| 1984 | Adam Wylie, born in San Dimas, California, Broadway musical performer, television and voice actor |
| 1980 | Sarah Louise Catherwood, Christchurch New Zealand, 4x200m swimmer 1996 Olympics |
| 1978 | Silvia Colloca, Italian Actress |
| 1976 | Kelly Marie Monaco, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, playmate, April, 1997 |
| 1976 | Melanie Joyce Bell, Vernon New Jersey, Miss America-New Jersey 1997 |
| 1975 | Vincent Goossens, soccer player, Dordrecht '90 |
| 1974 | Duane Clemons, linebacker for the Minnesota Vikings |
| 1974 | Kimber West, born in Atlanta, Georgia, playmate, Feb 1997 |
| 1974 | Jewel, born in Payson, Utah, Jewel Kilcher, singer, guitarist, actress, musician, sold over 27 million albums worldwide, hit debut album 'Pieces of You' |
| 1974 | Ken Jennings, American Celebrity |
| 1973 | Verna Vasquez, Miss Universe-best swimsuit, Curacao, 1997 |
| 1972 | Isabelle Fijalkowski, WNBA center and forward for the Cleveland Rockers |
| 1972 | Marco van Hoogdalem, Dutch soccer player, Roda JC |
| 1972 | Rene Ingoglia, running back for the Buffalo Bills |
| 1972 | Shannon Brown, NFL defensive tackle for the Atlanta Falcons |
| 1971 | Issac Booth, NFL cornerback and safety for the Cleveland Browns |
| 1971 | Joseph Rogers, CFL receiver for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers |
| 1971 | Marshall Boze, San Manual, Arizona, pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers |
| 1970 | Ricky Gutierrez, born in Miami, Florida, infielder for the Houston Astros |
| 1969 | Pat Hurst, San Leandro California, LPGA golfer, 1995 Rolex Rookie of the Year |
| 1968 | Daryl Hobbs, NFL wide receiver for the Oakland Raiders |
| 1968 | Tiffany Rochelle-Anderson, Laguna Beach California, WPVA, Nationals-13th-1995 |
| 1967 | Craig John Monk, Auckland New Zealand, finn class yachter 1996 Olympics |
| 1967 | Charlie Hunter, American Musician |
| 1966 | Gary Roberts, North York, NHL left wing for the Calgary Flames |
| 1966 | Graeme Hick, cricketer, in Zimbabwe Massive run-scorer for Worcs |
| 1966 | Helena Bonham Carter, London, actress, Ft. Worth, Howards End |
| 1965 | James Hasty, NFL cornerback for the Kansas City Chiefs |
| 1965 | Lilian Drescher, Venezuela, tennis star |
| 1965 | Woorkeri Venkat Raman, cricketer, Indian slow left-arm all-rounder |
| 1964 | Kenny Gattison, NBA forward, Orlando Magic |
| 1964 | Staci Greason, Denver, actress, Isabella Toscando-Days of Our Lives |
| 1962 | Karen Duffy, Duff, New York City, MTV VJ/actress, Meet Wally Sparks |
| 1962 | Keith Brantley, Scott AFB, Illinois, marathoner 1996 Olympics |
| 1961 | Dave Babych, Edmonton, NHL defenseman, Vancouver Canucks |
| 1961 | Drew Carey, born in Cleveland, Ohio, actor/comedian, Drew-Drew Carey Show |
| 1961 | Kevin Romine, born in Exeter, New Hampshire, professional baseball player, outfielder, played for Major Baseball team, the Boston Redsox |
| 1960 | Linden Ashby, born in Atlantic Beach, Florida, actor, television, films, known for role of Johnny Cage in the movie 'Mortal Kombat' |
| 1960 | Theo Vogelaars, pop bassist, Trockener Kecks/Paid Love |
| 1959 | Marcella Mesker, Netherlands, tennis star |
| 1958 | Shelly West, born in Cleveland, Ohio, country singer, Red Hot, West by West |
| 1958 | Thomas Reiter, Germany, cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-22 |
