| 1984 | Scarlett Johansson, American Actress |
| 1978 | Magdalena Grzybowska, Poznan Pol, tennis star, 1995 Futures Slovakia |
| 1977 | Devyn Puett, actress, Kids Incorporated |
| 1976 | Taryn Mansell, Aruba, Miss Universe-2nd place 1996 |
| 1976 | Ville Valo, born in Helsinki, Finland, musician, singer, songwriter, leader, HIM rock band, baritone voice, Moto Moto in Finnish version of movie, Madagaskar 2 |
| 1974 | Meike Babel, Langen Germany, tennis star, 1991 Futures-Paderborn-GER |
| 1973 | Alexandra Fusai, St. Cloud France, tennis star, 1995 Futures-Szczecin |
| 1973 | Brandon Paulsen, Coon Rapids, Minnesota, greco-roman wrestler, Silver Medal 1996 Olympics |
| 1973 | Cassie Campbell, ice hockey defenseman, Canada, 1998 Olympics |
| 1973 | Michael Murphy, Brisbane QLD Queensland Australia, diver 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Mavan Atapattu, cricketer, Sri Lankan Test batsman |
| 1972 | Tricia Tan, Miss Singapore Universe 1997 |
| 1971 | Lloyd Kammeron, soccer player, Feyenoord, Go Ahead Eagles |
| 1971 | Tyoka Jackson, defensive end for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| 1971 | Yone Kamio, Yokohama Japan, tennis star, 1995 semi-finalist Hobart |
| 1970 | Alison Korn, Ottawa Ontario, rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1969 | Byron Houston, NBA forward for the Sacramento Kings |
| 1969 | John Parrella, NFL defensive tackle for the San Diego Chargers |
| 1969 | Katrin Krabbe, Neubrandenburg, East Germany, 100m/200m, World Champ 1991 |
| 1969 | Marjane Satrapi, Iranian Artist |
| 1968 | Daedra Charles, WNBA forward and center for the Los Angeles Sparks |
| 1968 | Darryl Hardy, NFL linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys |
| 1968 | Irina Privalova, Russia, 100m/200m/400m runner |
| 1968 | Jonathan Moss, Tenafly, New Jersey, rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1968 | Rasmus Lerdorf, born in Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland, created PHP programming language, Open Source conference speaker, contributed to Apache HTTP Server |
| 1967 | Boris Becker, West Germany, tennis player, Wimbledon 1985, 86, 89 |
| 1967 | Donald Hollas, quarterback for the Oakland Raiders |
| 1967 | Mark Ruffalo, American Actor |
| 1966 | Brian Robbins, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Eric-Head of the Class |
| 1966 | Nicholas Rowe, born in London, England, actor, Young Sherlock Holmes |
| 1965 | Eric Allen, NFL cornerback for the New Orleans Saints |
| 1965 | Mike Benjamin, Euclid Ohio, infielder for the Philadelphia Phillies |
| 1965 | R Duncan Douglas, New York City, biathelete 1994 Olympics |
| 1964 | Akram Raza, cricketer, Pakistani off-spin all-rounder |
| 1964 | Benoit Benjamin, NBA center for the Milwaukee Bucks |
| 1964 | David Tate, NFL defensive back for the Indianapolis Colts |
| 1964 | Gene Atkins, NFL safety for the Miami Dolphins |
| 1964 | Maggie Will, Whiteville, North Carolina, LPGA golfer, 1992 Sara Lee Classic |
| 1964 | Pierre Vercheval, CFL guard for the Toronto Argonauts |
| 1964 | Stephen Geoffreys, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, actor, Faternity Vacation |
| 1963 | Corinne Russell, Birmingham England, comedienne, Benny Hill Show |
| 1963 | Helen Reale, New York City, WPVA volleyballer, Manhattan Beach-7th-1994 |
| 1963 | Hugh Millen, NFL quarterback for the Denver Broncos |
| 1962 | Cleo Fields, born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Representative-D-Louisiana 1993 - 1997 |
| 1962 | Steve DeOssie, NFL inside linebacker for the New England Patriots |
| 1961 | Joel Ashley Edwards, born in Dallas, Texas, PGA golfer, 1992 BC Open-2nd |
| 1961 | Mariel Hemingway, Ketchum Id, actress, Personal Best, Civil Wars |
| 1960 | Eg White, rocker, Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret |
| 1960 | Tommy Masters, Framingham, Massachusetts, Nike golfer, 1994 NIKE Carolina-50th |
