| 1981 | Kirsty-Leigh Brown, Australia, gymnast 1996 Olympics |
| 1977 | Tammy Leigh Ashton, Miss North Carolina Teen USA 1996 |
| 1975 | Sarah Pitkowski, Seclin France, tennis star, 1995 Futures-Koksijde |
| 1973 | George Harris, WLAF cornerback for the London Monarchs |
| 1973 | Samantha Riley, Brisbane Australia, breastroker, Silver Medal 1996 Olympics, Bronze Medals 1992, 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Kimberlee Ann McKay, Belle Fourche, South Dakota, Miss America-SD 1996 |
| 1971 | Anthony Whiteman, England, 800m/1500m runner |
| 1971 | Craig Powell, NFL linebacker for the Cleveland Browns |
| 1971 | John Francis Zingg, born in Boston, Massachusetts, rocker, 4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun Boys |
| 1971 | Matthew Minagall, cricketer, S Australian lefty wrist-spinner 1991-95 |
| 1971 | Noah Hathaway, actor, Troll, Neverending Story |
| 1971 | Ron Rivers, NFL running back, Detroit Lions |
| 1969 | Gerard Butler, Scottish Actor |
| 1969 | Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dutch Politician |
| 1968 | Mark Fitzpatrick, Toronto, NHL goalie for the Florida Panthers |
| 1968 | Pat Hentgen, born in Detroit, Michigan, pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays |
| 1968 | Tami Whitlinger-Jones, Neenah Wisconsin, tennis star, 1995 Futures-Sedona |
| 1967 | Randi Ingerman, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, actress, Trade Winds |
| 1967 | Steve Christie, NFL kicker for the Buffalo Bills |
| 1967 | Steve Zahn, born in Marshall, Minnesota, actor, appeared in films, 'Reality Bites', 'That Thing You Do', 'Happy Texas', 'Riding in Cars with Boys' |
| 1967 | Jimmy Kimmel, American Celebrity |
| 1966 | Rumeal Robinson, NBA guard, Portland Trail Blazers, Detroit Pistons |
| 1965 | Kevin Gamble, NBA guard for the Sacramento Kings |
| 1965 | Rob Natal, born in Long Beach, California, catcher for the Florida Marlins |
| 1965 | Sheryl Boyle, Renfrew Ontario, kayaker 1996 Olympics |
| 1965 | Zeljko Petrovic, soccer player, FC The Bosch/RKC |
| 1964 | Ronald Agenor, Rabat Morocco, tennis player, 1989 French quarters |
| 1963 | Thilo Timothy Newman, Hamburg Germany, writer, Freejack, Alien |
| 1963 | Vinny Testaverde, NFL quarterback, Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens |
| 1962 | Blair Rasmussen, NBA center for the Atlanta Hawks |
| 1962 | Gaetano Orlando, hockey forward, Team Italy 1998 |
| 1961 | Edwin "Rick" Bakker, Dutch author: Rick's Report, AIDS Diary |
| 1959 | Anne Manning, Australian walker 1996 Olympics |
| 1959 | Rosie Jones, born in Santa Ana California, LPGA golfer, 1988 USX Golf Classic |
| 1958 | Linda Jackson, born in Montreal, Quebec, cyclist 1996 Olympics |
| 1957 | Ronald Shusett, Hamburg Germany, author, Project Mankind |
| 1956 | Aldo Nova, rocker, Blood on the Bricks |
| 1954 | Christopher Noth, born in Madison, Wisconsin, actor, played Mr. Big on show, 'Sex in the City' |
| 1954 | Scott McNealy, American Businessman |
| 1954 | Chris Noth, American Actor |
| 1953 | Andy "the Clobberer" Ranken, English pop drummer, The Pogues |
| 1953 | Larry Miller, comedian, Dream On, Favor, Dream Lover |
| 1953 | Tracy Scoggins, Galveston, Texas, actress, Colbys, Gumshoe Kid |
| 1953 | Frances Conroy, American Actress |
| 1951 | Beth Anders, born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, field hockey sweeper, Bronze Medal 1984 Olympics |
| 1951 | Bill Gibson, California, rock drummer, Huey Lewis and The News |
| 1951 | Janet Collins, ballerina, 1st Black dancer with Opera Co, Aida |
| 1950 | Gilbert Perreault, NHL center, over 500 goals |