| 1958 | Lea DeLaria, born in Belleville, Illinois, actress, jazz musician, comedienne, prominent lesbian stand-up comic, known for her raunchy persona |
| 1958 | Mitch Albom, born in Passaic, New Jersey, author, screenwriter, sold over 26 million books worldwide, works include, 'Tuesdays with Morrie', 'The Five People You Meet in Heaven' |
| 1957 | Jimmy McShane, Pop singer, Baltimora-Tarzan Boy |
| 1955 | John Stevens, member of European Parliament, founder of the Pro-Euro Conservative party, known for his pro-Euro policy stance |
| 1954 | Marvin Hagler, American Athlete |
| 1952 | "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler, New Jersey, middleweight boxing champ, 1982-83 |
| 1952 | Deborah Adair, actress, Tracey-Dynasty, Kate-Day of Our Life |
| 1952 | James Mankey, rocker, Concrete Blonde |
| 1951 | Anatoli Karpov, U.S.S.R., world chess champion, 1975-85 |
| 1951 | Judy Rodman, Riverside California, country singer, Girls Ride Horses Too |
| 1950 | Linda Thompson, born in Memphis, Tennessee, actress, Hee Haw |
| 1950 | Martin McGuinness, Irish Politician |
| 1949 | Alan Garcia Perez, President of Peru, 1985-90 |
| 1948 | Reggie Cleveland, baseball player |
| 1948 | Gary McCord, American Athlete |
| 1947 | Ann Hui, director, Boat People |
| 1947 | Jonathan Pryce, North Wales, stage actor, Miss Saigon |
| 1945 | Elliott Bernerd, English broker/multi-millionaire |
| 1945 | Lauren Chapin, actress, Kathy-Father Knows Best |
| 1945 | Misty Morgan, country keyboardist, duo with Jack Blanchard |
| 1944 | General George Norman Johnson, U.S. singer, Down at the Beach Club |
| 1944 | Giles Smith, TV journalist |
| 1944 | Olga Maitland, born in England, born Lady Helen Olga Hay, known as Lady Olga Maitland, politician, Conservative Party |
| 1944 | Ramon "Tiki" Fulwood, U.S. drummer, Funkadelic, Knee Deep |
| 1943 | John Newcombe, Australia, tennis pro, Wimbledon 1967, 70, 71 |
| 1943 | Lars-Ake Nilsson, diplomat |
| 1943 | Norman Johnson, singer and songwriter |
| 1943 | Peter Kenilorea, Prime Minister Solomon Islands |
| 1941 | Jackson Hill, born in Birmingham, Alabama, composer, vocal music, teacher, Ph.D. Musicology, teacher, Duke University, Bucknell University |
| 1939 | Robert A. M. Stern, American Architect |
| 1938 | John R. Miller, Representative-R-Washington 1985 - 1993 |
| 1938 | Peter Preston, editor, Guardian |
| 1938 | Johnny Ball, British Entertainer |
| 1936 | Charles Kimbrough, actor, Murphy Brown |
| 1936 | Douglas John Gorman, businessman |
| 1935 | Juliet Campbell, British ambassador, to Luxembourg |
| 1935 | Lord Grenfell, head of External affairs European office, world bank |
| 1934 | Malcolm Gill, deputy head, Bank for International Settlements |
| 1934 | Robert A Moog, inventor, Moog Synthesizer |
| 1934 | Robert Moog, American Inventor |
| 1933 | Bruce A Peterson, U.S. test pilot, M2, HL-10 |
| 1933 | Gerrit J M Braks, Dutch minister of agriculture and land and fishing, CDA |
| 1933 | Joan Henrietta Collins, London, actress, Alexis-Dynasty, Bitch |
| 1933 | Joan Collins, American Actress |
| 1932 | James Lester, born in Nottingham, England, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Beeston, served as party whip, junior employment minister |
| 1932 | John Lyons, Cambridge England, Master, Trinity Hall |
| 1931 | Barbara Barrie, Chicago, actress, Breaking Away, Barney Miller |
