| 1978 | Kevin Federline, American Dancer |
| 1975 | Vitaly Potapenko, NBA center for the Cleveland Cavaliers |
| 1973 | Chiou Hai Ta, Miss Taiwan ROC Universe, 1997 |
| 1973 | Larry Bowie, running back for the Washington Redskins |
| 1972 | Boris Mironov, born in Moscow, NHL defenseman, Team Russia, Silver Medal 1998 Olympics, Bronze Medal 2002 Olympics |
| 1972 | Chris Ball, born in Costa Mesa, California, kayak, alternate 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Frank West, CFL defensive back, Hamilton Tiger Cats |
| 1972 | John Leach, CFL running back for the Toronto Argonauts |
| 1972 | Michele Michael, Miss Maryland USA, 1996 |
| 1971 | Hason Graham, NFL wide receiver for the New England Patriots |
| 1969 | Jennifer Lyn Jackson, born in Cleveland, Ohio, playmate, April, 1989 |
| 1969 | Mark Allen, Australia, Australasia golfer |
| 1969 | Jonah Goldberg, American Celebrity |
| 1968 | Erwin Vanderbroeck, Dutch soccer player, Roda JC |
| 1968 | Jeff Lazaro, born in Waltham, Massachusetts, U.S. hockey forward 1994 Olympics |
| 1968 | Johan Garpenlov, born in Stockholm Sweden, NHL left wing for the Florida Panthers |
| 1968 | Mark Sander, WLAF linebacker, Scottish Claymores |
| 1968 | Samantha Leah Dorman, born in Lakeland, Florida, playmate, Sept, 1991 |
| 1968 | Scott Williams, NBA forward for the Philadelphia 76ers |
| 1967 | Elaina Oden, born in Orange California, volleyball middle blocker, Olympics bronze-92, 96 |
| 1967 | Troy Westwood, CFL kicker for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers |
| 1966 | Al Iafrate, born in Dearborn, Michigan, NHL defenseman, San Jose Sharks |
| 1966 | Karen Lunn, born in Cowra, Australia, LPGA golfer, 1993 Women's British Open |
| 1966 | Matthew Maynard, cricketer, big hitting Glamorgan and England player |
| 1963 | Ronald Koeman, Dutch soccer star, Ajax, PSV, Barcelona, Feyenoord |
| 1963 | Sharon June Howe Pederson, born in Glencoe, Minnesota, rocker, Vixen-Rev It Up |
| 1963 | Shawon Dunston, born in Brooklyn, New York, infielder for the San Francisco Giants |
| 1962 | Matthew Broderick, born in New York City, actor, WarGames, Biloxi Blues |
| 1962 | Rosie O'Donnell, comedienne, League of Their Own, Flintstones, Rosie |
| 1961 | Kassie Wesley, born in Kentucky, actress, Evil Dead 2, Blair-One Life to Live |
| 1961 | Slim MacDonnell, Jim Phantom rock percussionist, Stray Cats |
| 1961 | Wei Wang, born in Beijing, China, U.S. table tennis player 1996 Olympics |
| 1960 | Ayrton Senna, Brazilian formula-1 racer, 1988 champ |
| 1960 | Guy Chadwick, English singer and songwriter, House of Love |
| 1960 | Jim Matheson, American Politician |
| 1959 | Nobuo Uematsu, Japanese Composer |
| 1958 | Brad Hall, born in Santa Barbara, California, comedian, SNL |
| 1958 | Gary Oldman, actor, Sid and Nancy, Criminal Law, State of Grace |
| 1958 | Marlies Gohr, born in East Germany, sprinter, Gold Medal 1976, 1980 Olympics |
| 1957 | Sabrina Le Beauf, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, actress, Sondra-Crosby Show |
| 1956 | Ingrid Kristiansen, born in Norway, marathoner, Olympic-4th-1984, Bost-86, 89 |
| 1955 | Barbel Wockel-Eckert, born in East Germany, sprinter, Olympic-4 gold-1976, 80 |
| 1955 | Jean Marie Hon, born in San Francisco, California, actress, Jane-Man From Atlantis |
| 1954 | Mary Jane Smith, born in Van Nuys, California, WPVA volleyballer, National-9th-1993 |
| 1953 | Carl Wolfson, born in Washington D.C., comedian, Thicke of the Night |
| 1953 | Shotgun Johnson, rock drummer, KC and the Sunshine Boys-Give it Up |
| 1951 | Helena Antonaccio, playmate, June, 1969 |
