| 1980 | Eva Green, French Actress |
| 1978 | Carmen Kempt, Miss Canada Universe 1997 |
| 1975 | Ai Sugiyama, born in Tokyo, Japan, tennis star |
| 1975 | Chris Gratton, Brantford, NHL center, Tampa Bay Lightning |
| 1975 | Christoph Brandner, hockey forward, Team Austria 1998 |
| 1975 | Todd Macdonald, Charlestown, NHL goalie for the Florida Panthers |
| 1973 | Christy Rowe, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, soccer defender 1996 Olympics |
| 1973 | Michael Sykora, born in Pardubice, Czechoslovakia, NHL defenseman, Sharks, Gold Medal 1998 Olympics |
| 1972 | Michael Bays, born in Enrico, California, actor, Bronx Zoo, Days of Our Live |
| 1972 | Robert Esmie, born in Jamaica, Canadian 4X100m runner, 1996 Olympics gold |
| 1972 | Tatsuhito Takaiwa, born in Kyoto, professional wrestler, ring name, Black Tiger V |
| 1972 | Chuck Klosterman, American Critic |
| 1971 | Donna Faber, born in East Orange, New Jersey, tennis star |
| 1970 | Doug Bochtler, born in West Palm Beach, Florida, pitcher for the San Diego Padres |
| 1970 | Maureen Lee, born in Melbourne, Australia, golfer |
| 1969 | Haylea Petrie, Australian softball outfielder 1996 Olympics bronze |
| 1969 | John Leclair, St. Albans VT, NHL forward, Team USA, Philadelphia |
| 1969 | John Oostendorp, born in Iowa City, Iowa, 220 lbs greco-roman wrestler 1996 Olympics |
| 1969 | Joshua Crayton, born in Redondo Beach, California, kayak alternate for 1996 Olympics |
| 1968 | Molly Brock, born in Berkeley, California, rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1968 | Nate Singleton, NFL wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers |
| 1968 | Shahid Anwar, cricketer, Pakistani all-rounder 1996 England tour |
| 1967 | Tim Worrell, born in Pasadena, California, pitcher for the San Diego Padres |
| 1965 | Lucy Han, born in Hartford, Conn, WPVA volleyballer, Nationals-7th-1994 |
| 1964 | Mark H. Lascells, grandson of English princess Mary |
| 1964 | Salim Raza, UAE cricket all-rounder, 1996 World Cup |
| 1963 | Edie Falco, American Actress |
| 1959 | Marc Cohn, singer, Walking in Memphis |
| 1959 | Patricia Pease Jeffers, born in North Carolina, actress, Kimberly-Days of our Life |
| 1959 | Tim Shaw, cricketer, South African ODI slow lefty 1991 |
| 1959 | Veronica Guerin,, nicknamed 'Ronnie', journalist, crime reporter, used pseudonyms, street names, exposing underworld figures in the Sunday Independent newspaper, helped found Criminal Assets Bureau |
| 1958 | Meredith Ann Pierce, U.S., sci-fi author, Darkangel |
| 1958 | Patsy Pease, born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, actress, Kimberly-Days of Our Lives |
| 1958 | Bill Watterson, American Cartoonist |
| 1956 | James Lofton, NFL wide reciever, Bills, Packers, Raiders |
| 1955 | Michael Gismondi, rock saxophonist, Michael Stanley Band |
| 1954 | John Wright, New Zealand cricketer, opening batsman 1978-92 |
| 1954 | Bob Ney, American Politician |
| 1952 | David Dreier, born in Kansas City, Missouri, Representative-R-California 1981 - |
| 1952 | Terence Tom Henricks, born in Bryan, Ohio, USAF/astronaut, STS-44, 55, 70, 78 |
| 1951 | Geert Jan Hessing, Dutch rock drummer, Catapult |
| 1951 | Richard "Goose" Gossage, relief pitcher, Yankees, Padres, A's |
| 1950 | Gary Matthews, baseball player, 1973 NL rookie of year |
| 1950 | Huey Lewis, born in New York City, vocalist, & the News-Need a New Drug |
| 1950 | Michael Monarch, born in Los Angeles, California, rock guitarist, Steppenwolf |
| 1948 | Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Washington D.C., daughter of Richard Milhaus |
| 1947 | Todd Akin, American Politician |
| 1945 | Curtis Blefary, baseball player, 1965 AL rookie of year |
| 1945 | Jeffrey Kramer, born in New York City, actor, Ted Stein-Struck by Lightning |
| 1944 | Robbie Robertson, Jamie, born in Toronto, Canada, rock guitarist, Band |
| 1942 | Ada J Bas-Jansen, Dutch MP, CDA |
| 1941 | Barbara Frischmuth, writer |
| 1940 | Karen Shepherd, born in Silver City, New Mexico, Representative-D-Utah 1993 - 1995 |
| 1938 | Stanley Joel Silverman, composer |
| 1937 | Brooke Hayward, born in Los Angeles, California, author, Haywire |
| 1937 | Frouwke J Laning-Boersema, Dutch politician, CDA, 2nd Chamber |
| 1937 | Nita Lowey, born in New York City, New York, Representative-D-New York 1989 - 1991 |
| 1936 | Shirley Knight, born in Goessei, Kansas, actress, Endless Love, Secrets |
| 1935 | Edward McInnes, German scholar |
| 1934 | Don Rose, American Entertainer |
| 1933 | Terence Cooper, born in Northern Ireland, actor, Casino Royale |
| 1932 | Edgar Louis Vanderstegen Millington Drake, painter |