| 1931 | Jose Telles Da Conceicao, Brazil, high jumper 1952 Olympics bronze |
| 1930 | Richard Anuszkiewicz, Erie, Pennsylvania, painter |
| 1929 | Joe Modise, South African commandant of Umkhonto we Sizwe, 1965- |
| 1929 | Ulla Jacobson, Swedish actress, One Summer of Happiness |
| 1928 | Nigel Davenport, Cambridge England, actor, Without a Clue, Masada |
| 1928 | Nina Otkalenko, U.S.S.R., 800m runner, 9 world records |
| 1928 | Rosemary Clooney, Kentucky, singer/paper towels spokeswoman, Coronet |
| 1925 | Joshua Lederberg, born in New Jersey, microbiologist, Nobel Prize winner, focused on genetics |
| 1924 | Desmond Carrington, British radio host, Jim-Calamity the Cow |
| 1924 | Michael McCrum, master, Corpus Christi College Cambridge |
| 1924 | V N Swamy, cricketer, one Test India vs. New Zealand 1955, DNB, 0-45 |
| 1923 | Alicia de Larrocha, Copenhagen Denmark, pianist, Orquesta Sinfonica |
| 1923 | Nirode Chowdhury, Indian cricket pace bowler, 1949-52 |
| 1922 | Dennis Compton, author/crickleter |
| 1921 | Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz musician/actor, It's Great to Be Young |
| 1921 | James [Benjamin] Blish, US/UK, sci-fi author, Hugo, Star Trek Reader |
| 1921 | Loren Tindall, Oklahoma, actor, Meet Me on Broadway, Girl of Limberlost |
| 1921 | Montague Modlyn, broadcaster |
| 1921 | Sanderson Temple, circuit judge |
| 1921 | James Blish, American Author |
| 1920 | Helen O'Connell, Lima Ohio, singer, Green Eyes, Anapola |
| 1920 | Sid Melton, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Alf-Green Acres, Charlie-Danny Thomas |
| 1919 | Betty Garrett, St. Joseph, Missouri, actress, Irene-All in the Family |
| 1919 | Robert KJE Antonissen, South African literary |
| 1918 | Bumps Blackwell, rocker |
| 1918 | Denis Compton, cricketer, England batsman 1938-56 and Arsenal forward |
| 1916 | M Jean Francaix, composer |
| 1916 | Margaret Hayden Rector, playwright, living legacy award 1995 |
| 1915 | Clyde Wiegand, physicist |
| 1914 | Alec Dickson, founder, VSO |
| 1914 | Barbara Ward, economist/writer, Only One Earth |
| 1914 | Leo Lerman, actor/manager/critic, Dance Magazine |
| 1914 | Travis Kemp, dancer/teacher |
| 1913 | Ian Graeme, major-general |
| 1912 | David Barran, CEO, Midland Bank, England |
| 1912 | Jean Francaix, Le Mans France, composer, Naked King |
| 1912 | John Payne, Roanoke, Virginia, actor, Restless Gun |
| 1912 | Marius Goring, Isle of Wight, actor, Herr Palitz-Holocaust |
| 1912 | Samuel Curran, vice chancellor, Strathclyde University |
| 1911 | Boris Kremenliev, composer |
| 1911 | Melvin M Payne, president, National Geographic Society |
| 1910 | Artie Shaw, Arthur Arshawsky, New York City, bandleader, Come'on my House |
| 1910 | Franz Jozef Kline, U.S. expressionist painter |
| 1910 | Hugh Casson CH, architect |
| 1910 | Scatman Crothers, Benjamin, Terre Haute, Indiana, actor, Zapped, Shining |
| 1910 | Franz Kline, American Artist |
| 1910 | Hugh Casson, British Architect |
| 1909 | Edwin Arrowsmith, diplomat |
| 1909 | Sibel Edmonds, American Public Servant |
| 1909 | Mary Cheney, American Celebrity |
| 1908 | Christian GK Baeta, Togolese chairman, International Mission Council |
| 1908 | John Bardeen, U.S., physicist, transistor, Nobel 1956, 1972 |
| 1908 | Max Abramovitz, U.S. architect, Lincoln Center, United Nations Building |
| 1907 | Kenneth Allen, engineer |
| 1907 | Matthew Campbell, British senior civil servant |
