York Jets, St. Louis Rams, Az Cardinals |
| 1968 | Eric Davis, NFL cornerback, San Francisco 49ers, Carolina Panthers |
| 1968 | Reggie Jordan, NBA guard, Minnesota Timberwolves |
| 1967 | Jeff Branson, U.S. baseball infielder, Cincinnati Reds |
| 1967 | Katie Peterson-Parker, Bethesda, Maryland, LPGA golfer, 1995 Oldsmobile-5th |
| 1967 | Tim Pugh, Lake Tahoe California, pitcher, Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Royals |
| 1965 | Allison Hossack, Manitoba, actress, Olivia-Another World |
| 1965 | Lou Frazier, U.S. baseball outfielder for the Montreal Expos |
| 1965 | Tim McDonald, safety for the San Francisco 49ers |
| 1963 | Andrew Ridgeley, England, rock guitarist, Wham-Wake Me Up |
| 1963 | Jazzie B, Beresford Romeo, English rapper, Soul II Soul-Feel Free |
| 1963 | Simon O'Donnell, cricketer, Deniliquin NSW ODI all-rounder 1985-90 |
| 1963 | Jose Mourinho, Portuguese Coach |
| 1962 | Roshan Guneratne, cricketer, wicketless in only Test SL vs. Australia 1983 |
| 1962 | Tim May, cricketer, Australian off-spinner 1987-95 |
| 1962 | Tom Keifer, rock guitarist and vocalist, Cinderella-Heartbreak Station |
| 1961 | Wayne Gretzky, Brantford, Ontario, NHL great scorer, Oiler, King, Rangers |
| 1960 | Gary Plummer, NFL linebacker, San Diego Chargers, San Francisco 49ers |
| 1960 | Jeanette Bolden, born in Los Angeles, California, 4x100m runner 1984 Olympics gold |
| 1958 | Anita Baker, born in Toledo, Ohio, singer, Giving You the Best That I Got |
| 1958 | Dave Rummells, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Nike golfer, 1993 Buick-2nd |
| 1958 | Ellen DeGeneres, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, comediene, Ellen Morgan-Ellen |
| 1958 | Norman Lamont Hassan, British reggae musician, UB40-Red Red Wine |
| 1957 | Ashok Malhotra, cricketer, Indian batsman in 7 Tests 1982-84 |
| 1957 | Eddie Van Halen, Nijmegan, Netherlands, rock guitarist, Van Halen-Jump, 1984 |
| 1957 | Shivlal Yadav, cricketer, Indian off-spinner 102 Test wickets 1979-87 |
| 1956 | Lisa Boray, Schulte Nordholt, Dutch singer, Lovers Until the End |
| 1956 | Simon Howard, English large landowner, Castle Howard |
| 1955 | Lucia Mendez, Mexico, spanish singer, Lucia es Luna Moreno |
| 1954 | Kim Hughes, cricketer, brilliant Australian batsman 1977-84 |
| 1953 | Andree van Es, born in Den Haag, Netherlands, politician, member, House of Representatives, GreenLeft and Pacifist Socialist Party, director-general of Government and Kingdom Relations |
| 1953 | Bert Heerink, Amsterdam, rock vocalist |
| 1953 | Lucinda Williams, born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, singer, songwriter, wrote Grammy-Award-winning song, 'Passionate Kisses', recorded by Mary Chapin Carpenter, successful album, 'Car Wheels on a Gravel Road', combined country, blues, rock, Americana genres |
| 1953 | Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Danish Statesman |
| 1952 | Mario Runco, Jr., born in Bronx, New York, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, STS-44, 54, 77 |
| 1952 | Thomas Edward Henderson, South Carolina, basketballer 1972 Olympics silver |
| 1951 | Andy Hummell, born in Memphis, Tennessee, rock bassist, Big Star |
| 1951 | David Briggs, rock guitarist, Little River Band-Help is on it's Way |
| 1951 | Jarmila Kratochvilova, Czechoslovakia, 400m/800m runner 1980 Olympics silver |
| 1951 | Walt Willey, Ottawa, Illinois, actor, Jackson Montgomery-All My Children |
| 1950 | David Strathairn, actor, LA Confidential, Eight Men Out |
| 1950 | Jorg Haider, Austrian polical leader, Austrian Freedom Pary |
| 1950 | Jack Youngblood, born in Jacksonville, Florida, professional football player, Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee, voted into College Football Hall of Fame |
| 1949 | Derek Holt, rocker, Climax Blues Band |
| 1949 | Paul Nurse, dr/director-general elect, Imperial Cancer Research Fund |
| 1949 | Jonathan Carroll, American Author |
