| 1985 | Michael Phelps, born in Baltimore, Maryland, professional swimmer, winner, 14 Olympic gold medals, considered greatest Olympian of all time, broke 37 world records |
| 1984 | Fantasia Barrino, American Musician |
| 1982 | Lizzy Caplan, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, appeared in films, 'Mean Girls', 'Cloverfield' and television show 'True Blood' and 'Party Down' |
| 1981 | Allison Schroeder, Miss Wisconsin Teen USA 1997 |
| 1977 | Lola Odusoga, Finland, Miss Universe-3rd place 1996 |
| 1976 | Brian Rocheleleau, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, kayak, alt-olympics-96 |
| 1975 | Natasha Sturgess, Australian mistral yachter 1996 Olympics |
| 1974 | Michelle Kang, born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Miss America-Virginia 1997 |
| 1973 | Chan Ho Park, born in Kong Ju City, Korea, pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers |
| 1973 | Dodda Ganesh, cricketer, Karnataka and India pace bowler 1997 |
| 1972 | Dan Comiskey, CFL guard for the Saskatchewan Roughriders |
| 1972 | Ellen Coleen Pasturzak, born in Portsmouth, Ohio, Miss America-Ohio 1996 |
| 1972 | Garret Anderson, born in Los Angeles, California, outfielder for the California Angels |
| 1972 | Tyrone Davis, NFL tight end, New York Jets, Green Bay Packers Superbowl 31 |
| 1971 | Ann Marsh, born in Royal Oak, Michigan, fencer-foil 1996 Olympics |
| 1971 | Christine Taylor, born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, actress, appeared in 'My Name is Earl' television show, 'The Brady Bunch' movie, married to Ben Stiller |
| 1971 | Monica Potter, American Actress |
| 1970 | Brian Bloom, actor, As the World Turns |
| 1970 | Mark Grudzielanek, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, infielder for the Montreal Expos |
| 1970 | Christopher Nolan, British Director |
| 1969 | Jim Montgomery, born in Montreal, NHL center for the Philadelphia Flyers |
| 1969 | Ken Gernander, born in Grand Rapids, NHL center for the New York Rangers |
| 1969 | Kristina Farrar Stookey, born in Martha Vineyard, Massachusetts, 470 yachter, 1996 Olympics |
| 1969 | Sanath Jayasuriya, cricketer, Sri Lankan open bat MVP-1996 World Cup |
| 1968 | Dan Peltier, born in Clifton Park, New York, outfielder for the San Francisco Giants |
| 1968 | Peter Miller, CFL linebacker for the BC Lions |
| 1968 | Phil Anselmo, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, musician, focuses on heavy metal, sludge metal, hardcore punk, thrash metal genres, lead for Pantera, producer, owner Housecore Records |
| 1967 | Rudi Steyn, cricketer, South African opening batsman 1995 |
| 1967 | Sheila Hudson, U.S. triple jumper, U.S. record 1992 |
| 1967 | Tina Bockrath, born in Dayton, Ohio, playmate May, 1990 and actress |
| 1966 | Louie Aguiar, NFL punter for the Kansas City Chiefs |
| 1966 | Mike Tyson, born in Brooklyn, New York, professional boxer, youngest man to win WBC, WBA IBF world heavyweight titles, nickname 'Iron Mike' |
| 1966 | Marton Csokas, New Zealander Actor |
| 1965 | Mitch Richmond, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, NBA guard, Sac Kings, 1988, 1996 Olympics |
| 1965 | Steve Duchesne, Sept-iles, NHL defenseman, Ottawa Senators |
| 1963 | Gina Goldberg, born in Turku, Finland, born Tina Verienius, model, actress, singer, Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month, May, 1981 |
| 1963 | Rupert Graves, actor, Damage, Handful of Dust, Maurice |
| 1962 | Julianne Regan, rocker, All About Eve-All About Scarlet |
| 1962 | Vladimir Mikolaevich Dezhurov, born in Mordovia, astronaut, Mir 18, STS-71 |
| 1961 | Karolyn Kirby, U.S. beach volleyball player, Goodwill-gold-94 |
| 1960 | Randy Ladouceur, born in Brockville, NHL defenseman, Anaheim Mighty Ducks |
| 1959 | Michel Dion, born in Quebec City, Canada, Rifle shooter, Olympics-24-92, 96 |
| 1959 | Stephanie Farwig, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, golfer, 1994 LPGA Corning Classic-2nd |
| 1959 | Vincent D'Onofrio, American Actor |
| 1958 | Esa-Pekka Salonen, born in Helsinki, Finland, conductor, Giro |
| 1957 | Sarah McGuire, born in Springfield, Illinois, LPGA golfer, 1983 United Virginia Bank-5th |
