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1978 Will Champion, English Musician
1975 Sergei Gusev, Nizhny Tagil Rus, NHL defenseman for the Dallas Stars
1973 Jerry Rivera, Puerto Rico, spanish singer
1972 Antonio Langham, NFL cornerback for the Cleveland Browns
1972 Jason Gildon, NFL linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers
1972 Ray McElroy, NFL center for the Indianapolis Colts
1972 Tami Stronach, born in Teheran, Iran, actress, Neverending Story
1971 Gus Frerotte, NFL quarterback for the Washington Redskins
1970 David Sacco, born in Malden, Massachusetts, NHL left wing, Anaheim Mighty Ducks, 1994 Olympics
1970 Knut Holmann, born in Norway, rower, 1996 Olympics gold
1969 Langa Sibanda, Miss Universe-Zimbabwe 1996
1969 Loren Dean, born in Las Vegas, Nevada, actor, Billy Bathgate, Say Anything
1969 Richard Griffith, NFL tight end for the Jacksonville Jaguars
1969 Rudolf Martin, Germany, actor, Anton-All My Children
1968 Andre Ware, CFL quarterback for the Toronto Argonauts
1968 David Bradley Stockton, Jr., born in Redlands, California, PGA golfer, 1994 Canon-3rd
1968 Saeed Al-Saffar, cricketer, UAE batsman 1996 World Cup, later captain
1967 Elizabeth Wurtzel, New York City, actress, Prozac Nation
1967 Rodney Harvey, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, actor, model, featured in Life Magazine spread with Madonna, appeared in Fox series, 'The Outsiders', guest on television show 'Twin Peaks', appeared in 'My Own Private Idaho'
1967 Sean O'Neill, born in Toledo, Ohio, U.S. Olympic table tennis player 1992 Olympics
1967 Tony Massenburg, NBA forward for the Philadelphia 76ers
1966 Dean Cain, born in Mount Clemens, Michigan, actor, Clark-Lois and Clark
1966 Julie Forbes, born in Torphins, Scotland, golfer, Aberdeenshire champ 1989
1966 Marina V. A. Mowatt, Ogilvy, daughter of English princess Alexandra
1966 Tylin John, born in Encino, California, playmate, Mar, 1992
1965 Scott Brooks, NBA guard, Cleveland Cavaliers, Dallas Mavericks
1965 Tom Stankowski, born in Paris, France, Nike golfer
1965 J. K. Rowling, English Author
1963 Brian Skrudland, NHL center for the Florida Panthers
1963 Norman Cook, rocker, Housemartins-Happy Hour, Over There
1962 Kevin Greene, NFL linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers
1962 Kym Malin, born in Dallas, Texas, playmate, May, 1982
1962 Rhonda Reilly, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, LPGA golfer, 1992 Oldsmobile-48th
1962 Sandra "Sweetness" Hodge, basketball player, Harlem Globetrotters
1962 Troy Murray, Calgary, NHL center for the Colorado Avalanche
1962 Wesley Snipes, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Passenger 57, Money Train
1961 Chris Hinton, NFL guard for the Minnesota Vikings
1960 Dale Hunter, Petrolia, NHL center for the Washington Capitals
1960 lva Budarova, born in Czechoslovakia, tennis star
1959 Mike Bielecki, born in Baltimore, Maryland, pitcher, Atlanta Braves
1959 Peter Senior, born in Singapore, Australasia golfer
1959 Stanley Jordan, American Musician
1958 Bill Berry, U.S. pop drummer, REM-Sentimental Hygiene
1958 Wallace Kurth, actor, Days of Our Lives, Ned/Ed-General Hospital
1958 Mark Cuban, American Businessman
1957 Dirk Blocker, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Ryan's Four
1957 Irina Nazariva, born in U.S.S.R., 4 x 400m relay, 1980 Olympics gold
1957 Victoria E Cooke, born in Hollywood, California, playmate, Aug, 1980
1956 Michael Biehn, actor, Terminator, Abyss, Jade
1955 Thomas Leonard, American Businessman
1953 Hugh McDowell, chelloist, ELO-Telephone Line
1953 Jimmy Cook, cricketer, South African opening batsman 1992
1952 Pritawi Sudarmo, Indonesia, astronaut
1951 Barry Van Dyke, born in Atlanta, Georgia, actor, Battlestar Galactica, Diag Murder
1951 Evonne Goolagong, born in Cawley, Australia, tennis player, Wimbledon 1971
1951 Gerald Anthony, actor, Marco Dane-General Hospital, One Life to Live
1950 Lane Davies, actor, Mason-Santa Barbara, Impure Thoughts
1948 Leaveil Degree, rocker, Whispers
1947 Dennis Greenslade, rocker
1947 Karl Greene, Manchester, rock bassist, Herman's Hermits
1946 Bob Welch, rock vocalist and guitarist, Fleetwood Mac-Oh Well
1946 Gary Lewis, Jerry's son, singer, & The Playboys-This Diamond Ring
1945 William Floyd Weld, Gov-R-Mass
1945 William Weld, American Politician
1945 Bill Weld, American Politician
1944 Geraldine Chaplin, born in Santa Monica, California, actress, Dr. Zhivago, 3 Musketeers
1944 Sherry Lansing, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, China Syndrome, Black Rain
1943 Carla Glasgow, LPGA golfer
1943 Lobo, rocker
1943 Stephanie Forrester, Bold and the Beautiful
