| 1976 | Ed Jovanoski, born in Windsor, Ontario, NHL defenseman for the Florida Panthers |
| 1976 | Mpumelo Mbangwa, cricketer, Zimbabwe pace bowler vs. Pakistan 1996 |
| 1975 | Umeki Webb, WNBA guard and forward, Phoenix Mercury |
| 1974 | Derek Jeter, born in Pequanock, New Jersey, shortstop, New York Yankees, Rookie of Year 1996 |
| 1974 | Dieter Kalt, hockey forward, Team Austria 1998 |
| 1974 | Jason Kendall, born in San Diego, California, catcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates |
| 1973 | Aaron Jackson, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, actor, Mark Winkle-California Dreams |
| 1973 | Mischa Smoking, soccer player, Dordrecht '90 |
| 1973 | Reggie Brown, NFL fullback for the Seattle Seahawks |
| 1973 | Gretchen Wilson, American Musician |
| 1972 | Jai Taurima, Australian long jumper 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Jerris McPhail, running back for the Miami Dolphins |
| 1971 | Carlton Gray, NFL cornerback, Seattle Seahawks, Indianapolis Colts |
| 1971 | Eddie Parenti, born in Montreal, Quebec, 100m butterfly swimmer 1996 Olympics |
| 1970 | Chris O'Donnell, actor, School Ties, Robin-Batman Forever |
| 1970 | Nicole Richardson, Australian softball outfielder 1996 Olympics bronze |
| 1970 | Paul Thomas Anderson, American Director |
| 1970 | Sean Hayes, American Actor |
| 1969 | Barry Kloeth, WLAF wide receiver for the Amsterdam Admirals |
| 1969 | Harry Boatswain, NFL tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles |
| 1969 | Michael Myers, born in Illinois, pitcher for the Detroit Tigers |
| 1969 | Troy Auzenne, NFL tackle for the Chicago Bears |
| 1969 | Colin Greenwood, British Musician |
| 1968 | Shannon Sharpe, NFL tight end, Denver Broncos Superbowl 32 |
| 1967 | Travis Fine, born in Atlanta, Georgia, actor, Ike McSwain-Young Riders |
| 1966 | Kirk McLean, born in Toronto, NHL goalie, Vancouver Canucks |
| 1966 | Paul Mokha, born in Erie, Pennsylvania, rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1964 | Alison Wyeth, Isle West Middlesex England, 1.5k/5k runner |
| 1964 | Pamela Wright, born in Scotland, LPGA golfer, 1995 Jamie Farr Toledo-3rd |
| 1964 | Zeng Jinlian, born in Hunan, China, became tallest woman known, 2.46 m, 8'1" |
| 1963 | Devin Renee De Vasquez, born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, playmate, June, 1985, actress |
| 1963 | Harriet Wheeler, English pop singer/composer, The Sundays |
| 1963 | Wendy Lucero-Schayes, born in Denver, Colorado, U.S. diver 1992 Olympics |
| 1963 | Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian Businessman |
| 1962 | George P N earl of St. Andrews, under English prince Edward |
| 1962 | Jerome Kersey, NBA forward, Golden State Warriors, Sea Supersonics |
| 1961 | Greg LeMond, U.S. bicyclist, Tour de France winner-1986, 1989, 1990 |
| 1960 | Barbara Edwards, born in Albuqueque, New Mexico, playmate of year, Sept, 1983, actress |
| 1960 | Jumpy Geathers, NFL defensive end, Denver Broncos Superbowl 32 |
| 1959 | Mark McKinney, Canadian Comedian |
| 1958 | Glen Stewart Godwin, born in Miami, Florida, murderer, FBI Most Wanted |
| 1957 | Patty Smyth, New York City, rock vocalist, Scandal-Warrior |
| 1956 | Azhar Cachalia, Scottish/South Africa leader, United Democratic Front |
| 1956 | Bernard A. Harris, Jr., born in Temple Texas, MD/Astronaut, STS-55, 63 |
| 1956 | Chris Isaak, born in Stockton, California, rock singer and songwriter, Wicked Game |
| 1956 | Robert Davi, actor, License to Kill, Raw Deal, Wild Thing |
| 1954 | Robert Davi, born in Astoria, New York, opera singer and actor, Gangster Chronicles |
| 1953 | Ralph Ezell, born in Unio,n Mississippi, singer, Shenandoah-Sunday in the South |
| 1952 | Gordon McQueen, born in Kilbirnie, Scotland, footballer, soccer player, central defender, coach, played for Manchester United and Leeds, led team to win FA Cup Final, 1979, coached Airdrieonians, manager for Middleborough, pundit for Sky Sports |
| 1951 | Gary Gilmour, cricketer, exciting Aussie all-rounder 1973-77 |
| 1951 | Pamela Bellwood, born in New York City, actress, Ellen-W.E.B., Claudia-Dynasty |