| 1956 | Adrian Wright, Sheffield, rock vocalist, Human League-Only Human |
| 1956 | David Alan Grier, comedian, In Living Color, Boomerang |
| 1956 | Ronald Winans, gospel singer, Winans |
| 1954 | Bryn B Burrows, rock drummer, Fabulous Poodles |
| 1954 | Ken Olin, Chicago, actor, Thirtysomething, Det Quinn-EZ Street |
| 1953 | Hal Lindes, born in Monterey, California, rocker, Dire Straits |
| 1951 | Andre Hazes, Dutch barkeeper/singer, We Love Orange |
| 1951 | Stanley Clarke, born in Philadelphia, rock bassist, New Barbarians-Find Out Hideaway |
| 1951 | Stephen S. Oswald, born in Seattle Washington, astronaut, STS-42, 56, 67 |
| 1950 | Donna Jean Willmott, born in Akron, Ohio, FALN member, FBI most wanted |
| 1949 | Andrew Scott, Wales, rock guitarist, Sweet |
| 1949 | Bui Thanh Liem, Vietnam, cosmonaut |
| 1949 | Eric Goetz, New York City, U.S. shipbuilder, America's Cup 1995 |
| 1949 | Thanh Liem Bui, Vietnam, cosmonaut |
| 1947 | Jasper van 't Hof, Dutch jazz pianist, Live in Montreux |
| 1947 | Yuri Petrovich Sheffer, Russian cosmonaut |
| 1946 | Billy Brown, rock vocalist, Ray, Goodman, Brown |
| 1944 | Glenn Shorrock, born in Sydney, Australia, rock vocalist, Little River Band |
| 1944 | Ron Swoboda, baseball outfielder/sportscaster, New York Yankees, New York Mets |
| 1943 | Florence Ballard, born in Detroit, Michigan, rocker, Supremes |
| 1942 | Robert Ballard, explorer/geologist/author/discoverer, Titanic in 1985 |
| 1941 | John Jameson, cricketer, England batsman, 465 p/ship with Kanhai |
| 1941 | Larry Hall, rocker, Tape Heads |
| 1941 | Micki Grant, born in Chicago, Illinois, composer, singer, soprano, actress, writer, composer, appeared on NBC's Another World, became first African-American cast member of a daytime soap opera |
| 1941 | Mike Leander Farr, record producer |
| 1941 | Peter Pollock, cricketer, bro of Graeme/father of Shaun, S Af quickie |
| 1939 | Lindembergue Cardoso, composer |
| 1939 | Peter Bogdanovich, American |
| 1938 | Billy Mills, born in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, 10k, Olympics gold 64 |
| 1938 | Chris Hinze, Dutch flutist, Vivat Vivaldi |
| 1936 | Dave Van Ronk, rocker/actor, Caffe Lena |
| 1936 | Nancy Dussault, born in Pensacola, Florida, actress, Muriel-Too Close for Comfort |
| 1936 | Tony Musante, born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, actor, David Toma-Toma, Nowhere to Hide |
| 1934 | Harry Blackstone, Jr., magician, Blackstone Book of Magic and Illusion |
| 1933 | Mike J K Smith, cricketer, England captain mid-60s |
| 1932 | Martin Mailman, born in New York City, New York, composer, teacher, guest conductor-composer at over 90 colleges across the U.S. and Europe |
| 1931 | James Loughran, British conductor |
| 1931 | Johannes Gruijters, Dutch mayor, D66-Lelystad |
| 1931 | June Thorburn, born in Kashmir, India, actress, Touch and Go, Children Galore |
| 1930 | Doyle Holly, comedian/country performer, Buckaroos |
| 1930 | June Valli, born in Bronx, New York, singer, Your Hit Parade |
| 1930 | Nikolai Karetnikov, composer |
| 1929 | Alexander Kelly, pianist/teacher |
| 1928 | Frank Ulrich Marcus, playwright/critic |
| 1927 | Harvey Vernon, born in Flint, Michigan, actor, Jasper-Carter Country |
| 1927 | James Goldman, author/playwright, Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid |
| 1927 | Joe Skeen, born in Roswell, New Mexico, Representative-R-New Mexico 1981 - 2003 |
| 1926 | Paul Berg, American Scientist |
| 1925 | Dorothy Malone, actress, Peyton Place |
| 1925 | Micheline Lannoy, Belgium, figure skating pairs 1948 Olympics gold |
| 1925 | Will Gay Bottje, composer |
| 1921 | Gordon Reynolds, musician |
| 1920 | Sam Moskowitz, San Francisco fandom historian |
| 1920 | Zeno Colo, Italy, downhill skier 1952 Olympics gold |
| 1919 | Lee Krieger, born in Maryland, actor, Clambake, One Way Wahini |
| 1918 | Stuart Foster, born in Binghamton, New York, singer, Galen Drake Show |
| 1918 | Susan Hayward, born in Flatbush, Brooklyn, actress, I Want to Live, Tulsa |
| 1917 | Buddy Rich, born in Brooklyn, New York, drummer/orchestral leader, Buddy Rich Band-Away We Go |
