| 1992 | Bob Kempainen, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, marathoner, Olympics-66 |
| 1974 | Bumper Robinson, actor, Webster, Night Court |
| 1974 | Keith Poole, wide receiver for the New Orleans Saints |
| 1973 | Rayna Stewart, safety/cornerback for the Tennessee Oilers |
| 1973 | Tracy Noonan, born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, soccer goalkeeper 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Otakar Vejvoda, Kladno, Czech Republic, hockey forward, Team Czech Republic |
| 1971 | Blair Pocock, cricketer, New Zealand opening batsman 1993 |
| 1971 | Mara Hobel, born in New York City, actress, Mommie Dearest |
| 1971 | Nathan Morris, Alex Vanderpool, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, rapper, Boyz II Men |
| 1969 | Jay Leeuwenburg, NFL guard/center, Chicago Bears, Indianapolis Colts |
| 1969 | Laura Brown, born in America, golfer, member, LPGA Tour 1994 - 1997, coach Daytona Beach College women's golf team |
| 1968 | John Lumkes, born in Chicago, Illinois, 3k steeplechase runner |
| 1966 | Bob Kempainen, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, marathoner 1996 Olympics |
| 1966 | Doug Bodger, born in Chemainus BC, NHL defenseman, Team Canada, San Jose |
| 1966 | Kurt Browning, born in Alberta, figure skater, Olympic-5-1994 |
| 1966 | Luke Jensen, born in Grayling, Michigan, tennis star, 1993 French Open doubles |
| 1966 | Robert Kempainen, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, marathoner, 1996 Olympics |
| 1966 | Sandy Alomar, born in Salinas, Puerto Rico, catcher, Cleveland Indians |
| 1964 | Thanh Nguyen, born in Saigon, Vietnam, 141 lbs U.S. weightlifter 1996 Olympics |
| 1964 | Uday Hussein, Iraqi Celebrity |
| 1963 | Bruce Smith, NFL defensive end for the Buffalo Bills |
| 1963 | Darren "Dizzy" Reed, U.S. musician, Guns n' Roses-Sweet Girl of Mine |
| 1963 | Joe Walter, NFL tackle for the Cincinnati Bengals |
| 1962 | Jan[ice] Merrill, track star, U.S. record long distance holder 1979 |
| 1961 | Andres Galarraga, born in Caracas, Venezuela, infielder for the Colorado Rockies |
| 1961 | [Genevieve] Alison Moyet, Essex England, rock vocalist, Yaz, Alf |
| 1961 | Alison Moyet, British Musician |
| 1958 | Daniels Koran, saxophonist, Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover |
| 1957 | Andrea Evans, actress, Young and Restless, Tina-One Life to Live |
| 1957 | Tom Bailey, born in England, rocker, Thompson Twins-Doctor Doctor |
| 1957 | Richard Powers, born in Evanston, Illinois, author, wrote novel, 'The Time of Our Singing', 'Plowing the Dark', 'The Echo Maker', 'Generosity: An Enhancement' |
| 1956 | Brian Benben, born in Winchester, Virginia, actor, Dream On, Gangster Chronicles |
| 1954 | William Beard, rock drummer, Face To Face |
| 1953 | Jerome Smith, U.S. guitarist, KC and the Sunshine Band-Boogie Shoes |
| 1952 | Barry Champagne, born in Louisiana, stunt coorindator, Licence to Kill |
| 1952 | Carol Kane, born in Cleveland, Ohio, actress, Dog Day Afternoon, Simka-Taxi |
| 1952 | Isabella Rossellini, born in Rome, Italy, actress, Big Night, Blue Velvet |
| 1951 | Henny Huisman, Dutch TV host, Playback Show |
| 1950 | Annelie Ehrhardt, born in East Germany, 100m hurdler, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics |
| 1950 | Mike Johanns, American Politician |
| 1949 | William Randolph Hearst III, publisher/editor |
| 1949 | Chris Van Allsburg, American Author |
| 1949 | Bill Keller, American Editor |
| 1948 | Nick Drake, rocker, Back to Fruit Tree |
| 1947 | Bernard Giraudeau, born in La Rochelle, France, actor, L'Annee des Meduses |
| 1947 | Linda Thorson, born in Toronto, actress, Tara-Avengers, Julia-1 Life to Live |
| 1944 | Paul Lansky, born in New York, composer, electronic music, computer music language pioneer, studied with George Perle and Milton Babbitt, professor of music at Princeton University |
| 1943 | Barry Evans, actor, Dr. Upton-Dr. in the House, Mind Your Language |
| 1942 | Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor |
| 1942 | Paul McCartney, born in Liverpool, England, rocker, Beatles, writes love songs |
