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1982 William of Wales, son of Prince Chuck and Lady Di
1980 Richard Jefferson, American Athlete
1977 Jochen Hecht, Mannheim GER, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998
1976 Natalia Cronenbold Aguilera, Miss Universe-Bolivia 1996
1974 Rob Kelly, safety for the New Orleans Saints
1973 Alyson Annan, born in Sydney, Australia, field hockey midfielder 1996 Olympics
1973 Juliette Lewis, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Natural Born Killers, Cape Fear
1973 Merlakia Jones, WNBA guard and forward for the Cleveland Rockers
1973 Sammie Burroughs, linebacker for the Indianapolis Colts
1972 Andrew Jordan, NFL tight end for the Minnesota Vikings
1972 Billy Milner, NFL tackle for the Miami Dolphins
1972 Heath Rylance, CFL quarterback for the Saskatchewan Roughriders
1972 Jamal Ellis, NFL/WLAF cornerback, Denver Broncos, Rhein Fire
1972 Marv Marshall, NFL/WLAF receiver, Buccaneers, Barcelona Dragons
1972 Tony Berti, NFL tackle for the San Diego Chargers
1971 Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, Crown Prince/son of King of Nepal
1971 Nicole Stevenson, born in Melbourne, Australia, backstroker, Silver Medal 1996 Olympics, Bronze Medals 1992, 1996 Olympics
1971 Tyrone Drakeford, NFL cornerback for the San Francisco 49ers
1971 Ryan Carey, CFL safety for the Saskatchewan Roughriders
1970 Brandon Moore, NFL tackle for the New England Patriots
1970 John Roethlisberger, born in Afton, Minnesota, gymnast, Olympics-5th-96
1969 Chris Perez, CFL tackle for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers
1969 Donovan Osborne, born in Roseville, California, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals
1968 Alastair Campbell Mackintosh, Hamilton New Zealand, coxless rower 1996 Olympics
1968 Brandon Douglas, born in Oklahoma City, actor, Dr. Quinn, Father's Homecoming
1968 Darryl Shannon, Barrie, NHL defenseman for the Buffalo Sabres
1968 Henry Newby, NFL linebacker for the Seattle Seahawks
1967 Derrick Coleman, NBA forward for the Philadelphia 76ers
1967 Michele Smith, softball pitcher, 1996 Olympics gold
1967 Nicole Kidman, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, actress, Dead Calm, Far and Away
1967 Robert Drummond, CFL running back for the Toronto Argonauts
1967 Tim Simenson, rocker, Bomb the Bass
1966 David Williams, NFL tackle, Houston Oilers, New York Jets
1966 Nan Woods, actress, 1 More Saturday Night
1965 Michael Dolan, born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, actor, Hamburger Hill, Liberace
1964 Doug Savant, born in Burbank, California, actor, Matt Fielding-Melrose Place
1964 Kari Kennell, born in Colorado, playmate, Feb, 1988, actress, Eric's Revenge
1964 Sammi Davis-Voss, born in Kidderminster, England, actress, Hope and Glory
1963 Jeff Musselman, baseball player
1963 Mike Sherrard, NFL wide receiver for the New York Giants
1962 Marc Copage, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Corey Baker-Julia
1961 Kip Winger, born in Denver, Colorado, Charles Frederick Kip Winger, musician, songwriter, bass guitarist, hard rock, heavy metal, classical, experimental genres, lead singer, Alan Parsons Project, played with Alice Cooper, had band called, Winger, released new CD, 2008
1959 Kathy Mattea, country singer, Love at the Five and Dime
1959 Tom Chambers, NBA forward, center, Seattle SuperSonics, Phoenix Suns
1958 Gennadi Ivanovich Padalka, Russian major/cosmonaut, SK: Soyuz TM-28
1957 Berke Breathed, cartoonist, Vegetarian, Bloom County, Outland
1957 Mark Brzezicki, rock drummer, Big Country-Wonderland
1957 Berkeley Breathed, American Cartoonist
1956 Mikhail Burtsev, U.S.S.R., sabres 1976 Olympics gold
1956 Rick Sutcliffe, pitcher, Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago Cubs
1955 David Marshall Grant, born in Westport CT, actor, Legs, French Postcards
1955 Leigh J McCloskey, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Dallas, Executive Suite, General Hosp
1955 Tim Bray, Canadian Inventor
1954 Anne Kirkbridge, actress, Deidre-Coronation Street
1954 Jeremy Coney, cricketer, New Zealand captain turned them into world-beaters
