| 1993 | Jonathan Ric Ocasek, son of rocker Ric and model Paulina Porizkova |
| 1979 | Daisy Eagan, born in Brooklyn, New York, actresss, Secret Graden |
| 1979 | Trishelle Cannatella, American Celebrity |
| 1977 | Roseanne Farrugia, Miss Universe-Malta 1996 |
| 1975 | Eric Fichaud, Anjou Canada, NHL goalie for the New York Islanders |
| 1975 | Heather Tom, Hinsdale, Illinois, actress, Victoria Howard-Young and Restless |
| 1975 | Lorenzen Wright, NBA forward for the Los Angeles Clippers |
| 1975 | Michael Osmond, Utah, singer, Osmond Boys |
| 1975 | Orlando Pace, tackle for the St. Louis Rams |
| 1974 | Louise Nurding, British Musician |
| 1972 | Luis Figo, born in Almada, Portugal, professional soccer player, midfielder, 2001 FIFA World Player of the Year, won 127 caps for the Portuguese national soccer team |
| 1971 | Russell Copeland, NFL wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills |
| 1970 | Corey Schwab, North Battleford Canada, NHL goalie for the New Jersey Devils |
| 1970 | Puff Daddy, American Musician |
| 1969 | Jan Apell, born in Gothenburg, Sweden, professional tennis player, won the Davis Cup in doubles, 1994, played with Jonas Bjorkman |
| 1969 | Katrin Borchert, Germany, Australian canoeist 1996 Olympics |
| 1969 | Matthew McConaughey, actor, Contact, A Time to Kill |
| 1969 | Tommy Henry, CFL defensive back for the Edmonton Eskimos |
| 1968 | Carlos Baerga, Puerto Rico, infielder, Cleveland Indians |
| 1968 | Domingo Cedeno, La Ramona, Dominican Republic, infielder for the Toronto Blue Jays |
| 1968 | Osvaldo Fernandez, Holguin Cuba, pitcher for the San Francisco Giants |
| 1967 | Alex Rousseau, Paris, France, U.S. water polo 2m Offense, 1992, 1996 Olympics |
| 1967 | Asif Mujtaba, cricketer, Pakistani lefty batsman |
| 1967 | Eric Karros, Hackansack, New Jersey, infielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers |
| 1966 | Bubba McDowell, NFL safety for the Carolina Panthers |
| 1966 | Kathy Griffin, Chicago, comedienne, Vicki Groener-Suddenly Susan |
| 1966 | Kool Rock, Damon Wimbley, rapper, Fat Boys-Jail House Rock |
| 1966 | Petra Verkaik, born in Los Angeles, California, playmate, Dec, 1989 |
| 1965 | Erik Norgard, NFL center/guard, Houston/Tennessee Oilers |
| 1965 | Gregory Scott [Koenig], Dearborn, Michigan, guitarist, Signs of Life |
| 1964 | Fiona Pike, Adelaide Australia, golfer, S Australia State champ 1993/94 |
| 1964 | Douglas Wilson, American Entertainer |
| 1963 | David Williams, WI cricket wicket-keeper, 3 Tests 1992 |
| 1963 | Michael Heidt, hockey defenseman, Team Germany 1998 |
| 1961 | Carlos Espinosa, Mexico, Canadian Tour golfer, 1995 Philippine Open |
| 1961 | Ralph Macchio, Huntington, New York, actor, Karate Kid, 8 is Enough |
| 1960 | Kim Forester, Lookout Mt, Georgia, country singer, Forester Sister-Men |
| 1956 | James Honeyman-Scott, rock guitarist and vocalist, Pretenders |
| 1956 | Jeff Watson, rock guitarist, Night Ranger |
| 1955 | Peter Boynton, Danaiscotta Maine, actor, Tonio-As the World Turns |
| 1951 | Traian Basescu, Romanian Politician |
| 1950 | Markie Post, Marjorie, Palo Alto Cal, actress, Christine-Night Court |
| 1949 | Berlinda Tolbert, Charlotte, North Carolina, actor, Jenny-Jeffersons |
| 1949 | Kathy McMullen, LPGA golfer |
| 1947 | Aleksandr Tkachev, U.S.S.R., parallel bars gymnast, Gold Medal 1980 Olympics |
| 1947 | Alexei Ulanov, U.S.S.R., pairs figure skater, Gold Medals 1972, 1976 Olympics |
| 1947 | Edward Matt Dougherty, Chester, Pennsylvania, PGA golfer, 1995 Deposit Guaranty |
| 1946 | Robert Mapplethorpe, U.S. photographer |
| 1946 | Laura Bush, American First Lady |
| 1944 | Willem Breuker, Dutch saxophonist/conductor, WB Collective |
| 1943 | Marlene Jobert, novelist, Adventures of John Difool |
| 1941 | Martin Brozius, Dutch actor, Goede Tijden Slechte Tijden |
| 1940 | Delbert McClinton, Lubbock, Texas, singer, Gonna Find a Good Woman |
| 1938 | Alan Jones, cricketer, England vs. ROW 1970 his only International honour |
| 1937 | Loretta Swit, Passaic, New Jersey, actress, Hotlips Houlihan-M*A*S*H |
| 1936 | Didier Ratsiraka, president of Madagascar |
| 1935 | Elgar Howarth, born in Cannock, England, composer, conductor, educated at Manchester University, member of group, New Music Manchester |
| 1934 | Judith Herzberg, Dutch poet and author, Charlotte Life or Theater |
| 1933 | Mildred McDaniel, U.S. high jumper 1956 Olympics gold |
| 1932 | David Shipman, film historian |
| 1932 | Noam Pitlik, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, actor and director, Sanford and Son, Bob Newhart |
| 1932 | Albert Reynolds, Irish Politician |
| 1931 | Darla Hood, Leedey Oklahoma, singer and actress, Little Rascals |