| 1958 | Jamie Lee Curtis, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Anything But Love, Halloween |
| 1958 | Lee Guetterman, Chattanooga, Tennessee, pitcher, New York Yankees, Seattle Mariners |
| 1957 | Sharon Bailey, rocker, Amazulu-Excitable |
| 1955 | James Edwards, NBA center, Chicago Bulls |
| 1955 | Sue Novara-Reber, born in Flint, Michigan, cyclist, 1975 World sprint champ |
| 1955 | Wayne Tolleson, born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, professional baseball player, switch hitter, played for the Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees |
| 1953 | Wayne Larkins, cricketer, England opening batsman of 80's |
| 1950 | Greg Luzinski, baseball player, Phillies, White Sox |
| 1950 | Little Steven, Van Zandt, Asbury Park, New Jersey, rocker, Born to Run |
| 1950 | Lyman Bostock, professional baseball player, outfielder, Minnesota Twins and California Angels Major League Baseball teams |
| 1950 | [Ma]Tina Weymouth, Coronado California, rock bassist, Talking Heads-& She Was |
| 1950 | Tina Weymouth, American Musician |
| 1947 | Alfredo Cristiani, president of El Salvador, 1989-94 |
| 1947 | Rod Price, rocker, Foghat |
| 1946 | Aston Barrett, Jamaican reggae bassist, I Shot the Sheriff |
| 1946 | Hans Kombrink, sociologist/Dutch undersecretary of Finance, PvdA |
| 1944 | Robert Iliffe, English publisher, Coventry Evening Telegraph |
| 1943 | Billie Jean King, Cal, tennis pro, Wimbledon 1968, 72, 73, 75 |
| 1943 | Floyd Sneed, Calgary, rock drummer, Three Dog Night-Joy to the World |
| 1943 | George Darden, born in Georgia, Representative-D-Georgia 1983 - 1995 |
| 1943 | Mushtaq Mohammad, cricketer, Pakistan leg-spin all-rounder 1959-79 |
| 1942 | Guion Steward Bluford, Jr., Philadelphia, Col USAF/astr, STS-8, 61A, 39, 53 |
| 1942 | Steve Caldwell, rocker, Orleans |
| 1941 | Jacques LaPerriere, NHL defensive Hall of Famer |
| 1941 | Ron McClure, rocker, Blood, Sweat and Tears |
| 1941 | Tom Conti, Paisley Scotland, actor, Reuben Reuben, American Dreamer |
| 1940 | Terry Gilliam, Minneapolis, comedy author-animator, Monty Python |
| 1939 | Allen Garfield, Newark, New Jersey, actor, Candidate, Beverly Hills Cop II |
| 1937 | Zenon Jankowski, Poland cosmonaut, Soyuz 30 backup |
| 1936 | Hans Zender, born in Wiesbaden, Germany, composer, conductor, music professor, Conductor in Chief of the Chamber Orchestra of Radio Netherlands in Hilversum, Southwest German Radio guest conductor |
| 1935 | Ludmila Belousova Protopopov, born in U.S.S.R., pairs skater, Gold Medals 1964, 1968 Olympics |
| 1935 | Michael Callan, Calinieff, Philadelphia, actor, Peter-Occasional Wife |
| 1932 | Robert Vaughn, New York City, actor, Napolean Solo-Man from UNCLE, I Spy |
| 1930 | John Paul Schiffer, Senator R-Wyoming |
| 1930 | Owen Kay Garriott, Enid Oklahoma, astronaut, Skylab 3, STS-9 |
| 1928 | Juno Stover-Irwin, U.S., diver 1956 Olympics silver |
| 1928 | Pat Smythe, England, equestrian jumper 1956 Olympics bronze |
| 1927 | Grady "Fats" Jackson, tenor sax player |
| 1926 | Lew Burdette, baseball player |
| 1926 | Zulfiqar Ahmed, Pakistani cricket pace bowler, 9 Tests 1952-56 |
| 1925 | Gunther Schuller, New York City, hornist/composer, Visitation |
| 1924 | Axel Borup-Jorgensen, composer |
| 1924 | Geraldine Page, Kirksville Mo, Interiors, Trip to Bountiful |
| 1923 | Arthur Hiller, director, Love Story |
| 1923 | Dika Newlin, born in Portland, Oregon, composer, child prodigy, began composing music at age 7, completed high school at 12, studied with Schoenberg at University of California at Los Angeles |
| 1922 | Fikret Dzhamil Amirov, Kirovabad Russia, Azerbaijani composer, Shur |
| 1921 | Rodney Dangerfield, John Cohen, Babylon, New York, comedian, Caddyshack |
| 1919 | Wilfred Norman Aldridge, biochemist/toxicologist |
| 1918 | Claiborne Pell, born in New York, sponsor of the Pell Grant, U.S. State Senator from Rhode Island |
| 1917 | Jean-Etienne Marie, composer |
| 1914 | Peter Woolridge Townsend, war hero courtier writer |
