| 1989 | Caitlin Wachs, actress, Chloe Waters-Profiler |
| 1981 | Young Buck, American Musician |
| 1980 | Deidra Graham, born in Salt Lake City, Utah, gymnast, alternate for the 1996 Olympics |
| 1977 | Joseph Hahn, American Musician |
| 1976 | Laurent Gras, hockey forward, Team France 1998 |
| 1975 | Cornell Brown, linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens |
| 1975 | Eva Longoria, American Actress |
| 1974 | Imad Baba, born in Humble, Texas, soccer midfielder, 1996 Olympics gold |
| 1973 | Franca Fehlauer, born in Hamburg, Germany, golfer, Belgian International, Jr. champ 1991 |
| 1972 | Casey Cristin Mizell, Miss USA-South Carolina, 1997 |
| 1972 | David Rhodes, WLAF wide receiver, Rhein Fire |
| 1972 | Filip Dewulf, born in Mol, Belgium, professional tennis player, won two ATP Tour singles titles, one doubles titles |
| 1972 | Oliver Gibson, NFL defensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers |
| 1972 | Steve Danielson, born in Honolulu, field hockey defender 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Mark Hoppus, American Musician |
| 1971 | Patrick Reidy, Melbourne VIC Australia, basketball forward 1996 Olympics |
| 1971 | Reyna Royo, Miss Universe-Panama, 1996 |
| 1970 | Chris Dalman, NFL guard and center for the San Francisco 49ers |
| 1970 | Diego Nargiso, Naples Italy, tennis pro |
| 1970 | Eric Castle, NFL free safety for the San Diego Chargers |
| 1970 | Paul Kruse, Merritt, NHL left wing, Calgary Flames |
| 1969 | Louis Riddick, NFL safety born in Cleveland Browns, Atlanta Falcons |
| 1968 | John Tardy, U.S. heavy metalist, Obituary, Slowly We Rot |
| 1968 | Rob Anderson, born in Kamloops BC, Canadian Tour golfer, BC Amateur-1990, 92 |
| 1968 | Sabrina [Salerno], born in Genoa, Italy, Miss Italy, 1984, and singer, Boys |
| 1968 | Mark McGrath, born in Hartford, Connecticut, singer, 'Sugar Ray' rock band, previously a co-host on 'Extra' entertainment television show |
| 1967 | Kirk Scrafford, NFL tackle for the San Francisco 49ers |
| 1966 | Chris Bruno, actor, Michael-All My Children, Dennis-Another World |
| 1966 | Karen Weiss, born in St. Paul Minnesota, LPGA golfer, 1995 Chick-fil-A Charity-7th |
| 1965 | Marianne Morris, born in Middletown, Ohio, LPGA golfer, 1995 McDonald's LPGA-3rd |
| 1964 | Alison Johnson, born in Tustin, California, WPVA volleyball player, U.S. Open-4th-1993 |
| 1964 | Rockwell, Kennedy Gordy, born in Detroit, Michigan, rock vocalist, Someone Watching Me |
| 1964 | Ron Hall, NFL tight end, Detroit Lions |
| 1963 | Bret Michaels, born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, guitarist, Poison-Talk Dirty to Me |
| 1963 | Frans Koenn, Dutch rock bassist, Lois Lane-Precious |
| 1962 | Jimmy Baio, born in Brooklyn, actor, Billy Tate-Soap, Brass, Playing for Keeps |
| 1962 | Steve Coy, rocker, Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round |
| 1962 | Terrence Trent D'Arby, born in New York City, rock vocalist, Wishing Well |
| 1961 | Craig Ludwig, Rhinelander, NHL defenseman for the Dallas Stars |
| 1961 | Fabio [Lanzoni], born in Italy, romance novels model, Fabio After Dark |
| 1961 | Terry Cummings, NBA forward for the Milwaukee Bucks, Philadelphia 76ers |
| 1960 | Donna Smith, born in Portland Oregon, playmate, March, 1985 |
| 1959 | Eliot Teltscher, born in California, tennis player, U.S. Davis Cup team |
| 1959 | Harold Baines, born in Easton, Maryland, outfielder for the Chicago White Sox, Texas Rangers |
| 1959 | Ben Okri, born in London, of Nigerian descent, poet, author, won Booker Prize 1991, for book 'The Famished Road', described as a magic realist |
| 1958 | Laura Carrington, actress, Louisa-Alphabet City |
| 1957 | Park Overall, born in Tennessee, actress, Laverne-Empty Nest, Mississippi Burning |
| 1956 | Clay Matthews, NFL linebacker for the Atlanta Falcons |
| 1955 | Dee Snider, born in Massapequa, New York, Twisted Sister-We're Not Gonna Take It |
| 1955 | Marcia McCabe, born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, actress, Alicia Grande-1 Live to Live |
| 1955 | Mohsin Khan, cricketer, Pakistani opening batsman late 70s early 80s |
| 1954 | Craig Wasson, born in Oregon, actor, Body Double, 4 Friends, Men's Club |
| 1953 | Colin Croft, cricketer, West Indian fast bowler 1977-82 |
