| 1980 | Laura Prepon, American Actress |
| 1977 | Ludmila Richterova, born in Kosice, Slovakia, tennis star, 1995 Bournemouth |
| 1975 | Andrey Savenkov, hockey defenseman, Team Kazakhstan 1998 Olympics |
| 1975 | William Hampton, CFL defensive back for the Calgary Stampeders |
| 1974 | Joost Volmer, soccer player, FC Twente |
| 1972 | Marina Hatzakis, Australian rower, Olympics 1996 |
| 1971 | Alison Herst, born in Toronto Ontario, kayaker, Olympics 1992, 1996 |
| 1971 | Matthew Vaughn, American Producer |
| 1970 | Jacquelyn Doucette, Miss Massachusetts USA, 1996 |
| 1970 | James Calvin Spivey, born in Schiller Park, Illinois, miler |
| 1970 | Kathy Gedney, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, WPVA volleyballer, U.S. Open-25th-1994 |
| 1970 | Rachel Weisz, born in London, England, actress, model, appeared in films, 'About a Boy', 'The Constant Gardener', 'Constantine', 'Runaway Jury' |
| 1969 | Anne Marie Lauck, born in Rochester, New York, marathoner, 1996 Olympics |
| 1969 | Anthony Davis, NFL linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs |
| 1969 | Brian Jamieson, born in Livingston, New Jersey, rower, 1996 Olympics silver medal |
| 1969 | Geoff Smith, born in Edmonton, NHL defenseman for the Florida Panthers |
| 1969 | Matt Blundin, NFL quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs, Detroit Lions |
| 1969 | Sam Gash, NFL running back for the New England Patriots |
| 1968 | Jeff Kent, born in Bellflower California, infielder for the New York Mets |
| 1968 | Ricky Proehl, NFL wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks, Chicago Bears |
| 1967 | Zheng Haixia, WNBA center for the Los Angeles Sparks |
| 1966 | Jeff Feagles, NFL punter for the Arizona Cardinals |
| 1966 | Mel Rojas, Haina, Dominican Republic, pitcher for the Montreal Expos |
| 1966 | Terry Carkner, born in Smiths Falls, NHL defenseman for the Florida Panthers |
| 1965 | Cameron Daddo, born in Melbourne, Australia, actor, Brian Petersen-Models Inc |
| 1965 | Jesper Bo Parnevik, born in Stockholm, Sweden, PGA golfer, 1995 Nestle-5th |
| 1965 | Steve Beuerlein, NFL quarterback for the Jacksonville Jaguars, Carolina Panthers |
| 1965 | [Willie] Flipper Anderson, NFL wide receiver for the Indianapolis Colts |
| 1964 | Amy Baltus, born in Bloomington, Indiana, WPVA volleyballer, Nationals-13th-1992 |
| 1964 | Jeff Criswell, NFL tackle for the Kansas City Chiefs |
| 1964 | Wanda Sykes, American Comedian |
| 1963 | Mike Eagles, born in Sussex, NHL center for the Washington Capitals |
| 1963 | Mohammad Ishaq, cricketer, UAE batsman 1996 World Cup |
| 1962 | Taylor Dayne, Leslie Wunderman, born in New York, vocalist, I'll Always Love You |
| 1961 | Mary Beth Evans, born in Pasadena, California, actress, Katherine-General Hospital |
| 1960 | Ivan Lendl, born in Czechoslovakia, tennis pro, U.S. Open 1985-87 |
| 1960 | Joe Carter, born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, outfielder for the Toronto Blue Jays |
| 1959 | Thomas Edward Lehman, born in Austin, Minnesota, PGA golfer, 1994 Memorial Tournament |
| 1958 | Rik Mayall, comedian, Drop Dead Fred, Bottom, Little Noises |
| 1956 | Brian Baird, born in Chama, New Mexico, politician, Democratic party, U.S. House of Representatives from Washington's 3rd district |
| 1955 | Al-Waleed bin Talal, born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, member of the Saudi Royal Family, businessman |
| 1954 | Matt Frenette, rock drummer, Loverboy |
| 1953 | Jules Shear, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, musician, singer, performed with The Funky Kings, Raisins in the Sun, created, hosted, first 13 episodes of MTV series, Unplugged, song, All Through the Night, recorded by Cyndi Lauper, ranked number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, co-wrote title track for Everything's Different Now album, with Matthew Sweet |
| 1953 | Kathleen Sullivan, born in Pasadena, California, newscaster, E! |
| 1952 | Ernie Isley, U.S. vocalist and guitarist, It's Your Thing, Heat is On |
| 1952 | Lynn Swann, NFL receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers and sportscaster |