| 1949 | Roger Steen, rock guitarist and vocalist, Tubes |
| 1949 | Terry Reid, rock guitarist, River, Bang Bang You're Terry Reid |
| 1949 | Whoopi Goldberg, Caryn Johnson, New York City, actress, Color Purple, Burglar |
| 1948 | Sheila Frazier, New York City, actress, Gloria-Lazarus Syndrome |
| 1947 | Joe Mantegna, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, House of Games, Weeds |
| 1946 | Al Luginbill, Pomona California, WLAF head coach for the Amsterdam Admirals |
| 1946 | Martin Bresnick, composer |
| 1944 | Ken Shuttleworth, cricketpaceman, England on 1970-71 Ashes tour |
| 1944 | Timmy Thomas, U.S. singer and songwriter, Why Can't We Live Together |
| 1944 | Wouter R van Romondt, Dutch/Dutch Antillean cartoonist |
| 1943 | John Paul Hammond, New York City, blues singer, So Many Roads |
| 1943 | Robert Jay Sigel, Narberth, Pennsylvania, PGA golfer, 1994 GTE West Classic |
| 1943 | Howard Wilkinson, English Coach |
| 1942 | Beth Brickell, Camden Arkansas, actress, Gentle Ben |
| 1941 | Dack Rambo, Delano California, actor, Guns of Will Sonnett, Dallas |
| 1941 | Mel Stottlemyre, Wash, pitcher, New York Yankee, pitching coach, New York Met |
| 1940 | Jack Birkenshaw, cricketer, England off-spinner 1973-74 |
| 1940 | Joan Haanappel, figure skater/sports reporter |
| 1940 | Justine "Baby" Washington, U.S. singer, Only Those in Love |
| 1938 | Jean Seberg, Marshaltown Iowa, actress, Breathless, Paint Your Wagon |
| 1937 | Kamahl, Kamalesvaran, Australian singer, Elephant Song |
| 1935 | Thomas Augustine Martin, academic |
| 1935 | George Carey, English Clergyman |
| 1935 | Tom Atkins, American Politician |
| 1934 | Garry Marshall, New York City, producer, Laverne and Shirley |
| 1934 | Peter Arnett, born in Riverton, New Zealand, journalist, worked for CNN |
| 1933 | Adrienne Corri, born in Glasgow, Scotland, actress, River, Dr. Zhivago |
| 1933 | Peter Hartling, born in Chemnitz, Germany, writer, poet, managing director, S. Fisher Verlag publishing house, editor, Der Monat, magazine |
| 1932 | Olga Connolly-Fikotova, Czechoslovakia, U.S. discus thrower 1956 Olympics gold |
| 1932 | Richard Mulligan, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Soap, Empty's Nest, Big Bus |
| 1931 | Anthony Jacobs, English industrialist, BSM |
| 1931 | Joan Lestor, born in England, Baroness Lestor of Eccles, politician, Labor Party, teacher, founding editor, Searchlight, anti-fascist magazine |
| 1931 | John A Manke, U.S. test pilot, HL-10 |
| 1930 | Fred R. Harris, born in Oklahoma, Senator-D-Oklahoma 1964 - 1973 |
| 1930 | Nico Scheepmaker, Dutch columnist/poet |
| 1929 | Steef C Weijers, Dutch MP, CDA |
| 1926 | Max Vernon Mathews, composer |
| 1925 | Inez van Dullemen, Dutch author |
| 1923 | Linda Christian, Tampico, Mexico, actress, Athena, VIPs, Battle Zone |
| 1922 | Jack Narz, born in Louisville, Kentucky, TV gameshow host, Dotto, Video Village |
| 1922 | Madeleine Sherwood, Montreal, actress, Mother Superior-Flying Nun |
| 1922 | Oskar Werner, film actor and director, Shoes of the Fisherman, Das Ekel |
| 1921 | Eddie Calhoun, jazz bassist |
| 1921 | Joonas Kokkonen, composer |
| 1921 | Yoshiro Irino, composer |
| 1918 | Janine Andrade, French violinist |
| 1917 | Robert Sterling, Newcastle, Pennsylvania, actor, George Kirby-Adv of Topper |
| 1916 | Jack Elam, Miami, Arizona, actor, The Dakotas, East Street, Rio Lobo |
| 1915 | Howard Cooke, Jamaica, 1991 Mico Gold Medal Award |
| 1915 | Robert Sutton, electronics engineer |
| 1913 | Alexander Scourby, Brooklyn, actor, Jesus, Shaggy Dog, Giant |
