| 1983 | Kim Smith, born in Houston, Texas, model, featured in Victoria's Secret, Abercrombie & Fitch, Guess ad campaigns, appeared in 'Girls of Summer' Aerosmith video |
| 1978 | Carol Aquino, Miss Guatemala Universe in 1997 |
| 1978 | Douglas Osmond, born in Provo, Utah, vocalist for Osmond Boys |
| 1977 | Bas Zuiderent, cricketer for Holland all-rounder 1996 World Cup |
| 1977 | Ronan Keating, born in Bayside Dublin, Ireland, Irish singer for Boyzone |
| 1975 | Albert Fields, born in Gary, Indiana, rocker, Party-Rodeo, That's Why |
| 1975 | David Faustino, born in California, actor in I Had 3 Wives,Married With Children |
| 1974 | Jared Rushton, actor in Big, Honey I Shrank the Kids |
| 1973 | Cory Raymer, NFL center for Washington Redskins |
| 1973 | James Dexter, tackle for the Arizona Cardinals |
| 1973 | Jim Mills, tackle for the San Diego Chargers |
| 1973 | Tisha Venturini, Modesto California, soccer midfielder 1996 Olympics |
| 1973 | Victoria Nika Zdrok, born in Kiev, Ukraine, playmate October, 1994 |
| 1973 | Winslow Oliver, running back for the Carolina Panthers |
| 1972 | Christian Oliver, actor in Baby Sitters Club, Brian-Saved by the Bell |
| 1972 | Martin Prochazka, born in Slany, Czechoslovakia, NHL forward, Toronto, 1998 Olympics Gold |
| 1971 | Terryl Ulmer, CFL defensive back for the Saskatchewan Roughriders |
| 1970 | Donovan Bergstrom, U.S. 3K steeplechase runner |
| 1970 | Inzamam-ul-Haq, cricketer, dashing Pakistani batsman |
| 1970 | Kristine Radford, born in Sydney, Australia, tennis star, 1996 ITF/Lyneham |
| 1970 | Rick Mirer, NFL quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks |
| 1970 | Scott Keswick, born in Nevada, gymnast, Coca-Cola-1st-94, 1996 Olympics |
| 1970 | Shawn Marie Brogan, Miss USA-Iowa in 1997 |
| 1970 | Julie Bowen, American Actress |
| 1969 | Ronald Humphrey, NFL running back for the Indianapolis Colts |
| 1968 | Brian Leetch, born in Corpus Christi, Texas, NHL defenseman, Team USA, New York Rangers |
| 1968 | Diann Roffe-Steinrotter, born in Warsaw, New York, alpine skier, won Olympic gold and silver in 1992 |
| 1968 | Scott Radinsky, born in Simi Valley, California, pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers |
| 1967 | Alexander Volkov, born in Russia, tennis star |
| 1967 | Calvin Williams, NFL wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles |
| 1967 | Elizabeth Cheshire, born in Burbank California, actress, Jill-Sunshine |
| 1966 | Claus Boekweg, Dutch soccer player, FC Groningen, FC Zwolle |
| 1966 | Dmitri Volkov, Russian swimmer, world record |
| 1966 | Ellen Minzner, born in Lawrence Massachusetts, rower in 1996 Olympics |
| 1966 | Gary Parker, WLAF kicker, Scotland Claymores |
| 1966 | Hope Marie Carlton, born in Riverhead, New York, playmate July, 1985 |
| 1966 | Noelle Daghe, born in Decatur, Illinois, LPGA golfer, 1994 PING-Cellular One-21st |
| 1966 | Tone-Loc, Anthony Terrell Smith, born in Los Angeles, California, rocker, Let's Do It |
| 1966 | Wendy Fletcher, born in Boston, Massachusetts, WPVA volleyballer, National-5th-1993 |
| 1966 | Tone Loc, American Musician |
| 1965 | A. J. Sager, born in Columbus Ohio, pitcher for the Detroit Tigers |
| 1964 | Arturo Huerta, born in Mexico, Canadian walker 1996 Olympics |
| 1964 | Atif Rauf, cricketer, Pakistani Test batsman vs. New Zealand 1994 |
