| 1991 | Wolfgang Van Halen, son of Eddie Van Halan and Valerie Bertinelli |
| 1978 | Brooke Burns, born in Dallas, Texas, model, actress, appeared on 'Baywatch', 'Baywatch Hawaii' television shows, hosted 'Hole in the Wall' television game show |
| 1976 | Michelle Rae Collie, Miss Universe-Bahamas, 1996 |
| 1974 | Heath Streak, cricketer, Zimbabwean pace bowler 1993- |
| 1974 | Lamont Burns, guard for the New York Jets |
| 1973 | Bert Zuurman, soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen |
| 1971 | Brett Carolan, NFL tight end for the San Francisco 49ers |
| 1971 | Eric Ravotti, NFL linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers |
| 1970 | Kelli James, born in Medford, New Jersey, field hockey forward 1996 Olympics |
| 1969 | Ottis Gibson, cricketer, Barbados fast bowler, WI 1995 |
| 1969 | Pat Harlow, NFL tackle for the New England Patriots, Oakland Raiders |
| 1969 | Steve Israel, NFL cornerback for the San Francisco 49ers, New England Patriots |
| 1968 | Jason van Blerk, soccer player, Go Ahead Eagles |
| 1967 | Dan Owens, NFL defensive tackle for the Atlanta Falcons, Detroit Lions |
| 1967 | John Mangum, NFL safety for the Chicago Bears |
| 1967 | Lauren Graham, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, actress, producer, appeared on 'Gilmore Girls' television series, films include, 'Bad Santa', 'Evan Almighty' |
| 1966 | Brad Bergen, Pennsylvania Sask, hockey defenseman, Team Germany 1998 |
| 1966 | Catarina Pollini, WNBA forward for the Houston Comets |
| 1966 | David Nascimento, soccer player, Roda JC/FC Utrecht |
| 1966 | Rodney Peete, NFL quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles |
| 1965 | Cindy Brown, U.S., basketball player 1988 Olympics gold |
| 1963 | Phung Vuong, born in Saigon, Vietnam, murderer, FBI Most Wanted List |
| 1963 | Ron Kind, American Politician |
| 1961 | Mel Gray, NFL wide receiver/kick returner, Houston/Tennessee Oilers |
| 1961 | Todd McFarlane, Canadian Artist |
| 1960 | Jenny Eclair, Malaysian Comedian |
| 1959 | Michael J. Bloomfield, born in Flint, Michigan, Major USAF/astronaut, STS-86 |
| 1959 | Stan Thorn, born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, singer, Shenandoah-Sunday in the South |
| 1959 | Flavor Flav, American Musician |
| 1957 | Pearl Moore, WBL guard, New York Stars |
| 1956 | Ozzie Newsome, NFL tight end for the Cleveland Browns |
| 1955 | Isabelle Huppert, born in Paris, France, actress, Cactus, Heaven's Gate |
| 1954 | Dav Whatmore, cricketer, Colombo Australia bat 1979, Sri Lanka coach 1995- |
| 1954 | Hollis Stacy, born in Savannah, Georgia, LPGA golfer, U.S. Open 1977, 1978 |
| 1954 | Jimmy Nail, singer and actor, Evita, Spender, Howling II |
| 1954 | Nancy Wilson, rock guitarist, Heart-Never, What about Love |
| 1953 | Richard Stallman, born in New York City, New York, computer programmer, software freedom activist, set up the Free Software Foundation |
| 1952 | Alice Hoffman, born in New York City, New York, author, known for novel, 'Practical Magic', adapted for film |
| 1951 | Kate Nelligan, born in London, Ontario, actress, Bethune, Eye of the Needle |
| 1951 | Ray Benson, born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, country singer, House of Blue Lights |
| 1949 | Bertha Knox Gilkey, welfare and tenament rights for urban women |
| 1949 | Elliott Murphy, U.S. singer and songwriter |