| 1930 | Dick Groat, shortstop, NL MVP 1960 |
| 1930 | Doris Roberts, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Angie, Maggie, Emmy 1983 |
| 1930 | Kate Reid, born in London, England, actress, Heaven Help U.S. |
| 1929 | Jimmy Piersall, baseball player, Red Sox, Senators, Indians |
| 1927 | Vittorio Fellegara, composer |
| 1923 | Alfred Heineken, beer brewer, Heineken |
| 1922 | Poul Rovsing Olsen, composer |
| 1921 | Antonio Ruiz Soler, spanish dancer |
| 1920 | Georges Papy, Belgian mathematician, Numbers Game |
| 1919 | Martin Balsam, New York City, actor, Murray-Archie Bunker's Place, Catch 22 |
| 1918 | Art Carney, Mount Vernon, New York, actor, Ed Norton-Honeymooners |
| 1918 | Cameron Mitchell, Dallastown, Pennsylvania, actor, Buck-High Chaparral |
| 1916 | Walter Cronkite, St. Joseph, Missouri, news anchor, CBS Evening News 1962-81 |
| 1915 | Alistair Cameron Crombie, historian of science |
| 1915 | Courtenay E Benson, broadcaster |
| 1915 | Lloyd James Austin, French Scholar |
| 1913 | Gig Young, St. Cloud, Minnesota, actor, They Shoot Horses Don't They |
| 1912 | H "Giff" Vivian, cricketer, father of Graham 1st Test for New Zealand at 18 |
| 1912 | Pauline Trigere, fashion designer, Bell Bottoms |
| 1912 | Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov, composer |
| 1911 | Jack Rose, screenwriter |
| 1911 | Ssamu Shimizu, composer |
| 1909 | Ciro Alegria, Peru, novelist, Golden Serpent |
| 1908 | Anthony Warde, Pennsylvania, actor, Black Widow |
| 1908 | Stanley Cortez, cinematographer |
| 1907 | John Sloan Dickey, American Diplomat |
| 1906 | Arnold Atkinson Cooke, composer |
| 1906 | Bob Considine, sports columnist, Bob Feller Story |
| 1906 | Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric, lawyer/diplomat |
| 1906 | Siegfried Borris, composer |
| 1905 | Martin Raschke, German author/publisher/war correspondent |
| 1904 | Don Alvarado, Jose Page, Albuquerque, New Mexico, actor, Captain Thunder |
| 1904 | Walter Bauer, writer |
| 1903 | Ion Vasilescu, composer |
| 1902 | Frank Jenks, Des Moines, Iowa, actor, Zombies on Broadway |
| 1900 | Luigi Lucioni, Italian, landscape painter, opera stars |
| 1899 | Carlos Pellicer, Mexican museum director/poet, Teotihuacan |
| 1899 | Mimi Boesnach, Dutch actress, Wedding of Kloris and Roosje |
| 1897 | Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez, Brazilian conductor and composer, Imbapara |
| 1891 | Miroslav Krejci, composer |
| 1890 | Klabund, Alfred Henschke, German writer, Bracke, Borgia |
| 1889 | Alton Augustus Adams, composer |
| 1889 | Juan Negrin, Spanish anatomy/socialist premier, 1937-39 |
| 1887 | Knut Algot Hakanson, composer |
| 1886 | Ian Wolfe, Canton, Illinois, actor, Diary of a Madman, Wizards and Warriors |
| 1881 | Gena Branscombe, composer |
| 1881 | Milton Rosmer, Southport England, director, Murder in the Red Barn |
| 1879 | Will Rogers, Oologah Indian Territory, Okla, humorist |
| 1876 | James Fraser, designed buffalo nickel |
| 1873 | G E Moore, English philosopher, Ethics |
| 1873 | George Edward Moore, English Philosopher |
| 1872 | Herman Finck, composer |
| 1867 | Tomasz Arciszewski, Polish PM, 1944-47 |
| 1862 | Eden Phillpotts, England, novelist/poet/playwright, Red Madymaynes |
| 1859 | Stanislaw Niewiadomski, composer |
| 1846 | Gaston Henri Charles Antoine Serpette, composer |
| 1842 | William Barker Cushing, Lieutenant Commander Union Navy |
| 1841 | Carl Tausig, composer |
| 1835 | Lunsford Lindsay Lomax, Major General Confederate Army |
| 1826 | Albert Reville, French theologist, Jesus of Nazareth |
| 1823 | Karel Komzak, composer |
| 1820 | Robert Vinkler Richardson, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1818 | Alexander Robert Lawton, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1816 | William Polk Hardeman, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1812 | Aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/East poet, Lettere a Maria |
| 1800 | Eduard Brendler, composer |
| 1797 | Aleksander A Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, Russian author |
| 1790 | Carlos A Lopez, president of Paraguay, 1844-62 |
| 1787 | Edmund Kean, England, actor, Edmund Kean's Masonic Career |
| 1779 | John W. Pieneman, historical painter, Battle at Waterloo |
| 1756 | Anthony van Hoboken, Rotterdam merchant and ship owner |
| 1708 | Robert Praelisauer, composer |
| 1674 | Anton Englert, composer |
| 1656 | Leonard Sailer, composer |
| 1640 | Carlo Mannelli, composer |
| 1590 | Gerard van Honthorst, Dutch painter |
| 1587 | Samuel Scheidt, German organist/composer, baptised |
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