| 1952 | Vivian Richards, West Indian master blaster |
| 1950 | Franco Harris, NFL fullback for the Pittsburgh Steelers |
| 1950 | Mark Pinter, born in Decorah, Iowa, actor, Behind the Screen, Another World |
| 1947 | Donna Loren, born in Boston, Massachusetts, singer and actress, Beach Blanket Bingo |
| 1947 | Lewis J. Stadlen, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, John-Benson, Savages, Windy City |
| 1947 | Richard Lawson, actor, Eddie-O'Neills |
| 1947 | Robert O'Neill Crossman, politician |
| 1946 | Matthew Fisher, born in London, rock keyboardist, Procol Harum |
| 1946 | Peter Wolf, rock singer, J Giels Band-Centerfold, Freeze Frame |
| 1945 | Arthur Lee, rocker, Vindicator |
| 1945 | John Heard, actor, Cat People, Cutter's Way, CHUD |
| 1945 | Elizabeth Moon, American Author |
| 1944 | Elton Gallegly, born in Huntington Park, California, Representative-R-California 1987 - |
| 1944 | Townes Van Zandt, musician |
| 1944 | Stanley Schmidt, American Writer |
| 1944 | Ranulph Fiennes, British Explorer |
| 1943 | Carole Peel, Australian softball asst coach, 1996 Olympics bronze |
| 1943 | Chris White, rock bassist, Zombies-Never Even Thought |
| 1943 | Leon Frank Sylvers, rocker |
| 1942 | Al[bert] Tanara, WLAF defensive coach, Amsterdam Admirals |
| 1942 | Michael Eisner, born in Mount Kisko, New York, CEO, Walt Disney |
| 1942 | Paul Preuss, U.S., sci-fi author, Medusa Encounter, Starfire |
| 1942 | Tammy Faye Bakker, born in Missouri, Christian, singer, evangelist, entrepreneur, television personality |
| 1942 | Tommy F. Robinson, born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Representative-D-Arkansas 1985 - 1991 |
| 1942 | U. N. Kulkarni, cricketer, Indian pace bowler in four Tests 1967-68 |
| 1940 | Daniel J. Travanti, born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, actor, Frank Furillo on Hill St. Blues |
| 1940 | Rudi [Rudolf] Dutschke, German student leader, Glasnost Berlin |
| 1940 | Viktor Petrovich Savinykh, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, Soyuz T-4, T-13, TM-5 |
| 1939 | Marion Marlowe, born in St. Louis, Missouri, singer, Arthur Godfrey and Friends |
| 1938 | Homero Blancas, born in Houston, Texas, PGA golfer, 1972 Phoenix Open |
| 1938 | Janet Guthrie, race car driver, 1st woman to race in Indianapolis 500 |
| 1938 | David Baltimore, American Scientist |
| 1937 | Anne Kristen, actress, Truth or Dare, Rachel-Dr. Finlay, Sunset Song |
| 1937 | Don Bonker, born in Denver, Colorado, Representative-D-Washington 1975 - 1989 |
| 1936 | Georges Perec, French writer, Seire Noire, Retour a la bien-aimee |
| 1934 | King Curtis, rocker |
| 1934 | Nari Contractor, cricketer, Indian batsman and captain |
| 1934 | Willard Scott, weather forecaster, Today Show |
| 1931 | C. W. Stubblefield, music promoter |
| 1931 | Cornelis T. "Cor" van de Molen, director Social Businesses of Press |
| 1931 | Donald Barthelme, U.S., writer, Snow White |
| 1930 | James Broderick, born in Charleston, New Hampshire, actor, Brenner-Brenner, Doug-Family |
| 1930 | Lord Snowdon, Anthony Armstrong-Jones, London, photographer |
| 1927 | James D. Watkins, American Soldier |
| 1924 | Eduardo Paolozzi, British sculptor, Hydra |
| 1924 | Kobo Abe, born in Tokyo, Japan, playwright, Woman, the Dunes |
| 1920 | Willie Watson, cricketer, England batsman and soccer international |
| 1919 | Jocelyn Olaf Hambro, financier |
| 1919 | Mochtar Lubis, Indonesian writer, Twilight in Djakarta |
| 1918 | June Wayne, artist, lithographer and teacher |
| 1917 | Davis Roberts, born in Mobile, Alabama, actor, Mr. Johnson-Boone |
| 1917 | Janet Collins, ballerina |
| 1917 | Robert Erickson, composer |
| 1917 | Reginald Maudling, British Politician |
| 1915 | Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician |
| 1914 | Morton DaCosta, born in Philadelphia, director, Island of Love, Music Man |
| 1911 | Stefan Kisielewski, composer |
| 1909 | Greta Schoon, writer |
| 1909 | Leo Malet, born in Montpelier, France, writer, novelist, aligned with Surrealists, friends with Renee Magritte, Andre Breton, famous for crime novel character Nestor Burma |
| 1908 | Anna Magnani, born in Alexandria, Egypt, actress, Rose Tattoo, Miracle |
