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1986 Lindsay Lohan, actress, Alli Fowler-Another World
1983 Michelle Branch, American Musician
1977 Shannan McCray, Miss District of Columbia Teen USA 1996
1975 Catalina Cristea, born in Bucharest, Rom, tennis star, 1995 quarter Jakarta
1975 Daniel Kowalski, born in Singapore, Australia swimmer, Olympics-bronze/silver-96
1975 Eric Daze, born in Montreal, Quebec, NHL left wing, Chicago Blackhawks
1974 Natali Sacco, Miss Universe-Peru 1996
1972 Towanna Stone, Miss USA-Tennessee, 1997, 3rd
1972 Amy Weber, American Actress
1971 Jared Palmer, born in New York City, tennis star
1971 Troy Brown, NFL wide receiver for the New England Patriots
1970 Derrick Ralph Adkins, born in Brooklyn, New York, 400m hurdler, 1996 Olympics gold
1970 Yancy Butler, American Actress
1968 Mark Tewsksbury, Canada swimmer, world record backstroke
1968 Mike Lee, born in Neptune, New Jersey, Canadian Tour golfer, 1992 Tommy Armour Tour
1967 Debee Ashby, born in Coventry, England, topless model, There's Girl in My Soup
1966 Blaise Rhodes, born in Berwyn Heights, Maryland, canoe alternate for 1996 Olympics
1966 Tim Spehr, born in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, catcher for the Montreal Expos
1964 Dave Parsons, rocker, Transvision Vamp, Sham 69-That's Life
1964 DeAnne Hemmens, born in San Francisco, California, sprint kayak 1996 Olympics
1964 Joe Magrane, born in Des Moines, Iowa, Joseph David Magrane, baseball player, pitcher, MLB Network broadcaster, played for Major League Baseball teams, St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago White Sox, California Angels, NBC sports analyst at 2008 Summer Olympics
1964 Jose Canseco, born in Havana, Cuba, outfielder, Oak A's, Red Sox, 1988 AL MVP
1962 Brandel Eugene Chamblee, born in St. Louis, Missouri, PGA golfer, 1994 Honda-3rd
1961 Alba Parietti, born in Torino, Italy, actress, Galagoal, Abbronzatissima
1961 James McNichol, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Fitzpatricks, California Fever
1961 Pat Dufficy, born in Westerly, Rhode Island, female catcher, Colorado Silver Bullets
1959 Eduardo Bengoechea, born in Argentina, tennis star
1959 Wendy B. Lawrence, born in Jacksonville, Florida, astronaut, STS-67, 86, sk:91
1957 Mike Anger, rocker, Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways
1956 Jeffrey Cooper, rock guitarist, Midnight Star-No Parking
1956 Jerry Hall, born in Mesquite, Texas, model and Mrs. Mick Jagger, Batman, Freejack
1956 Julie Montgomery, born in Kansas City, Missouri, actress, Samantha-1 Life to Live, Kindred
1956 Leslie Reid, born in Vancouver BC, equestrian dressage 1996 Olympics
1954 Wendy Schaal, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, It's a Living, Julie-Fantasy Is
1953 Tony Armas, born in Puerto Piritu, Venezuela, Antonio Rafael Armas Machado, baseball player, two-time All-Star, played with California Angels, Pittsburgh Pirates, Oakland Athletics, Boston Red Sox, susceptible to injuries, on disabled list 12 times, missing 302 games
1952 Linda M. Godwin, born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, PhD/astronaut, STS-37, 59, 76
1952 Wayne Haner, rock bassist, Axe
1950 Johnny Colla, born in California, rock sax, Huey Lewis and The News-Need a New Drug
1949 Roy Bittan, rocker, E Street Band
1947 Ervin Hall, born in Philadelphia, 100m hurdler, Silver Medal 1968 Olympics
1947 Larry David, born in Brooklyn, New York, comedian, writer, Seinfeld
1947 Luci Baines Johnson Nugent Turpin, daughter of President Lyndon Baines Johnson
1945 James Orville Fulkerson, composer
1942 Georgi Ivanov, born in Bulgaria, cosmonaut, Soyuz 33
1942 Vicente Fox, Mexican Statesman
1942 Vincente Fox, Mexican Statesman
1939 John Sununu, U.S. Secretary of State, R, 1989 - 1991
1939 M[ichael] A[nthony] Foster, U.S., sci-fi author, Gameplayers of Zan
1939 Michael N. Castle, Representative-R-Delaware
1939 Paul Williams, rocker, Temptations-My Girl
1939 Valeri Vasilyevich Illarianov, Russia, cosmonaut
1939 Ferdinand Mount, British Writer
1939 Mike Castle, American Politician
1937 Dick Berardino, baseball player
1937 Polly Holliday, born in Jasper, Alabama, actress, Flo-Alice, Flo-Flo
1937 Richard Petty, auto race driver, Daytona 500-1979,81
1935 Dick Dolman, economist/Dutch politician 2nd Chamber
1935 Ed Bullins, Philadelphia, playwright
1935 Gilbert Kalish, born in Brooklyn, New York, pianist/professor, SUNY Stony Brook
1934 Ivan Madray, WI cricket leg-spin all rounder, 2 Tests 3 runs 0-108
1933 David Benjamin Lewin, composer
1933 Kalim Siddiqui, islamic campaigner
1932 Dave Thomas, founder, Wendy's Restaurants
1932 Ken McMillan, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Malone, Concrete Beat
1932 Sammy Turner, Paterson, New Jersey, vocalist, Lavender Blue
1931 Imelda Marcos, politician/shoe collector/1st lady of Philippines
1931 Robert Ito, Vancouver BC, actor, Sam-Quincy ME
1930 Carlos Saul Menem, president of Argentina, 1989-