| 1948 | Corky Laing, rocker, Mountain |
| 1947 | Patrick Dewaere, PJMH Bordeaux, France, actor, Les Valseuses |
| 1947 | Mark Dayton, American Politician |
| 1946 | Christopher Hampton, Azores, playwright, Oviri, Hotel du Lac |
| 1946 | Gene Siskel, movie critic, Siskel and Ebert |
| 1946 | Timothy Clifford, director, National Galleries of Scotland |
| 1945 | Jacqueline du Pree, Oxford England, cellist |
| 1945 | Mick Hill, cricketer, NSW all-rounder 1964-75 |
| 1944 | Angela Davis, American Activist |
| 1943 | Jean Knight, vocalist, Mr Big Stuff |
| 1943 | Peter Kenton Winkler, composer |
| 1943 | Sherian Grace Cadoria, brigadier general |
| 1942 | Nigel Walmsley, chairman, Carlton U.K. Television |
| 1942 | Scott Glenn, Pittsburgh, actor, Right Stuff, Personal Best, Backdraft |
| 1942 | William McLennan, CEO, Central Statistical Office |
| 1941 | Henry Jaglom, born in London, England, actor, Eating, Lucky Ducks, Always |
| 1939 | Marshall Lieb, rocker, Teddy Bears |
| 1938 | Margaret Daly, British MEP |
| 1937 | Gerrit Gerritse, Dutch MP, CDA |
| 1937 | Joseph Saidu Momoh, gen/president, Sierra Leone |
| 1937 | S J B Langdale, Headmaster, Shrewsbury School |
| 1936 | Noel Harrison, London, singer and actor, Mark-Girl from UNCLE |
| 1935 | Bob Uecker, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, catcher/actor, Mr Belvedere |
| 1935 | Henry Jordan, Emporia, Virginia, NFL defensive tackle, Cleveland, Green Bay |
| 1935 | Peter Ronnefeld, composer |
| 1935 | Zbigniew Penherski, composer |
| 1934 | Huey "Piano" Smith, pianist, Having a Good Time |
| 1932 | Christopher Price, Director, Leeds Metropolitan U |
| 1932 | George H Clements, famous African |
| 1932 | Ronald Allison, British author/broadcaster |
| 1931 | Mary Murphy, Washington D.C., actress, A Man Alone, Maggie-Investigators |
| 1930 | A N Solomons, chairman, Singer and Friedlander |
| 1930 | Anne Macfarlane, Master, Court of Protection |
| 1930 | Harry "Buddy" Melges, Jr., Wisconsin, yachter, Olympic-gold/bronze-1964, 72 |
| 1929 | Jules Feiffer, New York City, cartoonist, Passionella, author, Little Murders |
| 1928 | Eartha Kitt, South Carolina, singer and actress, Catwoman-Batman |
| 1928 | Gene Snyder, born in Louisville, Kentucky, Representative-R-Kentucky, 1963 - 1965 and 1967 - 1987 |
| 1928 | Philip Jose Farmer, Indiana, science fiction novelist, Riverworld |
| 1928 | Roger Vadim, born in France, director, And God Created Women, Barbarella |
| 1927 | Jose Simon Azcona Hoyo, president of Honduras, 1986-90 |
| 1927 | William Redfield, New York City, actor, Jimmy Hughes Rookie Cop, Marriage |
| 1926 | Charles Tidbury, former chairman, Whitbread and Company |
| 1926 | Jose Maria Valverde, philosopher poet/translator |
| 1926 | Ronnie Hilton, singer, Moonraker |
| 1925 | David Jenkins, Bishop, Durham |
| 1925 | Desmond Cassidi, British admiral |
| 1925 | Joan Leslie, Detroit, actress, High Sierra, Yankee Doodle Dandy |
| 1925 | Paul Newman, born in Ohio, actor, entrepreneur, humanitarian, donated over $250 million to charity |
| 1924 | Warren Frank Benson, composer |
| 1923 | Anne Jeffreys, North Carolina, actress, Dick Tracy, Topper, General Hospital |
| 1922 | Michael Bentine, England, author/comedian, Reluctant Jester |
| 1921 | Akio Morita, Kasugaya Japan, CEO, Sony |
| 1921 | Frantisek Chaun, composer |
| 1921 | Johannes Driessler, composer |
| 1921 | Eddie Barclay, French Musician |
| 1920 | Derek Bond, born in Glasgow, Scotland, actor, Nicholas Nickelby |
| 1920 | John Logan Gorlay, journalist |
| 1919 | K C Ibrahim, cricketer, batted in 4 Tests India vs. WI 1948-49 |
| 1918 | Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanian president, 1967-90 |
| 1916 | Lothar Jensch, composer |
| 1915 | William Hopper, New York City, actor, Paul Drake-Perry Mason |
| 1914 | Kaye Webb, English writer/publisher, Puffin Club |
| 1913 | Jimmy Van Heusen, songwriter, Love and Marriage |
| 1913 | William Prince, Nichols, New York, actor, City in Fear, Cyrano de Bergerac |
