| 1982 | Lucas Black, born in Decatur, Alabama, actor, appeared in film, 'Sling Blade', 'Jarhead', 'Friday Night Lights' and television series, 'American Gothic' |
| 1976 | Anna Faris, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actress, singer. appeared in 'Lost in Translation', 'Scary Movie', 'My Super Ex-Girlfriend', 'The House Bunny' movies |
| 1974 | Pavol Demitra, Dubnica Slo, NHL right wing, Ottawa Senators, Blues |
| 1973 | Craig Glassock, cricketer, NSW wicket-keeper 1994-95 |
| 1973 | Dick van Burik, soccer player, Ajax/NAC |
| 1973 | Duane Butler, safety for the Minnesota Vikings |
| 1973 | Ryan Giggs, Welsh Athlete |
| 1972 | Artis Houston, WLAF cornerback for the Rhein Fire |
| 1972 | Jamal Mashburn, NBA forward, Miami Heat, Dallas Mavericks |
| 1972 | Larry Williams, WLAF defensive tackle for the Scotland Claymores |
| 1971 | Amy Peterson, Maplewood, Minnesota, short track skater 1994 Olympics |
| 1971 | Bernadette Przybycien, Miss Illinois USA 1996 |
| 1971 | Brad May, Toronto, NHL left wing for the Buffalo Sabres |
| 1971 | Gena Lee Nolin, actress/model, Baywatch |
| 1970 | Guy Hill, Atlanta Georgia, Canadian Tour golfer, 1993 NCAA-3rd |
| 1970 | Lamar Smith, NFL running back for the Seattle Seahawks |
| 1970 | Tonya Gill, LPGA golfer, 1995 Ping/Welch-14th |
| 1969 | Ben Iroha, born in Aba, Nigeria, professional soccer player, played for the Nigerian national team, head coach, Nigeria's Dolphins FC |
| 1969 | Craig Evans, cricketer, Zimbabwe batsman 1996 World Cup |
| 1969 | J-Me Carney, cyclist 1996 Olympics |
| 1969 | Mariano Rivera, Panama City Panama, pitcher, New York Yankees |
| 1969 | Pierre van Hooijdonk, Dutch soccer player, NAC, Celtic |
| 1968 | Dee Brown, NBA guard for the Boston Celtics |
| 1968 | Jiri Veber, Kladno, Czech Republic, hockey, Team Czech Republic |
| 1968 | Jonathan Raleigh Knight, Massachusetts, rocker, New Kids-Hangin' Tough |
| 1968 | Pedro A Martinez, Villa Mella, Dominican Republic, pitcher for the New York Mets |
| 1968 | Peter Gross-Pass, WLAF defensive linebacker for the Rhein Fire |
| 1968 | T J Rubley, WLAF quarterback for the Rhein Fire |
| 1967 | Marcus Muler, WLAF adm asst for the Amsterdam Admirals |
| 1967 | Sean Carlin, Australian hammer thrower, Olympics-8-1992, 96 |
| 1965 | Ellen Cleghorne, comedienne, Saturday Night Live |
| 1965 | Neill Barry, New York City, actor, Old Enough, Heat |
| 1964 | Don Cheadle, born in Kansas City, Missouri, actor, producer, author, appeared in film, 'Boogie Nights' and Academy Award-nominated 'Hotel Rwanda' |
| 1964 | Kris Kamm, Evanston, Illinois, actor, Stuart Rosebrock-Coach |
| 1964 | Perry Parker, South Laguna Beach California, golfer, 1992 Xerox BC Open |
| 1962 | Andrew McCarthy, New York City, actor, St. Elmo's Fire, Class |
| 1962 | Sadanand Viswanath, Indian cricket wicket-keeper, v Sri Lanka 1985-86 |
| 1961 | Kim Delaney, born in Philadelphia, actress, All My Children, Tour of Duty, New YorkPD Blue |
| 1960 | Cathy Moriarty, born in Bronx, New York, actress, Raging Bull, Bless This House |
| 1959 | Charles Grant, Winston Salem, North Carolina, actor, Another World |
| 1959 | Neal Broten, Roseau Canada, NHL center for the New Jersey Devils |
| 1959 | Rich Camarillo, NFL punter for the Houston Oilers |
| 1959 | Rahm Emanuel, American Politician |
| 1958 | Pamela Prati, Rome, Italy, Million $ Cap, 1984, actress |
| 1957 | Charles Grant, actor, Evan Frame-Another World, Bold and Beautiful |
| 1957 | Janet Napolitano, American Politician |