1943 Susan Flannery, New York City, actress, Leslie Stewart-Dallas
1943 William Bennett, U.S. Secretary of Education, 1985 - 1988, drug tsar
1940 Stanley Jaffe, producer, Fatal Attraction
1939 France Nuyen, born in Marseilles, France, actress, St. Elsewhere, Diamond Head
1939 John R West, rock guitarist, Gary Lewis and Playboys-This Diamond Ring
1939 Roger Prideaux, cricketer, England batsman in 3 Tests 1968-69
1937 Isabelle F Daniels, born in Jakin, Georgia, 4X100m relayer, Olympic-bronze-56
1936 Bonnie Brown, rocker, Browns
1935 Geoffrey Lewis, Plainsfield, New Jersey, actor, Earl-Flo, Gun Shy
1932 Morey Carr, rocker, Playmates
1932 Robert William Davis, born in Marquette, Michigan, Representative-R-Michigan 1979 - 1993
1932 Ted Cassidy, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, actor, Lurch-Addams Family
1932 John Searle, American Philosopher
1929 Don Murray, born in California, actor, Bus Stop, Advise and Consent, Endless Love
1929 Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist
1928 Bill Frenzel, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Representative-R-Minnesota 1971 - 1991
1926 Hilary Putnam, American Philosopher
1923 Ahmet Ertegun, CEO, Atlantic Records
1922 Lucy Killea, assemblywoman-Calif
1921 Whitney M. Young, Jr., civil rights leader, head of Urban League
1921 Whitney M. Young, American Activist
1921 Peter Benenson, British Lawyer
1920 Rudolf Halaczinsky, composer
1919 Curt Gowdy, Green River, Wyoming, sportscaster, ABC
1919 Hemu Ramchandra Adhikari, cricketer, Indian righty batsman 1947-59
1919 Norman Del Mar, composer
1919 Primo Levi, Italy, chemist/writer, Survival in Aushchwitz
1918 Paul D. Boyer, American Scientist
1916 Sydney Tafler, born in London, England, actor, Too Many Crooks
1916 Verdun Scott, New Zealand cricketer/rugby player
1915 Robert Steel, academic
1914 Jose Ignacio Domecq, wine maker
1914 Louis De Funes, born in Courbevoie, France, actor, I Tartassati, Fantomas
1913 Bryan Hextall, NHL hall of famer for the New York Rangers
1912 Bill Brown, cricketer, Australian opener of the 30's and 40's
1912 Irv Kupcinet, born in Chicago, Illinois, TV host, Tonight! America After Dark
1912 Milton Friedman, economist, Nobel 1976
1911 George Liberace, Menasha Wisconsin, violinist, Liberace Show
1905 Trenchard Cox, museum director
1904 Arthur Daley, sportswriter, New York Times-Pulitzer 1956
1902 G O "Gubby" Allen, cricketer, in Sydney England non-bodyline quickie
1901 Jean Debuffet, French painter/sculptor, Landscape with 2 Personages
1901 Jean Dubuffet, French Artist
1900 Elmo Roper, pollster, Roper Poll
1900 Erich Katz, composer
1894 Roy Bargy, Michigan, orchestra leader, Jimmy Durante Show
1893 Charles Wilfred Orr, composer
1889 Donald Foster, Pennsylvania, actor, Scaramouche
1886 Constant Permeke, Flemish painter/statues artist, Sow
1884 Karl F Goerdeler, mayor, Leipzig, "July 20th Plot"
1882 Grete Gulbransson, writer
1880 Munshi Premchand, Indian Writer
1875 Harry Northrup, Paris, France, actor, Who's That Knocking at My Door
1854 Jose Canalejas contributes Mendez, premier of Spain, 1910-12
1848 Jean Robert Planquette, France, composer, Bells of Corneville
1847 Ignatio Cervantes, composer
1844 Ignazio Guidi, Italian orientalist/archaeologist
1841 George Melville, polar explorer, naval engineer
1837 William Clarke Quantrill, Col Confederate Army
1834 Peter H Hugenholtz, Dutch reformer/founder, Free Parish
1830 Frantisek Zdenek Xavier Alois Skuhersky, composer
1828 Francois Auguste Gevaert, Belgian composer, Le diable au moulin
1825 Thomas Hart Taylor, Brigadier General Confederate Army
1818 Heinrich Kiepert, German cartographer/geographer
1817 Philip Cook, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army
1816 George Henry Thomas, Major General Union Army
1808 Frederick Nichols Crouch, composer
1803 John Ericsson, U.S., inventor, screw propeller, shipbuilder-USS Monitor
1767 Amelie Julia Candielle, composer
1748 Isaac Ouwater, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist
1743 August R van Hekeren van Suideras, Dutch orangist
1704 Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician, paradox of Cramer
1654 Jacob Hop, Dutch politician/diplomat
1629 Johann Jakob Lowe von Eisenach, composer
1617 Nicolas Antonio, Spanish scholar, Censura de historias fabulosas
1597 Sebastian Stosskopf, Elzassisch painter, baptized
1578 Catharina Belgica of Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange
1550 Jakob Handl, Petelin, Austrian composer/bandmaster
1527 Maximilian II, German King/Emperor, 1564-76
1443 Albrecht III of Saxon-Meisen, duke of Saxon
1396 Philips, the Good, Duke of Burgundy//Brabant/Limburg/count
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