| 1975 | Porter Collins, born in New York City, rower, Olympics-5th-1996 |
| 1975 | Sarah Evanetz, born in Vancouver BC, 100m butterfly 1996 Olympics |
| 1975 | Tobey Maguire, born in Santa Monica, California, actor, known for role as Peter Parker and Spider-Man in the 'Spider-Man' film series |
| 1974 | Juran Bolden, NFL cornerback for the Atlanta Falcons |
| 1973 | Heath Irwin, guard for the New England Patriots |
| 1973 | Jennifer Brundage, U.S. softball infielder, 1996 Olympics gold |
| 1973 | Wendell Davis, cornerback for the Dallas Cowboys |
| 1971 | Brant Boyer, linebacker for the Jacksonville Jaguars |
| 1971 | Jimmy Kemp, CFL quarterback for the Edmonton Eskimos |
| 1970 | Petra Langrova, born in Prostejov, Czechoslovakia, tennis star, 1995 Palermo doubles |
| 1970 | Ricardo Jordan, born in Delray Beach, Florida, pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies |
| 1969 | Mark Telerico, born in Cleveland, Ohio, Canadian Tour golfer, 1994 S Florida |
| 1968 | Jason Patric, actor, Speed 2 Cruise Control |
| 1967 | Lester Archambeau, NFL defensive end for the Atlanta Falcons |
| 1967 | Michelle Torres, born in Chicago, Illinois, tennis star |
| 1967 | Sylvie Frechette, born in Montreal QUE, synchro swimmer, Olympic-gold/silv-92, 96 |
| 1966 | Jason Patric, born in New York City, actor, Lost Boys, Solar Babies |
| 1966 | Jeff Conine, born in Tacoma, Washington, outfielder for the Florida Marlins |
| 1966 | Mercedes Paz, born in Tucum, Argentina, tennis star, 1990 Strasbourg |
| 1966 | Rob Harbison, born in Fallston, Maryland, 3x40 rifle, Olympics-6th-1996 |
| 1964 | Chuck Person, NBA forward for the San Antonio Spurs |
| 1963 | Stephen Peterson, born in Detroit, Michigan, Conn, rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1960 | 7th marquess of Cholmondeley, English large landowner/millionaire |
| 1960 | Brian Dillinger, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Brighton Beach Memoirs |
| 1960 | Jim Nussle, born in Des Moines, Iowa, Representative-R-Iowa 1991 - 2003 and 2003 - 2007 |
| 1959 | Lorrie Morgan, born in Nashville, Tennessee, country singer, Out of Your Shoes |
| 1959 | Trisha Yearwood, born in Nashville, Tennessee, singer, She's in Love With the Boy |
| 1958 | Jeffrey Lee Pierce, singer and songwriter, Gun Club |
| 1958 | Robert Newman, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Joshua Lewis-Guiding Light |
| 1957 | Jack Poels, Dutch rock vocalist/gitarist, Rowwen Heze-In the Wei |
| 1955 | Isabelle Adjani, born in Paris, actress, Story of Adele H, Driver, Ishtar |
| 1953 | Kent Bostick, born in Lowell, Massachusetts, pursuit cyclist, Olympics-84, 96 |
| 1951 | Sidney M. Gutierrez, born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Major USAF/astronaut, STS-40, 59 |
| 1951 | Ulf Andersson, born in Sweden, International Chess Grandmaster, 1972 |
| 1951 | Mary McAleese, born in Irish Statesman |
| 1950 | Benjamin Peterson, U.S., heavyweight boxer, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics |
| 1950 | Julia Duffy, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, actress, Stephanie-Newhart, Baby Talk |
| 1949 | Vera Wang, American Designer |
| 1947 | Francisca "Cisca" Beaudoux, actress, 2 Under a Cap |
| 1946 | Daria Semegen, born in Bambery, West German, composer, classical music, electronic music genres, Fulbright Fellow |
| 1946 | Janice Giteck, born in Hicksville, New York, composer, influenced by world music, American Indian music, studied with Olivier Messiaen |
