| 1990 | Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg, New York City, daughter of Caroline |
| 1981 | Danielle Christine Fishel, Mesa, Arizona, actress, Topanga-Boy Meets World |
| 1980 | Bonnie Lynn Gagnon, Miss New Hampshire Teen USA 1997 |
| 1977 | Tiffany Roberts, Petaluma, California, soccer midfielder 1996 Olympics |
| 1976 | Sage Stallone, Sylvester's son/actor, Rocky V |
| 1975 | Christine Buschur, Eagle River, Alaska, Miss America-Alaska 1997 |
| 1973 | Johan Hedberg, Nacka SWE, hockey goalie, Team Sweden, Olympics-1998 |
| 1973 | Matt Dubuc, CFL running back for the Toronto Argonauts |
| 1973 | Muhsin Muhammad, wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers |
| 1973 | Tina Yothers, born in Whittier, California, actress, singer, played role of Jennifer Keaton on television series, 'Family Ties' |
| 1972 | Barrett Brooks, NFL tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles |
| 1972 | Brigitta Boccoli, Milan, Italy, actress, Manhattan Baby |
| 1972 | Janelle Lynn Canady, Miss Alaska USA 1996 |
| 1972 | Mikael Renberg, Pitea Swe, NHL right wing, Philadelphia Flyers, TB Lightning |
| 1972 | Mike Hollis, kicker for the Jacksonville Jaguars |
| 1972 | Ron Snook, Australian rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Rushia Brown, WNBA forward and center for the Cleveland Rockers |
| 1972 | Travis Jervey, NFL running back, Green Bay Packers Superbowl 31 |
| 1972 | Wendy Kaye, born in Memphis, Tennessee, playmate, July, 1991 |
| 1972 | Zigmund Palffy, Skalica Slo, NHL right wing for the New York Islanders |
| 1971 | Harold Miner, NBA guard for the Cleveland Cavaliers |
| 1971 | Keith Hamilton, defensive end for the New York Giants |
| 1971 | Ken Brown, NFL linebacker for the Denver Broncos |
| 1971 | Reggie Jones, wide receiver for the Kansas City Chiefs |
| 1970 | Harold Nash, CFL halfback, Montreal Alouettes |
| 1970 | LaPhonso Ellis, NBA forward for the Denver Nuggets |
| 1969 | Bryan Ivie, Torrance California, volleyball middle blocker, Bronze Medals 1992, 1996 Olympics |
| 1968 | Craig Hendrickson, CFL tackle for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers |
| 1968 | Michael Titley, WLAF TE for the London Monarchs |
| 1968 | Robert David Burns, Mission Hills, California, PGA golfer, 1994 Buick-5th |
| 1968 | Tim Neilsen, cricket wicket-keeper, South Australian 1991 |
| 1967 | Brad Baxter, NFL fullback for the New York Jets |
| 1967 | Charles Nagy, Fairfield, Connecticut, pitcher, Cleveland Indians |
| 1966 | Mike Stapleton, Sarnia, NHL center, Winnipeg Jets |
| 1965 | Paul Frase, NFL defensive tackle for the Jacksonville Jaguars |
| 1964 | Heike Henkel, born in West Germany, world record indoor high jumper 1992 |
| 1964 | Lorraine McIntosh, British pop singer, Deacon Blue-Fellow Hoodlums |
| 1964 | Ulrich Wilson, soccer player, FC Volendam |
| 1961 | Hiro Hase, born in Oyabe, Japan, professional wrestler, worked for All Japan Pro Wrestling, transitioned to position of chairman for the PWF, in the Japanese parliament |
| 1959 | Ian McCulloch, rock vocalist, Echo and Bunnymen-Heaven Up Here |
| 1959 | Brian Williams, American Journalist |
| 1957 | Lisa Eilbacher, Dharan, Saudi Arabia, actress, Beverly Hills Cop |
| 1957 | Thereza Bazaar, rocker, Dollar-Love's Gotta Hold on Me |
| 1956 | Dick Kemper, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, rock vocalist/bassist, Vandenberg |
| 1955 | Melinda Culea, Western Springs, Illinois, actress, A-Team, Brotherly Love |
| 1955 | Robert Feld, born in Nashville, Tennessee, National Scrabble Champion 1990 |
| 1954 | Angelo Kimball, born in Boston, Massachusetts, rock guitarist, Face To Face |
| 1954 | Dagmar Wohrl, born in West Germany, Miss Germany, 1977 |
| 1954 | John Greg Adams, born in Scottsdale, Arizona, PGA golfer, 1982 Hall of Fame-2nd |
| 1954 | Peter Erskine, jazz drummer, Weather Report |
| 1953 | Billy Burnette, born in Memphis, Tennessee, rock guitarist, Fleetwood Mac |
| 1952 | Louis Cortelezzi, rock saxophonist, Mink DeVille |
| 1951 | Rex Goh, rock guitarist, Air Supply |
| 1950 | Maggie MacNeal, Dutch singer, Mouth and MacNeal, I See a Star |
