| 1981 | Jennie Thompson, born in Wichita Falls, Texas, gymnast, Junior National-champ-93, 1996 Olympics |
| 1981 | Fernando Alonso, Spanish Celebrity |
| 1977 | Greg Burgess, U.S., 200m individual medley, Olympics-silver-92, 96 |
| 1975 | Seth Greisinger, born in Kansas City, Kansas, baseball pitcher 1996 Olympics bronze |
| 1975 | Sheya Shipanga, Miss Namibia Universe 1997 |
| 1974 | Derek Wilkinson, born in Lasalle, NHL goalie, Tampa Bay Lightning |
| 1973 | Stephen Dorff, born in Atlanta, actor, I Know My Name is Steven |
| 1973 | Wanya Morris, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, rapper, Boyz II Men |
| 1972 | Steven Branscombe, WLAF WR for the Scotland Claymores |
| 1972 | Wil Wheaton, born in California, actor, Star Trek Next Generation-Wesley, Stand By Me |
| 1971 | Bryan Dattilo, born in Kankakee, Illinois, actor, California Dreaming, Days of Our Lives |
| 1971 | Jayne Fenner, born in Four Marks, England, U.S. sailing 1992 Olympics |
| 1971 | Johnny Ruffin, Butler AL, pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds |
| 1970 | John Rennie, cricketer, Zimbabwe pace bowler 1993 |
| 1970 | Maria Checca, born in Bogota, Colombia, playmate, Aug, 1994 |
| 1970 | Sean LaChapelle, NFL/WLAF receiver, Kansas City Chiefs, Scottish Claymores |
| 1970 | Steve Wojciechowski, born in Blue Island, Illinois, pitcher for the Oakland A's |
| 1969 | Alison Dunlap, born in Denver, Colorado, cyclist 1996 Olympics |
| 1968 | Kristen Babb-Sprague, born in California, U.S. synchronized swimmer, Olympics gold 92 |
| 1968 | Mike Williams, born in Radford, Virginia, pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies |
| 1966 | Jeff Herrod, NFL linebacker for the Indianapolis Colts |
| 1966 | Martina McBride, born in Sharon, Kansas, singer, country music genre, songwriter, successful songs include, 'Happy Girl', 'A Broken Wing', 'Wrong Again', dubbed the, 'Celine Dion of Country Music' |
| 1966 | Sally Gunnell, 400m hurdler, Olympics gold 92 |
| 1965 | Doug Burden, Rutland Vt, rower, Olympics-5th-88, 92, 96 |
| 1965 | Henry James, NBA forward for the Cleveland Cavaliers |
| 1965 | Karen Doell, born in Winkler, Manitoba, softball 2nd baseman 1996 Olympics |
| 1965 | Luis Alicea, born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals |
| 1964 | Lisa Peluso, born in Philadelphia, actress, Search for Tomorrow, Ava-Loving |
| 1963 | Alexandra Paul, born in New York City, actress, Christine, American Flyers, Dragnet |
| 1963 | Azeem Hafeez, cricketer, fingerless Pakistani lefty quick |
| 1963 | Damon Allen, CFL quarterback for the BC Lions |
| 1963 | Michel Boerebach, Dutch soccer player, FC Twente |
| 1963 | Patty Dodd, born in Bogota, Columbia, WPVA volleyballer, U.S. Open-2nd-1988 |
| 1963 | Steve Frey, born in Meadowbrook, Pennsylvania, pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies |
| 1962 | Corinne Dibnah, born in Brisbane, Australia, LPGA golfer, 1988 British Open |
| 1962 | Steve Pelluer, WLAF quarterback for the Frankfurt Galaxy |
| 1959 | Brian James Claar, born in Santa Monica, California, PGA golfer, 1991 AT&T-2nd |
| 1959 | Gary Springer, born in New York City, actor, Bernice Bobs Her Hair |
| 1959 | John Sykes, Irish hard rock guitarist, Thin Lizzy-Blue Murder |
| 1959 | Nelli Kim, U.S.S.R., gymnast, Olympic-2 golds-1976 |
| 1959 | Sanjay Dutt, Indian Actor |
| 1958 | Alvin Martin, British Athlete |
| 1956 | Michael Biehn, actor, Rampage, Hog Wild, Aliens, Abyss |
| 1956 | Patti Scialfa, singer, As Long as I Can Be, Mrs Bruce Springsteen |
| 1955 | "Country" Jem Finer, English banjo player, Pogues-Straight to Hell |
| 1954 | Flo Hyman, born in Inglewood, California, volleyball player 1984 Olympics silver |
| 1953 | Geddy Lee, born in Toronto, Canada, lead vocalist/bassist, Rush-Tom Sawyer |