| 1953 | Judi Spiers, born in Britain, Judith Marilyn Spiers, British radio and television presenter, hosted Mr TSW and Miss TSW local beauty contests for new south-west station TSW, appeared in six editions of daytime chat show, presented on Open Air, a BBC1 access television program, in 1986, and Pebble Mill program 1992- 1995, presenter, BBC Radio Devon since 2005 |
| 1952 | Philip Green, born in Croyden, England, businessman, owns large retail stores including Arcadia Group, 9th richest person in Britain, worth over $4 billion |
| 1949 | John Duttine, actor, Day of the Triffids |
| 1947 | David Colley, cricketer, NSW quickie, 3 Tests for Australia 1972 |
| 1947 | Larisa Grigoriyevna Pozharskaya, Russian cosmonaut |
| 1947 | Ry[land] Cooder, born in Louisiana, blues guitarist, Crossroads |
| 1947 | Stomu Yamash'ta, composer |
| 1947 | Tomas Pettersson, born in Sweden, cyclist, 1968 Olympics silver |
| 1946 | Bobby Bonds, baseball player, Giants, Yankees, etc |
| 1946 | David Wall, English ballet dancers/director, Royal Academy of Dancing |
| 1946 | Howard Scott, born in San Pedro, California, rock guitarist and vocalist, War, Cisco Kid |
| 1945 | Jorgen Sundelin, born in Sweden, yachtsmen, 1968 Olympics gold |
| 1945 | Mark J. Green, born in Brooklyn, New York, lawyer and author, Closed Enterprise System |
| 1944 | Chi Cheng, born in Taiwan, sprinter/80m hurdler, 1968 Olympics Bronze |
| 1944 | David Costell, born in Pittsburg, rocker, Gary Lewis and the Playboys-Diamond Ring |
| 1944 | Jacques Doillon director and writer, La Fille de Quinze Ans |
| 1944 | Ralph MacDonald, rock percussionist, Graceland |
| 1944 | Sly Stone, born in Dallas, rocker, Sly and the Family Stone-Everyday People |
| 1943 | Brenda Scott, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, actress, Midge-Road West |
| 1943 | David Cronenberg, Toronto, Ontario, director, Shivers, Fly, Brood |
| 1942 | Hughie Flint, born in London, England, rock drummer, Bonzo Dog Band |
| 1941 | Dick Top, Dutch actor and director, Witch of Haarlem |
| 1941 | Mike Love, born in California, rock saxophonist and vocalist, Beachboys |
| 1940 | Phil Lesh, Chapman, born in California, rock bassist, Grass Roots, Grateful Dead |
| 1940 | Frank Dobson, British Politician |
| 1939 | Robert Nye, writer, Facts of Life and other fiction, 3 Views of Man |
| 1938 | Dick Higgins, born in Cambridge, England, composer, coined term 'intermedia', founder, Something Else Press |
| 1936 | Don Sundquist, born in Moline, Illinois, Representative-R-Tennessee 1983 - 1995, Governor of Tennesse 1995 - 2003 |
| 1935 | Judd Hirsch, born in Bronx, actor, Alex-Taxi, Dear John, Ordinary People |
| 1935 | Jimmy Swaggart, American Clergyman |
| 1934 | Daniel George "Danny" Apolinar, composer and songwriter |
| 1934 | Wolfgang Hufschmidt, composer |
| 1933 | Cecil Perceval Taylor, composer and jazz pianist, University of Wisconsin |
| 1933 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg, American Judge |
| 1932 | Alan Lavern Bean, born in Wheeler, Texas, Captain USN/astronaut, Ap 12, Skylab 3 |
| 1932 | David Alliance, Iran/British textile factory/multi-millionaire |
| 1930 | Cecil Taylor, American Musician |
| 1929 | Tiezo Matsumura, composer |
| 1928 | Nicolas Flagello, composer |
| 1927 | Carl Smith, born in Maynardville, Tennessee, country singer, Grand Ole Opry |
| 1927 | Philip Vincent Belloc Jebb, architect |
| 1926 | Benjamin Burwell Johnson, composer |
| 1926 | Norm Van Brocklin, NFL quarterback and coach of the Los Angeles Rams, hall of famer |
| 1926 | Tim Valentine, born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Representative-D-North Carolina 1983 - 1995 |
| 1924 | Lockrem Johnson, composer |
| 1923 | Laurence A. Tisch, born in New York City, CEO, Loews Corp |
| 1920 | Ranganandhan Francis, born in India, field hockey, Gold Medals 1948, 1952, 1956 Olympics |
| 1920 | Lawrence Sanders, American Novelist |
| 1919 | John Gregson, born in Liverpool England, actor, Gideon CID, Shirley's World |
| 1919 | Lawrence Tierney, Brooklyn, actor, Abduction, Dillinger |
| 1918 | Richard Ellmann, U.S., literary scholar and writer, Oscar Wilde |
| 1916 | Geert Lubberhuizen, publisher, Busy Bee |
| 1916 | Harry James, born in Albany, Georgia, trumpeter, married to Betty Grable |