1954 Robert Pastorelli, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Eldin-Murphy Brown
1953 Benazir Bhutto, born in Pakistan, first woman elected prime minister, chair of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)
1953 Charlie Moore, Jr., baseball player
1953 Robyn Douglass, Sendai Japan, actress, Lonely Guy, Romantic Comedy
1952 James H. Douglas, American Politician
1951 Nils Lofgren, Chicago, guitarist, singer and songwriter, East Street Band
1950 Joey Kramer, born in New York City, hard rock drummer, Aerosmith-Toys in the Attic
1950 Terry Miskolczi, Dunnville ON, Canadian Tour golfer, 1976 Alberta-3rd
1949 Jim Bacchus, born in Nashville, Tennessee, Representative-D-Florida 1991 - 1993 and 1993 - 1995
1948 Joey Malland, Liverpool, rock guitarist, Badfinger-Come and Get It
1948 Leo Sayers, rocker, You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
1948 Ian Mcewan, British Author
1947 Joey Molland, born in Edge Hill, England, guitarist, composer, singer, songwriter, member, Badinger, The Merseys, Natural Gas
1947 Dana Rohrabacher, born in Coronado, California, Representative-R-California 1989 -
1947 Lex van Delden, Dutch actor, Soldier of Orange
1947 Meredith Baxter-Birney, California, actress, Family Ties, Bridget Loves Bernie
1947 Michael Gross, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Family Ties, FBI murders
1947 Meredith Baxter, American Actress
1946 Brenda Holloway, U.S. singer and songwriter, When I'm Gone
1946 Kate Hoey, British MP, Lab
1946 Malcolm Rifkind, British QC MP, Secretary of State for Defense
1946 Maurice Saatchi, English advertising CEO, Saatchi and Saatchi
1945 Chris Britton, England, rock guitarist, Troggs-Wild Thing
1944 Corinna Tsopel, born in Athens, actress, Man Called Horse, Miss Universe, 64
1944 Frans Luitjes, Dutch athlete
1944 Jon Hiseman, born in Woolwich, London, musician, drummer, record producer and music publisher, formed bands Colosseum, Coloseeum II with Don Airey, Gary Moore and Tempest with Alan Holdsworth
1944 Miguel Danus, Vicens rocker
1944 Ray Davies, London, singer/guitarist, Kinks-Come Dancing
1942 Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Representative-D-Pennsylvania 1993 - 1995
1942 William Bradford Reynolds, U.S. asst attorney general
1941 Pia J Barendrecht, Indonesian/Dutch actress, Pinokkio
1940 Joe Flaherty, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, comedian, SCTV, Blue Monday
1940 Mariette Hartley, born in New York City, actress, Poloroid spokesperson, Marooned
1938 Dan Burton, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, Representative-R-Indiana 1983 -
1938 James Botten, cricketer, all-rounder in 1965 South Africa series vs. England
1938 Ron Ely, Hereford, Texas, actor, Tarzan, Doc Savage
1937 Anna Davies, prof of Comparative Philology, Oxford U
1937 John Edrich, cricketer, England left-handed batsman, 310* vs. New Zealand 1965
1935 Francoise Sagan, born in Cajarc, France, novelist, Bonjour Trieste
1935 Monte Markham, born in Manatee, Florida, actor, Second Hundred Years, Dallas
1933 Bernie Kopell, born in New York City, actor, Love Boat, Get Smart, That Girl
1932 Bernard Ingham, press secretary, Margaret Thatcher
1932 Lalo Schifrin, Buenos Aires, Argentina, composer
1932 Ocie Lee "OC" Smith, U.S. jazz singer, Little Green Apples
1932 O. C. Smith, born in Mansfield, Louisiana, born Ocie Lee Smith, singer, pastor, "Save the Last Dance for Me" hit number one on Rhythm n' Beach Top 40, founded The City of Angels Church
1931 Lawrence K. Grossman, News president, NBC-TV
1931 Margaret Heckler, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1983-85
1930 Gerald Kaufman, British MP, shadow Foreign Secretary
1930 Mike McCormack, NFL offensive tackle, New York Yankees, Cleveland, Philadelphia
1930 Patricia Lindop, radio biologist
1930 Peter Marshall, police commissioner, London
1929 Agha Saadat Ali, cricketer, Pakistan bat in Test vs. New Zealand 1956, scored 8*
1929 John Morgan, British ambassador, to Mexico
1928 Judith Raskin, born in New York City, soprano, Susanna-Le Nozze di Figaro
1928 V G Yershov, cosmonaut
1927 Carl Burton Stokes, born in Cleveland, Mayor-Cleve, TV newscaster
1927 Jackie Collum, baseball player