| 1949 | Victor Garber, born in Montreal, Quebec, actor, Days and Nights of Molly Dodd |
| 1948 | Margaret [Edith] Weis, U.S., sci-fi author, Dragons of Spring Dawning |
| 1948 | Michael Bruce, rocker and actor, Rudy-Rainbow Drive |
| 1948 | Margaret Weis, American Writer |
| 1948 | Michael Owen Bruce, American Musician |
| 1946 | Erik Estrada, born in New York City, actor, CHiPs, Cross and Switchblade, Lightblast |
| 1940 | Bernardo Bertolucci, born in Parma, Italy, director, Last Tango in Paris |
| 1940 | Chuck Woolery, born in Kentucky, TV game show host, Love Connection |
| 1940 | Jan P. Pronk, Dutch politician, PvdA |
| 1940 | Jan Schaefer, Dutch Assistant Secretary of state, PvdA |
| 1937 | Constanca Capdeville, composer |
| 1937 | David Del Tredici, born in Cloverdale, California, composer, 1980 Pulitzer |
| 1936 | Thelma Hopkins, born in England, high jumper, 1956 Olympics silver |
| 1933 | Ruth Bader Ginsberg, justice, U.S. Supreme Court |
| 1933 | Sanford I. Weill, American Businessman |
| 1932 | Ronnie Walter Cunningham, born in Creston, Iowa, Col USMC/astronaut, Apollo 7 |
| 1931 | Betty Johnson, born in Guilford County, North Carolina, singer, Jack Paar Show, I Dreamed |
| 1931 | Don Richard Carpenter, novelist |
| 1929 | Edwin London, composer |
| 1928 | Christa Ludwig, born in Berlin, Germany, soprano, Vienna State Opera |
| 1927 | Daniel Patrick Moynihan, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S. ambassador to United Nations, Senator-D-New York, 1977 - 2001 |
| 1927 | Karlheinz Boehm, born in Germany, actor, Face of Fear, Peeping Tom, Unnatural |
| 1927 | Olga San Juan, born in New York City, actress, Variety Girl, 1 Touch of Venus |
| 1927 | Vladimir M. Komarov, born in Moscow, Russia, cosmonaut, Voshkod I Soyuz 1 |
| 1926 | Jerry Lewis, comedian and fund raiser, MDA, loved in France |
| 1925 | Cornell Borchers, born in Germany, actress, Big Lift, Floodtide, Istanbul |
| 1923 | George Bean, cricketer, 92 runs in 3 Tests for England vs. Australia |
| 1922 | Geoffrey Freeman Allen, railway writer |
| 1922 | Harding Lemay, born in North Bangor, New York, headwriter, Another World |
| 1920 | John Addison, born in Surrey, England, composer, Tom Jones-Academy Award |
| 1920 | Leo McKern, born in Sydney, Australia, actor, Blue Lagoon, Help, Mouse that Roared |
| 1920 | Percy Mansell, cricketer, leg-spin all-rounder in 13 Tests for South Africa |
| 1918 | Aldo E van Eyck, Dutch architect, City Hall |
| 1918 | Howard Boatwright, composer |
| 1918 | Frederick Reines, American Physicist |
| 1918 | Vernon Howard, born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, spiritual teacher, speaker, philosopher, author, wrote humor books, children's books, spoke and wrote about self-development, self-awareness, spiritual, psychological growth |
| 1916 | Lloyd McBride, union president, United Steelworkers |
| 1912 | Pat Nixon, 1st lady, 1968-74 |
| 1910 | Aladar Gerevich, born in Hungary, Sabres, Gold Medal 1948 Olympics |
| 1910 | Andrew Miller-Jones, British TV pioneer |
| 1910 | Iftikhar Ali Khan, cricketer, Nawab of Pataudi, England and India |
| 1910 | Martijn Lijnema, boer/resistance fighter, WW II |
| 1910 | Norman Wooland, born in Dusseldorf, Germany, actor, Hamlet |
| 1908 | Robert Rossen director and writer, Hustler, All the King's Men, Mambo |
| 1906 | Francisco Ayala, writer |
| 1906 | Henny Youngman, born in London, England, comedian, Take my wife please |