| 1955 | Howie Mandel, born in Toronto, Canada, comedian, Dr. Wayne Fiscus-St. Elsewhere |
| 1954 | Joel Coen, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, actor/dir, Spies Like Us, Barton Fink |
| 1953 | Alex Grey, born in Columbus, Ohio, sacred, visionary, psychedelic artist, co-founder, Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, author of 'Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics' |
| 1952 | Christine Pascal, actress/director, Smile, Nothing But Lies, Elsa |
| 1952 | Dusty Hare, born in Newark-on-Trent, England, professional rugby player, fullback, played for Nottingham R.F.C., Leicester Tigers |
| 1951 | Barry Doudreau, born in Boston, Massachusetts, rock guitarist, Boston |
| 1950 | Kevin O'Donnell, Jr., U.S., sci-fi author, Caverns, Reefs, Lava |
| 1949 | Garry Shandling, Arizona, comedian, Garry Shandling, Larry Sanders Show |
| 1949 | Kenneth D Cameron, born in Cleveland, Ohio, Lieutenant Colonel USMC/astronaut, STS-37, 56, 74 |
| 1949 | Petra Kelly, German peace activist/MP, Green |
| 1949 | Jerry Lawler, American Entertainer |
| 1946 | Suzy Chaffee, U.S., skier/chapstick user 1968 Olympics |
| 1945 | Roger Bambuck, Guadeloupe, French 4X100 runner 1968 Olympics bronze |
| 1944 | Felix Cavaliere, Pelham, New York, rock keyboardist, Rascals-Lonely too Long |
| 1941 | Dennis Doherty, Halifax Canada, rocker, Mamas and The Papas |
| 1941 | Ronald D. Coleman, born in El Paso, Texas, Representative-D-Texas 1983 - 1997 |
| 1940 | Chuck Mangione, born in Rochester, New York, jazz hornist, Chasing the Clouds Away |
| 1939 | Gennadiy Volnov, U.S.S.R., basketball player, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics |
| 1937 | Johan J Holst, Norwegian minister of Defense/Foreign affairs |
| 1936 | William L. Jenkins, American Politician |
| 1934 | Willie Morris, American Writer |
| 1933 | David Reuben, author, Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex |
| 1933 | John Mayall, MacClesfield England, pop musician, Don't Washed Me Time |
| 1932 | Diane Ladd, Meridian Mississippi, actress, Wild Angels, Wild at Heart |
| 1932 | John Gary, Watertown, New York, singer |
| 1932 | Jacques Chirac, French Statesman |
| 1931 | Frank T Mdlalose, KwaZulu minister of Internal minister |
| 1929 | Don January, pro golfer, 1976 Vardon Trophy |
| 1928 | Paul M. Simon, born in Eugene, Oregon, Senator-D-Illinois 1985 - 1997 |
| 1927 | Rubert Crosse, New York City, actor, Det Robinson-The Partners |
| 1927 | Vin[ce] Scully, sportscaster, NBC Baseball Game of the Week |
| 1927 | Vin Scully, American Celebrity |
| 1926 | Dagmar, Huntington, West Virginia, actress, Broadway's Open House |
| 1923 | Frank Reynolds, E Chicago, Indiana, news anchor, ABC Evening News |
| 1922 | Benjamin Smit, Curaeaos architect, St. Elizabeth Hospital |
| 1919 | Pearl Primus, dancer |
| 1918 | Herb Shriner, Toledo Ohio, host/humorist, Herb Shriner Show |
| 1918 | Madeleine L'Engle, born in New York City, American writer, known for "A Wrinkle in Time" |
| 1916 | Valentino Bucchi, composer |
| 1915 | Earl W. Sutherland, U.S. pharmacologist, Nobel 1971 |
| 1915 | Billy Strayhorn, American Composer |
| 1914 | Edith Tilton Penrose, economist |
| 1914 | Taisen Deshimaru, Saga City Japan, found several Zen centers in France |
| 1911 | Klaus EJ Fuchs, German/British atomic physicist/spy |
| 1910 | Louis Levy, Jr., music publisher |
| 1909 | Rupert Davies, methodist Scholar |
| 1908 | Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., born in New Haven, Connecticut, Representative-D-New York, 1945 - 1972 |
