| 1979 | Tamika Thomas, Miss Michigan Teen USA 1996 |
| 1977 | Angela Goethals, actress, VI Warshawski, Heartbreak Hotel |
| 1974 | Brandon Jessie, tight end for the New York Giants |
| 1972 | Michael Cox, Hannibal, Missouri, 1.5k runner |
| 1972 | Busta Rhymes, born in Brooklyn, New York, born Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr., rapper, songwriter, actor, albums include, 'The Coming', 'When Disaster Strikes' |
| 1971 | Jonas Berqvist, Angelhorn SWE, hockey forward, Team Sweden, 1998 Olympics |
| 1971 | Niklas Andersson, Kungalv Swe, NHL left wing for the New York Islanders |
| 1971 | Sandy Schreur, Dutch soccer player, NEC |
| 1971 | Tony Stewart, American Celebrity |
| 1970 | Jason York, Nepean, NHL defenseman, Anaheim Mighty Ducks |
| 1970 | Missy Cress, born in Burbank, California, female catcher, Colorado Silver Bullets |
| 1970 | Niklas Andersson, Kungalv SWE, NHL forward, Team Sweden, New York Islanders |
| 1970 | Terrell Brandon, NBA guard, Cleveland Cavaliers, Milwaukee Bucks |
| 1969 | Alberto Mancini, Argentina, tennis star |
| 1969 | Suzanne Lawrence, Humble Texas, Miss Texas-America 1991, 4th |
| 1968 | Damon Mays, NFL wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers |
| 1968 | Phil Hansen, NFL defensive end for the Buffalo Bills |
| 1967 | Beate Reinstadler, Stuttgart, Germany, tennis star, 1989 Futures Israel |
| 1966 | Lawyer Tillman, NFL tight end, Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers |
| 1966 | Liselotte Neumann, Finspang Sweden, LPGA golfer, 1988 U.S. Women's Open |
| 1966 | Mindy Cohn, Louisiana, actress, Facts of Life |
| 1966 | Paolo Seganti, actor, Damian-As the World Turns |
| 1966 | Dan Abrams, American Journalist |
| 1965 | Bruno Marie-Rose, French runner, world record 200 m indoor |
| 1965 | Fia Porter, Mexia, Texas, actress, Audrey Ames-One Life to Live |
| 1965 | Joe Cioe, Cranston, Rhode Island, Canadian Tour golfer, New Hampshire Open - 1992, 1993 |
| 1965 | Todd Stottlemyre, Yakima, Washington, pitcher, St. Louis Cardinals, Blue Jays |
| 1964 | Earl Charles Spencer, Sandringham England, brother of Princess Diana |
| 1964 | Jeff Schwarz, U.S. baseball pitcher, California Angels, Chicago White Sox |
| 1964 | Joseph Sinnott Edwards, Chicago, murderer, FBI Most Wanted List |
| 1964 | Paul W. Richards, Scranton, Pennsylvania, astronaut |
| 1964 | Todd Peat, WLAF guard for the Frankfurt Galaxy |
| 1963 | Brian Nash, Glendale, California, actor, Joel-Please Don't Eat Daisies |
| 1963 | David Wells, Torrance, California, pitcher, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees |
| 1963 | Dipak Chudasama, cricketer, Kenya opening batsman 1996 World Cup |
| 1962 | Lydia Cheng, New York City, Ms Big Apple bodybuilder, 1982, Pumping Iron 2 |
| 1962 | Sylvie Rauch, born in Munich, West Germany, nude model/actress |
| 1961 | Clive Allen, WLAF kicker for the London Monarchs |
| 1961 | Kit Clarke, rocker, Danny Wilson-Mary's Prayer |
| 1961 | Nick Heyward, guitar/vocals, Haircut 100-Favourite Shirts |
| 1961 | Vaughn Jefferis, Matangi New Zealand, equestrian 3 day event, Bronze Medal 1996 Olympics |
| 1960 | John Cowsill, rock vocalist, Cowsills-Hair |
| 1960 | Susan Cowsill, Newport, Rhode Island, rock vocalist, Cowsills-We Can Fly |
| 1960 | Tony Goldwyn, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Ghost, Kuffs, Traces of Red |
| 1959 | Bronson Pinchot, New York City, actor, Perfect Strangers, Beverly Hills Cop |