| 1906 | Henny Youngman, American Comedian, "Take my wife - please" |
| 1904 | Clive Morton, born in London, England, actor, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Moonraker |
| 1903 | Mike Mansfield, born in New York City, New York, Senator-D-Montana 1953 - 1977, Representative-D-Montana 1943 - 1953 |
| 1903 | Morgan Conway, actor, Dick Tracy |
| 1903 | Nikolai Lopatnikoff, born in Revel Estonia, composer, Variaioni Concertanto |
| 1902 | Lucie Rie, born in Vienna, Austria, born Luzie Gomperz, potter, works displayed in collections around the world including the Museum of Modern Art in New York |
| 1901 | Walter E. Schafer, German playwright |
| 1896 | Conrad Nagel, born in Keokuk Iowa, actor, Celebrity Time |
| 1896 | Harry Banks, English Soldier |
| 1893 | Isobel Elsom, actress, My Fair Lady, Love From a Stranger |
| 1892 | Cesar Vallejo, Peruvian/French poet, Los Heraldos Negros |
| 1889 | Elsie Janis, American Musician |
| 1885 | Giacomo Benvenuti, composer |
| 1885 | Sydney Chaplin, born in South Africa, actor, Limelight |
| 1878 | Clemens A Graaf von Galen, cardinal/bishop of Munster/anti-nazi |
| 1878 | Henry B. Walthall, born in Shelby City, Alabama, actor, Birth of a Nation, Klondike |
| 1878 | Reza Sjah Pahlawi, Reza Chan, shah of Iran |
| 1876 | Charles Halton, born in Washington D.C., actor, Dr. Cyclops, Tugboat Annie Sails Again |
| 1873 | Hippoliet Daeye, Flemish painter, Sereniteit |
| 1868 | Maxim Gorky, Russian Novelist |
| 1856 | E Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte, French/English prince |
| 1849 | James E Smith, became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger |
| 1839 | Rene F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, born in France, poet, 1st Nobel winner, 1901 |
| 1836 | Andrew S. Hallidie, inventor, cable car |
| 1832 | Charles Camp Doolittle, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1823 | William Henry Monk, composer |
| 1822 | John Pope, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1822 | Rosa Bonheur, French landscape painter, Buffalo Bill |
| 1821 | Ernest Feydeau, French author, Georges Feydeau |
| 1814 | Jules Eugene Abraham Alary, composer |
| 1812 | Henry Dwight Terry, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1806 | Norbert Rillieux, inventor, sugar refiner |
| 1802 | George Archibald McCall, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1787 | Georg Simon Ohm, physicist, discovered Ohm's Law |
| 1776 | Johan G Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 1774 | Matthew Flinders, English navigator/cartographer, coast Australia |
| 1757 | Bengt Lidner, Swedish poet, Medea, Yttersa Domen |
| 1751 | James Madison, born in Port Conway, Virginia, D-R, 4th U.S. president, 1809-17 |
| 1750 | Caroline Lucretia Herchel, Hanover, Germany, 1st mod woman astronomer |
| 1745 | Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow, composer |
| 1739 | George Clymer, U.S. merchant, signed Declaration of Independence |
| 1729 | Georg W. "Franz" Panzer, German vicar/librarian, Annales typographic |
| 1663 | Nicholas Siret, composer |
| 1651 | Zaccaria Tevo, composer |
| 1634 | Contessa Marie Madeleine La Fayette, novelist |
| 1609 | Michael Franck, composer |
| 1585 | Gerbrant A. Bredero, Holland, poet/playwright, Klucht van de Koe |
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