| 1949 | Anna Bergman, Stockholm Sweden, actress, Agent 69 |
| 1948 | Bill Ward, born in Birmingham, England, musician, vocalist, drummer for Black Sabbath, a British heavy metal band, sang lead vocals on Technical Ecstacy, Never Say Die! |
| 1948 | Frank Esier-Smith, rocker |
| 1946 | Stefania Sandrelli, Viareggio Italy, actress, Lie, Conformist, 1900 |
| 1945 | Jiri Svoboda, composer, Accumulator 1 |
| 1945 | Raphael, Spain, spanish singer, When the Sun Sets, Lo Meyur de Ano |
| 1945 | Charlie Gonzalez, American Politician |
| 1944 | Jean-Pierre Leaud, Paris, France, actor, Detective |
| 1944 | John Rhys-Davies, Salisbury England, actor, Sir Edward-Quest, Sliders |
| 1944 | Roger Raised, English actor, Nicholas Nickleby |
| 1943 | Michael Palin, England, comedian, Monty Python, Fish Called Wanda |
| 1942 | Amy Hill, actress, Grandma-Seinfeld, Pauly Shore |
| 1942 | Tammy Wynette, Redbay Alabama, country singer, Stand by your Man |
| 1941 | Aleksandr Ragulin, born in U.S.S.R., ice hockey player, Gold Medals 1964, 1968, 1972 Olympics |
| 1941 | Howie Komives, NBA star, New York Knicks, Buffalo Braves |
| 1940 | Eric Burdon, rock singer, House of Rising Sun-Animals, War |
| 1940 | Lance Henriksen, actor, Aliens, Pumpkinhead, Knights, Hard Target |
| 1939 | James Robert Jones, born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, Representative-D-Oklahoma 1973 - 1987 |
| 1938 | Jerzy Skolimowski, Warsaw, Poland, director, Hands Up, Deep End |
| 1938 | Johnnie Taylor, U.S. gospel singer, I Believe in You |
| 1938 | Michael Murphy, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Unmarried Woman |
| 1937 | Rob Van Gennep, publisher |
| 1937 | Robert O "Rob" van Gennep, Dutch publisher, Guevara, Gorz, Mandel |
| 1937 | Tran Duc Luong, Vietnamese Statesman |
| 1935 | Douglas Marland, West Sand Lake, New York, soap opera writer, General Hospital |
| 1935 | Bernard Pivot, French Journalist |
| 1934 | John J. Sweeney, American Businessman |
| 1933 | Barbara Taylor Bradford, English Novelist |
| 1932 | Will Hutchins, Atwater, California, actor, Sugarfoot, Hey Landlord |
| 1930 | Michael James Adams, USAF pilot, X-15 |
| 1929 | John S Ragin, Newark, New Jersey, actor, Dr. Astin-Quincy ME |
| 1927 | Charles Rosen, New York City, pianist/musicologist, Sonata Forms |
| 1927 | Pat Carroll, Shrevport, Louisiana, comedienne/actress, Make Room for Daddy |
| 1927 | Sid O'Linn, cricketer, soccer for South Africa 1947, cricket 1960 |
| 1926 | Ann B. Davis, Schenectady, New York, actress, Bob Cummings Show, Brady Bunch |
| 1925 | Monica Lewis, actress, Box Office |
| 1924 | Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Buenos Aires, director, Monday's Child |
| 1924 | Theo Olof, German/Netherlands violinist, prodigy, concert master |
| 1923 | Godfrey Quigley, actor, Barry Lyndon, Educating Rita, Rooney |
| 1922 | Jay D. Miller, record producer |
| 1922 | Phil Gordon, Meridian Mississippi, singer and actor, Jasper-Bev Hillbillies |
| 1922 | Joseph Stefano, American Writer |
| 1921 | Sonja Oosterman, Dutch singer, Marketensters |
| 1920 | John Hidalgo Moya, architect/designer, Skylon |
| 1919 | George London, Montreal Canada, bass-baritone, Monterone-Rigoleto |
| 1919 | Tony Canadeo, Chicago, NFL hall of fame halfback for the Green Bay Packers |
| 1917 | Ron Saggers, cricket wicket-keeper, effective NSW and Aussie late 40's |
| 1916 | Mutal' Burkhanov, composer |
| 1915 | Richard H. Rovere, Jersey City, journalist, Goldwater Caper |
| 1913 | Tyrone Power, Cleveland, actor, Mark of Zorro, Alexander's Ragtime Band |
| 1912 | Alice Faye, Ann Leppert, New York City, actress, Barricade, State Fair |
| 1912 | W Fenton Morley, preacher |
| 1911 | Giles Grangier, film director |
| 1911 | Norman Oldfield, cricketer, English batsman one Test vs. WI 1939, 80 and 19 |
| 1911 | Phillip Edmund Clinton Manson-Bahr, specialist in tropical medicine |
| 1910 | William I Martin, U.S. pilot/Vice-Admiral, WW II |
| 1909 | Miklos Radnoti, writer |
| 1909 | Terry Gross, American Journalist |
| 1909 | Simon Conway Morris, British Scientist |