| 1951 | Rindy Ross, born in Portland, Oregon, rock vocalist/saxophonist, Quarterflash |
| 1948 | Allen Michael Doyle, born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, PGA golfer, 1991 Memorial-64th |
| 1946 | Clive Francis, born in London, England, actor, Masada |
| 1945 | Barry Schrader, born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, composer, electro-acoustic genre, wrote, 'Introducton to Electro-Acoustic Music' |
| 1945 | David Heyn, cricketer, Sri Lankan batsman 1975 World Cup |
| 1944 | Ruth Kempson, linguist, SOAS |
| 1943 | Georgie Fame, rock vocalist, Get Away, Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde |
| 1943 | Jean Knight, U.S. singer, Mr Big Stuff |
| 1943 | John Allen Strang, composer |
| 1942 | Larry Taylor, born in Brooklyn, rocker, Canned Heat-On the Road Again |
| 1940 | Billy Davis, Jr., born in St. Louis, Missouri, singer, 5th Dimension-One Less Bell |
| 1940 | Robert Kramer, actor, A.K. |
| 1940 | Vittorio Storaro, cinematographer, Taxi, Little Buddah, Dick Tracy |
| 1939 | Ansar Ilgamovich Sharafutdinov, Russian cosmonaut |
| 1939 | Chuck Robb, born in Phoenix, Arizona, Senator-D-Virginia 1989 - 2001 |
| 1939 | Smangaliso P Mkhatshwa, born in South Africa, Secretary-General, Bishops' Conference 1983-88 |
| 1939 | Chuck Robb, American Politician |
| 1938 | Neil Abercrombie, born in Buffalo, New York, Representative-D-Hawaii, 1986 - 1987, 1991 - |
| 1937 | Henk van der Meyden, Dutch journalist, de Telegraaf/Prive |
| 1937 | Peter Pike, born in England, born Peter Leslie Pike, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Burnley |
| 1936 | Robert Maclennan, British MP |
| 1935 | Pete Peterson, born in Omaha, Nebraska, Representative-D-Florida 1991 - 1997 |
| 1934 | John V. Tunney, born in New York City, New York, heavyweight boxing champion, Representative-D-California 1965-1971 and Senator-D-California 1971 - 1977 |
| 1934 | Josef Sommer, born in Germany, actor, Witness, Target, Iceman, Forced March |
| 1934 | Luis Felipe Pires, composer |
| 1933 | Claudio Abbado, Milan Italy, composer and conductor, London Symph-1982 |
| 1933 | David Winnick, British MP |
| 1933 | Pat Morita, born in California, actor, Arnold-Happy Days, Karate Kid |
| 1932 | Henry Bromfield, cricketer, South Africa off-spinner in 9 Tests 1961-65 |
| 1931 | Alan Bailey, British sect, Department of transport |
| 1931 | Colin Wilson, author, Afterlife, Book of Great Mysteries |
| 1931 | Lucien Goethals, composer |
| 1930 | Willem G Statius Muller, Netherlands Antilles, conductor/pianist/composer |
| 1929 | Alexander Fenton, CEO, Euro Ethnological Research Center in Edinburgh |
| 1929 | Francesco Cossiga, president of Italy, 1985- |
| 1929 | Ian Prestt, English ornithologist |
| 1929 | Milton Glaser, American Designer |
| 1928 | Jacob Druckman, born in Philadelphia, composer, Animus I Auerole |
| 1927 | Leslie Carpenter, CEO, Reed International |
| 1925 | Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, Voskhod II |
| 1924 | Peter Miles, British keeper of privy purse |
| 1924 | Syd Lawrence, bandleader, Syd Lawrence Orchestra |
| 1923 | David Haslam, British rear Admiral, hydrographer |
| 1922 | Alan Peacock, economist |
| 1922 | Campbell Adamson, CEO, Abbey National Pictures |
| 1922 | Eleanor Parker, born in Ohio, actress, Caged, Detective Story, Hans Brinker |
| 1922 | Frances Rafferty, born in Sioux City, Iowa, actress, December Bride |
| 1921 | Abe Jan Koldijk, SS-physician, Limburg's family doctor |
| 1920 | Michael Eastham, high court judge |
| 1919 | Jay Silverheels, actor, Tonto-Lone Ranger |
| 1919 | Lord Rawlinson, British attorney general, Ewell |
| 1917 | William Hamilton, British MP |
| 1916 | Alex Dreier, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, newscaster, Whats it all about World? |
| 1916 | Paul Derrick, co-operator/Christian socialist |
| 1916 | Virginia Satir, American Psychologist |
| 1914 | John J "John" Beautiful Garden, sculptor |
| 1914 | Laurie Lee, male poet and author, I Can't Stay Long |
| 1914 | Richard Maltby, orchestra leader, Vaughn Monroe Show |
| 1914 | Wolfgang Windgassen, born in Annemasse, Germany, tenor, Stuttgart Opera |