| 1907 | Merle Travis, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, country singer, 16 Tons |
| 1906 | Luis Van Rooten, Mexico City Mexico, actor, One Man's Family |
| 1905 | Mowbray Henry Gordon Howard, 6th Earl of Effingham |
| 1904 | Kay Johnson, Mount Vernon, New York, actress, Real Glory, Of Human Bondage |
| 1904 | Piet Ketting, pianist/conductor/composer, Glorify Kokila |
| 1902 | Carlo Levi, Italy, painter/novelist, Of Fear and Freedom |
| 1902 | Georges Poulet, French/Belgian critic, Temps Humain |
| 1901 | Genevieve Tobin, actress, Zaza, Great Gambini, Uncertain Lady |
| 1901 | Mildred Harris, Cheyenne, Wyoming, actress, No No Nannette |
| 1899 | Gustave Reese, composer |
| 1898 | C[live] S[taples] Lewis, UK, sci-fi author, Silver Chair |
| 1898 | Rod La Rocque, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Our Modern Maidens |
| 1898 | C. S. Lewis, English Author |
| 1897 | Emiel van Hemeldonck, Belgian writer, Little Emperor |
| 1896 | Philip L Carret, Lynn Massachusetts, CEO, Pioneer Fund |
| 1896 | Rod, erique, La Rocque, La Tour, western actor, Beau Bandit |
| 1895 | Busby Berkeley, born in Los Angeles, California, choreographer |
| 1895 | Lodovico Rocca, composer |
| 1895 | William V S Tubman, Whig, 17th Liberian president, 1943-70 |
| 1894 | Yakima Canutt, Enos Edward, Colfax, Washington, actor/dir, Texas Terror |
| 1891 | Julius Raab, Austrian union chancellor, 1953-61 |
| 1891 | Richard Frank Donovan, composer |
| 1874 | Antonio Egas Moniz, Portugal, lobotomist, Nobel 1949 |
| 1872 | Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano/director |
| 1870 | Andre Lichtenberger, French sociologist/writer, Le petit roi |
| 1870 | Harry Graham, cricketer, 107 on Test debut Australia vs. England 1893 |
| 1866 | Waldemar von Baussnern, composer |
| 1863 | Spyridon Filiskos Samaras, composer |
| 1863 | Sofert H Koorders, Dutch botanist, Java |
| 1862 | Friedrich Klose, composer |
| 1856 | Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German Chancellor/premier Prussia |
| 1852 | Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher, composer |
| 1849 | Ambrose Fleming, inventor, diode |
| 1839 | Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian playwright, Der Schandfleck |
| 1838 | Aeneas Mackay, Baron/Dutch minister of interior/Colonies |
| 1834 | Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1833 | Louis Douglass Watkins, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1832 | Louisa May Alcott, Germantown, Pennsylvania, author, Little Women |
| 1818 | George Brown, Canada, publisher, Toronto Globe, PM, L, 1858 |
| 1816 | Carl Binder, composer |
| 1815 | Stephen Augustus Hurlbut, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1811 | Wendell Phillips, women's suffrage/antislavery/prison reformer |
| 1803 | Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist, Doppler effect |
| 1802 | Wilhelm Hauff, writer |
| 1799 | Amos Bronson Alcott, U.S. educator/poet, Concord Days |
| 1797 | Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti, composer |
| 1781 | Andres Bello, Venezuela poet/diplomat/scholar, Silvas Americanas |
| 1770 | Peter Hansel, composer |
| 1761 | Fridolin Weber, composer |
| 1729 | Charles Thomson, American Public Servant |
| 1727 | Ezra Stiles, American Clergyman |
| 1627 | John Ray, English Environmentalist |
| 1330 | Louis van Male, Count of Flanders/Nevers/Rethel |
| 1229 | Louis II, the Stern, ruler, upper Baveria |
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