| 1942 | Roger Ebert, born in Urbana, Illinois, film critic, Siskel and Ebert at the Movies |
| 1942 | Thabo Mbeki, South African economist/1st vice-president, 1994- |
| 1941 | Delia Smith, British Entertainer |
| 1940 | Bob Duncan, prison warden, Gartree Prison in UK |
| 1940 | Jim Albus, born in Staten Island, New York, PGA golfer, 1991 Mazda Senior Players |
| 1939 | Lou Brock, one-time baseball stolen base leader for the St. Louis Cardinals |
| 1938 | Joop M Worrell, Dutch MP, PvdA |
| 1937 | Gail Godwin, U.S., author, Perfectionists, Odd Woman |
| 1937 | Jay Rockefeller, born in New York City, New York, Governor of West Virginia 1977 - 1985, Senator-D-West Virginia 1985 - |
| 1937 | Varbara Ann Teer, U.S. actress/director, National Black Theatre Company |
| 1937 | Vitaly Mikhailovich Zholobov, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, Soyuz 21 |
| 1937 | Jay Rockefeller, American Politician |
| 1936 | Ian Spurling, ballet designer |
| 1936 | R. Ronald Venetian, president Suriname, 1991- |
| 1934 | Brian Kenny, deputy supreme allied commander, Europe |
| 1934 | Carl de Winter, Secretary-General, Federation of British Artists |
| 1933 | Jean Wicki, born in Switzerland, 4-man bobsled, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics |
| 1933 | Tommy Hunt, U.S. singer, Flamingos-Lovers Never Say Goodbye |
| 1931 | Della Smith, cookbook writer/British broadcaster |
| 1931 | Peter Batty, TV/movie producer |
| 1929 | Eva Bartok, Budapest Hungary, actress, Assassin, Crimson Pirate |
| 1929 | James Bishop, editor, London News Publications |
| 1929 | Jurgen Habermans, German sociologist, Frankfurter Schule |
| 1929 | Jurgen Habermas, German Philosopher |
| 1928 | Maggie McNamara, born in New York City, actress, 3 Coins in a Fountain, Cardinal |
| 1928 | Michael Blakemore, British theater director, Country Life |
| 1927 | Dennis Landau, CEO, Cooperative Wholesale Society |
| 1927 | John Phillipps Kenyon, historian/teacher |
| 1927 | Paul Eddington, actor, Devil Rides Out, Devil's Bride |
| 1927 | Simeon Pironkov, composer |
| 1926 | Patricia Hutchinson, British ambassador, Uruguay |
| 1926 | Tom Wicker, columnist, New York Times |
| 1925 | Herman "Ace" Wallace, blues guitarist/singer |
| 1925 | Rex Collings, writer/publisher |
| 1925 | Robert Arthur, born in Aberdeen, Washington, actor, 12 O'Clock High, Just For You |
| 1924 | George Mikan, NBA center, 6-time all-pro |
| 1924 | Liesbeth den Uyl-van Vessem, feminist/wife of Joop den Uyl |
| 1923 | Herman Krebbers, Dutch violist/concert master |
| 1922 | Donald L. Keene, born in New York City, Japanese translator/critic |
| 1920 | Aster Berkhof, Flemish writer, Furious Christ |
| 1920 | Ian Carmichael, born in Hull, England, actor, Lucky Jim, I'm Alright Jack |
| 1919 | Edward Leadbitter, politician |
| 1919 | Edwin Clarke, historian and neurologist |
| 1919 | Mel Brandt, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Faraway Hill |
| 1919 | Ted Leadbitter, British MP, Lab |
| 1918 | Bob Carroll, singer and actor, Stage Two Revue, Stranger |
| 1917 | Akhmet Jevdet Ismail Hajiyev, composer |
| 1917 | Richard Boone, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Paladin-Have Gun Will Travel |
| 1916 | John Young, actor/TV panelist, Masquerade Party |
| 1915 | Arthur Fagg, cricketer, dual double-centuries in a game for Kent 1938 |
| 1915 | Red Adair, oilman, fought oil fires in Kuwait |
| 1915 | Victor Legley, composer |
| 1914 | Billy Wade, cricket wicket-keeper, South African in 11 Tests 1938-50 |
| 1913 | Sammy Cahn, lyricist, 3 Coins in a Fountain |
| 1913 | Sylvia Porter, financial writer, Sylvia Porter's Money Book |
| 1913 | Robert Mondavi, born in Minnesota, American vintner, marketer, attracted worldwide recognition for Napa Valley wines |
| 1912 | Glen Morris, born in Missouri, Olympic champion/actor, Tarzan |
| 1912 | Henry Brandon, born in Berlin, Germany, actor, Drums of Fu Manchu |
| 1910 | Avon Long, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actor, Roots: Next Generation |
| 1910 | Dick Foran, born in Flemington, New Jersey, actor, OK Crackerby |