| 1964 | Laura Martinez-Herring, born in Sinaloa, Mexico, Miss USA 1985, on General Hospital |
| 1964 | Lisa Ann Poggi, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, actress, Jolie-Loving |
| 1963 | Elizabeth Chavez, born in Santa Monica, California, WPVA volleyballer, U.S. Open-13th-91 |
| 1963 | Jacqueline Sheen, born in Dallas, Texas, playmate July, 1990 |
| 1963 | Kelly Miller, Detroit, NHL left wing for the Washington Capitals |
| 1962 | Herschel Walker, WFL/NFL running back for New Jersey Generals, Dallas Cowboy |
| 1962 | Jackie Joyner-Kersee, born in East St. Louis, Illinois, heptathele won Olympic gold 1988, 1992 |
| 1961 | Mary Page Keller, actress in Duet, Scared Stiff, Baby Talk |
| 1959 | Romeo Zondervan, Dutch soccer player, NAC |
| 1959 | Ira Glass, American Journalist |
| 1958 | Bob Bradley, born in Montclair, New Jersey, soccer coach, won Olympic gold 1996 |
| 1958 | Miranda Richardson, born in Southport England, actress in Damage, Crying Game |
| 1956 | Jim Barton, born Lincoln, Nebraska, soling yachter, won Olympic bronze in 1996 |
| 1956 | John F. Reid, cricketer, New Zealand batsman of 70's/80's |
| 1956 | Miguel Bose, Panama, spanish actor, Lo Mejor del Ano |
| 1954 | Chris Hughes, born in London, England, drummer, musician, record producer, played drums for Dalek I Love You, The Blitz Brothers, member, Adam and the Ants, produced Tears for Fears, The Hurting, Songs from the Big Chair, co-produced Peter Gabriel's 'Red Rain' |
| 1954 | Keith Carlton Fergus, born Temple, Texas, PGA golfer, 1995 Honda Classic-8th |
| 1954 | Merrick, Chris Hughes, rock drummer, Adam and The Ants |
| 1953 | Aleksandr Viktorovich Borodin, born in Russia, cosmonaut |
| 1953 | Dave Amato, rocker for REO Speedwagon, Can't Fight this Feeling |
| 1952 | Robyn Hitchcock, rocker for Moss Elixir |
| 1951 | Sergei Aleksandrovich Yemelyanov, Russian cosmonaut |
| 1950 | Ed Marinaro, actor on Hill Street Blues |
| 1950 | Tim Kazurinsky, born Johnstown, Pennsylvania, comedian, SNL, Police Academy 2, 3, 4 |
| 1949 | Bonnie J. Dunbar, born Sunnyside, Washington, PhD/astronaut, STS-61-A, 32, 50, 71, 89 |
| 1949 | James S. Voss, born Cordova, Alabama, Major USA/astronaut, STS-44, 53, 69 |
| 1948 | Byron MacGregor, newscaster |
| 1948 | Reed Hundt, born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Federal Communications Commission chairman, 1993 - 1997, advisor to McKinsey & Company |
| 1947 | Dave Mount, born in Carshalton, Surrey, rocker, member of the glam English rock band, Mud |
| 1946 | James C. Adamson, born Warsaw New York, Lt. Col. U.S. astronaut on STS-28, STS-43 |
| 1945 | Farooq Hamid, cricketer, 1-107 in Test, Pakistan vs. Australia 1964 |
| 1945 | Hattie Winston, born in Greenville, Mississippi, actress on Nurse, Electric Company |
| 1944 | Janice Garfat, rocker, Dr. Hook |
| 1943 | Roger Swaybill, actor and writer, Porky's II, Breaking Point |
| 1942 | Mike Pender, Liverpool, vocalist and guitarist, Searchers-Needles and Pins |
| 1942 | Vladimir Vasilyevich Kovolyonok, USR, cosmonaut, Soyuz 25, 29/31, T-4 |
| 1939 | Hans Pieter Verhagen, poet, Hoepla/Holland's Hole |
| 1939 | M. L. Jaisimha, cricketer, Indian batsman of the sixties |
| 1938 | Douglas Leedy, born in Portland, Oregon, pseudonym, Bhishma Xenotechnites, composer, music scholar, performer, works include 'Trio' |