| 1953 | Ken Burns, epic documentary maker, Civil War, Baseball |
| 1951 | Dean Pitchford, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, prolific songwriter, screenwriter, director, actor, novelist, Oscar, Golden Globe award-winner, wrote with composers Alan Menken, Rupert Holmes, collaborated on songs for movie, Fame, wrote screenplay for movie, 'Footloose' |
| 1951 | Deborah Pryor, born in California, actress, The Godson, Representative-R-Ohio |
| 1951 | Leslie Easterbrook, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Ryan's Hope, Police Acadamy 5 |
| 1951 | Susan Blackmore, English Writer |
| 1950 | Maricica Puica, born in Romania, 2K runner, world record |
| 1950 | Radu Voina, born in Romania, team handball, Olympic-silver/2 bronze-1972, 76, 80 |
| 1950 | Jenny Holzer, born in Gallipolis, Ohio, conceptual artist, abstract artist, known for use of words and ideas in public spaces |
| 1949 | Marilyn Tucker Quayle, novelist/wife of vice president Dan, 1989-93 |
| 1949 | Stephen Burleigh, Wheeling, West Virginia, actor, Love and Betrayal, Afterburn |
| 1947 | Janet LePera, LPGA golfer |
| 1946 | Bill Forsyth, director, Local Hero, Breaking, Indiana, Housekeeping |
| 1946 | Neal Doughty, born in Evantson, Illinois, rock keyboardist, Reo Speedwagon |
| 1945 | Michelle Angelo, born in Kingsville, Texas, actress, Funny Girl |
| 1944 | Terry Jarvis, New Zealand cricket opener, 387 partnership w/Turner vs. WI 1972 |
| 1944 | Gary Busey, American Actor |
| 1943 | Charles Hallahan, actor, Hunter |
| 1943 | Ingrid Kramer, born in Dresden, Germany, diver 1964 Olympic gold |
| 1943 | Roz Kelly, born in Mount Vernon, New York, actress, Owl and Pussycat, Happy Days |
| 1942 | Sharon Gans, actress, Slaughterhouse 5 |
| 1941 | David Warner, born in Manchester, New Hampshire, actor, Star Trek VI, Time Bandits |
| 1939 | Annea Lockwood, born in Christchurch, New Zealand, composer, records natural found sounds, Fluxus works with burning pianos, teacher, Vassar College |
| 1938 | Peter Jennings, born in Toronto, Canada, news anchor, ABC Evening News |
| 1936 | Elizabeth Hanford Dole, U.S. Secretary of Transportation, 1983 - 1987 |
| 1936 | Elizabeth Dole, American Politician |
| 1935 | Leonard Lee, rocker, Shirley and Lee |
| 1935 | Peter Schreier, Meissen Germany, tenor, Dresden State Opera 1961 |
| 1934 | Alfred Scott, WI cricket leg-spinner, son of O C, Test 0-140 |
| 1933 | Cammie Smith, WI cricket opening batsman, 1960-62 |
| 1933 | Robert Fuller, Troy, New York, actor, Laramie, Wagon Train |
| 1932 | Diane Webber, born in Los Angeles, California, playmate, May 1955, Feb 1956 |
| 1932 | Nancy Landon Kassebaum, born in Topeka, Kansas, Senator-R-Kansas 1978 - 1997 |
| 1929 | Jean Baudrillard, born in France, cultural theorist, philosopher, photographer, known for his concept of hyper-reality |
| 1928 | Bidzina Alexandrovich Kvernadze, composer |
| 1928 | Li Ka Shing, Chinese Businessman |
| 1927 | Harry K V Mulisch, writer, Message to King Rat |
| 1926 | Don Carter, bowler, 6-time Bowler of Year, 1953-54, 57-58, 60-61 |
| 1926 | Russel Firestone, polo great, Circle F-1959 champs |
| 1925 | Mikis Michael George Theodorakis, Chios Greece, composer, Raven |
| 1925 | Ted Lindsay, Canadian Athlete |
| 1924 | Arnold Weinstock, English industrial/multi-millionaire, GEC |
| 1924 | Lloyd Bochner, Toronto, Cecil-Dynasty, Lonely Lady, Naked Gun 2 |
| 1924 | Robert Horton, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Kings Row, Wagon Train, Arena |
| 1921 | Aled Eames, maritime historian |
| 1921 | Richard Egan, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Empire, Redigo, Pollyanna |
| 1921 | Chris Marker, French Director |
| 1920 | Rodolfo Acosta, Chihuahua Mexico, actor, Passion, Littlest Outlaw |
| 1918 | Vladimir Dudentzev, Russian writer |