| 1917 | Lena Horne, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress and singer, Stormy Weather, Wiz |
| 1917 | Robert Vandekerckhove, Belgian politician |
| 1915 | Charles Rowe, cricketer, scored a pair in only Test, New Zealand vs. Australia 1946, |
| 1914 | Natko Devcic, composer |
| 1913 | Harry Wismer, born in Port Huron, Michigan, AFL owner, New York Titans |
| 1912 | Dan Reeves, NFL team owner, Cleveland/Los Angeles Rams |
| 1912 | J Tibor de Powerula, de Abrahamfalva, Hungarian/Dutch cellist |
| 1912 | Kenneth Jameson, art educator |
| 1912 | Madhaviah Krishnan, naturalist |
| 1912 | Tibor de Machula, Hungarian/Dutch cellist |
| 1911 | Czeslaw Milosz, Polish/American writer, Bells in Winter, Nobel 1980 |
| 1911 | Virginia Smith, born in Randolph, Iowa, Representative-R-Nebraska 1975 - 1991 |
| 1909 | Juan Bosch, poet/president of Dominican Republic, 1962-63 |
| 1909 | C. Northcote Parkinson, British Historian |
| 1908 | Charles Camproux, French linguistic/author, Bestiari |
| 1908 | Lucino Tinio Sacramento, composer |
| 1908 | Monica Maurice, industrialist |
| 1908 | Winston Graham, English Novelist |
| 1905 | Nestor Paiva, born in Fresno, California, actor, Comanche, Fear, Tarantula, Killer Ape |
| 1904 | Glenda Farrell, born in Enid, Oklahoma, actress, Golddiggers of 1935 |
| 1902 | Madge Bellamy, born in Hillsboro, Texas, actress, White Zombie |
| 1899 | Frantisek Tomasek, bishop of Prague/cardinal |
| 1898 | George Chandler, born in Waukegan, Illinois, actor, Lassie |
| 1896 | Wilfred Pelletier, born in Montreal, Canada, conductor, Voice of Firestone |
| 1894 | Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian assassin, arch duke Ferdinand |
| 1893 | Harold/Joseph Laski, English economist/Labour leader, 1945-.. |
| 1893 | Walter Ulbricht, president East Germany |
| 1892 | Laszlo Lajtha, composer |
| 1892 | Pierre Blanchar, born in Philippeville, Algeria, actor, Magnificent Sinner |
| 1891 | Stanley Spencer, English Artist |
| 1890 | Gertrude McCoy, born in Sugar Valley, Georgia, silent screen actress, Blue Bird |
| 1890 | Horace Chapman, cricketer, leg-spin all-rounder for South Africa in 2 Tests |
| 1886 | Emmet Fox, American Author |
| 1884 | Georges Duhamel, French Novelist |
| 1884 | Franz Halder, German Soldier |
| 1882 | Sven R Lidman, Swedish writer, Tvedraktens Barn |
| 1881 | Smedley Butler, American Soldier |
| 1879 | Walter Hampden, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Five Fingers, Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| 1868 | C V France, Bradford England, actor, Skin Game, Adventure in Blackmail |
| 1860 | Gyula Andrassy, Jr., Hungarian minister of Foreign affairs, 1918-20 |
| 1856 | Gerrit Kalff, writer, history of Dutch writers |
| 1853 | Adolf Furtwangler, German archaeologist, Antiken Gemmen |
| 1847 | Jacob T Cremer, Minister of Colonies/president, Dutch Trading Comp |
| 1846 | Ricardo Drigo, composer |
| 1837 | Stephen D Ramseur, youngest West Pointer to be Major Gen |
| 1823 | Hendrik Jan Schimmel, Dutch writer/dramatist, 2 Tudors |
| 1819 | William A. Wheeler, R, 19th Vice President, 1877-81 |
| 1818 | Edward John Hopkins, composer |
| 1817 | Joseph D Hooker, British botanist |
| 1810 | Stanko Vraz, Jakob Frass, Slovenian/Croatian poet, illyrism |
| 1807 | Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher and writer, Auch einer |
| 1801 | Frederic Bastiat, French Economist |
| 1791 | Felix Savart, French surgeon/physicist, law of Biot and Savart |
| 1789 | E J Horace Vernet, French painter |
| 1768 | Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, 1st lady, 1817-25 |
| 1748 | Jacques D "comte" Cassini, French astronomer |
| 1743 | Niels Schiorring, composer |
| 1723 | Christian Ernst Graf, composer |
| 1722 | Jiri Antonin Benda, composer |
| 1685 | Dominikus Zimmermann, German architect/painter, Liebfrauenkirche |
| 1685 | John Gay, author, Baggars' Opera |
| 1669 | Mauritius Vogt, composer |
| 1503 | Johan Frederik, elector of Saxon, 1532-47 |
| 1470 | Charles VIII, King of France, 1483-98, invaded Italy |
| 1468 | Johan, the Standvastige, monarch of Saxon |
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