| 1977 | Jason Michael Zimbler, born in Queens, New York, actor, Clarissa Explains it All |
| 1976 | Mwadi Mabika, WNBA guard and forward for the Los Angeles Sparks |
| 1975 | Alex Rodriguez, New York City, shortstop for the Seattle Mariners |
| 1973 | Amy Linn Duncan, born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Miss America-Oklahoma 1997 |
| 1973 | Niki Jenkins, born in Selkirk, Manitoba, 72 kg judoka, 1996 Olympics gold |
| 1973 | Sami Alalampi, WLAF receiver, Barcelona Dragons |
| 1972 | Alph Browning, NLF/WLAF receiver, Redskins, Barcelona Dragons |
| 1972 | Bryce Bevill, CFL defensive back for the Saskatchewan Roughriders |
| 1972 | Clint Robinson, Brisbane QLD Australia, K-1 1k canoeist, Bronze Medal 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Maya Rudolph, American Actress |
| 1971 | Brennon James Dowric, Australian gymnast, 1992, 1996 Olympics |
| 1970 | Tom Europe, CFL defensive back, Montreal Alouettes |
| 1969 | Jason Woolley, born in Toronto, NHL defenseman for the Florida Panthers |
| 1969 | Linda Burgess, WNBA forward for the Los Angeles Sparks |
| 1968 | Christina Singer, born in Goeppingen, Germany, tennis star, 1991 Futures GBR |
| 1968 | Maria Grazia Cucinotta, born in Messina, Sicily, actress, Postman |
| 1968 | Tom Goodwin, born in Fresno California, outfielder for the Kansas City Royals |
| 1967 | Craig Wolanin, Grosse Pointe, NHL defenseman for the Colorado Avalanche |
| 1967 | Emiel van Eijkeren, soccer player, FC The Hague/NEC |
| 1967 | Jeff Novak, NFL tackle for the Jacksonville Jaguars |
| 1967 | Julian McMahon, actor, Ian Rain-Another World, John Grant-Profiler |
| 1967 | Neil Smith, cricketer, Warwickshire and England A all-rounder |
| 1967 | Sasha Mitchell, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Spike of Bensonhurst |
| 1963 | Jason Buck, WLAF defensive end for the Scottish Claymores |
| 1963 | Donnie Yen, Chinese Actor |
| 1961 | Daniel C Burbank, born in Manchester, Connecticut, Lieutenant Commander USCG/astronaut |
| 1960 | Christina Singer, born in Geoppingen, Germany, tennis star |
| 1960 | Jo Durie, born in Bristol, England, professional tennis player, tennis commentator, ranked 5th in the World, winner of two Grand Slam titles |
| 1960 | Reinaldo de Carvalho, carnival King |
| 1958 | Christopher Dean, Olympics skater, Torvill and Dean, Gold Medal 1984 Olympics, Bronze Medal 1994 Olympics |
| 1957 | Gezina E "Liesbeth" van Apeldoorn, Dutch actress, Composer |
| 1957 | Hansi Muller, born in Stuttgart, Germany, athlete, footballer, played for German national football team |
| 1956 | Carol Leifer, American Comedian |
| 1955 | Allan Border, cricket captain, Australia |
| 1953 | Wim G J M van de Camp, Dutch 2nd Chamber member, CDA |
| 1953 | Yahoo Serious, Australian Director |
| 1951 | Janet Eilber, born in Detroit, Michigan, actress, Hard to Hold, Romantic Comedy |
| 1949 | David Muse, rocker, Firefall |
| 1949 | Jeremy Thomas, actor, Family Life |
| 1949 | Maureen McGovern, born in Youngstown, Ohio, singer, Got To Be a Morning After |
| 1948 | Henny Vrienten, Dutch bassist/singer, Doe Maar |
| 1948 | Peggy Fleming Jenkins, born in San Jose, California, figure skater, Olym-gold-1968 |
| 1947 | Betty Thomas, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Lucy Baines-Hill Street Blues |
| 1947 | Wayne Dowdy, born in Fitzgerald, Georgia, Representative-D-Mississippi 1981 - 1989 |
| 1946 | Gwynne Gilford, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Linda Harris-Waverly Wonders |
| 1946 | Ricardo Anasagasti, Ricardo M Meul, Curaeao, dancer/actor |
| 1946 | Toktar Ongarbajewitch Aubakirov, Kazakhstan, cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-13 |
| 1944 | Aleksandr Ivanovich Dedkov, cosmonaut |
| 1944 | Bobbie Gentry, Mississippi, singer and songwriter, Ode to Billy Joe |
