| 1982 | Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian Actress |
| 1978 | Clay Aiken, born in Raleigh, North Carolina, singer, appeared on 'American Idol' television show, debut album, 'Measure of a Man' went multi-platinum |
| 1978 | Gael Garcia Bernal, born in Guadalajara, Mexico, actor, director, former model, films include, 'The Motorcycle Diaries', 'Babel' |
| 1976 | Shaneika Lightbourne, Miss Universe-Turks and Caicos 1996 |
| 1975 | Mindy McCready, country/western singer |
| 1974 | Luther Broughton, HB for the Philadelphia Eagles |
| 1974 | Marcellus Wiley, defensive end for the Buffalo Bills |
| 1973 | Jay Hamilton, CFL running back for the Edmonton Eskimos |
| 1973 | Ty Howard, cornerback for the Arizona Cardinals |
| 1972 | Adeline Ong, Miss Universe-Malaysia 1996 |
| 1972 | Spence Fischer, WLAF quarterback for the Scotland Claymores |
| 1971 | Bryan Proby, NFL/WLAF defensive tackle, Kansas City Chiefs, Scottish Claymores |
| 1971 | Heath Te-Ihi-O-Te-Rangy Davis, cricket bowler, New Zealand open vs. England 1994 |
| 1971 | Ivan Rodriguez, Vega Baja Puerto Rico, catcher for the Texas Rangers |
| 1971 | John Anderson, WLAF safety for the Rhein Fire |
| 1971 | Ray Durham, Charlotte, North Carolina, infielder, Chicago White Sox |
| 1970 | Corrina Kennedy, Saskatoon Saskatchawan, kayaker 1996 Olympics |
| 1970 | James Brown, tackle for the Miami Dolphins |
| 1970 | John DeWitt, WLAF defensive end for the Scottish Claymores |
| 1970 | Mario Bailey, WLAF receiver for the Frankfurt Galaxy |
| 1970 | Natalie Williams, born in Long Beach, California, volleyball outside hitter 1996 Olympics |
| 1970 | Ricky Powers, WLAF running back for the Rhein Fire |
| 1970 | Robert Griffith, NFL strong safety for the Minnesota Vikings |
| 1970 | Yayuk Basuki, Yogyakarta Indonesia, tennis star, 1996 Hobart doubles |
| 1969 | Carrie Jean Yazel, Huntington Beach California, playmate, May, 1991 |
| 1969 | Larry Brown, NFL cornerback, Dallas Cowboys, Oakland Raiders |
| 1969 | Mark Lewis, Hamilton, Ohio, infielder for the Detroit Tigers |
| 1968 | Des'ree, born in Barbados, born Desiree Annette Weeks, rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, hit songs, 'You Gotta Be', 'Feel So High' |
| 1967 | Gary Jones, NFL safety for the New York Jets |
| 1967 | Margaret Platt, New York City, New York, golfer, 1995 Healthsouth-9th |
| 1966 | Phillipe Bozon, hockey forward, Team France 1998 |
| 1965 | Ben Stiller, New York City, actor, Ben Stiller Show, Next of Kin, Cable Guy |
| 1965 | Mike Zandofsky, NFL guard, Atlanta Falcons, Philadelphia Eagles |
| 1964 | David Wood, NBA forward, Dallas Mavericks |
| 1962 | Bo Jackson, baseball/football player, Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Raiders |
| 1961 | Innocent Egbunike, Nigeria, 4x400m runner 1984 Olympics bronze |
| 1960 | Bob Tewksbury, Concord, New Hampshire, pitcher for the San Diego Padres |
| 1960 | Dan Rashovich, CFL linebacker for the Saskatchewan Roughriders |
| 1960 | Danny Briggs, Abilene, Texas, Nike golfer, 1986 Tallahassee Open-6th |
| 1960 | Gary Lineker, English soccer player, World Cup 1986 |
| 1959 | Sylvia Hanika, Munich West Germany, tennis player, Avon-1982 |
| 1955 | Andy Gray, born in Glasgow, Scotland, professional soccer player, striker, pundit for ESPN, Sky Sports |
| 1955 | Billy Idol, William Broad, rocker, White Wedding |
| 1955 | Brad Fabel, born in Louisville, Kentucky, Nike golfer, 1994 NIKE Gateway Classic |
| 1955 | Kevin Conroy, Westport CT, actor, Tour of Duty, Another World |
| 1955 | Richard Burr, born in Charlottesville, Virginia, politician, Republican party, U.S. Senator from North Carolina |
| 1954 | George McArdle, rock bassist, Little River Band Melbourne |
| 1954 | June Pointer, singer, Pointer Sisters-I'm So excited |
| 1954 | Lawrence Summers, American Economist |
| 1953 | Mike Espy, born in Yazoo City, Mississippi, Representative-D-Mississippi 1987 - 1993 |
| 1953 | Shuggie Otis, born in Los Angeles, California, Johnny Alexander Veliotes, singer, songwriter, rhythm and blues genres, known for hit 'Strawberry Letter 23' |
| 1952 | Mandy Patinkin, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor/singer, Yentl, Alien Nation |
| 1950 | Greg Gordon, rock vocalist, Boys Band |
| 1950 | Kathryn Witt, born in Miami, Florida, actress, Lenny, Pam-Flying High |