| 1915 | David Schoenbrun, CBS broadcast bureau head, Washington, Paris |
| 1915 | Richard Ward, born in Glenside, Pennsylvania, actor, Beacon Hill |
| 1913 | Lex Goudsmit, Dutch actor, Fiddler on the Roof |
| 1913 | MacDonald Carey, born in Sioux City, Iowa, actor, One Life to Live, Dream Girl |
| 1913 | Lew Wasserman, American Producer |
| 1912 | Duncan Stuart Wilson-MacDonald, fighter pilot |
| 1912 | Lightnin' [Sam] Hopkins, born in Texas, blues stylist, Ball of Twine |
| 1912 | Louis Boon, born in Aalst, Belgium, born Lodewijk Paul Aalbrecht Boon, writer, journalist, novelist, wrote historical novels, modernist work Vergeten straat |
| 1911 | Ivan Allen, American Politician |
| 1910 | An Rutgers van der Loeff-Basenau, children book writer, Skating Race |
| 1907 | Jimmy McPartland, jazz trumpeteer and actor, Magic Horn |
| 1907 | Paul Maxey, born in Wheaton, Illinois, actor, Matt-Lassie, Mayor-People's Choice |
| 1905 | Berthold Schenck von Stauffenberg, attempted to assassinate Hitler |
| 1905 | Joe E. Ross, comedian, Gunther Toody-Car 54, Ritzik-Phil Silvers Show |
| 1904 | George Brent, born in Dublin, Ireland, actor, 42nd St, Jezebel |
| 1902 | Kitty Masters, actress |
| 1902 | Zarah Leander, Swedish and German singer and actress, Gabriela |
| 1901 | Colin McPhee, born in Montreal, Canada, composer, H2O, Mechanical Princibles |
| 1901 | J Pat O'Malley, born in England, actor, Touch of Grace, Gunn, Star! |
| 1901 | Theo Uden Marsman, Dutch orchestra leader |
| 1900 | Gilberto Freye, Brazilian sociologist/writer |
| 1894 | Slava Vorlova, composer |
| 1884 | Rudolf Piskacek, composer |
| 1879 | Gerrit J. Heering, Dutch theologist, Fall of Christianity |
| 1878 | Hanson Carter, cricketer, Yorkshire Aussie WK of early 20th century |
| 1874 | Harold L. Ickes, social activist, New Deal politician |
| 1873 | David Vaughan Thomas, composer |
| 1873 | Lee Shubert, producer, theatres in New York and LA named after him |
| 1871 | Betsy van den Arend, Dutch [Betje], actress, Miss Hobbs |
| 1870 | Samuel Rutherford, born in Culloden, Georgia, lawyer, politician, businessman, jurist, Mayor of Forsyth, Georgia, served in Georgia House of Representatives, elected to 69th U.S. Congress, served for four terms |
| 1867 | Lionel Pigot Johnson, born in England, poet and critic, Ireland and Other Poems |
| 1867 | Will Rossiter, composer |
| 1864 | Johan Halvorsen, composer |
| 1864 | Leslie Stuart, composer |
| 1858 | Liberty Hyde Bailey, U.S. botanist, Plantbreeding |
| 1855 | Lutzen Wagenaar, Frisian writer and vicar, Tsjerk Ages |
| 1852 | Augusta Gregory, born in Ireland, playwright and poet, Yates mistress |
| 1852 | Lady Gregory, Irish Dramatist |
| 1851 | Jozef Surzynski, composer |
| 1844 | Bransby Cooper, cricketer, in Dhaka Batsman in Australia's 1st Test |
| 1838 | Alice Cunningham Fletcher, ethnologist, Stranger in Her Native Land |
| 1836 | Henrique Alves de Mesquita, composer |
| 1835 | Eduard Strauss, Austria, composer, 318 Dance |
| 1831 | Edward Aylesworth Perry, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1830 | Paul von Heyse, Germany, writer, Nobel 1910 |
| 1824 | Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet, 1st Serbian Uprising |
| 1811 | Robert Allen, Major General Union Army |
| 1810 | Aernout Drost, Dutch literary, Hermingard van de Eikenterpen |
| 1809 | Joseph Jenkins Roberts, 1st President of Liberia |
| 1808 | Gaetano Gaspari, composer |
| 1801 | Coenraad J van Houten, Dutch cocoa manufacturer |
| 1790 | Nicola Vaccai, composer |
| 1779 | William Lamb, Whig, Viscount Melbourne, British Prime Minister, 1834, 1835-41 |
| 1779 | William Lamb Melbourne, British Politician |
| 1767 | Andrew Jackson, General and 7th President, 1829-37 |
| 1754 | Silvestro Palma, composer |
| 1750 | Caroline Herschel, astronomer/discoverer |
| 1733 | Johann Zoffany, German painter, baptized |
| 1713 | Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, astronomer who mapped the So Hemisphere |
| 1678 | Dominique Marie Valet, French RC/old-catholic bishop |
| 1666 | Georg Baehr, German master builder, Frauenkirche, Dresden |
| 1493 | Anne Pierre Adrien duke of Montmorency, marshal of France |
| 76 | Hadrian, Roman Emperor, builder of Hadrian's Wall |
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