| 1951 | Russell Thompkins, Jr., U.S. soul singer, Stylistics-Sing Baby Sing |
| 1950 | Roger Hodgson, rock vocalist, Supertramp-It's Raining Again |
| 1949 | Alvin Kallicharran, cricketer, wonderful West Indies LHB 1972-81 |
| 1946 | Ray Dorset, rocker, Cold Blue Excursion |
| 1946 | Timothy Dalton, born in North Wales, actor, James Bond-Living Daylights |
| 1945 | Rosemary Stone, vocalist/pianist, Sly and Family Stone-Everyday People |
| 1945 | Vernon Guy, U.S. gospel singer, Cool Sounds, Sharpees |
| 1944 | Charles Edward Greene, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, 4x100m runner, 1968 Olympics gold |
| 1944 | Henrik Colding-Jorgensen, composer |
| 1944 | Jamary Oliveira, composer |
| 1944 | Marie-Christine Barrault, born in Paris, France, actress, Stardust Memories |
| 1943 | Antal Dunai, born in Hungary, soccer player, 1968 Olympics gold |
| 1943 | Vivian Stanshall, songwriter/comic |
| 1942 | Francoise Dorleac, born in Paris, France, actress, That Man From Rio |
| 1941 | Dirk D. Frimout, born in Belgium, cosmonaut |
| 1941 | Malcolm Francke, cricketer, leg-spinner, Ceylon 1956 to Qld 1984 |
| 1940 | Solomon Burke, American Musician |
| 1939 | Kathleen Widdoes, born in Wilmington, Deleware, actress, Without a Trace |
| 1939 | Martha Hudson, born in Eastman, Georgia, 4X100m relayer, 1960 Olympics gold |
| 1939 | Fred F. Fielding, American Lawyer |
| 1938 | Grahame Thomas, cricketer, Australian batsman of the mid-60's |
| 1938 | Wilf Corrigan, English/U.S. electronic manufacturer, LSI Logic |
| 1937 | Tom Flores, born in Fresno California, NFL quarterback and coach, Raiders |
| 1936 | Marek Stachowski, composer |
| 1936 | Margaret Mahy, New Zealander Author |
| 1935 | Brian Clough, soccer manager |
| 1935 | Hubert Fichte, born in Germany, writer, columnist for magazine konkret, novelist, influenced by Marcel Proust, Hans henny Jahnn, Jean Genet, wrote novel Die Geschichte der Empfindlichkeit, translated as the history of sensibility |
| 1934 | Al Freeman, Jr., born in Texas, actor, One Life to Live, My Sweet Charlie |
| 1934 | Lister Carney, born in Bellaire, Ohio, 200m runner, Olympics silver 1960 |
| 1933 | John Hall, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire |
| 1933 | Michael Heseltine, Welsh/British minister of Defense, 1986, MP |
| 1932 | Joseph Silverstein, born in Detroit, Michigan, violinist, Denver Symphony Orchestra |
| 1932 | Walter Gilbert, American Scientist |
| 1931 | Ivan William Hannaford, sociologist |
| 1929 | James Coco, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Man of La Mancha, Murder by Death |
| 1929 | Jules Verne Berman, space and science reporter, ABC-TV |
| 1928 | Evelyn Ruth Anderson, composer |
| 1928 | James W. Kinnear, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, CEO, Texaco |
| 1928 | Peter Hacks, German playwright, Tie Windloch |
| 1927 | Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German minister of Foreign affairs, FDP |
| 1926 | Andre Delvaux, born in Heverie, Belgium, director and writer, Benvenuta |
| 1926 | Virginia Weidler, born in Hollywood, California, actress, Babes on Broadway |
| 1925 | John E. Grotberg, born in Winnebago, Minnesota, Representative-R-Illinois 1985 - 1986 |
| 1925 | Peter Brook, born in London, director, 1776, TV writer |
| 1924 | Karl Heinz Fussl, composer |
| 1923 | Mort Lindsey, born in Newark, New Jersey, orchestra leader, Merv Griffin Show |
| 1923 | Philip Abbott, born in Lincoln, Nebraska, actor, Arthur Ward-The FBI |
| 1921 | Antony Hopkins, composer |
| 1921 | Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist |
| 1921 | Logan Ramsey, born in Long Beach, California, actor, Head, Joy Sticks, Say Yes |
| 1919 | Geoffrey Pinnington, journalist |
| 1919 | Lois Collier, born in South Carolina, actress, Mary-Boston Blackie, Slave Girl |
| 1918 | Joe Carveth, NHL forward, scored 20 or more goals in 3 seasons |
| 1914 | Herman Siles Zuazo, politician |
| 1914 | Paul Tortelier, composer |
| 1913 | George Ghita Ionescu, academic |
| 1913 | Max Youngstein, born in New York City, producer, United Artists |
| 1912 | Peter Bull, actor/author, Executioner, Tom Jones, Dr. Strangelove |
| 1911 | John Paxton, screenwriter, On The Beach, Kotch, Farewell My Lovely |
| 1910 | Nick Castle, born in Brooklyn, choreographer, Dinah Shore, Judy Garland |
| 1906 | John D. Rockefeller, billionaire philanthropist, oil |
| 1905 | Phyllis McGinley, U.S., poet, Pulitzer 1961, Love Letters |
| 1904 | Nikolaos Skalkottas, composer |
| 1902 | Carl Jaffe, born in Hamburg, Germany, actor, 1st Man in Space, Escapement |
| 1902 | Eddie James "Son" House, folk blues musician, Delta Blues |
| 1902 | William Downie Forrest, journalist |
| 1901 | Carmelita Geraghty, born in Rushville, Indiana, actress, My Best Girl, Texas Ranger |
| 1901 | Richard Leslie Hill, historian |
| 1900 | Eugenie Leontovitch, born in Moscow, Russia, actor, Homicidal |
| 1900 | Paul Klecki/Kletzki, Polish violinist, composer and conductor |
| 1893 | Geoffrey Dearmer, poet |
| 1891 | Jonathan Hale, actor, Saint's Double Trouble, Saint Strikes Back |
| 1887 | Edwin Scharff, German "entartet" painter/sculptor |
| 1884 | George D. Birkhoff, U.S. mathematician, Aesthetic measure |
| 1883 | Jules van Nuffel, composer |
| 1882 | Gilbert M. Anderson, Max Aronson, Little Rock AR |
| 1881 | Hermann Sandby, composer |
| 1880 | Hans Hofmann, German/U.S. painter, Search for the Real |
| 1880 | Wilhelm Pessler, German sociologist |
| 1878 | Thurlow Weed Lieurance, composer |
| 1869 | Albert Kahn, architect, originated modern factory design |
| 1869 | Florenz Ziegfeld, producer, Ziegfield Follies |
| 1866 | Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury, astronomer |
| 1863 | Hugo Kaun, born in Berlin, Germany, music teacher, conductor, composer, wrote Romantic style operas, symphonies, organ, piano works |
| 1854 | Alick A. C. Bannerman, cricketer, bro of Charles, Australia 1878-1893 |
| 1839 | Modest Mussorgsky, composer, Boris Gudunov, Night on Bald Mt |
| 1836 | Jesus Monasterio, composer |
| 1820 | Frank Mori, composer |
| 1813 | James Jesse Strang, King of Mormons on Beaver Island, Michigan, 1850 - 1856 |
| 1806 | Benito Pablo Juarez, born in Oaxaca, Mexico, president of Mexico, 1858-72 |
| 1779 | Alexis Garaude, composer |
| 1768 | Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician/Egyptologist |
| 1765 | Henry Fagel, Dutch/English baron/diplomat |
| 1763 | Jean Paul, born in Wunsiedel, Germany, born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, Romantic, wrote 'Quintus Fixlein', 'Schmelzles Reise' |
| 1716 | Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, composer |
| 1713 | Francis Lewis, signer, Declaration of Independence |
| 1708 | Caspar Ruetz, composer |
| 1685 | Johann Sebastian Bach, born in Eisenach Germany, composer, Matthaus-Passion |
| 1642 | Georg Schmezer, composer |
| 1624 | Francois Roberday, composer |
| 1609 | Jan II Kazimierz, cardinal/King of Poland, 1648-68 |
| 1527 | Hermann Finck, composer |
| 1521 | Mauritius, duke/nice monarch of Saksen, 1547-53 |
| 1474 | Angela Merici, Italian monastery founder/saint |
| 1466 | French van Brederode, leader Hoeksen |
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