| 1943 | Al Ramsey, born in New Jersey, rocker, Gary Lewis and the Playboys-This Diamond Ring |
| 1943 | Stu Gilliam, Detroit, actor/comedian, Roll Out, Harris and Company |
| 1942 | Barbara Ferris, born in London, England, actress, Nice Girl Like Me |
| 1942 | John Pleshette, New York City, actor, Richard-Knots Landing, 7th Avenue |
| 1942 | Robert Arthur Thornbury Campbell, journalist/musician |
| 1941 | Johannes Fritsch, composer |
| 1941 | Charlie Norwood, born in Georgia, Army Captain, politician, member, U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia |
| 1939 | Irv Cross, NFL sportscaster, CBS-TV |
| 1939 | James McGee, pathologist/professor, Morbid Anatomy at Oxford |
| 1939 | James Victor, born in Puerto Rico, actor, Boulevard Night, Streets of LA |
| 1938 | Gary Gygax, born in Chicago, writer, game designer, co-created 'Dungeons & Dragons' role-playing game |
| 1937 | Anna Dawson, British comedienne, Violet-Keeping Up Appearances |
| 1937 | Chuck Jackson, born in Latta, South Carolina, singer, Any Day Now, I Don't Want to Cry |
| 1937 | Don Galloway, born in Brooksville, Kentucky, actor, Arrest and Trial, Ironside |
| 1937 | Robert Gibb, zoo/theme park creator |
| 1934 | John Pardoe, CEO, Sight and Sound Education, Liberal MP |
| 1933 | Nick Reynolds, rocker, Kingston Trio-Scarlet Ribbons |
| 1933 | Roger Harris, cricketer, New Zealand opening batsman vs England 1959 |
| 1932 | Beverly Byron, born in Baltimore, Maryland, Representative-D-Maryland 1979 - 1993 |
| 1932 | Curnick M Ndlovu, Jailed South Africian worker's union leader |
| 1932 | Robert Cowan, CEO, Highlands and Islands Enterprises |
| 1931 | Jerry Van Dyke, born in Danville, Illinois, actor, My Mother the Car, Coach |
| 1930 | Ronald Dearing, chairman, British Post Office |
| 1930 | Shirley Williams, co-founder, Social Democratic Party, labour minister |
| 1929 | Harvey Fuqua, rock vocalist, Moonglows-Sincerely |
| 1929 | Jack Higgins, Harry Patterson, novelist |
| 1929 | Marc Wilkinson, composer |
| 1928 | Sakari Mononen, composer |
| 1926 | Peter Coker, captain |
| 1925 | Doc Pomus, born in Brooklyn, New York, given name Jerome Solon Felder, blues singer, songwriter, inducted in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Songwriters Hall of Fame, Blues Hall of Fame |
| 1924 | Otar Vasil'yevich Taktakishvili, composer |
| 1924 | Vincent Canby, critic, New York Times |
| 1922 | Adolfo Celi, born in Sicily, Italy, director, Next Man, Murders in Rue Morgue |
| 1922 | Bob Thiele, record producer |
| 1922 | Lillian Hayman, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actress, Leslie Uggams Show |
| 1922 | Norman Lear, TV writer/producer, All in The Family |
| 1920 | Beatrice Pearson, born in Dennison, Texas, actress, Moving Finger |
| 1920 | James Munn, commissioner, British University |
| 1918 | Eero Aukusti Sipila, composer |
| 1918 | Leonard Rose, born in Washington D.C., concert cellist, New York Phil 1943-51 |
| 1917 | John Cunningham, executive director, British Aerospace |
| 1917 | Moses Rascoe, blues Singer |
| 1917 | Robert Cowans, executive director, British Aerospace |
| 1916 | Asfa Wossen, Crown prince of Ethiopia/son of emperor Haile Selassi |
| 1916 | Elbert "Skippy" Williams, tenor Sax player |
| 1916 | Kennan Wynn, born in New York City, actor, Dr. Strangelove, Absent Minded Professor |
| 1916 | Siegfried Reda, composer |
| 1916 | Elizabeth Hardwick, American literary critic, novelist, author, co-founded The New York Review of Books |
| 1915 | Jack Iverson, Australian cricket mystery spinner, late 40's |
| 1913 | Eva Jones, poet and novelist |
| 1913 | Mary Green, headmistress, Kidbrooke School |
| 1913 | Vittorio Sereni, Italian poet, Diario d'Algeria |
| 1912 | Igor Markevitch, born in Kiev, Ukraine, conductor, Le Paradis Perdu |
| 1912 | Vernon Elliott, musician/composer |