| 1938 | Lew De Witt, singer, Statler Brothers-Flowers on the Wall |
| 1938 | Willie Chambers, guitarist and vocalist, Chambers Brothers |
| 1936 | Jim Clark, Formula 1 racer, 1963 champ |
| 1935 | Zhelyu Zhelev, president of Bulgaria, 1990- |
| 1934 | Gia Scala, born in Italy, actress in Angry Hills, Don't Go Near the Water |
| 1933 | Lee Radziwell Ross, born in New York City, princess, Jackie O's sister |
| 1933 | Marco Antonio Munoz, born in Mexico, spanish singer, Murmullos |
| 1932 | Mara Corday, born in Santa Monica, California, playmate October, 1958 |
| 1931 | Henk Knol, Dutch 2nd chamber member, PvdA |
| 1931 | Piet [van] Bambergen, Dutch cabaretier, Mounties, Sherlock Jones |
| 1929 | Nicos Mamangakis, composer |
| 1928 | Dave Dudley, singer, Six Days on the Road |
| 1928 | G. Pausewang, writer |
| 1927 | Charles Orville Whitley, born in Siler City, North Carolina, Representative-D-North Carolina 1977 - 1987 |
| 1927 | Frank Singleton, librarian |
| 1927 | [Herman] Junior Parker, rocker, Driving Wheel, In the Dark |
| 1926 | James Merrill, U.S. poet and author, Scripts for the Pageant |
| 1925 | Enzo Stuarti, born in Italy, singer, Yesterday |
| 1925 | Richard Vernon, born in England, actor, Servant, Gandhi, Hard Days Night |
| 1923 | Doc Watson, American Musician |
| 1922 | Kazimierz Serocki, composer |
| 1921 | Diana Barrymore, born in New York City, actress in Nightmare, Lady Courageous, Fired Wife |
| 1921 | Junior Parker, born in Arkansas, blues vocalist/songwriter, Mystery Train |
| 1920 | James Doohan, born in Vancouver, British Columbia, actor played Montgomery Scott on Star Trek |
| 1920 | Julius Boros, golfer, PGA Champ 1968, U.S. Open 1952, 1963 |
| 1919 | Peter Abrahams, South African Novelist |
| 1918 | Arnold Newman, photographer of Faces USA |
| 1918 | Arthur Kornberg, U.S. biochemist won Nobel 1959 |
| 1918 | Frank Wigglesworth, composer |
| 1917 | Bert van Aerschot, Flemish writer, Elevator, Women |
| 1917 | Will Eisner, American Cartoonist |
| 1915 | George Brian Snape, businessman and rugby league entrepreneur |
| 1914 | Martin Ritt, actor and director for Slugger's Wife, End of the Game |
| 1913 | Margaret A. R. Bonds, U.S. pianist, composer and arranger |
| 1913 | Roger Caillois, French writer, Les Jeux et les Hommes |
| 1912 | Joe Stydahar, NFL tackle for the Chicago Bears |
| 1911 | Francesco Siciliani, opera composer |
| 1911 | Jean Harlow, aka Harlean Carpentier, born in Kansas, 30s' sex goddess, in Dinner at 8 |
| 1909 | Jay Morris Arena, inventor and pediatrician |
| 1909 | Kenton Kilmer, poet and translator |
| 1908 | Riccardo Nielsen, composer |
| 1907 | Aar van de Werfhorst, Pieter G. Jansen, Dutch writer |
| 1907 | Canada Lee, born in New York City, actor, Lost Boundaries |
| 1907 | Joy Finzi, Joyce A. Black, British painter |
| 1906 | Artur Lundkvist, Swedish writer/Swedish Academy, Agadir |
| 1906 | Donald Novis, Hastings England, actor, Monte Carlo |
| 1906 | Krishnarao Shiva Shelvankar, journalist/diplomat |
| 1903 | Gilbert Adrian, Greenberg, born in Naugatuck, Connecticut, costume designer |
| 1903 | Rabbe A. Enckell, Finnish author and poet, Lutad about Brunnen |
| 1902 | Ruby Dandridge, born in Memphis, Tennessee, actress in Father of the Bride |
| 1900 | Edna Best, born in Hove, England, actress starred in Key, Calendar, Escape, Intermezzo |