| 1946 | Sally Priesand, 1st us woman rabbi |
| 1945 | Catherine Lacoste, born in Paris, France, golfer, U.S. Women's Open 1967 |
| 1945 | Norma Kamali, born in New York City, dress designer, Costumes for the Wiz |
| 1945 | Bill Luther, American Politician |
| 1944 | Bruce Johnston, born in Peoria, Illinois, born Benjamin Baldwin, rocker, musician, singer, record producer, Grammy-Award winning songwriter, member of The Beach Boys, composed I Write The Songs |
| 1944 | Cornelis J "Kees" Ouwens, Dutch writer/poet, Intimate Acts |
| 1944 | Patrick Sercu, born in Belgium, 1K time trial 1964 Olympic gold |
| 1942 | Frank Mills, pianist/composer/arranger, Music Box Dancer |
| 1942 | John Howard McGuire, composer |
| 1941 | James P[atrick] Hogan, UK, sci-fi author, Giants' Star |
| 1941 | Krzysztof Kieslowski, born in Poland, director/actor, Underground Passage |
| 1941 | Michael M. Honda, American Politician |
| 1941 | Mike Honda, American Politician |
| 1940 | Erik Erikson, anthropologist |
| 1939 | Neil Hawke, cricketer, Australia pace bowler and late-order bat in 60s |
| 1938 | Bruce Babbitt, Gov-D-AL, secretary of interior |
| 1938 | Gordon Rorke, cricketer, Australian quickie, 4 Tests at end of 50's |
| 1938 | Alan Coren, born in London, England, English writer, satirist, and humorist, worked with the BBC |
| 1937 | Joseph P Allen IV, Crawfordsville, Indiana, PhD/astronaut, STS-5, STS 51A |
| 1936 | John Shalikashvili, Polish/US general, NATO |
| 1935 | Eduard Pavlovich Kugno, Russia, cosmonaut |
| 1935 | Norman Ralph Augustine, American businessman and Under Secretary of the Army 1975 - 1977 |
| 1932 | Hugh Wood, born in Parbold, England, composer, studied with William Lloyd Webber, Anthony Milner, Iain Hamilton, works include Symphony and Violin Concerto |
| 1932 | Joachim Wohlgemuth, writer |
| 1931 | Alojz Srebotnjak, composer |
| 1931 | Charles Bronfman, CEO, Seagrams, Montreal Expos |
| 1931 | Ryszard Kwiatkowski, composer |
| 1930 | H Ross Perot, Texas, billionaire/presidental candidate 1992 |
| 1930 | Tamio Kono, born in Sacramento California, weightlifting, Gold Medals 1952, 1956, 1960 Olympics |
| 1930 | Ross Perot, American Businessman |
| 1927 | Bob Keeshan, born in Lynbrook, New York, aka Captain Kangaroo/Clarabelle, Good Morning |
| 1927 | Peter Bayliss, born in Thames, England, actor, From Russia With Love |
| 1927 | Robert Casey, born in Rochester, New York, actor, Henry-Aldrich Family Show |
| 1926 | Frank O'Hara, writer |
| 1924 | Bob Appleyard, cricketer, superb England off-spinner, brief career |
| 1924 | Efua Theodore Sutherland, writer |
| 1924 | Paul Conrad, comic strip cartoonist, LA Times |
| 1923 | Paul F Conrad, born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, cartoonist, Pulitzer 1964, 71, 84 |
| 1922 | George Theophilus Walker, Washington D.C., composer, Praise of Lillies |
| 1922 | Herbert Ziergiebel, writer |
| 1921 | G M J Veldkamp, Dutch politician, CDA |
| 1920 | I. A. L. Diamond, screenwriter, 1960 Academy Award-Apartment |
| 1918 | Adolph Kiefer, U.S., 100m backstroke swimmer, Gold Medal 1936 Olympics |
| 1917 | K M Rangnekar, cricketer, batted in 3 Tests India vs. Australia 1947-48 |
| 1917 | Ronald George Hayward, political manager |
| 1916 | Arthur Walter Lucas, picture restorer |
| 1916 | Hallvard Olav Johnsen, composer |
| 1915 | Hendrik W van Leeuwen, musician |
| 1914 | Alexander Pola, Dutch actor and writer, Farce Major |
| 1914 | Giorgio Almirante, born in Italy, fascist, member of parliament, 1948-87, |