| 1914 | "Professor" Irwin Corey, comedian, Car Wash |
| 1914 | Abram Games, graphic artist |
| 1914 | Dovie Hudson, community activist in rural Mississippi |
| 1914 | Irwin Corey, American Actor |
| 1913 | Stephen McNally, New York City, actor, Split Second, 30 Seconds over Tokyo |
| 1911 | Jan Cikker, composer |
| 1910 | Henry Brian Boyne, journalist |
| 1909 | Georgy Mushel, composer |
| 1907 | Melvin Mouron Belli, Sonora California, lawyer, SF's "King of Torts" |
| 1907 | Melvin Belli, American Lawyer |
| 1906 | Diana Vreeland, American Editor |
| 1905 | Clara Bow, silent screen actress, Wings, "it" girl of 1920's films |
| 1905 | Dag Hammarskjold, Sweden, 2nd United Nations Secretary-General, 1953-61, Nobel 1961 |
| 1905 | Thelma Todd, Alison Loyd, Lawrence, Massachusetts, actress, Dangerous Female |
| 1905 | Stanley Kunitz, American Poet |
| 1900 | Alexander Vasil'yevich Mosolov, composer |
| 1900 | Don Redman, Piedmont, West Virginia, orchestra leader, Sugar Hill Times |
| 1900 | Eyvind Johnson, Sweden, novelist, Return to Ithaca-Nobel 1974 |
| 1898 | Isidor Isaac Rabi, Poland, physicist, explored atom, Nobel 1944 |
| 1895 | Michail M Zosjtsjenko, Russian author |
| 1893 | Arre Merikanto, Finnish composer, 12-tones music |
| 1892 | Charles L Bass, actor, Business in White Slavery |
| 1892 | Ernst van Raalte, lawyer, Seen, heard... wrote |
| 1892 | Karel L Baars, Dutch actor, White Slaves Trade |
| 1892 | William Powell, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, actor, Thin Man, My Man Godfrey |
| 1891 | Bernhard Zondek, German/Israeli gynaecologist |
| 1888 | Niles Welch, Hartford, Connecticut, actor, Cornered |
| 1887 | Rudi Stephan, composer |
| 1887 | Sigmund Romberg, Nagykanizsa Hungary, operetta composer, Blossom Time |
| 1885 | Theda Bara, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, actress 'Camille', 'Cleopatra', '2 Orphans', dies at 62 |
| 1884 | Henri Liebrecht, Belgian playwright/journalist |
| 1883 | Benito Mussolini, Il Duce, Fascist Italian dictator, 1922-43 |
| 1883 | Manuel Infante, Spanish composer and conductor |
| 1878 | Don Marquis, Illinois, journalist/poet, archy and mehitabel |
| 1876 | Maria Ouspenskaya, Tula Russia, actress, Waterloo Bridge |
| 1874 | August Stramm, writer |
| 1871 | Gregory Efimovich Rasputin, mad Russian monk |
| 1869 | Booth Tarkington, U.S., novelist, 17, Magnificent Ambersons |
| 1867 | Enrique Granados, Spain, composer |
| 1865 | Nicola Spinelli, composer |
| 1861 | Alica Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, 1st wife of Theodore Roosevelt |
| 1861 | Sergei D Sazonov, Russian minister of Foreign Affairs, 1910-16 |
| 1854 | Georg Kerschensteiner, German educator, Theory of Education |
| 1853 | Esther de Boer-van Rijk, Dutch actress, Kniertje-Hope of Blessing |
| 1853 | Henry Morton Dunham, composer |
| 1849 | Max Nordau, German arts/writer/zionist leader |
| 1830 | Alvan Cullem Gillem, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1828 | Cuvier Grover, Major General Union Army |
| 1820 | Clement Laird Vallandigham, MC, Union |
| 1817 | James Blair Steedman, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1805 | Alexis de Tocqueville, France, statesman/writer, Democracy in America |
| 1797 | Daniel Drew, American Businessman |
| 1778 | Carl Borromaus Neuner, composer |
| 1758 | Antonius van Gils, Dutch RC theologist, opposed Enlightenment |
| 1755 | Franz Gotz, composer |
| 1739 | Johannes Ritschel, composer |
| 1723 | Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer |
| 1646 | Johann Theile, German composer, Adam and Eve |
| 1620 | Nicolaas Heinsius, Dutch philologist/diplomat |
| 1605 | Simon Dach, German poet |
| 1590 | Gilles Hayne, composer |
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