| 1984 | Gareth Gates, born in Bradford, England, singer finalist on show, 'Pop Idol', sold over 3.5 million records; hit song, 'Unchained Melody', voted 'The Record of the Year' in 2002 |
| 1978 | Tracie Spencer, born in Waterloo, Iowa, singer, songwriter, actress, model, performed pop, rhythm and blues, dance pop, quiet music genres, 'This House' reached Billboard Hot 100, guest on ABC sitcom Family Matters, sang background vocals for Eve, Kanye West, 50 Cent |
| 1978 | Topher Grace, born in New York City, New York, actor, appeared in 'Spider-Man 3' and television series, 'That '70s Show' |
| 1978 | Michelle Rodriguez, American Actress |
| 1976 | Anna Friel, English Actress |
| 1972 | Colin Quiney, CFL tackle for the Hamilton Tiger Cats |
| 1972 | Travis Best, NBA guard for the Indiana Pacers |
| 1971 | Kristi Tsuya Yamaguchi, born in Hayward, California, figure skater,Gold Medal 1992 Olympics |
| 1970 | Chad Brown, NFL linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers |
| 1970 | Jaason Simmons, born in Hobart, Tasmania, actor, known for his role as Logan Fowler on the television series 'Baywatch' |
| 1970 | Jerry Ostroski, NFL guard for the Buffalo Bills |
| 1970 | Markus Thomas, WLAF running back for the Scottish Claymores |
| 1970 | Marsha Guialdo, born in San Juan, Trinidad, 100m hurdler |
| 1969 | Alan Mullally, cricketer, England left-arm pace bowler 1996 |
| 1969 | Sabine Hack, born in Ulm, Germany, tennis star, 1995 Jakarta |
| 1969 | Lisa Nicole Carson, American Actress |
| 1967 | Bruny Surin, born in Cap Haitien, Haiti, Canadian 4X100m sprinter, Gold Medal 1996 Olympics |
| 1967 | Joan Pitcock, born in Fresno, California, LPGA golfer, 1995 Standard Register PING-3rd |
| 1966 | Allegra Curtis, born in London, model/daughter of Christine Kaufmann |
| 1966 | Annabel Croft, born in England, tennis star |
| 1966 | Peter Shorts, CFL tackle for the Hamilton Tiger Cats |
| 1965 | Eric Cullen, actor, Huntington Tower |
| 1965 | Michael Stewart, NFL safety for the Miami Dolphins |
| 1965 | Robin Wilson, born in Detroit, Michigan, guitarist, member, Gin Blossoms, alternative rock band, known for hit albums, 'New Miserable Experience', 'Congratulations I'm Sorry' |
| 1965 | Russ Bertram, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, diver 1996 Olympics |
| 1965 | Sanjay Manjrekar, cricketer, son of Vijay Indian middle-order batsman |
| 1964 | Judi Evans Luciano, born in Montebello, actress, Paulina Cory-Another World |
| 1964 | Tim Gane, English Musician |
| 1963 | Norman Alvis, born in Fair Oaks, California, cyclist 1996 Olympics |
| 1963 | Thierry Tulasne, born in France, tennis star |
| 1962 | Grecia Colmenares, born in Venezuela, actress, Esmeralda, Los Crinimales |
| 1962 | Stein Jorgesen, born in Los Angeles, California, sprint kayak 1996 Olympics |
| 1961 | Bruce Braman, born in Greene, New York, canoe alternate for 1996 Olympics |
| 1959 | Judi Adams, born in Phoenix, Arizona, archer, Olympics-1980, 96 |
| 1959 | Rolonda Watts, talk show hostess, Rolanda |
| 1957 | Buddy Foster, actor, Hondo, Mayberry RFD |
| 1957 | Rick Douglas Husband, born in Amarillo, Texas, USAF Major/astronaut |
| 1956 | Mel Harris, born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, actress, Hope-30 Something |
| 1955 | Timothy Garton Ash, British Author |
| 1954 | Betty McCollum, American Politician |
| 1952 | Liz Mitchell, born in Jamaica, rock vocalist, Boney M |