| 1913 | Willie Mosconi, world champion pool player, 1941-57 |
| 1912 | Audrey Christie, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, Dorothy-Fair Exchange |
| 1911 | Alfred Scott Witherbee, Jr., U.S., 3 year old who drowned on Lusitania |
| 1911 | Paul Eekman, Flemish RC politician, 1964- |
| 1911 | V K Narayana Menon, composer |
| 1910 | Karel Reiner, composer |
| 1909 | Gianandrea Gavazzeni, composer |
| 1908 | Hans de Jong, musician/conductor, De Damrakkertjes |
| 1908 | William Eric David Davis, broadcaster |
| 1907 | John McIntire, born in Spokane, Washington, actor, Naked City, Wagon Train, Virginian |
| 1907 | Valerie Cossart, born in London, actress, Hartmans |
| 1906 | Vernon P. Watkins, Welsh poet, Ballad of Mari Lwyd |
| 1905 | Ruby Middleton Forsythe, teacher, 50 years in 1 room school in SC |
| 1900 | Otto E. Passman, born in Louisiana, Representative-D-Louisiana 1947 - 1977 |
| 1898 | Alexandra G "Alja" von Hoyer-Rachmanova, Russian/Australia author, Students |
| 1898 | Tibor Harsanyi, composer |
| 1896 | Franciscus J Feron, vicaris-general of Roermond |
| 1889 | Alfred Courtens, Belgian sculptor |
| 1889 | Moroni Olsen, born in Ogden, Utah, actor, Annie Oakley, Black Gold, Snow White |
| 1888 | Antoinette Perry, American Actress |
| 1886 | Charles Macartney, cricketer, Governor-General |
| 1885 | Arthur Harmat, composer |
| 1884 | Forrester Harvey, born in Ireland, actor, Tarzan, Chump at Oxford |
| 1884 | Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher, La psychanalyse du feu |
| 1882 | Eduard Spranger, German psychologist/educator |
| 1880 | Helen Keller, blind-deaf author/lecturer had more sense than many |
| 1878 | Jean F Van Royen, Dutch bibliophile and Secretary-General of PTT |
| 1872 | Paul Laurence Dunbar, Dayton Ohio, poet and novelist, Oak and Ivory |
| 1869 | Emma Goldman, anarchist/publisher, Mother Earth |
| 1865 | John Monash, Australian Soldier |
| 1862 | May Irwin, U.S. comedienne/singer, Hot Time in the Old Town |
| 1859 | Mildred J. Hill, composer/musician, Happy Birthday To You |
| 1850 | Ivan Vazov, Bulgaria, poet and novelist /playwright, Under the Yoke |
| 1850 | Jacob Adolf Hagg, composer |
| 1850 | Lafcadio Hearn, U.S., journalist/author, Chita |
| 1849 | Harriet Hubbard Ayers, beauty cream maufacturer and expert/columnist |
| 1846 | Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party-Lower house member |
| 1846 | Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish Politician |
| 1838 | Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Bengali novelist, Anandamath |
| 1833 | Vladislav Ivanovich Zaremba, composer |
| 1828 | Junius Daniel, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1821 | August Conradi, composer |
| 1819 | Carl Albert Loeschhorn, composer |
| 1812 | John Pike Hullah, composer |
| 1809 | Francois de Canrobert, French marshal/parliament member |
| 1808 | Everhardus J Potgieter, Dutch writer/publisher, The Guide |
| 1806 | Augustus de Morgan, Indian Mathematician |
| 1805 | Stephen Elvey, composer |
| 1805 | Francis W. Newman, English Writer |
| 1789 | Philipp Friedrich Silcher, composer |
| 1745 | Johann Nepomuk Went, composer |
| 1718 | Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer |
| 1615 | Johann Paul Schor, German Baroque painter |
| 1550 | Charles IX, King of France, 1560-74 |
| 1462 | Louis XII, the Just, King of France, 1498-1515 |
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