1930 Ahmad Jamal, American Musician
1928 Estelita Rodriguez, born in Cuba, actress, Cuban Fireball, Havana Rose
1928 Pavel Kohout, born in Czechoslovakia, director/author, Poor Murderer
1928 Evan G. Galbraith, born in Ohio, United States Ambassador to France under President Ronald Regan, investment banker
1927 Brock Peters, born in New York City, actor/singer, Carmen Jones, To Kill a Mockingbird
1927 Ruth Berghaus, choreographer/director
1926 Billy Usselton, saxophonist
1926 Lee Allen, born in Pittsburg, Kansas, tenor sax, Walkin' With Mr. Lee
1925 Marvin Rainwater, born in Wichita, Kansas, country singer, Ozark Jubilee
1925 Patrice E. Lumumba, born in Zaire, revolutionary/1st premier of Congo
1925 Yasushi Akutagawa, composer
1925 Medgar Evers, American Activist
1924 Rick Besoyan, composer
1922 Dan Rowan, born in Beggs, Oklahoma, comedian, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in
1922 Genrikh Matusovich Vagner, composer
1920 Eliseo Diego, latin American poet
1919 Johnny Bradford, born in Long Branch, New Jersey, actor, Ransom Sherman Show
1918 Sheikh Iman, player/singer
1917 Pierre Dubois, Dutch literary
1916 Barry Gray, Bernard Yaroslaw, interviewer, started call-in radio
1916 Ken Curtis, Curtis Gates, Lamar CO, actor, Ripcord, Festus-Gunsmoke
1915 8th duke of Wellington, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1915 Bert Decorte, Flemish poet
1914 Frederick Fennell, born in Cleveland, Ohio, conductor, Time and Winds
1913 Edith Heerdegen, born in Dresden, Germany, actress, Serpent's Egg, Monpti
1911 Diego Fabbri, Italian, playwright/leader, Vatican movie bureau
1910 Earl Hawley Robinson, composer
1910 Hans Gunther Adler, German writer
1910 William Douglas Denny, composer
1909 Hermann Bengtson, German historian, Greeks Ancient Times
1908 Jean Sinclair, teacher/campaigner
1908 Thurgood Marshall, born in Maryland, 1st black Supreme Court justice, 1967-91
1907 Eppo Doeve, Dutch cartoonist/painter
1907 Leo O'Brien, cricketer, Australian batsman in 5 Tests 1932-36
1906 Alan Webb, actor, King Lear, Taming of Shrew, Challenge of Lassie
1906 Hans Bethe, physicist, Nobel 1967, peace worker
1906 Robert Levine Sanders, composer
1905 Jean-Rene Lacoste, born in France, U.S. Open, 1926, alligator shirt designer
1904 Carl Weinrich, composer
1904 Gerarda "Meik" Rueter, Dutch, sculptress, if that word exists
1903 Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, British Prime Minister, 1963-64
1903 Olav AFEC of Schleswig-Holstein-S-G, King Olav V of Norway, 1957-91
1901 Arthur Rex Alston, sports commentator
1898 Anthony McAuliffe, American Soldier
1894 Walter Brennan, born in Swampscott, Massachusetts, actor, Real McCoys, At Gun Point
1894 Andre Kertesz, born in Budapest, Hungary, Hungarian photographer and photojournalist
1893 August Maes, Flemish actor and director, Shylock-Hamlet
1892 Jack Hylton, English orchestra leader/impresario, Crazy Passage Show
1889 Cor Hermus, Dutch actor, director and writer, A Mother
1888 Selman Waksman, Russian/U.S. microbiologist, Nobel 1951
1887 Marcel Tabuteau, born in Compiegne, France, oboist, Philadelphia Orchestra 1915 - 1954
1884 Otto Bohm, born in Prussia, scientist, helped create England Radar
1882 Edgar Mayne, cricketer, Australian batsman, prolific for Victoria
1880 Albert Szirmai, composer
1877 Hermann Hesse, born in Switzerland, novelist and poet, Steppenwolf, Nobel 1946
1877 Herman Hesse, German Author
1876 Wilhelm Cuno, German ship owner/republic chancellor, 1922-23
1867 Herbert Prior, born in England, actor, Caught Short, Slave of Desire
1865 Lili Braun, born in Prussia, feminist/socialist writer, Im Schatten Titanen
1857 Francesco Spetrino, composer
1847 Marcel Bertrand, French mine engineer, tectonic geology
1836 Henry Eugene Davies, Major General Union volunteers
1834 Hendry P G Quack, lawyer/economist/secr Dutch Bank
1830 John Bordenave Villepigue, Brigadier General Confederate Army
1822 Douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer, rails/trains
1821 Charles Tupper, C, 6th Canadian PM, 1896
1814 Atale Therese Annette Wartel, composer
1810 Robert Augustus Toombs, Secretary State, Confederacy
1793 Antoine Prumier, composer
1763 Peter Ritter, composer
1756 Christian G Korner, German lawyer/father of Karl
1746 Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck, composer
1737 Francois Leonard Rouwyzer, composer
1724 Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet
1714 Christoph W. Ritter von Gluck, Austria composer, Il there pastore
1652 Guillielmus "Willem" Kerricx, Flemish sculptor, Rozenkrans
1647 Daniel Finch 2nd earl of Nottingham, English Minister of Foreign Affairs
1644 Abraham a Santa Clara, Johann Megerle, German court vicar
1636 Daniel Speer, composer
1589 Guillaume van Messaus, composer
1581 Johann Staden, composer
1489 Thomas Cranmer, England, archbishop/reformer/martyr
419 Valentinian III, Roman emperor, 425-55
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