| 1950 | Margaret Whitton, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actress, Good and Evil, Major League |
| 1950 | Paul Westphal, NBA guard, Boston Celtics, Phoenix Suns |
| 1949 | Arthur Lee Washington, Jr., Neptune, New Jersey, murderer, FBI Most Wanted |
| 1947 | David Mamet, Chicago, playwright/dir, Speed the Plow, House of Games |
| 1946 | Ken Wadsworth, cricket keeper, New Zealand dashing batsman |
| 1946 | Barbara Cubin, American Politician |
| 1945 | Michael Joyce, stage manager |
| 1945 | Radu Lupu, Galati Romania, pianist, Enesco 1st prize-1967 |
| 1945 | Roger Glover, British hard rock bassist, Episode Six-Deep Purple |
| 1944 | Dian Parkinson, Dianna Lynn Batts, Camp LeJune, North Carolina, Miss USA, 1965 |
| 1944 | Luther T Ingram, U.S. singer and songwriter, I'll Be Your Shelter |
| 1944 | Rob Grill, born in Los Angeles, California, rock bassist/vocalist, Grass Roots |
| 1943 | J[ames] J[ay] Barnes, U.S. gospel/singer, Please Let Me In |
| 1943 | Jerry Hunt, born Waco, Texas, composer, used live electronics to create new works, employed ritualistic performance techniques |
| 1943 | Leo Lyons, Standbridge Beds, rock bassist, Ten Years After |
| 1943 | M A M "Thos" Woltgens, Mayor, Kerkrade, Netherlands |
| 1943 | Oscar Harris, Surinames/Dutch singer, Try a Little Love |
| 1943 | Terrence Malick, actress, Gail-Baywatch |
| 1943 | Thijs Woltgens, Dutch MP, PvdA |
| 1943 | Jim Mitchell, American Director |
| 1940 | Glenn English, born in Cordell, Oklahoma, Representative-D-Oklahoma 1975 - 1994 |
| 1939 | Walter Weller, Vienna Austria, conductor, Vienna Tonkustler Orchestra |
| 1937 | Jimmy Bowen, born in Santa Rita, New Mexico, record producer, pop music performer, famous for 'I'm Stickin' With You', produced chart hits for Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. |
| 1937 | Paul Stookey, Balt, singer, Peter, Paul and Mary-Wedding Song |
| 1937 | Richard Threlkeld, newscaster, ABC-TV |
| 1937 | Ridley Scott, director, Alien, Blade Runner |
| 1936 | Abbie Hoffman, aka Free, Yippie/activist/author, Steal this Book |
| 1936 | Michael Jinks, child care pioneer |
| 1933 | Linwood C Ivey, North Carolina, Mayor-Garysburg NC |
| 1932 | David Lincoln Lightbown, politician |
| 1931 | Bill Walsh, NFL coach for the San Francisco 49ers/sportscaster |
| 1931 | Gunther Herbig, Usti-nad-Labem Czechoslovakia, conductor, East Berlin Orchestra |
| 1931 | Jack Ging, Alva, Oklahoma, actor, 11th Hour, Ripcord, Tales of Wells Fargo |
| 1931 | Jack Sheldon, born in Jacksonville, Florida, actor, Run Buddy Run, Merv Griffin |
| 1930 | G[eorge] Gordon Liddy, head CIA/ate a rat/Watergate felon/radio host |
| 1930 | James Felton Boyd, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, light HW boxer 1956 Olympics gold |
| 1930 | William H Dana, born in Pasadena, California, test pilot, X-15 |
| 1929 | Dick Clark, Mount Vernon, New York, TV Host, American Bandstand |
| 1929 | Joan Ganz Cooney, born in Phoenix, Arizona, TV executive, Children's TV Workshop |
| 1929 | G. Gordon Liddy, American Entertainer |
| 1928 | Chic Hecht, born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Senator-R-Nevada 1983 - 1989 |
| 1927 | Robert Guillaume, Williams, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Benson, Soap |
| 1926 | Richard Crenna, LA Cal, actor, Rambo, Summer Rental, Sand Pebbles |
| 1925 | Maxwell Street Jimmy Charles Davis Thomas, blues musician |
| 1924 | Allan Sherman, parody singer and songwriter, Hello Muddah, Hello Fardah |
| 1924 | Klaus Huber, born in Bern, Switzerland, composer, wrote music for chamber ensembles orchestra, choirs, soloists, politically conscious composer, received Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, 2009 |
| 1924 | Shirley Chisholm, born in Brooklyn, New York, Representative-D-New York 1969 - 1983 |
| 1922 | Robert Evett, composer |
| 1920 | Virginia Mayo, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Out of the Blue, White Heat |
| 1919 | Anne S Wadman, Frisian literary, Fioele and faem, Smearlappen |
| 1919 | Jan Elburg, Joannes G, Dutch poet, Through the Night |
| 1918 | Efren Zimbalist, Jr., New York City, actor, 77 Sunset Strip, FBI, Scruples |
| 1916 | Michael Gwynn, Bath England, actor, Village of Damned, Question 7 |
