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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, wrestler, NJPW
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, journalist
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 Michael Don McNabb, composer
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 Dick Scoppettone, rocker
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
1931 James "Jimmy the Gent" Burke, criminal
1930 Tommy Cook, Duluth, Minnesota, actor, Missile to the Moon
1930 Yutaka Makino, composer
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, British Statesman
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, died in 1870
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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