| 1906 | Hellmuth Christian Wolff, composer |
| 1903 | Walter Reisch, U.S., screenwriter, Ninotchka, Gaslight, Titanic |
| 1902 | Mark Lothar, born in Berlin, Germany, Lothar Hundertmark, composer |
| 1900 | Hans Frank, German Public Servant |
| 1898 | Frank McHugh, actor, Front Page, Gold Diggers 1935, Mighty Joe Young |
| 1898 | Joseph Hazen, lawyer |
| 1891 | Par Lagerkvist, Sweden, novelist/dramatist, Barabbas, Nobel 1951 |
| 1890 | Herbert Marshall, London, actor, Murder, Razor's Edge, Little Foxes |
| 1890 | Virginia Eames, Ft. Davis, Texas, entertainer |
| 1888 | Adrian Roland Holst, Dutch poet, Raged and Tired |
| 1883 | Douglas Fairbanks, born in Denver, Colorado, actor, Zorro/3 Musketeers/Robin Hood |
| 1882 | James Gleason, New York City, writer and actor, Bishop's Wife, Flying Fool |
| 1875 | Alfred P. Sloan, American Businessman |
| 1873 | Leo Baeck, rabbi/president, World Union for Progressive Judaism |
| 1871 | Sigurd Lie, composer |
| 1866 | Gustav Aschaffenburg, German psychiatrist/criminalologist |
| 1864 | Louis Glass, composer |
| 1862 | William "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player who lived to 99 |
| 1851 | Antoni Stolpe, composer |
| 1849 | Karoly earl Khuen-Hedervary, Premier of Hungary, 1910-12 |
| 1848 | Helmuth J L von Moltke, German general/chief of staff, WW I |
| 1848 | Otto Lilienthal, pioneer aviator |
| 1844 | 'Abdu'l-Baha, early Baha'i leader, 'Azamat 7, 1 |
| 1843 | Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia, composer |
| 1837 | James Sanks Brisbin, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1832 | Pieter J B C R van der Aa, Dutch Indologist/geographer |
| 1828 | Edward Hitchcock, America's 1st professor of physical education, Amherst College |
| 1824 | Ambrose Everett Burnside, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1820 | James Buchanan Eads, U.S., engineer/inventor, Eads Bridge-St. Louis |
| 1813 | Mason Brayman, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1812 | Henri A. Esquiros, French poet and writer, Les Vierges Folles |
| 1810 | Margaret Fuller, American Critic |
| 1799 | Thomas Hood, English poet/composer, Song of the Shirt |
| 1795 | Charles Barry, architect |
| 1794 | Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles, composer |
| 1790 | Jules-Sebastien-Cesar Dumont d'Urville, explorer |
| 1759 | Antoinio da Silva Leite, composer |
| 1756 | Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel, composer |
| 1754 | Andrea Appiana, Italian royal painter, Napoleon |
| 1753 | Giovanni Battista Viotti, violonist/composer |
| 1741 | Andrea Lucchesi, composer |
| 1737 | Louis Francois Chambray, composer |
| 1735 | Charles Joseph, prince the Ligne, Belgian Field Marshal/author |
| 1734 | Friedrich Anton Mesmer, Austria, physician/hypnotist, Mesmerism |
| 1729 | Giuseppe Parini, Italian priest/poet, Il Giorno |
| 1718 | William Hunter, obstetrician/medal writer |
| 1710 | Francois-Gaspard Adam, French sculptor, garden sculptures |
| 1707 | Carolus Linnaeus, Sweden, biological classifier |
| 1696 | Johann Caspar Vogler, composer |
| 1644 | Thomas Eisenhut, composer |
| 1620 | Pieter Neefs, the Younger, Flemish painter, baptized |
| 1617 | Elias Ashmole, antiquary |
| 1598 | Claude Mellan, French engraver/cartoonist/painter, baptized |
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