| 1915 | Angier Biddle Duke, New York City, U.S. Ambassador, Spain |
| 1915 | Henry Taube, chemist, Nobel 1983 |
| 1915 | Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee, blues singer/guitarist |
| 1914 | Brownie McGhee, born in Knoxville, Tennessee, blues guitarist |
| 1913 | John K M McCaffery, Moscow Idaho, TV host, One Minute Please |
| 1912 | Constant Stotijn, Dutch oboist, Residence Orchestra |
| 1912 | Gordon Parks, Ft. Scott, Kansas, film director/author, Learning Tree |
| 1907 | Gyorgy Ranki, composer |
| 1907 | Jacques Barzun, France, author, The House of Interlect |
| 1906 | Marina, princess of Greece/Denmark/husband of English prince George |
| 1904 | Clyfford Still, U.S., abstract painter |
| 1904 | Philip Burton, teacher/writer/dramatist |
| 1904 | Philip H Burton, Welsh director/acting teacher, Richard Burton |
| 1903 | Germaine Emilie Madame Gres Krebs, haute Couturist |
| 1900 | Korneel Goossens, Flemish literature/art historian |
| 1899 | Hans Krasa, Czechoslovakian opera composer, Brundibar |
| 1898 | Roy "Link" Lyman, NFL tackle for the Chicago Bears |
| 1898 | Millicent Carey McIntosh, American Educator |
| 1897 | Andreas Nezertis, composer |
| 1897 | Quinto Maganini, composer |
| 1895 | Johann Nepomuk David, composer |
| 1890 | John Tasker Howard, composer |
| 1890 | Oege Bakker, Dutch economist |
| 1889 | Edgar D Adrian, English physiologist, Nobel 1932 |
| 1885 | Albrecht, von, Kesselring, German Field Marshal, Poland/Netherland |
| 1884 | Anders J Ture Rangstrom, Stockholm Swed, composer/critic, Kronbruden |
| 1874 | Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, 1940 - 1945, 1951 - 1955, Nobel 1953 |
| 1874 | Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian Educator |
| 1870 | Cecil Forsyth, composer |
| 1868 | Ernest Newman, English Critic |
| 1863 | Andres Bonifacio, leader of 1896 Philippine revolt against Spain |
| 1863 | Gellio Benevenuto Coronaro, composer |
| 1861 | French Gailliard, Belgian painter, Zeustempel in Athens |
| 1861 | Ludwig Thuille, composer |
| 1859 | Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, composer |
| 1857 | Robert Abel, cricketer, The Guv'nor Surrey and England batsman |
| 1855 | Marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of Agriculture/Finance |
| 1847 | August Friedrich Martin Klughardt, composer |
| 1843 | Jozsef Kiss, Hungarian literary, Zsido Dalok |
| 1835 | Mark Twain, Samuel L Clemens, author, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn |
| 1828 | Jedediah Hotchkiss, Engineer Confederate Army |
| 1827 | Constantine P Pobedonostsev, Russian reactionary lawyer/senator |
| 1827 | Ernest H Baillon, French botanist, History of Plants |
| 1826 | George Washington Deitzler, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1821 | Gustavus Woodson Smith, Secretary War, Confederacy |
| 1817 | Theodor Mommsen, Germ, historian/author, Imperial Lives, Nobel 1902 |
| 1813 | Charles-Valentin Alkan, composer |
| 1813 | Hermann Kurz, German author and poet |
| 1813 | Louise Ackermann-Choquet, French author, Pensees |
| 1810 | Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker, Winchester |
| 1809 | Thomas Molleson Mudie, composer |
| 1796 | Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe, composer |
| 1793 | Johann Lukas Schonlein, helped establish scientific medicine |
| 1764 | Franz Xaver Gerl, composer |
| 1753 | Johann Baptist Schenk, composer |
| 1726 | Jacques Aliamet, French etcher/engraver |
| 1699 | Christian VI, king of Denmark/Norway |
| 1693 | Christoph Forster, composer |
| 1667 | Jonathan Swift, England, satirist, Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal |
| 1645 | Andreas Werkmeister, composer |
| 1634 | Andres de Sola, composer |
| 1622 | Thomas of Apshoven, Flemish painter, baptized |
| 1593 | Johann Dilliger, composer |
| 1554 | Philip Sidney, England, poet/statesman/soldier, Arcadia |
| 1508 | Andrea Palladio, Andrea di Pietro della Gondola, architect |
| 1485 | Veronica Gambara, Italian poet |
| 1466 | Andrea Doria, Genoese statesman/admiral |
| 1427 | Kazimierz IV, king of Poland, 1447-92 |
| 1373 | Ferdinand I, the Righteous, king of Aragon/Sicily |
| 1340 | John duke of Berry, captain of Paris/art collector |
| 538 | St. Gregory of Tours, chronicler/bishop |
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