| 1959 | Peter Greene, born in Brooklyn, New York, producer, After Midnight |
| 1958 | Jane Wiedlin, Wisconsin, singer/guitarist, GoGos, Fur, Rush Hour |
| 1958 | Mike Engleman, Sonoma California, cyclist 1996 Olympics |
| 1958 | Ronald Prescot Reagan, Jr., Louisiana, President son/TV host, Ron Reagon Show |
| 1958 | Ron Reagan, American Journalist |
| 1956 | Andrew Hilditch, cricketer, Australian opening bat 1979-85 |
| 1956 | Tomas Smid, Czechoslovakia, tennis star |
| 1955 | Nigel Griffiths, born in Glasgow, Scotland, politician, Labor party, Member of Parliament for Edinburgh South |
| 1955 | Steve George, rock keyboardist, Mr Mister |
| 1954 | Galina Vasilyevna Amelkina, Russia, doctor/cosmonaut |
| 1954 | James Henderson, country singer, Black Oak Arkansas |
| 1952 | Warren Cann, Victoria Canada, rock drummer, Ultravox |
| 1952 | Roger Milla, Cameroonian Athlete |
| 1951 | Mike Crapo, born in Idaho Falls, Idaho, Representative-R-Idaho 1993 - 1999, Senator 1999 - |
| 1951 | Thomas D Akers, St. Louis, Major USAF/astronaut, STS-41, 49, 61, 79 |
| 1951 | William Cullen Bryant, actor, Hell Squad |
| 1951 | Michael Crapo, born in Idaho Falls, Idaho, politician, Republican, U.S. Senator from Idaho, Member, U.S. House of Representatives from Idaho's 2nd district 1993 - 1999 |
| 1949 | Nick Rahall, born in Beckley, West Virginia, Representative-D-West Virginia 1977 - |
| 1948 | Dave Thomas, St. Catherines Ontario, comedian, SCTV, Grace Under Fire |
| 1948 | John Amiel, director, Queen of Hearts, Tune in Tomorrow |
| 1948 | John R. McKernan, Jr., born in Bangor, Maine, Representative-R-Maine 1983 - 1987, Governor-Maine 1987 - 1995 |
| 1948 | Sam Gejdenson, born in Eschwege, Germany, Representative-D-Connecticut 1981 - 2001 |
| 1947 | Iain Vallance, CEO, British Telecom |
| 1946 | Cher, born in El Centro, California, born Cherilyn Sarkisian, singer, songwriter, director, record producer, won Academy Award, sold over 100 million records |
| 1946 | Craig Patrick, born in Detroit, Michigan, hockey player, coach, general manager of Pittsburgh Penguins 1989 - 2006 |
| 1946 | Cher, American Musician |
| 1945 | Harold Ford, Sr., born in Memphis, Tennessee, Representative-D-Tennessee 1975 - 1997 |
| 1945 | Clive Hollick, born in Britain, Labor Party, financier, youngest director of Hambros Bank, 1973, CEO, Mills & Allen International, MAI |
| 1945 | Nikolai Nikolayevich Fefelov, Russian colonel/cosmonaut |
| 1945 | Wally Herger, born in Yuba City, California, Representative-R-California 1987 - |
| 1944 | Boudouin de Groot, Dutch singer, Good night mister president |
| 1944 | Cipa Dichter, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pianist/wife of Misha Dichter |
| 1944 | David M. Walker, Columbus, Georgia, Captain USN/astron, STS-51-A 30, 53, 69 |
| 1944 | Joe Cocker, Sheffield Eng, rock vocalist, Little Help From My Friends |
| 1944 | Keith Fletcher, cricket captain, Essex and England |
| 1943 | Deryck Murray, cricket wicket-keeper, West Indian 1963-80 |
| 1943 | Ian Vallance, CEO, British Telecom |
| 1943 | Tison Street, born in Boston, Massachusetts, composer, violinist, contemporary classical music, winner, Guggenheim Fellowship |
| 1942 | Lynn Davies, born in Nantymoel, Wales, 'Lynn the Leap', long jumper, captain, Britain's Olympic long jump team 1964, won Olympic gold medal |
| 1942 | Simon Keswick, British financier/merchant, Hong Kong |
| 1941 | Goh Chok Sole, premier of Singapore, 1990- |
| 1941 | Maria Liberia-Peters, premier of Dutch Antilles, 198?-93 |