| 1952 | Phil Kramer, born in Youngtown, Ohio, rocker, Iron Butterfly |
| 1951 | Cheryl Ladd, born in Huron, South Dakota, actress, Charlie's Angels, Purple Hearts |
| 1951 | Jamey Sheridan, born in Pasadena, California, actor, Another World |
| 1950 | Eric Carr, born in Brooklyn, New York, born Paul Charles Caravello, drummer, member of rock band Kiss |
| 1949 | Jay Thomas, born in Kermit, Texas, DJ/actor, Mork and Mindy, Cheers, Murphy Brown |
| 1948 | Jay Thomas, dj/actor, Eddie LeBec-Cheers, Jerry Gold-Murphy Brown |
| 1948 | Richard Simmons, exercise guru, Deal-a-Meal |
| 1948 | Walter Egan, born in New York City, rock vocalist, Not Shy, Fundamental Roll |
| 1947 | Pollamani Krishnamurthy, Indian cricket wicket-keeper, 1971 WI tour |
| 1946 | Graham Roope, cricketer, England batsman in 21 Tests 1972-78 |
| 1946 | Sian Barbara Allen, born in Reading, Pennsylvania, actress, Scream Pretty Peggy |
| 1945 | Dimitar Penev, born in Bulgaria, soccer player/union coach, Lokomotiv/CSKA |
| 1944 | Bill McCollum, born in Brooksville, Florida, Representative-R-Florida 1981 - 1993 and 1993 - 2001 |
| 1944 | Denise Nicholas, born in Detroit, Michigan, actress, Room 222, Baby I'm Back |
| 1943 | Bruce Taylor, cricketer, big-hitting New Zealand all-rounder 1965-73 |
| 1943 | Christine McVie, rock vocalist, Fleetwood Mac-Got A Hold on Me |
| 1943 | Ernie Anastos, born in Nashua, New Hampshire, news anchor, WCBS, WABC |
| 1943 | Paul Silas, NBAer, Boston Celtic, Seattle SuperSonic |
| 1943 | Walter Murch, American film editor and sound deisgner |
| 1942 | Richard Stoltzman, born in Omaha, Nebraska, clarinetist, Tashi |
| 1939 | Phillip Adams, born in Maryborough, Australia, Australian writer, producer, broadcaster, and satirist |
| 1938 | Mickey Stratton, born in Meriden, Connecticut, softball catcher, Hall of Fame 1969 |
| 1938 | Ron Fairly, American Athlete |
| 1937 | Bill Cosby, born in Philadelphia, actor/comedian, I Spy, Cosby, Leonard Part 6 |
| 1937 | Mickey Edwards, born in Cleveland, Ohio, Representative-R-Oklahoma 1977 - 1993 |
| 1937 | Lionel Jospin, French Statesman |
| 1936 | Jan Nemec, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, director, Diamonds of the Night |
| 1935 | Chris Burger, cricketer, South African batsman vs. Australia 1957-58 |
| 1934 | Van Cliburn, Jr., Harvey Lavan, Louisiana, pianist, Tchaikovsky 1958 |
| 1934 | Van Cliburn, American Musician |
| 1933 | Donald E. Westlake, American Writer |
| 1932 | Harold William Woolhouse, plant scientist |
| 1932 | Otis Crandell Davis, Alabama, 400m/4X400m relayer 1960 Olympics gold |
| 1931 | Andre Laporte, Flemish composer |
| 1931 | J. Bob Traxler, born in Kawkawlin, Michigan, Representative-D-Michigan 1974 - 1993 |
| 1931 | Lord Clinton, English large landowner/multi-millionaire |
| 1927 | Gualberto T. Hernandez, perfect minister Netherlands Antilles |
| 1926 | Beah Richards, born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, actress/playwright, Big Shot, Generation |
| 1925 | Roger Smith, CEO, General Motors |
| 1924 | Jaap Geraedts, composer |
| 1922 | Clark MacGregor, politician, involved in Watergate |
| 1922 | James E. Gunn, U.S., sci-fi author, Station in Space, Immortal |
| 1922 | Mark O. Hatfield, Sen-R Oregon, 1967- |
| 1921 | Trevor Illtyd Williams, scientific writer |
| 1920 | Keith Andes, born in Ocean City, New Jersey, actor, Farmer's Daughter, Away All Boats |