| 1912 | Cora Baird, New York City, puppeteer, Kukla, Fran and Ollie |
| 1911 | Norbert Schultze, composer |
| 1911 | Polykarp Kusch, U.S., nuclear physicist: Nobel 1955 |
| 1910 | Elmar Klos, Czechoslovakian director, Adrift |
| 1910 | Marijan Lipovsek, composer |
| 1908 | Stephane Grappelli, British jazz/violinist |
| 1907 | Eddie Ballantine, Chicago, orchestra leader, Don McNeill TV Club |
| 1907 | Henry Cotton, English golfer, British Open 1934, 1937, 1948 |
| 1907 | Hans Selye, born in Vienna, Austria, endocrinologist, first to demonstrate the existence of biological stress, began stress research in 1926, published 7 popular books, 1,700 research papers, 15 monographs |
| 1905 | Charles Lane, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Homer-Petticoat Junction, Lucy Show |
| 1905 | John Carmel Heenan, Essex, cardinal archbp of Westminster, 1963-75 |
| 1905 | Maria Augusta von Trapp, Austria, singer, inspired "Sound of Music" |
| 1905 | Marquess of Bath, English large landowner/multi-millionaire |
| 1904 | Douglas Evans, actor, South Pacific Trail |
| 1904 | Sean MacBride, Dublin, statesman/Amnesty International co-founder, Nobel '74 |
| 1902 | Laurence "Bill" Craigie, jet pioneer |
| 1902 | Menno ter Braak, Dutch writer/essayist, Carnaval of the Citizens |
| 1902 | Romney Brent, Saltillo Mexico, actor and writer, Dinner at the Ritz |
| 1899 | Wyllis Cooper, Pekin, Illinois, TV narrator, Volume One |
| 1893 | Bessie Coleman, 1st black airplane pilot |
| 1891 | Ilya G Ehrenburg, born in Kiev, Ukraine, writer, Fall of Paris, The Thaw |
| 1887 | Enrique E Ecker, Curacao, bacteriologist |
| 1887 | Marc A. "Pete" Mitscher, U.S. lt-admiral, WW II-Task Force 58 |
| 1886 | Joannes A. Veraart, Dutch economist/MP, Jews of the Netherlands |
| 1884 | Edward Sapir, Germany, linguist/antropologist, indians |
| 1884 | Roy Chapman Andrews, U.S., scientist/explorer |
| 1880 | Douglas MacArthur, Little Rock, Arkansas, general, WW II, he did return! |
| 1879 | Ludovicus H [Lode] Baekelmans, Flemish, stage, author, Tille |
| 1878 | A. W. "Dave" Nourse, cricketer, "Grand Old Man" of South African cricket |
| 1878 | R. A. Schrocker, writer |
| 1877 | Kees van Dongen, Netherland, French painter |
| 1871 | Warner Fabian, Samuel H Adams, U.S. journalist and writer, Average Jones |
| 1855 | Arthur Hervey, composer |
| 1852 | Frederick Corder, composer |
| 1852 | Pierre Brazza, explorer/colonial administrator, French Africa |
| 1847 | John Bates Clark, American Economist |
| 1831 | Mary Mapes Dodge, New York City, writer, Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates |
| 1828 | Johan T Buys, Dutch lawyer |
| 1826 | Julia Dent Grant, 1st lady, 1862-76 |
| 1816 | Lloyd Tilghman, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1814 | Rufus King, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1786 | Benjamin Robert Haydon, Plymouth, painter, Waiting for The Times |
| 1781 | Achim vs. Arnim, writer |
| 1781 | Ludwig Joachim "Achim" von Arnim, German poet, Des Knaben Wunderhorn |
| 1778 | Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet, Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis |
| 1771 | Jacob Andries van Braam, colonial director, Suriname |
| 1770 | Alexander Carlyle, Moderator of General Assembly |
| 1763 | Charles XIV, French marshall, king of Sweden and Norway, 1818-44 |
| 1748 | Emmanuel Aloys Forster, composer |
| 1742 | Johann Friedrich Ludwig Sievers, composer |
| 1716 | George Sackville Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville |
| 1715 | Claude Helvetius, Paris, France, philosopher |
| 1715 | Claud-Adrian Helvetius, Philosopher |
| 1714 | Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor, Child with Bird Cage |
| 1708 | William Hayes, composer |
| 1667 | Henricus Zwaardecroon, Governor-General of Netherlands-Indies |
| 1613 | Johann Jakob Wolleb, composer |
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