| 1941 | Goh Chok Tong, Chinese Statesman |
| 1940 | Sadaharu, Ohio, of Yomiuri Giants, Japan, hit 868 career home run |
| 1940 | Shorty Long, soul singer/pianist, Here Comes the Judge |
| 1940 | Stan Mikita, NHL center, led NHL in scoring 4 times |
| 1939 | Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norway, PM/feminist/conservatist |
| 1938 | Alan Smithers, British professor |
| 1938 | Christina Bass-Kaiser, 3K Dutch speed skater, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics |
| 1937 | Dave Hill, born in Jackson, Michigan, PGA golfer, 1967 Memphis |
| 1937 | Lord "Benjie" Iveagh, British brewer, Guinness, large landowner |
| 1937 | Teddy Randazzo, song writer, I'm on the Outside Looking In |
| 1936 | Anthony Zerbe, Cal, actor, Harry-O, Centennial, They Call Me Mr. Tibbs |
| 1933 | Constance Towers, actress, Capitol, Shock Corrider, Naked Kiss |
| 1933 | Danny Aiello, New York City, actor, Moonstruck, Do the Right Thing |
| 1931 | Chiharu Igaya, Japan, slalom 1956 Olympics silver |
| 1930 | James McEachin, Pennert, North Carolina, actor, Harry-Tenafly |
| 1930 | Robert Bunyard, Commandant, British Police Staff College |
| 1929 | Andre Carolus Cirino, Suriname/Indian poet |
| 1928 | David Berriman, CEO, Rose Thomson Young group of Lloyds Trustees |
| 1928 | David Hedison, actor, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea |
| 1927 | David Frederick Barlow, composer |
| 1927 | Walter Aschaffenburg, composer |
| 1927 | [Harold] Bud Grant, Wisconsin, CFL/NFL player and coach, Winnipeg, Minnesota |
| 1926 | David Hedison, born in Providence, Rhode Island, actor, Colbys, Voyage to Bottom of Sea |
| 1926 | John Lucarotti, scriptwriter |
| 1926 | Vic Ames, rocker, Ames Brothers |
| 1925 | D. French Slaughter, Jr., born in Culpeper, Virginia, Representative-R-Virginia, 1985 - 1991 |
| 1924 | Betty Driver, actress, Coronation St, Pardon the Expression |
| 1924 | Peter Shore, MP, Labour |
| 1923 | Edith Fellows, Boston, actress, Pennies From Heaven, City Streets |
| 1923 | Hugh Beach, British General |
| 1923 | Samuel Selvon, born in Trinidad, author, writer-in-residence, University of Calgary, Canada, wrote 'The Lonely Londoners', focusing on West Indians' immigration to Britain, cultural differences |
| 1922 | Clifford Butler, vice chancellor, Loughborough University of Technology |
| 1921 | John Harrison, British vice admiral/surgeon |
| 1920 | Betty Driver, actress, Penny Paradise |
| 1920 | John Cruickshank, banker |
| 1920 | William Simpson, British trade union leader |
| 1919 | George Gobel, born in Chicago, Illinois, comedian/TV personality, I Love My Wife |
| 1918 | Edward B. Lewis, American Scientist |
| 1917 | Enyss Djemil, composer |
| 1917 | Richard Charles Cobb, historian |
| 1916 | Cornelie Coposu, politician |
| 1916 | John McIntyre, theologian |
| 1916 | Owen Chadwick, chancellor, University of East Anglia |
| 1915 | Moshe Dayan, Israeli general/minister of Defense |
| 1913 | Henry Cadbury Brown, architect |
| 1913 | Ion Dumitrescu, composer |
| 1913 | William Hewlett, cofounder, Hewlett-Packard Co |
| 1913 | William Reddington Hewlett, American Businessman |
| 1911 | Annie M G Schmidt, writer, Fam Doorsnee, Jip and Janneke |
| 1911 | Gardner F[rancis] Fox, U.S., sci-fi author, Kothar-Barbarian Swordsman |
| 1909 | Edward Moss Hutchinson, educationalist |
| 1909 | John Arkell, director of administration, BBC |
| 1908 | Jimmy Stewart, Pennsylvania, actor, Mr Smith Goes to Wash, Wonderful Life |