1926 Conrad Hall, American Artist
1925 Maureen Stapleton, born in Troy, New York, actress, Airport, Coccoon, Plaza Suite
1924 Wally Fawkes, cartoonist/jazz clarinettist
1923 John Compton, born in Lynchburg, Tennessee, actor, Shannon-D.A.'s Man
1922 Jim McConnon, cricketer, England off-spinner against Pakistan 1954
1922 Judy Holliday, born in New York City, comedienne/actress, Born Yesterday, Adam's Rib
1921 Frank Scott, born in Fargo ND, pianist, Lawrence Welk Show
1921 Jane Russell, born in Bemidji, Minnesota, full-figured actress, Outlaw
1921 Jean Kent, born in London, England, actress, Adv of Sir Francis Drake
1921 Joan Tetzel, born in New York City, actress, Hell Below Zero, Joy in the Morning
1920 Helen Cattanach, British Army Nursing Service, QARANC
1918 James Bysse Joll, historian
1916 Joe Bamford, British manufacturer/multi-millionaire
1914 Jan Decadt, composer
1914 William Vickrey, economist
1913 Irving Shulman, author/screenwriter
1912 Mary McCarthy, U.S., novelist, Group
1910 Charles Jones, composer
1909 Kurt Schwaen, composer
1906 Luis Maria Millet, composer
1905 Jacques Goddot, French publisher, Tour de France
1905 Jean Paul Sartre, existentialist/writer, Le Mur, Nobel 1964; declined
1903 Alf Sjoberg, Stockholm Sweden, director, Fadern, Oen, Domaren
1903 Dorothy Stickney, Dickinson ND, actress, And So They Were Married
1903 Helene Costello, dancer/actress, Love Toy
1903 Louis Krasner, violinist
1903 Al Hirschfeld, American Cartoonist
1902 Wilhelm Maler, composer
1899 Pavel Haas, composer
1893 Alois Haba, Czechoslovakia, opera, composer, Mother
1892 Hilding Rosenberg, Bosjokloster Sweden, composer, Babels Torn
1892 Reinhold Niebuhr, U.S., theologian, Nature and Destiny of Man
1891 Hermann Scherchen, Berlin Germany, conductor, Nature of Music
1891 Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect, Nuove Struttura
1884 Claude "Auk" Auchinleck, British Field Marshal North-Africa
1884 Claude Auchinleck, British Soldier
1883 Fjodor W. Gladkow, Russian writer, Cement
1882 Rockwell Kent, artist/painter/illustrator, Canterbury Tales
1880 Josiah Stamp, British Businessman
1879 Umberto Brunelleschi, Italian cartoonist/illustrator, Candide
1876 Willem H Keesom, physicist, helium vast
1873 Henry M Tomlinson, British writer, Sea and Jungle
1865 Albert Herbert Brewer, composer
1862 Henry Holden Huss, composer
1862 Johannes Schlaf, writer
1859 Henry O Tanner, artist
1851 Daniel Carter Beard, U.S., organized 1st boy scout troop
1844 Ernest F Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer, 1st railway Congo.
1839 Joaquim M Machado de Assic, Brazil, writer, Epitaph of a small winner
1839 Johannes P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician
1839 John Decatur Barry, Brigadier General Confederate Army
1839 Machado de Assis, writer
1823 Edward Elmer Potter, Major General Union volunteers
1818 Ernst II, duke of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha, 1844-93, composer
1818 Joseph Abel Haskin, Brigadier General Union volunteers
1817 James Brewerton Ricketts, Major General Union Army
1817 Robert Collier, born in England, Robert Porrett Collier, 1st Baron Monkswell, politician, judge, educated at Oxford, successfully defended Brazilian pirates
1811 Matthew Simpson, American Clergyman
1805 Karl Friedrich Curschmann, composer
1792 Ferdinand Christian Baur, German Theologian
1790 Wilhelm Speyer, composer
1781 Simeon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician, Poisson verdeling
1781 Simeon Poisson, French Mathematician
1774 Daniel D Tompkins, D-R, 6th U.S. vice-president, 1817-25
1763 Pierre P Royer-Collard, French attorney/philosopher
1750 Thomas Spence, English Writer
1740 Hendrik van Wijn, Dutch archivist, Algemeen Rijksarchief
1732 Johann Christoph Frederic Bach, composer
1732 Martha Washington, 1st, 1st lady, 1789-97
1731 Martha Washington, American First Lady
1730 Norinaga Moto'ori, Japanese scientist
1668 Cajetan Kolberer, composer
1640 Abraham Mignon, still life painter
1596 Michael Fjodorovitsj, tsar of Russia, 1613-45, 1st Romanov
1577 Giovanni Del Turco, composer
1002 Leo IX, Bruno count of Egesheim and Dagsburg, Pope, 1049-54
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