| 1909 | Gunnar Bjornstrand, Stockholm Sweden, actor, Shame, Dreams |
| 1909 | Paul de Vree, Flemish author, Between Doubt and Tears |
| 1907 | Josef B Kjellgren, Swedish writer, Guldkedjan |
| 1907 | Lewis Boddington, aerospace engineer |
| 1906 | Conrad Thibault, Northbridge Massachusetts, singer, Jacques Fray Music Room |
| 1906 | Hermione Baddeley, England, actress, Camp Runamuck, Maude, Good Life |
| 1904 | Gertrude Olmsted, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, The Monster |
| 1902 | Gustav von Koenigswald, paleontologist, found Pithecanthropus erectus |
| 1899 | Iskander Mirza, Pakistani Statesman |
| 1898 | Earl Sande, jockey, Hall of Famer |
| 1896 | Nobusuke Kishi, premier of Japan, 1957-60 |
| 1893 | Edward A Doisy Sr, U.S. bio-chemist, Vitamin K1, Nobel 1943 |
| 1885 | Montague Fawcett Phillips, composer |
| 1885 | Antonio Porchia, Italian Poet |
| 1882 | John Lowry, Mount Vernon, New York, New York City builder, Radio City Music Hall |
| 1879 | Maurice Delage, composer |
| 1878 | John C Kielstra, Dutch economist/governor of Suriname, 1933-44 |
| 1875 | Rogelio del Villar, composer |
| 1870 | Henry Kolker, Quincy, Illinois, actor, Real Glory, Thoroughbreds Don't Cry |
| 1868 | Pierre Maurice, composer |
| 1866 | Abraham Flexner, American Educator |
| 1858 | Percy McDonnell, cricketer, Australian batsman of the 1880's |
| 1856 | Louis D. Brandeis, Massachusetts, 68th Supreme Court Justice, 1916-39 |
| 1856 | Sigwart Aspestrand, composer |
| 1856 | Justice Brandeis, American Lawyer |
| 1855 | Daniel F Scheurleer, Dutch musicologist/banker |
| 1854 | George Whitfield Chadwick, Lowell Massachusetts, composer, Judi Van Winke |
| 1850 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Scotland, author, Treasure Island |
| 1848 | Albert HK, monarch of Monaco, 1889-1922 |
| 1838 | Joseph F Smith, 6th President of Mormon church |
| 1834 | Ignacio M Altamirano, Mexican author, El Zarco |
| 1833 | Edwin Thomas Booth, U.S., U.S. Hall of Fame/actor, Hamlet |
| 1833 | Edwin Booth, American Actor |
| 1831 | James Maxwell, Edinburgh Scot, physicist, Treatise on Electricity |
| 1819 | Henry Brinley Richards, British? pianist/composer |
| 1814 | Joseph Hooker, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1813 | John Wolcott Phelps, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1813 | Peter II Petrovic Njegos, poet/ruler of Montenegro, 1830 - 1851 |
| 1811 | Yuri Arnold, composer |
| 1809 | John AB Dahlgren, U.S. Union Lieutenant-Admiral/inventor, Civil war Dahlgren-cannon |
| 1804 | Theophilus Hunter Holmes, Lieutenant General Confederate Army |
| 1792 | Edward John Trelawney, England, traveler/author, Adv of Younger Son |
| 1789 | Martin de Ron, composer |
| 1785 | Lady Caroline Lamb, British Celebrity |
| 1759 | Timothy Olmstead, composer |
| 1718 | Anton Laube, composer |
| 1714 | William Shenstone, English Poet |
| 1710 | Charles Simon Favart, French Dramatist |
| 1699 | Jan Zach, born in Celakovice, Czech Republic, composer, organist, violinist, composed Baroque and classical music |
| 1679 | Thomas-Philippe d'alsace et de Boussu, South Netherland cardinal |
| 1663 | Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, composer |
| 1559 | Albrecht/Albertus, archduke of Austria/cardinal/viceroy of Portugal |
| 1504 | Philip the Generous, landgrave of Hesse |
| 354 | [Christian] Aurelius Augustine, bp of Hippo in Roman Africa |
| 354 | Saint Augustine, born in Souk Ahras, Algeria, saint and Doctor of the Church, patron saint of brweers, printers, and theologians |
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