| 1909 | Wietse Venema, Dutch Scientist |
| 1908 | Jacques Massu, French general, Algeria |
| 1908 | Rex Harrison, Reginald Carey, England, actor, My Fair Lady, Cleopatra |
| 1907 | Benny Baker, St. Joseph, Missouri, actor, 18 Again, Sting II, Thunderbirds |
| 1907 | Kenneth Muir, English scholar |
| 1907 | Yoritsune Matsudaira, composer |
| 1906 | Ursula Jeans, Simla India. actress, I Lived With You, Over the Moon |
| 1905 | Arnold Meijer, Dutch leader of fascist Dutch National/Black Front |
| 1905 | Robert Houben, Belgian CVP-minister of Public health, 1958 |
| 1904 | Gordon Richards, British jockey, winner of 4,870 races |
| 1903 | James Beard, U.S., culinary expert/author, Delights and Prejudices |
| 1900 | Charles Jewtraw, U.S., 500m speed skater 1924 Olympics gold |
| 1900 | Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, German composer and conductor, Hassan gewinnt |
| 1900 | Mervyn A. Ellison, British astronomer, spectrohelioscope |
| 1899 | Freeman Gosden, Richmond, Virginia, radio actor, Amos-Amos 'n' Andy |
| 1897 | Kenneth Burke, born in America, philosopher, literary theorist, Agnostic, awarded Guggenheim Fellowship 1935, music critic for 'The Nation', editor, 'The Dial' literary magazine, attended Columbia University |
| 1894 | Kit Guard, Denmark, actor, El Diablo Rides, Kid Courageous |
| 1890 | Christopher Morley, author, Kitty Foil |
| 1889 | Herbie Taylor, cricketer, prolific South African pre- and post-WWI |
| 1887 | Estelle Hemsley, Boston MA |
| 1887 | Lord Geoffrey Fisher of Lambeth, archbishop of Canterbury |
| 1887 | Geoffrey Fisher, Clergyman |
| 1886 | Manuel Borguno, composer |
| 1885 | Henri Velge, 1st chairman, Belgian Council of State |
| 1884 | Wang Tjing-Wei, premier China, 1932-35 |
| 1883 | Charles Bender, only American Indian in baseball's Hall of Fame |
| 1883 | Leopold Samuel, composer |
| 1883 | Petar Konjovic, composer |
| 1883 | Archibald Wavell, British Soldier |
| 1882 | Douglas Mawson, born in Yorkshire, England, Antarctic explorer, geologist, member, Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod expedition, among first to reach South Magnetic Pole |
| 1879 | Symon Petlyura, leader Ukraine, pogroms |
| 1871 | Alberto Cametti, composer |
| 1869 | Hans Erich Pfitzner, born in Moscow, Russia, composer, Krakquer Begrus |
| 1867 | Nellie Bly, Elizabeth Cochran Seaman, journalist |
| 1867 | Thomas Tertius Noble, composer |
| 1865 | Felicjan Szopski, composer |
| 1863 | Frederik A. Stoett, linguist, Dutch Proverbs |
| 1862 | Max Elskamp, Belgian author and poet, Lesson Joies Blondes, Maya |
| 1854 | Antonio Smareglia, composer |
| 1849 | Hambletonian, Chester, New York, greatest standardbred horse |
| 1848 | Adalbert von Goldschmidt, composer |
| 1846 | Federico Chueca, composer |
| 1846 | Henryk Sienkiewicz, Poland, author, Quo Vadis, Nobel 1905 |
| 1842 | Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, composer |
| 1835 | Leopold II, Belgian crown prince, baptized |
| 1833 | Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer/explorer |
| 1832 | H H Bancroft, historian, publisher, History of Pacific States |
| 1830 | Thomas Edward Brown, British Poet |
| 1826 | Eugenie M de Montijo y de Guzman, Empress of France |
| 1823 | James Allen Hardie, Major General Union Army |
| 1819 | Stanislaw Moniuszko, Polish composer |
| 1818 | Karl Marx, philosopher, Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital |
| 1817 | George Washington Julian, MC, Union |
| 1815 | Eugene-Marin Labiche, French playwright |
| 1813 | Soren Kierkegaard, Denmark, philosopher, founded Existentialism |
| 1804 | Jacob Kats, Flemish writer, Earthly Paradise |
| 1800 | Louis Hachette, French publisher, Librairie Hachette |
| 1749 | Jean-Frederic Edelmann, composer |
| 1715 | Daniel Dal Barba, composer |
| 1680 | Giuseppe Porsile, composer |
| 1657 | Jacques Danican Philidor, composer |
| 1635 | Philippe Quinault, French playwright, L'amant indiscret |
| 1557 | Emmanuel-Philibert van Lalaing, baron of Montigny/marquis of Renty |
| 1352 | Ruprecht, Roman catholic German king |
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