| 1900 | Basil Bunting, British Poet |
| 1899 | Alfred M. Gruenther, U.S., commanding general of NATO, 1953-56 |
| 1899 | Juri Olescha, writer |
| 1897 | Jose Moreno Gans, composer |
| 1895 | Alexander Nearmolen, composer |
| 1895 | Alexander Nicholas Voormolen, Dutch composer |
| 1895 | Juanita Hansen, born in Iowa, actress in Fast Company, Broadway Love |
| 1895 | Matthew B. Ridgway, U.S. general in WW II, China, Nicaragua, Korea, NATO |
| 1895 | Ragnar Frisch, Norway, economist, won 1st Nobel prize in economy in 1969 |
| 1895 | Robert Gordon, born in Kansas, actor in Loveless |
| 1893 | Beatrice Wood, potter, artist and author |
| 1893 | Bill Nestell, born in California, actor in Dangerous Venture, Buckskin Frontier |
| 1893 | Karel Lotsy, Dutch insurance director and Olympic-chief d'equipe |
| 1892 | Edmund Lowe, actor in Black Sheep, Good Sam, Dillinger, Hot Pepper |
| 1892 | Rui Coelho, composer |
| 1891 | Federico Moreno Torroba, composer |
| 1891 | Jan Donner, Dutch minister of Justice and president High Council |
| 1890 | Norman Bethune, Canada, Doctor in Spain and China |
| 1889 | Fritz Behrend, composer |
| 1886 | James Friskin, composer |
| 1886 | Reginald Owen Morris, composer |
| 1882 | Floris H. L. Prims, Flemish priest, historian and archivist of Antwerp |
| 1880 | Anne C. Veth, Dutch cartoonist and art critic |
| 1878 | Edward Thomas, English Poet |
| 1877 | Garrett Morgan, African-American inventor |
| 1873 | William Green, president of American Federation of Labor, 1924-52 |
| 1872 | Wee Willie Keeler, outfielder for the Baltimore Orioles, hit .432 in 1897 |
| 1872 | Willie Keeler, American Athlete |
| 1869 | Henry J. Wood, English conductor, Gentle Art of Singing, Proms |
| 1868 | Alain, Emile-Auguste Chartier, French philosopher and writer |
| 1867 | Gustav Strube, composer |
| 1865 | Alexander Gustav Adolfovich Winkler, composer |
| 1863 | Arthur Machen, Welsh Author |
| 1857 | Alfred Bruneau, composer |
| 1849 | Jacques Oppenheim, Dutch lawyer |
| 1847 | Alexander Graham Bell, born in Scotland, inventor of the telephone |
| 1846 | Desiderio FA Pietri, Italian baker and marathon runner Dorando's father |
| 1845 | Georg Cantor, German mathematician, discover transfinite numbers |
| 1842 | Sidney Lanier, American Poet |
| 1841 | John Murray, Canada oceanographer, Depths of the Ocean |
| 1838 | George W. Hill, U.S. astronomer, Moon orbit |
| 1831 | George M. Pullman, inventor of the railway sleeping car |
| 1828 | Karl Collan, composer |
| 1823 | Guyla Andrassy Sr, premier of Hungary, 1867-71 |
| 1814 | Charles Kensington Salaman, composer |
| 1811 | Vissarion Belinsky, born in Sveaborg, Finland, Russian author, Literary Review |
| 1809 | Sophia Hawthorne, writer |
| 1793 | Ch Sealsfield, writer |
| 1756 | William Godwin, philosopher and political writer, Caleb Williams |
| 1747 | Kasamir Pulaski, U.S. general in the Revolutionary War |
| 1705 | Michael Schevenstuhl, composer |
| 1652 | Thomas Otway, England, playwright and poet, Venice Preserved |
| 1606 | Edmund Waller, England, poet, Penshust |
| 1589 | Gisbertus Voetius, Gijsbert Voet, Dutch reformed theologist |
| 1583 | Edward Herbert of Cherbury, English military and philosopher |
| 1500 | Reginald Pole, English Cardinal |
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