| 1911 | Wilfrid Ewart Oulton, airman |
| 1910 | Bea Marcia Anastasia verbrook Christoforides, writer |
| 1910 | Julien Gracq, Louis Poirier, French writer, Andre Breton |
| 1909 | Gianandrea Gavazzeni, conductor |
| 1909 | Hilde Domin, born in Cologne, Germany, lyric poet, writer, German-language poet, wrote Das zweite Paradies (The Second Paradise), volume of prose |
| 1908 | Lord Jenkins of Putney, British MP of Arts, Labour |
| 1907 | Denis Rickett, private secretary to Clement Attlee |
| 1907 | Mollie Doreen Phillips, British figure skater/judge, Olympics 1932,36 |
| 1906 | Leo Durocher, born in Massachusetts, baseball manager, Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants |
| 1904 | Agnes Yarnall, sculptor, artist, author laa, 1987 |
| 1904 | Anton Dolin, Patrick Healey-Kay, dancer, Girl From Petrovka |
| 1904 | Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, physicist |
| 1903 | Clive Martin Douglas, composer |
| 1903 | Nikolai Cherkasov, born in St. Petersburg, Russia, actor, Ivan the Terrible |
| 1900 | Charles Vidor, born in Budapest, Hungary, direct, Rhapsody, Gilda, Cover Girl |
| 1900 | Hans Haug, born in Switzerland, composer, primitivist style, wrote solo guitar piece, Preludio, Tiento et Toccata |
| 1899 | Harl McDonald, near Boulder Colorado, composer, Santa Fe Trail |
| 1899 | Perc Hornibrook, Australian cricket left-arm bowler, 20's |
| 1899 | C. S. Forester, English Novelist |
| 1898 | Audley Moore, civil rights activist, humanitarian [Queen Mother] |
| 1894 | Gerald F Bogan, U.S. Vice-Admiral, WW II-Pacific Ocean |
| 1890 | Judith Lowry, born in Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, actress, Effect of Gamma Rays ... |
| 1881 | Hans Fischer, German physicist, Nobel 1930 |
| 1880 | Donald Crisp, born in Scotland, actor, How Green Was My Valley, Pollyana |
| 1880 | Joseph Tinker, baseball Hall of Famer, 1/3 of fame double play combo |
| 1879 | Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet, Il Libro Della Giovinezza |
| 1878 | Jean F van Royen, Dutch German secretary, PTT |
| 1878 | Th to de Weeme, painter |
| 1877 | Erno [Ernst von] Dohnanyi, Hungary, composer, Msg to Posterity |
| 1872 | Stanislav Binicki, composer |
| 1870 | Hilaire Belloc, English Poet |
| 1867 | Enrique Granados, born in Lerida, Spain, composer, Maria del Carmen |
| 1857 | Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, orientalist/museum curator |
| 1857 | Jose Celso Barbosa, born in Puerto Rico, found Federalist Party in 1900 |
| 1848 | Roland baron Eotvos, Hungarian physicist |
| 1848 | Vladimir de Pachmann, painter |
| 1840 | Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1835 | Giosue Carducci, born in Italy, poet, Nobel 1906 |
| 1824 | Alexandre Dumas, born in France, playwright/novelist, Camille |
| 1820 | John Franklin Farnsworth, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1812 | Thomas Lanier Clingman, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1802 | Benedikt Randhartinger, composer |
| 1801 | George Biddle Airy, 7th Astronomer Royal |
| 1784 | Andre-Georges-Louis Onslow, English/French composer, chamber music |
| 1781 | Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani, composer |
| 1777 | Thomas Campbell, poet, Hohenlinden, Battle of the Baltic |
| 1768 | Charlotte Corday d'Armont, murdered Jean-Paul Marat in bath |
| 1741 | Francois-Hippolyte Barthelemon, composer |
| 1734 | Jakob Zupan, composer |
| 1667 | Jean Bernoulli, mathematician |
| 1625 | Edward Montagu, England |
| 1612 | Murad IV, sultan of Turkey, 1623 - 1640, conquered Baghdad |
| 1609 | Heinrich Pape, composer |
| 1518 | Elizabeth Talbot, countess of Shrewsbury/builder of country houses |
| 1502 | Pier Francesco Corteccia, composer |
| 1452 | Ludovico Sforza [il Moro], Italian duke of Milan, 1494 . .1500 |
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