| 1910 | E. G. Marshall, born in Owatonna, Minnesota, actor, Playhouse 90, Chicago Hope |
| 1910 | Ray McKinley, born in Ft. Worth, Texas, orchestra leader/drummer, Glenn Miller Time |
| 1908 | Bud Collyer, born in New York City, TV emcee, Beat the Clock, To Tell the Truth |
| 1908 | Maria E Vieira da Silva, Portuguese painter, Infinite Passage |
| 1907 | Benny Payne, born in Philadelphia, pianist, Billy Daniels Show |
| 1907 | Froelich Rainey, born in Wisconsin, quiz moderator, What in the World |
| 1906 | Kay Kyser, born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, orchestra leader, Kay Kyser's Kollege |
| 1905 | Eduard Tubin, composer |
| 1905 | John Gardener, boatbuilder/writer |
| 1904 | Keye Luke, born in Canton, China, actor, Across the Pacific, Yangtse Incident |
| 1904 | Manuel Rosenthal, born in Paris, France, composer, Bootleggers |
| 1903 | Raymond Radiguet, French journalist and writer, Le diable ouch corps |
| 1902 | Henry Wadsworth, born in Maysville, Kentucky, actor, Applause, Fast and Loose |
| 1901 | Jeanette MacDonald, born in Philadelphia, actress and singer, When I'm Calling You |
| 1901 | Jimmy Dale, born in Bronx, New York City, orchestra leader, Sonny and Cher |
| 1901 | Llewellyn Rees, British theater actor, Invisible Creature |
| 1901 | Denis Johnston, Irish Dramatist |
| 1899 | James Ralph Darling, teacher |
| 1898 | Carleton Percy Hobbs, Farnborough England |
| 1898 | M. C. Escher, Dutch Artist |
| 1896 | Blanche Sweet, born in Chicago, actress, Home Sweet Home, Avenging Conscience |
| 1896 | Cota Ramaswami, cricketer, Davis Cup for India 1922, Test 1936 |
| 1896 | Philip Barry, U.S., dramatist, Philadelphia Story |
| 1892 | Edward Steuermann, composer |
| 1891 | Hans Ruin, Finnish Swedish-language historian |
| 1889 | Paul Joostens, Flemish painter |
| 1888 | Margarita Xirgu, born in Barcelona, Spain, actress, Bloody Wedding |
| 1888 | S S Van Dine, William Huntingdon Wright, author, Canary Murder Case |
| 1887 | Blanche Yurka, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, actress, Taxi, Tale of 2 Cities |
| 1886 | George Mallory, England, mountain climber, "because it is there" |
| 1886 | George Leigh Mallory, British Celebrity |
| 1884 | Edouard Daladier, premier France, 1933..40 |
| 1881 | Eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch labor leader |
| 1877 | James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator, "I want you" Uncle Sam |
| 1868 | Miklos Horthy von Nagybanya, Hungarian admiral/regent, 1910-44 |
| 1861 | Jose FdT Coelho, Portuguese writer, Os Meus Amores |
| 1860 | Hugo Loudon, CEO, Royal Dutch Oil Shell |
| 1858 | Hans Schardt, Swiss geologist |
| 1857 | Henry Clay Folger, Jr., U.S., businessman/Shakespeare fan |
| 1854 | Edward Wyllis Scripps, publisher/journalist |
| 1850 | Richard Heuberger, composer |
| 1839 | William Henry Seward, Jr., Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1824 | Johannes Heykamp, Catholic archbishop of Utrecht |
| 1822 | Henry David Leslie, composer |
| 1820 | Martin Andreas Udbye, composer |
| 1813 | Pavel Annenkov, Rus literature historian, Zametsjatelnoje desjatileti |
| 1812 | Ivan Goncharov, Russia, novelist/travel writer, Oblomov |
| 1809 | Sylvanus William Godon, Commander Union Navy |
| 1799 | Prosper Meniere, French ear doctor, Meniere Syndrome |
| 1799 | William Lassell, discoverer, satellites of Uranus and Neptune |
| 1794 | George Grote, British historian |
| 1790 | John Eaton, American Politician |
| 1780 | Michael Henkel, composer |
| 1758 | Pieter PJQ Ondaatje, Ceylon/Dutch jurist/patriot |
| 1757 | Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, composer |
| 1744 | Augustin Holler, composer |
| 1740 | Karel van Poucke, Flemish sculptor |
| 1723 | Giuseppe Scarlotti, composer |
| 1716 | Joseph M Vien, French, court, painter |
| 1681 | Feofan Prokopovich, theologian, archbishop of Novgorod, westernizer |
| 1581 | Thomas Overbury, poet, baptized |
| 1511 | Bartolommeo Ammanati, Italian sculptor/architect |
| 1511 | Ponte Santa Trinita, Florence |
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