| 1913 | Benjamin Britten, Lowestoft Suffolk England, composer, Beggar's Opera |
| 1912 | Doris Duke, New York City, multi-millionaire, American Tobacco heiress |
| 1912 | Eric Stuart Woord, archaeologist |
| 1909 | Theodorus H J Zwartkruis, Bishop of Haarlem Netherlands, 1966-83 |
| 1908 | Michael Balfour, historian |
| 1907 | Bernard Naylor, composer |
| 1907 | Dick Bartell, baseball player |
| 1906 | Howard Petrie, Beverly, Massachusetts, actor, Border River, Bounty Hunter |
| 1906 | Lee Patrick, New York City, actress, Henrietta-Topper, Maltese Falcon |
| 1905 | James Burnham, philosopher, Coming Defeat of Communism |
| 1904 | Louis Neel, French physicist, Nobel 1970 |
| 1904 | Roland Winters, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actor, Mama, Smothers Brothers |
| 1903 | Herbert Sally Frankel, economist |
| 1902 | Emanuel Feuermann, born in Kolomea, Galicia, cellist, Chicago Symphony Orchestra |
| 1901 | Joaquin Rodrigo, Sagunto Valencia Spain, composer, Juglares |
| 1899 | Hoagy Carmichael, Bloomington, Indiana, actor/songwriter, Stardust |
| 1898 | Wiley Post, Grand Plain, Texas, aviator/parachutist, crashed in Alaska |
| 1896 | Mario La Broca, composer |
| 1896 | Nikolai S Tichonov, Russian writer, against Pasternak, |
| 1893 | M Kaganovitsj Kogan, people's commissioner for Stalin |
| 1891 | Bengt Axel von Torne, composer |
| 1891 | Edward Bernays, public relations expert |
| 1891 | Erik Lindahl, Swedish economist, Theory of Money and Capital |
| 1890 | Charles de Gaulle, Lille, France, President of France, 1958-69 |
| 1888 | Tarzan, of the Apes, according to Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel |
| 1877 | Endre Ady, Hungarian poet, Uj versek, Ver es arany |
| 1875 | Elizabeth Patterson, Savannah, Tennessee, actress, Climax, Tall Story |
| 1875 | Georges Rency, Belgian poet |
| 1873 | Johnny Tyldesley, cricketer, brother of Ernest, 31 Tests for England |
| 1873 | Leopold CMS Amery, British minister of Colonies, India |
| 1870 | Howard Brockway, composer |
| 1869 | Andre Gide, France, novelist, Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel 1947 |
| 1868 | John Nance Garner, D, 32nd Vice President, 1933-41 |
| 1857 | George Gissing, English author, Thyrza, Crown of Life |
| 1856 | Heber J Grant, Salt Lake City, 7th President of Mormon church |
| 1852 | Paul H B d'Estornelles de Constant, French diplomat/pacifist |
| 1849 | Friedrich von Bernhardi, Germany historian, Germany and the Next War |
| 1842 | Anna S Barbiers, actress, Uncle Tom |
| 1838 | Jose Augusto da Ferreira Veiga, Viscount d' Arneiro, composer |
| 1835 | Frank Crawford Armstrong, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1832 | George Henry Chapman, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1823 | Nathan Kimball, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1819 | George Eliot, Mary A Evans, England, author, Silas Marner |
| 1818 | Samuel Gibbs French, Major General Confederate Army |
| 1808 | Thomas Cook, founder, Cook travel bureau |
| 1805 | Benjamin Hugur, Major General Confederate Army |
| 1780 | Conradin Kreutzer, composer |
| 1771 | Paul R Cantzlaar, government of Saba/St-Eustatius/Curacao/Dutch-West Indies |
| 1767 | Andreas Hofer, Tirol nationalist |
| 1710 | Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of JS Bach, Sinfonias 64 |
| 1709 | Frantisek Benda, composer |
| 1690 | Francois Collin de Blamont, composer |
| 1643 | Rene R Cavelier sieur de La Salle, French explorer |
| 1606 | Pieter II de Jode, Flemish engraver/publisher |
| 1579 | Jan Baptist Stalpart van der Wiele, Dutch lawyer/pastor/lyricist |
| 1535 | John, the Old, earl of Nassau/tribal father Netherlands royal family |
| 1515 | Marie Guise, French wife of king James V of Scotland |
| 1511 | Erasmus Reinhold, Germany, mathematician, calculated planetary table |
| 1450 | Jacob Obrecht, composer |
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