| 1905 | Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet, Sailing |
| 1905 | Harry Campion, statistician and founder, British Central Statistical Office |
| 1904 | Russell Hardie, Buffalo, New York, actor, Sequoia, In Old Kentucky |
| 1903 | Jerzy Fitelberg, composer |
| 1902 | Hans Sahl, German/U.S. writer |
| 1901 | Max Euwe, Netherlands, world chess champion, 1935-37 |
| 1901 | Otto Waldis, Austria, actor, Port of Hell, Unknown World |
| 1899 | Estelle Taylor, Delaware, actress, 8 Commandments |
| 1899 | John M Harlan, Chicago, 91st Supreme Court justice, 1955-71 |
| 1895 | Reginald J "R" Mitchell, English aviation manufacturer, Spitfire |
| 1894 | Adela Rogers St. John, journalist/author, Foreign Correspondent |
| 1890 | Beniamino Gigli, Italy, tenor, Enzo-La Gioconde |
| 1889 | Felix Arndt, composer |
| 1889 | Margery Allingham, detective story writer |
| 1889 | William Lawther, union leader |
| 1883 | Paul Arntzenius, painter/graphic artist/etcher |
| 1882 | Sigrid Undset, Norway, novelist, Kristin Lavransdatter, Nobel 1928 |
| 1881 | Wladyslaw Sikorski, premier Poland, WW II general |
| 1876 | John Owen Jones, composer |
| 1874 | Folkert E. Posthuma, Dutch minister of Agriculture/Industry |
| 1872 | Albert Steinruck, German actor, Golem |
| 1856 | Henri E Cross, Delacroix, French painter |
| 1851 | Emile Berliner, Germany, inventor, flat phonograph record |
| 1851 | Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, U.S., nun/daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 1850 | Eaton Faning, composer |
| 1844 | Henri Julien Felix Rousseau, French ambassador/painter, Dream |
| 1841 | Sara Louisa Oberholtz, social reformer, anti-smoking advocate |
| 1830 | Amalia MdGA, princess of Saxon-Weimar-Eisenach/wife of prince Henry |
| 1830 | Hector H. Malot, French writer, Without Family |
| 1828 | James William Reilly, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1825 | Antoinette Brown Blackwell, clergy, 1st ordained U.S. female minister |
| 1825 | George Phillips Bond, American Scientist |
| 1822 | Emile Erckmann, E-Chatrian, French writer, Waterloo |
| 1822 | Frederic Passy, French economist/pacifist, Nobel 1901 |
| 1818 | William George Fargo, founder, Wells Fargo |
| 1815 | Barthelemy Menn, Swiss graphic artist/painter |
| 1812 | Gustav Adolf Mankell, composer |
| 1806 | John Stuart Mill, UK, philosopher/political economist/Utilitarian |
| 1799 | Honore de Balzac, France, novelist, Pere Goriot, Human Comedy |
| 1772 | William Congreve, English officer, design fire rocket |
| 1768 | Dolley Madison, born in New Garden, North Carolina, wife of the 4th President of the United States, James Madison, First Lady of the United States, 1809 - 1817, acted as First Lady for Thomas Jefferson, portrait appears on United States Mint 1/2 ounce $10 gold coins |
| 1764 | J Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor/cartoonist/lithographer |
| 1759 | William Thornton, architect, Capitol building, Washington D.C. |
| 1750 | Stephen Girard, bailed out U.S. bonds during War of 1812 |
| 1743 | [Francois D] Toussaint L'Ouverture, Breda, leader, Haiti |
| 1593 | Jacob Jordaens, Flemish barok artist |
| 1554 | Paulo Bellasio, composer |
| 1547 | Melchior Bischoff, composer |
| 1537 | Hieronymus Fabricius Ab, Aquapend Italy, physician, De Formato Foetu |
| 1470 | Pietro Bembo, cardinal/theologian |
| 1364 | Henry Percy, Harry Hotspur, British soldier/politican |
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