| 1920 | Paul Foster, born in Shreveport, Louisiana, singer, Soul Stirrers gospel group member, sang with Robert Harris, Sam Cooke, Rising Stars, Golden Echoes, memorable recording 'Be With Me Jesus' |
| 1920 | Pierre Berton, Canadian Author |
| 1917 | Andrew Wyeth, born in Pennsylvania, realist painter, one of the best-known artists of the middle 20th century |
| 1915 | Michael Fenton Haddon, mining engineer |
| 1913 | Willis Lamb, born in Los Angeles, physicist, Nobel Prize winner, discovery of how electrons behave in the hydrogen atom |
| 1912 | Broderick Vernon Chinnery-Haldane, photographer |
| 1911 | Johanna Moosdorf, writer |
| 1909 | 2nd viscount Camrose, British Conserv Lower house leader, 1941-45 |
| 1909 | Joey Faye, born in New York City, comedian, Joey Faye's Follies |
| 1909 | Souphanouvong, Red Prince, president of Laos, 1975-87 |
| 1908 | Alain Cuny, actor, Detective, Weite Land, Emmanuelle |
| 1908 | Ernest Burnelle, Belgian politician |
| 1908 | Johan Franco, composer |
| 1908 | Milton Berle, born in Harlem, New York City, comedian, Uncle Miltie, Mr. Television |
| 1905 | John C F, son of English King George V |
| 1904 | Pablo Neruda, born in Chile, poet, Residence on Earth-Nobel 1971 |
| 1902 | Gunther Anders, writer |
| 1901 | Robert Allenby, born in Melbourne VIC, Australasia golfer |
| 1900 | Fjodor Godunov-Tcherdynchev, Russian poet, Life of Tchernyshevsky |
| 1895 | Kirsten Flagstead, Norwegian soprano, Wagner |
| 1895 | Oscar Hammerstein II, born in New York City, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers |
| 1895 | R Buckminster Fuller, architect/inventor, geodesic dome |
| 1895 | R. Buckminster Fuller, American Inventor |
| 1892 | Bruno Schulz, Polish Novelist |
| 1888 | Tojohiko Kagawa, Japan, Christian-social reformer, Grain of Wheat |
| 1886 | Jean Hersholt, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, actor, Men in White, Aryan |
| 1885 | George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, composer |
| 1884 | Amedeo Modigliani, born in Italy, painter/sculptor, Reclining Nude |
| 1884 | Joseph Crehan, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actor, Charlie Chan-Meeting at Midnight |
| 1872 | Emil Hacha, lawyer/president, Czechoslovakia |
| 1868 | Stefan George, born in Germany, lyric poet, Algabal |
| 1861 | Anton Stepanovich Arensky, composer |
| 1854 | George Eastman, born in Waterville, New York, inventor, Kodak camera |
| 1849 | William Osler, born in Canada, physician/author, circulatory system |
| 1840 | Abraham Goldfaden, Eastern European Yiddish dramatist |
| 1821 | Cesare Dominiceti, composer |
| 1821 | Daniel Harvey Hill, Lieutenant General Confederate Army |
| 1821 | Daniel H. Hill, American Soldier |
| 1817 | Henry David Thoreau, born in Concord, Massachusetts, naturalist/pacifist, Walden Pond |
| 1813 | Claude Bernard, French Psychologist |
| 1807 | Silas Casey, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1802 | Charles-Louis Hanssens, composer |
| 1801 | John Hill Hewitt, composer |
| 1794 | Heinrich Christian Pander, Russian zoologist |
| 1757 | Christian Danner, composer |
| 1730 | Josiah Wedgwood, England, pottery designer/manufacturer, Wedgwood |
| 1675 | Evaristo E Felice dall' Abaco, Italian cellist/composer |
| 1644 | Arnold Moonen, Dutch vicar/literature, David's holy saint graduals |
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