| 1913 | Babe [Mildred Ella] Didrikson, born in Port Arthur, Texas, hurdler, Gold Medal 1932 Olympics |
| 1913 | Maurice Wilkes, inventor, stored program concept for computers |
| 1911 | Edward Levi, professor, Intro to Legal Reasoning |
| 1910 | Charles Spry, Australian security chief |
| 1909 | "Col Tom" Parker, Dries Van Kruijk, born in Netherlands, rock manager, Elvis Presley |
| 1909 | Nicholas Polunin, environmentalist |
| 1906 | Stefan Andres, born in Germany, post-World War II writer, novelist |
| 1905 | Jack Longland, British director of education, Derbyshire |
| 1905 | Jan Louis Guillaume "Yvan" Doornik, Netherlands resistance fighter in France |
| 1904 | Peter Lorre, Hungarian American, actor, M, Casablanca, Beast with 5 Fingers |
| 1903 | Ashley Clarke, president, Venice in Peril Fund |
| 1903 | Floyd "Babe" Herman, Brooklyn Dodgers' slugger, .324 lifetime average |
| 1902 | Antonia Brico, born in Rotterdam, Holland, conductor/pianist, Antonia |
| 1902 | William Lear, engineer/manufacturer/CEO, Lear Jet Corp |
| 1901 | Stuart Symington, born in Amherst, Massachusetts, Senator-D-Missouri 1953 - 1976 |
| 1901 | William Busch, composer |
| 1900 | Joseph E A "Jo" Spier, Dutch cartoonist/water color painter |
| 1898 | Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer |
| 1897 | Viola Dana, born in Brooklyn, actress, Willow Tree, 40 Winks, Silent Lover |
| 1895 | Jankel Adler, Polish painter |
| 1894 | Bill Wirges, born in Buffalo, New York, orchestra leader, Growing Paynes |
| 1894 | Jeanne Eagels, actress, Rain, Under False Colors |
| 1893 | "Big Bill" Broonzy, born in Mississippi, blues singer/guitarist, Blues by Broonzy |
| 1892 | Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, born in China, author, Good Earth-Nobel 1938 |
| 1891 | Heinrich Lemacher, composer |
| 1891 | Sidney Coe Howard, U.S., dramatist, Swords, Pulitzer 1925 |
| 1891 | Vladislav Vancura, Czechoslovakian physician, stage, author and resistance fighter |
| 1887 | Anthony G de Rothschild, Britain, philanthropist |
| 1886 | Margaretha C E "Greta" Beekman, actress, Wrong Poes |
| 1885 | Andre Maurois, French writer, Balzac |
| 1885 | Billy Jenkins, Erich Rosenthal, Magdeburg |
| 1878 | Albert Siklos, composer |
| 1878 | Ernest Torrence, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, actor, Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| 1876 | Nico[laas P] de Jong, Dutch radio play actor, Laughter and Tears |
| 1875 | Camille Zeckwer, composer |
| 1874 | Albert Relf, cricketer, England all-rounder in 13 Tests 1903-14 |
| 1874 | Mikhail Vladimirovich Ivanov-Boretsky, composer |
| 1869 | Martin Anderson Nexo, Danish poet and writer, Tabte Generation |
| 1866 | Josef Swickard, born in Coblenz, Germany, actor, Lost City, Tale of 2 Cities |
| 1865 | Bernard Berenson, art critic, Italian Painters of the Renaissance |
| 1865 | Charles E Bonin, French explorer/diplomat, China |
| 1865 | George C Pearce, actor, Country Kid, British Agent, Valiant |
| 1854 | Robert Laird Borden, C, 8th Canadian PM, 1911-20 |
| 1837 | Martin Davis Hardin II, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1837 | Victor Jean Baptiste Girardey, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1831 | Julius Rodenberg, Levy, German writer, Kriegs-Songs of War and Peace |
| 1824 | Kelvin, William Thomson, British physicist, Kelvin Scale |
| 1824 | Moritz Furstenau, composer |
| 1823 | Frederick Bowen Jewson, composer |
| 1821 | Bartolome Mitre, Argentine general |
| 1763 | George Morland, England, artist of rural landscapes |
| 1760 | Johan I Jozef, monarch of Liechtenstein/Field Marshal |
| 1749 | Louis Joseph Claude Saint-Amans, composer |
| 1747 | Leopold Jan Antonin Kozeluh, composer |
| 1742 | Arthur Middleton, signer, Declaration of Independence |
| 1741 | John Langdon, American Politician |
| 1730 | Charles Joseph Messier, astronomer, cataloguer of "M objects" |
| 1702 | Philip Doddridge, England, Dr/nonconformist clergyman |
| 1655 | Jean Deutz, merchant/Amsterdam regent |
| 1582 | Johannes Schultz, composer |
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