| 1930 | Tommy Cook, Duluth, Minnesota, actor, Missile to the Moon |
| 1929 | Graham Anthony Richard Lock, cricketer |
| 1929 | Katherine Helmond, born in Galveston, Texas, actress, Soap, Mona-Who's the Boss |
| 1929 | Mary Maxwell Gates, philanthropist/mother of Bill Gates |
| 1929 | Tony Lock, cricketer, highly successful England slow lefty bowler |
| 1928 | Warren Oates, born in Depoy, Kentucky, actor, East of Eden, Stoney Burke |
| 1927 | W M Diggelmann, writer |
| 1926 | Haya van Someren-Downer, 2nd Member of parliament, Dutch Lib Party |
| 1926 | Kenneth Gaburo, composer |
| 1924 | Beverly Tyler, born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, actress, Fireball, Lorelei-Big Town |
| 1924 | Janos Starker, born in Budapest, Hungary, cellist, Chicago Symphony 1953 - 1958 |
| 1923 | John McKay, West Virginia, football coach, USC, Tampa Bay, 5 time Rose Bowl champ |
| 1920 | Issachar Miron, composer |
| 1918 | George Rochberg, Paterson, New Jersey, composer, Concord Quartet |
| 1917 | Glenn Reeves, Massillon, Ohio, actor, Defending Your Life |
| 1914 | Jacob Soetendorp, Dutch rabbi |
| 1913 | Smiley Lewis, Louisiana, vocalist, I Hear You Knockin' |
| 1911 | Georges Pompidou, banker/premier/president France |
| 1910 | Robert K Meston, U.S. sociologist, functionalism |
| 1909 | Andrei Gromyko, U.S.S.R., diplomat/U.S.S.R. President, 1985-89, 7/18 NS] |
| 1905 | Isa Miranda, Ines Sampietro, Italian model/actress, La ronde |
| 1905 | Jock Cameron, South African cricket keeper, captain |
| 1904 | Don Goddard, born in Binghamton, New York, news anchor, ABC Evening News 1958-59 |
| 1904 | Franz Adolf Syberg, composer |
| 1904 | Harold Acton, English/Italian historian/art collector |
| 1904 | Milburn Stone, Bruton, Kansas, actor, Doc-Gunsmoke |
| 1904 | Ernst Mayr, German Scientist |
| 1903 | Irwin Fischer, composer |
| 1902 | Frank Waters, writer |
| 1902 | Henry Cabot Lodge, Senator-R, ambassador, Vice President candidate 1960 |
| 1902 | Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., American Politician |
| 1900 | Bernardus J Cardinal Alfrink, cardinal of Utrecht Netherlands |
| 1899 | Anna Arnold Hedgeman, social activist, New York City cabinet |
| 1899 | Domingo Santa Cruz Wilson, composer |
| 1899 | Marcel Achard, French screen/playwright, Jean de la Lune |
| 1897 | Paul Ben-Haim, Frankenburger, Munich Germany, Israeli composer |
| 1895 | Gordon Jacob, composer |
| 1891 | John Northrop, U.S., biochemist, crystallized enzymes, Nobel 1946 |
| 1890 | Frederick Lewis Allen, American Editor |
| 1889 | Jean Cocteau, born in France, writer/artist/director, Le Potamak, Orphee |
| 1886 | Felix Timmermans, Flemish writer/painter/cartoonist, Pallieter |
| 1886 | Willem Drees, Prime Minister of Netherland, PvdA, 1948 - 1958, Indonesia, AOW |
| 1885 | Andre Lhote, French painter/art historian, Traite du paysage |
| 1882 | Hazrat Inayat Khan, Clergyman |
| 1881 | Augustyn Hlond, Polish cardinal |
| 1880 | Jan Kubelik, composer |
| 1879 | Dwight Filley Davis, U.S. Sect of War/donated tennis' Davis Cup |
| 1879 | Volkmar Andreae, Swiss conductor and composer, Tonhalle Orchestra |
| 1878 | Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/conductor/composer |
| 1877 | Wanda A. Landowska, Warsaw Poland, harpsichordist, Musique Ancienne |
| 1874 | Gerhard von Keussler, composer |
| 1868 | William H Singer, U.S. painter/collector, Singer Museum, Laren |
| 1867 | Andrew Ellicott Douglass, Dendrochronologer, study of tree rings |
| 1858 | Maria J "Marie" Bakker, Dutch actress |
| 1857 | Clara Zetkin, German women's rights advocate/communist |
| 1853 | Cecil Rhodes, born in Hertfordshire, England, British Statesman, Prime Minister of Cape Colony 1890 - 1896 |
| 1852 | Stefano Gobatti, composer |
| 1849 | William Thomas Stead, English Journalist |
| 1847 | Agnes Marie Jacobina Zimmermann, composer |
| 1843 | Mandell Creighton, English bishop/historian |
| 1828 | Paul J C Gabriel, painter/water colors painter/etcher |
| 1810 | Phineas Taylor Barnum, Bethel Conn, circus promoter, Barnum and Bailey |
| 1810 | P. T. Barnum, American Entertainer |
| 1801 | David Glasgow Farragut, Tennessee, Vice Admiral Union Navy |
| 1794 | Sylvester Graham, developed graham cracker |
| 1793 | Pavel I Pestel, Russian officer |
| 1781 | Stamford Raffles, founder, Singapore |
| 1775 | William Crotch, composer |
| 1764 | Janos Lavotta, composer |
| 1755 | Sarah Kemble Siddons, Brecon England, tragic actress, Fatal Marriage |
| 1729 | Claudio M da Costa, Brazilian poet |
| 1654 | Antonio Maria Pacchioni, composer |
| 1546 | Johann Steuerlein, composer |
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