| 1908 | Joop [Joseph] van Santen, Dutch 1st chamber member, CPN |
| 1908 | Tomas de Manzarraga, composer |
| 1907 | Juan Francisco Giacobbe, composer |
| 1907 | Mircea Eliade, religious historian, Le Yoga |
| 1906 | Alejandro Garcia Caturla, composer |
| 1906 | Hans Lachman, composer |
| 1905 | Vera Fjodorova Panova, Russian author, Sputniki |
| 1904 | Ivar Ballangrud, born in Norway, Olympic speed skater, 4 gold, 2 silver |
| 1904 | Reinhard Heydrich, German governor, Bohemen/Moravia, Lidice, |
| 1904 | Virginia Downing, actress, Gig, Butterfield 8 |
| 1904 | Willy Forst, Austria actor and director, Vienna Blood |
| 1902 | Heinz Ruehmann, German actor and director, Der Hauptmann von Kopenick |
| 1900 | Giuseppe Capogrossi, Italian painter |
| 1900 | [Albert] Carel Willink, Dutch painter, magic realism |
| 1898 | Jan Bata, Czechoslovakian shoe manufacturer |
| 1896 | Erwin Bodky, composer |
| 1895 | Juan Jose Castro, composer |
| 1891 | Marcel Barger, Meyer Streliskie, cabaret performer, I keep Susy |
| 1888 | Alidius WLT van Starkenborch Stachouwer, Governor of Netherlands Indies, 1936-45 |
| 1887 | Heino Eller, composer |
| 1886 | Raymond Largay, born in Wisconsin, actor, April in Paris, Variety Girl |
| 1885 | Milton Avery, American Artist |
| 1875 | Maurice Joseph Ravel, born in Cibourne, France, composer, Bolero |
| 1872 | Piet Mondriaan, born in Holland, abstract painter, Broadway Boogie Woogie |
| 1872 | Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov, composer |
| 1872 | Piet Mondrian, Dutch Artist |
| 1869 | Ernst J. Cohen, Dutch chemist |
| 1866 | Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst, born in Elbingerode, Germany, writer, journalist, dramatist, critic, works include 'Die Hochzeit', 'Canossa' |
| 1858 | Nikolai Artzibushev, composer |
| 1857 | Julius Wagner von Jauregg, born in Austria, psychiatrist, Nobel 1927 |
| 1856 | Matilde Serao, Tuffolina, Italian writer, Land of Cockayne |
| 1850 | Tomas G. Masaryk, born in Czechoslovakia, Father/President of Czechoslovakia, 1918-35 |
| 1849 | Luther Burbank, born in Lancaster, Massachusetts, horticulturist |
| 1844 | Anthony Comstock, born in New Canaan, Connecticut, anti-vice crusader/philatelist |
| 1842 | Anne CAI van Diest, Belgian physician/feminist |
| 1841 | Olegario Victor Andrade, born in Argentina, poet, El nido de condores |
| 1837 | Henry Draper, born in Virginia, astro-spectro-photographer, Moon, Jupiter |
| 1832 | Orlando Metcalfe Poe, Brigadier General, Union volunteers |
| 1831 | John Bratton, Old Reliable, U.S. physician/Confederate Brigadier General |
| 1827 | Henry DeLamar Clayton, Major General Confederate Army |
| 1822 | Victor Masse, composer |
| 1820 | Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffman, composer |
| 1813 | Judocus Smits, Dutch Catholic newspaper pioneer/founder, The Time |
| 1811 | Christian Heinrich Hohmann, composer |
| 1807 | Franz Grave von Pocci, German poet/composer, Der Alchemist |
| 1799 | Frantisek L. Celakovsky, Czechoslovakian poet, national anthem, folk song |
| 1797 | Karl Schwencke, composer |
| 1792 | John Herschel, born in Slough, England, William Herschel's son, astronomer |
| 1785 | Alessandro Manzoni, born in Italy, poet and novelist, Betrothed |
| 1773 | Tommaso Marchesi, composer |
| 1769 | Josef Alois Ladurner, composer |
| 1765 | Joseph N. Niepce, French inventor, photography |
| 1762 | Sebastiaan C. Nederburgh, director-general, East Indies Company |
| 1731 | Jean-Louis Laruette, composer |
| 1715 | Ewald Christian von Kleist, German lyric poet, Der Fruhling |
| 1707 | Stephen Hopkins, Governor of Rhode Island signed Declaration of Independence |
| 1693 | Clement XIII, Carlo Rezzonico, Pope, 1758 - 1769 |
| 1682 | Johan W. van Ripperda, Dutch diplomat, baron and duke |
| 1663 | Tomaso Antonio Vitali, composer |
| 1659 | Henry Purcell, English organist/composer, Dido and Aeneas |
| 1621 | Georg Neumark, composer |
| 1602 | Kano Tanju, Japanese painter, palaces, portraits |
| 1574 | John Wilbye, composer |
| 1543 | Johan Casimir, count of Rhine, occupied Gent |
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